[Phil[_5_]]

I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Greg Maxey]

I would imagine that about 4 years before Microsoft stops support Word2007
they will stop supporting Word2003. That might be regretable ;-)

If you are an expert user then you will soon see that advantage gained with
Content Controls will offset the loss of AutoText autocomplete tip.
AutoText is still there but sadly the autocomplete tip feature is missing.

If you are into XML (which I fall in and nearly drown from time to time) you
will find it in enhanced significantly.

Me and a lot of other users have had similiar feelings as you are having
now.

Fellow MVP Graham Mayor has some good tips on his website if you want to try
to make Word2007 look something like Word2003.
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

I decided to just knuckle down and accept the changes. I sitll have Word2003
on my PC, but find myself using it less and less as I grow accustomed to the
new interface in Word2007.

Good Luck.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Phil wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Phil[_5_]]

On 18 Jan, 21:37, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
I would imagine that about 4 years before Microsoft stops support Word2007
they will stop supporting Word2003. That might be regretable ;-)

If you are an expert user then you will soon see that advantage gained with
Content Controls will offset the loss of AutoText autocomplete tip.
AutoText is still there but sadly the autocomplete tip feature is missing.

If you are into XML (which I fall in and nearly drown from time to time) you
will find it in enhanced significantly.

Me and a lot of other users have had similiar feelings as you are having
now.

Fellow MVP Graham Mayor has some good tips on his website if you want to try
to make Word2007 look something like Word2003.http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

I decided to just knuckle down and accept the changes. I sitll have Word2003
on my PC, but find myself using it less and less as I grow accustomed to the
new interface in Word2007.

Good Luck.

--
Thanks for the advice Greg. How do you manage to run both 2003 and
2007, i thought 2007 automatically overwrote 2003.

I don't want to project my being a super geek on WORD but i do have
most of the menus at my finger tips as alt-keystrokes and know where
to find everything from contents lists to styles to Tables, etc. I
had expected to find 101 new features but I really can't see anything
useful new and I've used it all for a week. It all seems aimed at
inter-working within the big organisations. The flexibility re change
tracking is much less than it used to be.

Phil



Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Greg Maxey]

Phil,

Both versions of Word can co-exists quite happily on a single PC. See the
webpage link by Graham Mayor to fix the single issue of file type
registration.


--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Phil wrote:
On 18 Jan, 21:37, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
I would imagine that about 4 years before Microsoft stops support
Word2007
they will stop supporting Word2003. That might be regretable ;-)

If you are an expert user then you will soon see that advantage
gained with
Content Controls will offset the loss of AutoText autocomplete tip.
AutoText is still there but sadly the autocomplete tip feature is
missing.

If you are into XML (which I fall in and nearly drown from time to
time) you
will find it in enhanced significantly.

Me and a lot of other users have had similiar feelings as you are
having
now.

Fellow MVP Graham Mayor has some good tips on his website if you
want to try
to make Word2007 look something like
Word2003.http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

I decided to just knuckle down and accept the changes. I sitll have
Word2003
on my PC, but find myself using it less and less as I grow
accustomed to the
new interface in Word2007.

Good Luck.

--
Thanks for the advice Greg. How do you manage to run both 2003 and
2007, i thought 2007 automatically overwrote 2003.

I don't want to project my being a super geek on WORD but i do have
most of the menus at my finger tips as alt-keystrokes and know where
to find everything from contents lists to styles to Tables, etc. I
had expected to find 101 new features but I really can't see anything
useful new and I've used it all for a week. It all seems aimed at
inter-working within the big organisations. The flexibility re change
tracking is much less than it used to be.

Phil



Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it!
I see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now
totally lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used.
And some are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Phil[_5_]]

Hi Greg

That's a point, I hadnt thought of that. Could you spell out what that
link was?

Phil


On 19 Jan, 00:00, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
Phil,

Both versions of Word can co-exists quite happily on a single PC. See the
webpage link by Graham Mayor to fix the single issue of file type
registration.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
On 18 Jan, 21:37, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
I would imagine that about 4 years before Microsoft stops support
Word2007
they will stop supporting Word2003. That might be regretable ;-)

If you are an expert user then you will soon see that advantage
gained with
Content Controls will offset the loss of AutoText autocomplete tip.
AutoText is still there but sadly the autocomplete tip feature is
missing.

If you are into XML (which I fall in and nearly drown from time to
time) you
will find it in enhanced significantly.

Me and a lot of other users have had similiar feelings as you are
having
now.

Fellow MVP Graham Mayor has some good tips on his website if you
want to try
to make Word2007 look something like
Word2003.http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

I decided to just knuckle down and accept the changes. I sitll have
Word2003
on my PC, but find myself using it less and less as I grow
accustomed to the
new interface in Word2007.

Good Luck.

--
Thanks for the advice Greg. How do you manage to run both 2003 and
2007, i thought 2007 automatically overwrote 2003.

I don't want to project my being a super geek on WORD but i do have
most of the menus at my finger tips as alt-keystrokes and know where
to find everything from contents lists to styles to Tables, etc. I
had expected to find 101 new features but I really can't see anything
useful new and I've used it all for a week. It all seems aimed at
inter-working within the big organisations. The flexibility re change
tracking is much less than it used to be.

Phil

Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it!
I see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now
totally lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used.
And some are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Graham Mayor]

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


Phil wrote:
Hi Greg

That's a point, I hadnt thought of that. Could you spell out what that
link was?

Phil


On 19 Jan, 00:00, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
Phil,

Both versions of Word can co-exists quite happily on a single PC.
See the webpage link by Graham Mayor to fix the single issue of file
type registration.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
On 18 Jan, 21:37, "Greg Maxey" wrote:
I would imagine that about 4 years before Microsoft stops support
Word2007
they will stop supporting Word2003. That might be regretable ;-)

If you are an expert user then you will soon see that advantage
gained with
Content Controls will offset the loss of AutoText autocomplete tip.
AutoText is still there but sadly the autocomplete tip feature is
missing.

If you are into XML (which I fall in and nearly drown from time to
time) you
will find it in enhanced significantly.

Me and a lot of other users have had similiar feelings as you are
having
now.

Fellow MVP Graham Mayor has some good tips on his website if you
want to try
to make Word2007 look something like
Word2003.http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

I decided to just knuckle down and accept the changes. I sitll have
Word2003
on my PC, but find myself using it less and less as I grow
accustomed to the
new interface in Word2007.

Good Luck.

--
Thanks for the advice Greg. How do you manage to run both 2003 and
2007, i thought 2007 automatically overwrote 2003.

I don't want to project my being a super geek on WORD but i do have
most of the menus at my finger tips as alt-keystrokes and know where
to find everything from contents lists to styles to Tables, etc. I
had expected to find 101 new features but I really can't see
anything useful new and I've used it all for a week. It all seems
aimed at inter-working within the big organisations. The
flexibility re change tracking is much less than it used to be.

Phil

Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Phil wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did
it! I see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am
now totally lost and can't find any of the features i regularly
used. And some are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling
it and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[Aeneas]

You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

LIVE PREVIEWS AND GALLERIES
*The potential results of many formatting changes can now be viewed in the
active document in a Live Preview without actually changing the document by
hovering the pointer over a thumbnail in many of Word 2007s galleries
*Numerous galleries that include predefined sets of formatting and layout
that can be applied with a single click are available

DOCUMENT €“ PACKAGE OF ZIPPED XML FILES
*The file format is no longer binary but rather a zipped package consisting
of multiple XML files in text format and folders for each document
*Helps make your documents safer by separating files that contain scripts or
macros, making it easier to identify and block unwanted code or macros
*Helps make your document file sizes far smaller by using ZIP and other
compression technologies to reduce file size by as much as 75 percent
compared to the binary formats that are used in earlier versions of Word
*Helps make your documents less susceptible to damage and more readily
recoverable
*The XML format supports other new features, such as document themes, Quick
Style sets, SmartArt, building blocks and content controls
*Allows you to incorporate data from various sources more easily

SAVE AS PDF FORMAT
You can save files in PDF format (or XPS format) by installing a free add-in
program provided by Microsoft

BUILDING BLOCKS
Building Blocks are available that provide you with built-in
professionally-designed, pre-formatted cover pages, headers, footers, text
boxes, boilerplate text, etc. (building blocks) with a single click; custom
building blocks can also be created

DOCUMENT THEMES
*Document themes allow you to Live Preview and then change the design
(fonts, colors, graphics effects) throughout the entire document with several
clicks in conjunction with the active Quick Style set
Applying a different document theme applies the same colors, fonts and
effects to your documents for a consistent, aesthetically-appealing look
*A single document theme generates a variety of Quick Styles for each type
of graphics (picture, shape, SmartArt, chart, text box or WordArt) and for
CONTAINERS for text other than sections and the document
*The actual number of Quick Styles for each type of graphics is 30 or more
and for text other than lists, sections and the document is 25 in total in
each Quick Style set
*The 30+ Quick Styles for each type of graphics update their colors, fonts
(if applicable) and effects whenever a different document theme is applied,
effectively creating a brand new set of 30+ styles
*The 25 text Quick Styles in each set update their colors and fonts whenever
a different document theme is applied
* When changing color settings such as the font color, border color (text,
table, picture), outline color (shape, SmartArt, text box), fill color
(shape, SmartArt, text box) and shading color (text, table, picture), making
the selection from the €œtheme colors€� in the color picker harmonize
automatically with the active document theme

PROPAGATING FONT PAIRS
*A new font pair concept (+Body and +Headings) is incorporated in document
themes that changes the font of nearly all body text and all headings with
just 2 clicks
*The default font pair for the default document theme, €œOffice,€� is Calibri
(+Body) and Cambria (+Headings)

(DEFAULT) AND NORMAL STYLE
*It is now possible to change default font formatting and paragraph
formatting settings (Set Defaults tab of the Manage Styles dialog box) that
ripple from the Normal style into nearly all other paragraph styles and
linked styles
*Moreover, default paragraph formatting settings can also be set from both
tabs of the Paragraph dialog box (new in Word 2007)
*The Normal style €“ the paragraph style that word automatically applies to
all text you enter and the style upon which nearly all paragraph styles and
linked styles are based €“ helps make text far more readable; with the default
€œOffice€� document theme and the default €œWord 2007€� Quick Style set

NEW TYPEFACES
*Typographic capabilities that include new typefaces provide you with a
clean, fresh look to your documents and make them far easier to read,
especially electronically
*Word 2007 also includes improved ClearType support for better on-screen
rendering

GRAPHICS QUICK STYLES
*Graphics Quick Styles can be applied to pictures, clip art, shapes,
SmartArt, charts, text boxes and WordArt
*They automatically harmonize with document themes to create
aesthetically-appealing results; see also Table styles and Table Quick Styles

QUICK STYLE SETS FOR TEXT
Quick Style sets allow you to Live Preview and then change all the heading
styles, body styles, etc. with just a few clicks; there are 11 sets of 25
named styles each that are attractively designed to harmonize with other
members of the set and with the active document theme

SMARTART
SmartArt presents a visual representation of information that you can
quickly and easily create, choosing from among several different TYPES such
as List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy and Relationship, each of which has
numerous different LAYOUTS and coordinates automatically with the active
document theme

ENHANCED CHARTING
Powerful charting capabilities allow you to prepare professional-looking
charts using the enhanced charting features in Excel 2007, which are also
available in PowerPoint; they coordinate automatically with the active
document theme

CONTENT CONTROLS
*Content controls allow you to add text and graphics to a document or a
template in predesigned pieces such as rich text, plain text, combo lists,
drop-down lists, pictures, date pickers and building blocks
*This feature is especially useful for creating templates and can be used to
update documents automatically with information from other sources

CONTEXTUAL SPELL CHECKING
Contextual spell checking verifies that you are using the word in the right
context

DOCUMENT INSPECTOR (REMOVE METADATA)
The Document Inspector lets you easily remove before distributing a document
private metadata and hidden data that you dont want others to access

