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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided
to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not
include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu interface. But there are many third-party add-ins that allow you to do this (ask Google). One of my fellow MVPs has developed an add-in for Word 2007 to mimic the old menu interface... there are two versions, a free one and a paid one with more features... see http://ribboncustomizer.com for more information. You probably haven't used Word long enough to know that when "new" Word user interface you're familiar with was introduced in Word 95 or Word 97, users of earlier Word versions had many of the same comments about the "new" UI that you do now about the 2007 UI. ocbizlaw wrote: I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
I've been using Word since it first came out. And I was one of the people
who complained before because everytime microsoft wants to add some useful new features they feel obligated to revamp features that worked perfectly so that it takes weeks and 10s of thousands of dollars to retrain everyone so that they can use something that they shouldn't need to be retrained on. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu interface. But there are many third-party add-ins that allow you to do this (ask Google). One of my fellow MVPs has developed an add-in for Word 2007 to mimic the old menu interface... there are two versions, a free one and a paid one with more features... see http://ribboncustomizer.com for more information. You probably haven't used Word long enough to know that when "new" Word user interface you're familiar with was introduced in Word 95 or Word 97, users of earlier Word versions had many of the same comments about the "new" UI that you do now about the 2007 UI. ocbizlaw wrote: I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
I too have used Word for Windows since v.2, but I've only had 2007
installed for about two weeks, so it's not like I've got tons of experience with 2007. But I'm able to answer your questions in part because I'm not fighting the new UI and because many of the old keyboard shortcuts still work in 2007. Change is inevitable. Adapt or perish. Whining doesn't help. ocbizlaw wrote: I've been using Word since it first came out. And I was one of the people who complained before because everytime microsoft wants to add some useful new features they feel obligated to revamp features that worked perfectly so that it takes weeks and 10s of thousands of dollars to retrain everyone so that they can use something that they shouldn't need to be retrained on. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu interface. But there are many third-party add-ins that allow you to do this (ask Google). One of my fellow MVPs has developed an add-in for Word 2007 to mimic the old menu interface... there are two versions, a free one and a paid one with more features... see http://ribboncustomizer.com for more information. You probably haven't used Word long enough to know that when "new" Word user interface you're familiar with was introduced in Word 95 or Word 97, users of earlier Word versions had many of the same comments about the "new" UI that you do now about the 2007 UI. ocbizlaw wrote: I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
I cant believe this. "Adapt or perish" applied to a simple word processor...
-_- We all have better things to study. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" escreveu: I too have used Word for Windows since v.2, but I've only had 2007 installed for about two weeks, so it's not like I've got tons of experience with 2007. But I'm able to answer your questions in part because I'm not fighting the new UI and because many of the old keyboard shortcuts still work in 2007. Change is inevitable. Adapt or perish. Whining doesn't help. ocbizlaw wrote: I've been using Word since it first came out. And I was one of the people who complained before because everytime microsoft wants to add some useful new features they feel obligated to revamp features that worked perfectly so that it takes weeks and 10s of thousands of dollars to retrain everyone so that they can use something that they shouldn't need to be retrained on. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu interface. But there are many third-party add-ins that allow you to do this (ask Google). One of my fellow MVPs has developed an add-in for Word 2007 to mimic the old menu interface... there are two versions, a free one and a paid one with more features... see http://ribboncustomizer.com for more information. You probably haven't used Word long enough to know that when "new" Word user interface you're familiar with was introduced in Word 95 or Word 97, users of earlier Word versions had many of the same comments about the "new" UI that you do now about the 2007 UI. ocbizlaw wrote: I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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Is there anyway to get Word 2003 menus back
If you don't like the new user interface, use Word 2003 or see
http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribbon...izer/index.php. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Claudio_Villegas" wrote in message ... I cant believe this. "Adapt or perish" applied to a simple word processor... -_- We all have better things to study. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" escreveu: I too have used Word for Windows since v.2, but I've only had 2007 installed for about two weeks, so it's not like I've got tons of experience with 2007. But I'm able to answer your questions in part because I'm not fighting the new UI and because many of the old keyboard shortcuts still work in 2007. Change is inevitable. Adapt or perish. Whining doesn't help. ocbizlaw wrote: I've been using Word since it first came out. And I was one of the people who complained before because everytime microsoft wants to add some useful new features they feel obligated to revamp features that worked perfectly so that it takes weeks and 10s of thousands of dollars to retrain everyone so that they can use something that they shouldn't need to be retrained on. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Office 2007 applications that use the new ribbon interface do not include a built-in ability to change back to the old menu interface. But there are many third-party add-ins that allow you to do this (ask Google). One of my fellow MVPs has developed an add-in for Word 2007 to mimic the old menu interface... there are two versions, a free one and a paid one with more features... see http://ribboncustomizer.com for more information. You probably haven't used Word long enough to know that when "new" Word user interface you're familiar with was introduced in Word 95 or Word 97, users of earlier Word versions had many of the same comments about the "new" UI that you do now about the 2007 UI. ocbizlaw wrote: I no longer care what the idiots at Microsoft were thinking when they decided to make it impossible to find basic functions on the toolbars in 2007. All I want is a simple "select table" and can't find it anywhere. Is there anyway to go back to the 2003 menus so that I don't go out of business spending 45 minutes on every document trying to figure out how do perform the simplest task. By the way, my favorite was when 2007 was first installed and all I wanted to do was print a document. Ooops, no "file" "print" option. So I hunted and hunted until I accidentally discovered that the idiotic, unlabled bubble actually hid a useful menu that included "print." Wow! another great Microsoft improvement. |
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