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Costs too much!
Dear Microsoft,
Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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You claim that Office is too expensive and that the older user interface was better. If that is the case, why don't you switch to Open Office? It's free, has the old menu style interface, and can handle almost all Office formats (doc, docx, ...) As to the prices being reasonable... The Home and Student version of Office 2010 will cost 150 USD and you can install it on 3 computers. Considering MS doesn't force you to upgrade your copy of Office, you can probably run the software for 5 years or more. This would mean that the cost for Office is 10 USD or less a year a computer. Seems pretty reasonable to me. With regards to the change of user interface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0M2CL9TJE Yves "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Alternatively, you can still get Office 2007 HSE for less than $100 at
Amazon and other online retailers; order now and get a free upgrade to Office 2010. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Yves Dhondt" wrote in message ... You claim that Office is too expensive and that the older user interface was better. If that is the case, why don't you switch to Open Office? It's free, has the old menu style interface, and can handle almost all Office formats (doc, docx, ...) As to the prices being reasonable... The Home and Student version of Office 2010 will cost 150 USD and you can install it on 3 computers. Considering MS doesn't force you to upgrade your copy of Office, you can probably run the software for 5 years or more. This would mean that the cost for Office is 10 USD or less a year a computer. Seems pretty reasonable to me. With regards to the change of user interface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0M2CL9TJE Yves "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Alternatively, you can still get Office 2007 HSE for less than $100 at Amazon and other online retailers; order now and get a free upgrade to Office 2010. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Yves Dhondt" wrote in message ... You claim that Office is too expensive and that the older user interface was better. If that is the case, why don't you switch to Open Office? It's free, has the old menu style interface, and can handle almost all Office formats (doc, docx, ...) As to the prices being reasonable... The Home and Student version of Office 2010 will cost 150 USD and you can install it on 3 computers. Considering MS doesn't force you to upgrade your copy of Office, you can probably run the software for 5 years or more. This would mean that the cost for Office is 10 USD or less a year a computer. Seems pretty reasonable to me. With regards to the change of user interface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0M2CL9TJE Yves "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely
that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon.
There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon.
There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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That "hot spot" (a little curved arrow) is called the "dialog launcher," and
it has been the subject of complaint from early in the beta (maybe even in pre-beta). I can't imagine why it wasn't fixed. FWIW, many dialogs can be called up in other ways; for example, the Font and Paragraph dialogs are almost always on the context menu when you right-click. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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That "hot spot" (a little curved arrow) is called the "dialog launcher," and
it has been the subject of complaint from early in the beta (maybe even in pre-beta). I can't imagine why it wasn't fixed. FWIW, many dialogs can be called up in other ways; for example, the Font and Paragraph dialogs are almost always on the context menu when you right-click. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also
on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also
on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never
understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never
understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Because it's next to Ctrl-F, which is busy doing something else?
I'm sure Ctrl-M used to open the Paragraph dialog, but now it does something else (that isn't useful). That can't have been only a FrameMaker thing, can it? On May 24, 11:28*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. |
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Because it's next to Ctrl-F, which is busy doing something else?
I'm sure Ctrl-M used to open the Paragraph dialog, but now it does something else (that isn't useful). That can't have been only a FrameMaker thing, can it? On May 24, 11:28*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. |
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I think Ctrl+M has always been used for Indent. I don't use it because I
have it assigned to an em dash. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Because it's next to Ctrl-F, which is busy doing something else? I'm sure Ctrl-M used to open the Paragraph dialog, but now it does something else (that isn't useful). That can't have been only a FrameMaker thing, can it? On May 24, 11:28 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. |
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I think Ctrl+M has always been used for Indent. I don't use it because I have it assigned to an em dash. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Because it's next to Ctrl-F, which is busy doing something else? I'm sure Ctrl-M used to open the Paragraph dialog, but now it does something else (that isn't useful). That can't have been only a FrameMaker thing, can it? On May 24, 11:28 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: "these forums are scheduled to be closed on June
1." Exactly what does that mean? Are all of the Office Discussion Groups going to be closed? Will they be replaced somewhere? I really depend on these discussion groups to help me find answers to problems I have, and I like the interaction with other people who know more than I do about Office. Jerry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t . |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: "these forums are scheduled to be closed on June
1." Exactly what does that mean? Are all of the Office Discussion Groups going to be closed? Will they be replaced somewhere? I really depend on these discussion groups to help me find answers to problems I have, and I like the interaction with other people who know more than I do about Office. Jerry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t . |
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It means Microsoft is going to close down their news server. The groups will
live on but they won't be as popular anymore. Microsoft is putting all their money on forums now. For Word, see http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword If you search for "NNTP bridge" you will find information on how you can still use a newsreader to access the forums. Yves "Jerry" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: "these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1." Exactly what does that mean? Are all of the Office Discussion Groups going to be closed? Will they be replaced somewhere? I really depend on these discussion groups to help me find answers to problems I have, and I like the interaction with other people who know more than I do about Office. Jerry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t . |