TRI-PANE REVIEW PANEL
*The tri-pane review panel allows you to find out the changes made to a
document easily
*You see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved text
clearly marked


"Phil" wrote:

I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil

[grammatim[_2_]]

Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10*pm, Aeneas wrote:
You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! *I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. *And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's one I just discovered today, and it does sound very desirable.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10 pm, Aeneas wrote:
You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Phil[_5_]]

My reaction was exactly the same as that of grammatim - if that's all
that's on offer i wish i'd stayed with 2003. I'm in the process of
reloading 2003 but of course it will take ages as I'll have to
reinstall all the service packs and updates. What a pity microsoft
couldnt have pointed out that one can keep both versions.

By the way, it might be useful to know of people posting here whether
they work for microsoft. Barnhill makes that clear, but Aeneas?

To be frank I feel badly treated by microsoft over this. I've been
with OFFICE - WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, OUTLOOK for over 10 years and have
naturally therefore got used to a given user interface. The right
thing to have done would have been to offer a full compatibility mode
and then people could migrate as and when they feel like they want to.
Nobody minds minor UI changes but this is total. I think I'll keep
outlook2007 and revert to 2003 for the rest.

And they still didn't fix what, for me, was the biggest problem - the
size of the single monolithic PST file. If, like me, you use an
incremental archive system, its just terrible, finding that this
massive file has to be archived every single time, when it should be
organised into much smaller files - say one per folder.

Phil




On 18 Jan, 22:37, grammatim wrote:
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10 pm, Aeneas wrote:

You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Greg Maxey]

Phil,

I don't work for Microsoft either. In fact right now I don't work at all
and serioulsy considering a Work for Food Program ;-)

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Phil wrote:
My reaction was exactly the same as that of grammatim - if that's all
that's on offer i wish i'd stayed with 2003. I'm in the process of
reloading 2003 but of course it will take ages as I'll have to
reinstall all the service packs and updates. What a pity microsoft
couldnt have pointed out that one can keep both versions.

By the way, it might be useful to know of people posting here whether
they work for microsoft. Barnhill makes that clear, but Aeneas?

To be frank I feel badly treated by microsoft over this. I've been
with OFFICE - WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, OUTLOOK for over 10 years and have
naturally therefore got used to a given user interface. The right
thing to have done would have been to offer a full compatibility mode
and then people could migrate as and when they feel like they want to.
Nobody minds minor UI changes but this is total. I think I'll keep
outlook2007 and revert to 2003 for the rest.

And they still didn't fix what, for me, was the biggest problem - the
size of the single monolithic PST file. If, like me, you use an
incremental archive system, its just terrible, finding that this
massive file has to be archived every single time, when it should be
organised into much smaller files - say one per folder.

Phil




On 18 Jan, 22:37, grammatim wrote:
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10 pm, Aeneas wrote:

You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the
following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did
it! I see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am
now totally lost and can't find any of the features i regularly
used. And some are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Aeneas]

Phil:

To satisfy your curiosity (or perhaps cynicism) I do not work for Microsoft
or any related company. Nor do I work for a "large" company. I have been
semi-retired for years and consult for several companies (fewer than 10
employees each) that place a premium on professional-looking and
aesthetically-appealing PowerPoint presentations, Excel workbooks and, in
particular, Word documents. Many of the features I noted above contribute
significantly to producing these products. We have received numerous comments
from our clients' customers on the impressive quality of these products since
switching to Office 2007. Comments have included compliments on the superior
readability, the eye-popping graphics (SmartArt) and the presentation-quality
charts. In all cases, the documents have been created and saved in 2007
formats and a second version has been saved in 2003 or earlier formats.

Although I think Office 2007 is the most significant advancement in software
since Lotus 1-2-3 was introduced, it may not be the right product depending
on a person's needs or his/her ability to embrace change.

Some, who take the time to read about what Office 2007 offers, will decide
it doesn't suit their needs and decide not to buy it; many others will be
impressed and buy it. Typically, those in the latter group will take the time
to learn the new user interface and how to take advantage of other new
features (both of which can be very frustrating) and, in most cases, be
rewarded for their efforts.

