[JoAnn Paules]

You can always install some third party software that will somewhat mimic
the old interface. I say *somewhat* mimic because I don't know how exact it
is. (I prefer to learn to use the new format so I'm not going to install
anything that changes it. I want to be ready for the day when I have to use
it on the job.)

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

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"Hating Awful 2007" Hating Awful wrote in
message ...
Try this one... for those of us who do advanced things in office knew
where
things were in the menus. By changing the interface and not giving us an
option to go back to an interface thatr we were familiar with, MS has cost
us
hours and money in lost production because we are trying to find our way
around this awful interface. I just spent the last hour looking for 1
freakin' command in Excel (and I still have not found it). I knew where
to
find it under the old Excel versions (5.0 - 2003). If i wanted to have
buttons, i would have customized the toolbars... Not every command has an
icon so they don't have it readily available in the new GUI. We should
always have an option to have menus... Microsoft has tried really hard to
"simplify" the GUI and in doing so has ruined office and windows by
eliminating the menus. First Vista disables the standard menus (File,
Edit...) and now Office does not even come with them at all!!! At least
when
Windows XP changed the Start Menu to that really crappy interface, we
could
go back to the "classic" start menu, same with Vista. In Vista, I can get
back my Menus with an option, in Awful 2007, we are just screwed.

I cannot simply go back to 2003 others suggested. I am tech support I
have
to be able to support a college campus worth of new 2007 users. I have
2003
loaded on one computer at my desk, the other just got loaded with Office
2007
and its crappy interface. I am going to have a lot of unhappy MBA
students
come Jan 2, 2008 when our campus will officially support 2007. At this
point
we just tell them that we do not support 2007 and that they were told they
were supposed to have 2003 and if they did not, we could sell it to them
for
really cheap under a site license.

So, once again, Microsoft, bring back our Menus because we are sick and
tired of wasting valuable time looking for where ever the hell you hid the
commands we are looking for.

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Let me understand....

You bought Office 2007 sight unseen with the assumption that it was the
same
as what you already had (2003). Now, upon finding that the *new version*
actually is *new* you expect MS to revise 2007 to be what the prior
version
was. Yeah, that makes sense %}

I don't think you were taken any more by surprise than most of us by the
radical change in the UI. Herb offers some excellent advice and - who
knows
- in time you may find that you wouldn't go back to the "Classic" UI even
if
it were available. There's no doubt it takes quite an adjustment period.

Good Luck |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac