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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more.
A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:18:02 -0700, CS Hayes wrote:
For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Hi! This is the add-in available from http://www.addintools.com/english/me...ce/default.htm The Word version is Classic Menu for Word 2007 and sells at $15.99 USD File size: 1.6 Mb 15 days trial -- Cheers Robert |
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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
Hi Chris,
And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
FYI again
I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with .NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
Here's hoping that millions of users and thousands of companies react as you
have done, since apparently that is the only thing that will persuade the people at Microsoft what a hideous catastrophe Word 2007 is. Larry "CS Hayes" wrote in message ... FYI again I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with ..NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
Larry,
I have read many of your posts and your disappointment with Word2007 is clearly evident. To be blunt you are beginning to sound like a broken record. I am not thrilled by it either, but there are many features that I like and the more I use it my initial ire continues to diminish. I have spent a little time playing with RibbonX custimaztion and while I am far from proficient, I have been able to create some custom tabs and I am actually quite satisfied with the result. I sent you an e-mail (or tried) offering to send you a sample document with some simple ribbon cusotomizations. I will still do that if you are interested. Do you have a garage? If I recall correctly, Microsoft was born in a garage. Why don't you design a word processing application in your garage or similiar small space that satisfies all of your tastes and requirement and market it? If you pull it off and there really are millions of users and thousands of companies that feel the same as you then your fortune is made. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Larry wrote: Here's hoping that millions of users and thousands of companies react as you have done, since apparently that is the only thing that will persuade the people at Microsoft what a hideous catastrophe Word 2007 is. Larry "CS Hayes" wrote in message ... FYI again I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with .NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus
Hi Greg,
If you don't mind I would like to see your Word customizations. Could you please send it to ? Thanks so very much -----Original Message----- From: Greg Maxey ] Posted At: Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:09 AM Posted To: microsoft.public.word.newusers Conversation: FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus Subject: FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus Larry, I have read many of your posts and your disappointment with Word2007 is clearly evident. To be blunt you are beginning to sound like a broken record. I am not thrilled by it either, but there are many features that I like and the more I use it my initial ire continues to diminish. I have spent a little time playing with RibbonX custimaztion and while I am far from proficient, I have been able to create some custom tabs and I am actually quite satisfied with the result. I sent you an e-mail (or tried) offering to send you a sample document with some simple ribbon cusotomizations. I will still do that if you are interested. Do you have a garage? If I recall correctly, Microsoft was born in a garage. Why don't you design a word processing application in your garage or similiar small space that satisfies all of your tastes and requirement and market it? If you pull it off and there really are millions of users and thousands of companies that feel the same as you then your fortune is made. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Larry wrote: Here's hoping that millions of users and thousands of companies react as you have done, since apparently that is the only thing that will persuade the people at Microsoft what a hideous catastrophe Word 2007 is. Larry "CS Hayes" wrote in message ... FYI again I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with .NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I'm glad you posted this, Greg. :-)
Until now I was feeling like the only MVP who actually supports the new version. (I know there are a few others but they're on the soft-spoken side. ;-) ) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Larry, I have read many of your posts and your disappointment with Word2007 is clearly evident. To be blunt you are beginning to sound like a broken record. I am not thrilled by it either, but there are many features that I like and the more I use it my initial ire continues to diminish. I have spent a little time playing with RibbonX custimaztion and while I am far from proficient, I have been able to create some custom tabs and I am actually quite satisfied with the result. I sent you an e-mail (or tried) offering to send you a sample document with some simple ribbon cusotomizations. I will still do that if you are interested. Do you have a garage? If I recall correctly, Microsoft was born in a garage. Why don't you design a word processing application in your garage or similiar small space that satisfies all of your tastes and requirement and market it? If you pull it off and there really are millions of users and thousands of companies that feel the same as you then your fortune is made. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Larry wrote: Here's hoping that millions of users and thousands of companies react as you have done, since apparently that is the only thing that will persuade the people at Microsoft what a hideous catastrophe Word 2007 is. Larry "CS Hayes" wrote in message ... FYI again I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with .NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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That's a cheap shot, Greg, and it's beside the point. I'm not a software
designer. My criticisms of the Word 2007 monstrosity stand. Hey, if MS created two alternative versions of Word, one for people who really like the design of Word 2007 and really enjoy spending months figuring out how to use it, and one for people who expect a basic product into which they've invested years of their lives to remain in existence, then I'd have no problem with that. Larry "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Larry, I have read many of your posts and your disappointment with Word2007 is clearly evident. To be blunt you are beginning to sound like a broken record. I am not thrilled by it either, but there are many features that I like and the more I use it my initial ire continues to diminish. I have spent a little time playing with RibbonX custimaztion and while I am far from proficient, I have been able to create some custom tabs and I am actually quite satisfied with the result. I sent you an e-mail (or tried) offering to send you a sample document with some simple ribbon cusotomizations. I will still do that if you are interested. Do you have a garage? If I recall correctly, Microsoft was born in a garage. Why don't you design a word processing application in your garage or similiar small space that satisfies all of your tastes and requirement and market it? If you pull it off and there really are millions of users and thousands of companies that feel the same as you then your fortune is made. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Larry wrote: Here's hoping that millions of users and thousands of companies react as you have done, since apparently that is the only thing that will persuade the people at Microsoft what a hideous catastrophe Word 2007 is. Larry "CS Hayes" wrote in message ... FYI again I am not very interested in old tool bars for new programs. I have been using 2007 trial and sadly I'm not impressed. I do understand that I will have to learn this software to be competitive in todays workforce but I don't like it. I've spent years learning how to manipulate software via menus and now I have to relearn how to do it via ribbons (which is a fancy word for "over sized tool bar.") I'm going to go to 2003 on my system once the trial runs out. Here is an interesting idea: since someone can program a new tool bar for 2007 could someone program an interface for language compatibility with .NET for VB6? I think this would be something a lot of people would be interested in. -- Chris Hayes Still a beginner (only 12 years) "Cindy M." wrote: Hi Chris, And there's a more sophisticated tool that's just come out here. It includes what the Chinese is offering (the "Lite" version), plus one that lets you customize the menus, create your own toolbars, and add your own macros and AutoText. The toolbar can also be floated. What's more, you can save each set of customizations - including where the toolbars are located - in individual documents. It costs 19.95 for a single license, with discounts for volume licenses. And you can get 5% off by using the coupon code MVPCINDY http://www.toolbartoggle.com For those of you who must have the drop down menus fear no more. A chinese developer has created an Add In for Office and it's $29.00 (those folks are becoming quite the capitalists...) http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130635/article.html Where there's a need there's a dollar. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:08:38 -0400, "Greg Maxey"
wrote: Larry, I have read many of your posts and your disappointment with Word2007 is clearly evident. To be blunt you are beginning to sound like a broken record. I am not thrilled by it either, but there are many features that I like and the more I use it my initial ire continues to diminish. I have spent a little time playing with RibbonX custimaztion and while I am far from proficient, I have been able to create some custom tabs and I am actually quite satisfied with the result. I sent you an e-mail (or tried) offering to send you a sample document with some simple ribbon cusotomizations. I will still do that if you are interested. I think you have completely missed Larry's point. If you like the new product or if you are willing to spend hours learning new techniques, that's great. Larry's point is that MS has forced him to do so. If he's like me, Word is a tool, not a career. I thank Larry for being so vocal. I just want the damned thing to work. I hate conversions and releases because there is always down time and adjustments. I have a business to run and I want reliable tools that don't require more time for me to learn them than they require to do the job. MS is a huge multi-gazillionaire company. They can provide a compatibility mode for new releases so that I can have it work exactly like it used to if I want it to. MS has been arrogant toward its users in the past. Is this another example? Do you have a garage? If I recall correctly, Microsoft was born in a garage. Why don't you design a word processing application in your garage or similiar small space that satisfies all of your tastes and requirement and market it? If you pull it off and there really are millions of users and thousands of companies that feel the same as you then your fortune is made. Now that is a really stupid comment. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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