Others will have Office 2007 forced upon them by a decision of company
management. Some will refuse to spend the time to learn the new interface and
take advantage of the new features; instead they will incessantly complain,
often blaming the "evil empire (Microsoft)" or their stupid bosses. Most who
choose to endure the frustration of learning the new software will be richly
rewarded for their efforts.

Good luck with your future purchasing decisions.



"Greg Maxey" wrote

Phil,

I don't work for Microsoft either. In fact right now I don't work at all
and serioulsy considering a Work for Food Program ;-)

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Phil wrote:
My reaction was exactly the same as that of grammatim - if that's all
that's on offer i wish i'd stayed with 2003. I'm in the process of
reloading 2003 but of course it will take ages as I'll have to
reinstall all the service packs and updates. What a pity microsoft
couldnt have pointed out that one can keep both versions.

By the way, it might be useful to know of people posting here whether
they work for microsoft. Barnhill makes that clear, but Aeneas?

To be frank I feel badly treated by microsoft over this. I've been
with OFFICE - WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, OUTLOOK for over 10 years and have
naturally therefore got used to a given user interface. The right
thing to have done would have been to offer a full compatibility mode
and then people could migrate as and when they feel like they want to.
Nobody minds minor UI changes but this is total. I think I'll keep
outlook2007 and revert to 2003 for the rest.

And they still didn't fix what, for me, was the biggest problem - the
size of the single monolithic PST file. If, like me, you use an
incremental archive system, its just terrible, finding that this
massive file has to be archived every single time, when it should be
organised into much smaller files - say one per folder.

Phil




On 18 Jan, 22:37, grammatim wrote:
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10 pm, Aeneas wrote:

You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the
following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did
it! I see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am
now totally lost and can't find any of the features i regularly
used. And some are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Just a correction. I do not work for Microsoft. Only very rarely will anyone
who *does* work for Microsoft post here (it's intended to be a peer-support
forum); when they do, they usually include "[MSFT]" in their screen names.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Phil" wrote in message
...
My reaction was exactly the same as that of grammatim - if that's all
that's on offer i wish i'd stayed with 2003. I'm in the process of
reloading 2003 but of course it will take ages as I'll have to
reinstall all the service packs and updates. What a pity microsoft
couldnt have pointed out that one can keep both versions.

By the way, it might be useful to know of people posting here whether
they work for microsoft. Barnhill makes that clear, but Aeneas?

To be frank I feel badly treated by microsoft over this. I've been
with OFFICE - WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, OUTLOOK for over 10 years and have
naturally therefore got used to a given user interface. The right
thing to have done would have been to offer a full compatibility mode
and then people could migrate as and when they feel like they want to.
Nobody minds minor UI changes but this is total. I think I'll keep
outlook2007 and revert to 2003 for the rest.

And they still didn't fix what, for me, was the biggest problem - the
size of the single monolithic PST file. If, like me, you use an
incremental archive system, its just terrible, finding that this
massive file has to be archived every single time, when it should be
organised into much smaller files - say one per folder.

Phil




On 18 Jan, 22:37, grammatim wrote:
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.

On Jan 18, 5:10 pm, Aeneas wrote:

You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the
following:

[see previous message for the list]

"Phil" wrote:
I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it!
I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Grammatim,

As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and
expansion of AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable content more easily identifiable and accessible,
others see it as a change they didn't ask for, I suppose but as with other Word features they can be avoided and the galleries
can be depopulated of their examples. Each version of Word has included samples that can be used and modified (fortunately Microsoft
has left the 'Blue Skies and 'Adventure' themed ones from earlier versions behind for this decade g).

The ability to setup custom packets of styles, headers and footers with logos and specific formatting can be helpful in company
environments where standardization to a corporate 'look' is wanted, as well as 'boilerplate'/approved wording of certain letters and
forms to allow, if nothing else, replicate using preprinted letterhead/form letters in the printer from inside of Word g.

For folks in schools, or in the scientific community, who need to meet specific formatting and layout needs, the galleries can also
come in handy, letting folks focus more on content than on how to match a layout.

