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Is there any way to get back to the 2003 look & feel?
I've used Office products for 16 years & am lost without the 'normal' menus - which I continue to use at work. I made the mistake of buying office 2007, thinking it was an improvement as most other of the upgrades have been in the past. I am not graphically oriented so the pictures shown in the ribbon is basically incomprehensible to me. While I have many 2003 key combinations memorized, I don't have all of them and I can't find where they are now - even after looking in the help files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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There are a couple of add-ins that can partly restore the old
interface. See the reviews at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...mizeRibbon.htm, -- 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. On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:42:01 -0700, eob wrote: Is there any way to get back to the 2003 look & feel? I've used Office products for 16 years & am lost without the 'normal' menus - which I continue to use at work. I made the mistake of buying office 2007, thinking it was an improvement as most other of the upgrades have been in the past. I am not graphically oriented so the pictures shown in the ribbon is basically incomprehensible to me. While I have many 2003 key combinations memorized, I don't have all of them and I can't find where they are now - even after looking in the help files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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While the linked utility that Jay mentions is excellent and even its free
version will add the main drop down menus, there is no way to get the look and feel of Word 2003 in Word 2007. Most of the 2003 keyboard shortcuts should work and most of the functionality is buried in the new version. All you have to do is learn where If you still have Word 2003, you could re-install it and use it in parallel with Word 2007 until you are up to speed with the new version. See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org eob wrote: Is there any way to get back to the 2003 look & feel? I've used Office products for 16 years & am lost without the 'normal' menus - which I continue to use at work. I made the mistake of buying office 2007, thinking it was an improvement as most other of the upgrades have been in the past. I am not graphically oriented so the pictures shown in the ribbon is basically incomprehensible to me. While I have many 2003 key combinations memorized, I don't have all of them and I can't find where they are now - even after looking in the help files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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"Graham Mayor" wrote: While the linked utility that Jay mentions is excellent and even its free version will add the main drop down menus, there is no way to get the look and feel of Word 2003 in Word 2007. Most of the 2003 keyboard shortcuts should work and most of the functionality is buried in the new version. All you have to do is learn where If you still have Word 2003, you could re-install it and use it in parallel with Word 2007 until you are up to speed with the new version. See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org eob wrote: Is there any way to get back to the 2003 look & feel? I've used Office products for 16 years & am lost without the 'normal' menus - which I continue to use at work. I made the mistake of buying office 2007, thinking it was an improvement as most other of the upgrades have been in the past. I am not graphically oriented so the pictures shown in the ribbon is basically incomprehensible to me. While I have many 2003 key combinations memorized, I don't have all of them and I can't find where they are now - even after looking in the help files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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