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It means Microsoft is going to close down their news server. The groups will live on but they won't be as popular anymore. Microsoft is putting all their money on forums now. For Word, see http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword If you search for "NNTP bridge" you will find information on how you can still use a newsreader to access the forums. Yves "Jerry" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: "these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1." Exactly what does that mean? Are all of the Office Discussion Groups going to be closed? Will they be replaced somewhere? I really depend on these discussion groups to help me find answers to problems I have, and I like the interaction with other people who know more than I do about Office. Jerry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t . |
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Try the magnifier from Windows Accessibility accessories.It magnifies the
area around the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Try the magnifier from Windows Accessibility accessories.It magnifies the
area around the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Thank you, I will try and remember that. I will pass it on to my wife too as
she has a worse time trying to find that "dialogue launcher" than I do. Ron P. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That "hot spot" (a little curved arrow) is called the "dialog launcher," and it has been the subject of complaint from early in the beta (maybe even in pre-beta). I can't imagine why it wasn't fixed. FWIW, many dialogs can be called up in other ways; for example, the Font and Paragraph dialogs are almost always on the context menu when you right-click. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Thank you, I will try and remember that. I will pass it on to my wife too as
she has a worse time trying to find that "dialogue launcher" than I do. Ron P. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That "hot spot" (a little curved arrow) is called the "dialog launcher," and it has been the subject of complaint from early in the beta (maybe even in pre-beta). I can't imagine why it wasn't fixed. FWIW, many dialogs can be called up in other ways; for example, the Font and Paragraph dialogs are almost always on the context menu when you right-click. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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That does work for fonts but that really is absurd isn't it.
Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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That does work for fonts but that really is absurd isn't it.
Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ctrl+D is even simpler for opening the font dialog, though I've never understood why it was chosen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The most commonly used dialogs, for the Font and Paragraph groups, are also on the right-click context menu in many contexts (although, inexplicably, not in tables). Also, the Font dialog has a default keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+F. There is no default shortcut for the Paragraph dialog, but you can assign one through Office button Customize Keyboard Customize -- in the category Home Tab, select the FormatParagraph command and assign your preferred shortcut. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Worn Out Retread wrote: I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Costs too much!
That is something to consider. Thank you.
I don't know if the magnification would be annoying to have everywhere without trying it because that is the only time that i seem to have a problem. Ron P "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Try the magnifier from Windows Accessibility accessories.It magnifies the area around the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Costs too much!
That is something to consider. Thank you.
I don't know if the magnification would be annoying to have everywhere without trying it because that is the only time that i seem to have a problem. Ron P "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Try the magnifier from Windows Accessibility accessories.It magnifies the area around the cursor. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Worn Out Retread" wrote in message ... I am a "new user" of Office 2007 and am slowly getting used to the ribbon. There is one thing with the ribbon though that I with eyes that are not what they used to be would like an answer to or a fix and that is the little "hot spot" to click on to expand the ribbon with more options. An example is the Font panel has a little hot spot in the lower left corner. It is very small on my desktop monitor and is nearly invisible using a laptop computer. Under some lighting conditions that hot spot can't be seen at all. Is there a setting that I have missed for this? Otherwise, my complaints list is getting shorter.....it is the learning curve for something that is different that is the source of most complaints I think. Ron P "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Although you have posted this as a Suggestion for Microsoft, it is unlikely that anyone from MS will actually see your post since these forums are scheduled to be closed on June 1, and response to "suggestions" has historically been practically nil. You are certainly not the first (though a bit late to the party) to make the complaints you're making. Virtually everyone who has upgraded from a previous version says the same thing. Many of them eventually come to like Word 2007, even prefer it, and many of the defects of Word 2007 (especially in the realm of customizability) have been remedied in Word 2010. I would have to say, though, that, despite your closing, your tone doesn't sound very "respectful" to me. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft wrote in message ... Dear Microsoft, Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and all, would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge more reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period. Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as "intuitive" as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office menus and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very 'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with the hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'. I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC Land have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and home lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction (although at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more interested in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy to eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over every nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling and inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you billions. So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because they don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable prices and more useful, user-friendly software. Respectfully, Involuntary Mirosoft Slave ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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