The access to templates in Office Button=Open is one I've seen as appreciated by the casual user of Word from home for
letter/email/calendar flyer, etc creation. For those folks, the allure of an improved 'compare documents' feature could be on their
'why bother changing that' list g. It's not an easy task to 'please millions' of folks with differing opinions of what they'd want
to see change'.

FWIW, Bill Gates is in his retiring this summer. Perhaps one day folks will be saying 'Bill Gates wouldn't have done that when he
was in charge' as the next versions of Office come out, or 'I wonder what Bill would think of this' g.

=================
"grammatim" wrote in message ...
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[Phil[_5_]]

Bob Buckland said:
"As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with
most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and expansion of
AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable
content more easily identifiable and accessible, others see it as a
change they didn't ask for"

Can I get straight here - I think what I called Autotext in 2003 is
missing completely, that's my complaint. In 2003, I could set 'esta'
as autotext for 'establishment', so after i typed 'esta' I would get a
bubble asking if i wanted 'establishment' substituted, press enter and
the substitution occurred. That facility is absent from 2007. You may
say the enter has been replaced by F3, but you have to know and
remember that you've saved an autotext. The whole beauty of the 2003
feature was that you didnt have to remember because of the bubble that
appeared.

As for the facility to insert boiler-plate text, that's useless for
simple word expansions such as this. All this boiler plate text seems
suited to corporate life, in fact the whole 2007 release seems aimed
at corporate workers, and not at the individual with his own PC. No
wonder Msoft made this special offer (in UK anyway) that anyone with
an academic email address could buy the whole lot for about 1/4 of the
normal price. But then they find there's nothing in it for them, and
before people point to the new reference/citation facility, I've had a
look and it seems very clunky without Endnote, and that costs as much
again, and works just as well with 2003.

The only good news is that I've managed to get WORD,EXCEL,ACCESS
loaded as both 2007 and 2003. Aside for that I blow 2007 a big
raspberry.


Phil




On 19 Jan, 15:14, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Grammatim,

As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and
expansion of AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable content more easily identifiable and accessible,
others see it as a change they didn't ask for, I suppose but as with other Word features they can be avoided and the galleries
can be depopulated of their examples. Each version of Word has included samples that can be used and modified (fortunately Microsoft
has left the 'Blue Skies and 'Adventure' themed ones from earlier versions behind for this decade g).

The ability to setup custom packets of styles, headers and footers with logos and specific formatting can be helpful in company
environments where standardization to a corporate 'look' is wanted, as well as 'boilerplate'/approved wording of certain letters and
forms to allow, if nothing else, replicate using preprinted letterhead/form letters in the printer from inside of Word g.

For folks in schools, or in the scientific community, who need to meet specific formatting and layout needs, the galleries can also
come in handy, letting folks focus more on content than on how to match a layout.

The access to templates in Office Button=Open is one I've seen as appreciated by the casual user of Word from home for
letter/email/calendar flyer, etc creation. For those folks, the allure of an improved 'compare documents' feature could be on their
'why bother changing that' list g. It's not an easy task to 'please millions' of folks with differing opinions of what they'd want
to see change'.

FWIW, Bill Gates is in his retiring this summer. Perhaps one day folks will be saying 'Bill Gates wouldn't have done that when he
was in charge' as the next versions of Office come out, or 'I wonder what Bill would think of this' g.

=================
"grammatim" wrote in ...
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[grammatim[_2_]]

The first weekend in January, I went to the annual meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America (in Chicago!! --who goes to Chicago in
January?), where PowerPoint presentations are de rigueur (and most of
the speakers _also_ hand out printed handouts duplicating all the
slides -- I thought the point of a slideshow was to save paper), and
at least half of the ones I saw used exactly the same out-of-the-box
graphics setup that added nothing to the content of their talks and
took up screen space that could have been used for making their
diagrams a little bigger.

_That's_ what I object to most. When I learned to use PowerPoint and
did my first such presentation in November, there was nothing at all
on the screen that I didn't specifically put there -- and I couldn't
even format all of that as I wanted, since PP insists on bullets, or
if not bullets, then hanging indents.

