Word 2007 is "More intuitive??"
Additionally, there are hundreds and hundreds of Word tools that are not on
any toolbar or under any menu (I printed them out once and it was over 4
pages long and I still don't know what half of them do). Without
customisation, you cannot get at them at all - in fact, most users don't
even know they exist because they don't know where to look. So creating a
custom template with custom tools for a particular application for 'dodgy
users' can be a boon to productivity: once the user knows that there's a
magic tool to do a complex task, it will be used.
Terry Farrell
"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote:
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The experience seems to be that the new UI is more intuitive for
brand-new
users and not too difficult for casual users to get used to. Longtime
power users, the ones who knew where every command was on every menu
and
where every button was in every dialog or on every toolbar (and had
their
toolbars and menus extensively customized), are the ones who are really
suffering.
But, since we represent less than 1% (I guess) of all users, we don't
count!
Interesting. As an aside, and as a "power" user of Excel (mainly - since
Office 95) - I never had any cause to do ANY customization of
toolbars.....I
wonder why people are so obsessed with it?
Quick examples:
In Word, I always use "Format Paragraph... Line and Page Breaks Page
Break Before OK" which is 5 clicks. (This is because I abhor manual Page
Break as they have too often caused me grief...) Therefore, I added this
command to the tool bar... Now, one click.
In addition, I often need to get to the €śAdvanced Layout€ť tab (Object
Format) to adjust object position on a page, or to get information.
Normally,
this is between 4 and 6 clicks away (depending on what you did last time
you
displayed the Object Format dialog). So I have a macro that opens it
directly
and I have added a button on the drawing toolbar...
If you do many repetitive tasks or often use the same tools to do diverse
tasks, it is definitely helpful to be able to customize the toolbars...
This
is why 2007 is a pain to those who used to have extensive customizations
in
order to make their job easier. One QAT to customize isnt the same as
over
20 toolbars you can customize according to the type of tasks that needs to
be
performed...
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