(Incidentally, the PP newsgroup was just as helpful as this one,
though PP problems are a lot more limited than Word problems, so I
don't look there any more.)

On Jan 19, 12:09*pm, Phil wrote:
Bob Buckland said:
"As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with
most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and expansion of
AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable
content more easily identifiable and accessible, others see it as a
change they didn't ask for"

Can I get straight here - I think what I called Autotext in 2003 is
missing completely, that's my complaint. *In 2003, I could set 'esta'
as autotext for 'establishment', so after i typed 'esta' I would get a
bubble asking if i wanted 'establishment' substituted, press enter and
the substitution occurred. *That facility is absent from 2007. You may
say the enter has been replaced by F3, but you have to know and
remember that you've saved an autotext. The whole beauty of the 2003
feature was that you didnt have to remember because of the bubble that
appeared.

As for the facility to insert boiler-plate text, that's useless for
simple word expansions such as this. *All this boiler plate text seems
suited to corporate life, in fact the whole 2007 release seems aimed
at corporate workers, and not at the individual with his own PC. *No
wonder Msoft made this special offer (in UK anyway) that anyone with
an academic email address could buy the whole lot for about 1/4 of the
normal price. But then they find there's nothing in it for them, and
before people point to the new reference/citation facility, I've had a
look and it seems very clunky without Endnote, and that costs as much
again, and works just as well with 2003.

The only good news is that I've managed to get WORD,EXCEL,ACCESS
loaded as both 2007 and 2003. *Aside for that I blow 2007 a big
raspberry.

Phil

On 19 Jan, 15:14, "Bob * Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful



Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Grammatim,

As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and
expansion of AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable content more easily identifiable and accessible,
others see it as a change they didn't ask for, I suppose but as with other Word features they can be avoided and the galleries
can be depopulated of their examples. Each version of Word has included samples that can be used and modified (fortunately Microsoft
has left the 'Blue Skies and 'Adventure' themed ones from earlier versions behind for this decade g).

The ability to setup custom packets of styles, headers and footers with logos and specific formatting can be helpful in company
environments where standardization to a corporate 'look' is wanted, as well as 'boilerplate'/approved wording of certain letters and
forms to allow, if nothing else, replicate using preprinted letterhead/form letters in the printer from inside of Word g.

For folks in schools, or in the scientific community, who need to meet specific formatting and layout needs, the galleries can also
come in handy, letting folks focus more on content than on how to match a layout.

The access to templates in Office Button=Open is one I've seen as appreciated by the casual user of Word from home for
letter/email/calendar flyer, etc creation. *For those folks, the allure of an improved 'compare documents' feature could be on their
'why bother changing that' list g. It's not an easy task to 'please millions' of folks with differing opinions of what they'd want
to see change'. *

FWIW, Bill Gates is in his retiring this summer. *Perhaps one day folks will be saying 'Bill Gates wouldn't have done that when he
was in charge' as the next versions of Office come out, or 'I wonder what Bill would think of this' g.

=================
* "grammatim" wrote in ...
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.
--

Bob *Buckland *?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

* *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

While not disagreeing with your statement in principle, I'll point out that
in the specific instance you cite (esta establishment), and AutoCorrect
entry would be more suitable than AutoText, anyway. You might want to
consider how you could use AutoCorrect for at least some of your AutoText
entries.

As for the popup, if you didn't remember that the letters you are typing
were an AutoText entry name, why would you be typing them? If you weren't
typing them in order to insert the AutoText entry, then the ScreenTip would
just be a distraction (I had to remove my business name from the AutoText
entry list--where it was put by Word, not me--because it popped up every
time I typed "word").

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Phil" wrote in message
...
Bob Buckland said:
"As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with
most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and expansion of
AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making reusable
content more easily identifiable and accessible, others see it as a
change they didn't ask for"

Can I get straight here - I think what I called Autotext in 2003 is
missing completely, that's my complaint. In 2003, I could set 'esta'
as autotext for 'establishment', so after i typed 'esta' I would get a
bubble asking if i wanted 'establishment' substituted, press enter and
the substitution occurred. That facility is absent from 2007. You may
say the enter has been replaced by F3, but you have to know and
remember that you've saved an autotext. The whole beauty of the 2003
feature was that you didnt have to remember because of the bubble that
appeared.

As for the facility to insert boiler-plate text, that's useless for
simple word expansions such as this. All this boiler plate text seems
suited to corporate life, in fact the whole 2007 release seems aimed
at corporate workers, and not at the individual with his own PC. No
wonder Msoft made this special offer (in UK anyway) that anyone with
an academic email address could buy the whole lot for about 1/4 of the
normal price. But then they find there's nothing in it for them, and
before people point to the new reference/citation facility, I've had a
look and it seems very clunky without Endnote, and that costs as much
again, and works just as well with 2003.

The only good news is that I've managed to get WORD,EXCEL,ACCESS
loaded as both 2007 and 2003. Aside for that I blow 2007 a big
raspberry.


Phil




On 19 Jan, 15:14, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:
Hi Grammatim,

As far as documents looking alike (consistency of presentation?) with
most things, some folks see the Office 2007 changes and
expansion of AutoText into Buiding Block galleries, as a means for making
reusable content more easily identifiable and accessible,
others see it as a change they didn't ask for, I suppose but as with
other Word features they can be avoided and the galleries
can be depopulated of their examples. Each version of Word has included
samples that can be used and modified (fortunately Microsoft
has left the 'Blue Skies and 'Adventure' themed ones from earlier
versions behind for this decade g).

The ability to setup custom packets of styles, headers and footers with
logos and specific formatting can be helpful in company
environments where standardization to a corporate 'look' is wanted, as
well as 'boilerplate'/approved wording of certain letters and
forms to allow, if nothing else, replicate using preprinted
letterhead/form letters in the printer from inside of Word g.

For folks in schools, or in the scientific community, who need to meet
specific formatting and layout needs, the galleries can also
come in handy, letting folks focus more on content than on how to match a
layout.

The access to templates in Office Button=Open is one I've seen as
appreciated by the casual user of Word from home for
letter/email/calendar flyer, etc creation. For those folks, the allure
of an improved 'compare documents' feature could be on their
'why bother changing that' list g. It's not an easy task to 'please
millions' of folks with differing opinions of what they'd want
to see change'.

FWIW, Bill Gates is in his retiring this summer. Perhaps one day folks
will be saying 'Bill Gates wouldn't have done that when he
was in charge' as the next versions of Office come out, or 'I wonder what
Bill would think of this' g.

=================
"grammatim" wrote in
...
Nothing listed by Aeneas strikes me as desirable -- especially what
they seem to be promoting especially heavily: the imposition of pre-
provided designs instead of the creativity of individual designers
(or, call it advertising departments). Evidently Mr. Gates wants all
documents ever produced henceforth to look alike.

The one useful feature of Word2007 that's been mentioned here is the
clearer method of comparing versions of documents.
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That last feature is one I just read about today, and it sounds quite
helpful.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Aeneas" wrote in message
news
You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

LIVE PREVIEWS AND GALLERIES
*The potential results of many formatting changes can now be viewed in the
active document in a Live Preview without actually changing the document
by
hovering the pointer over a thumbnail in many of Word 2007's galleries
*Numerous galleries that include predefined sets of formatting and layout
that can be applied with a single click are available

DOCUMENT - PACKAGE OF ZIPPED XML FILES
*The file format is no longer binary but rather a zipped package
consisting
of multiple XML files in text format and folders for each document
*Helps make your documents safer by separating files that contain scripts
or
macros, making it easier to identify and block unwanted code or macros
*Helps make your document file sizes far smaller by using ZIP and other
compression technologies to reduce file size by as much as 75 percent
compared to the binary formats that are used in earlier versions of Word
*Helps make your documents less susceptible to damage and more readily
recoverable
*The XML format supports other new features, such as document themes,
Quick
Style sets, SmartArt, building blocks and content controls
*Allows you to incorporate data from various sources more easily

SAVE AS PDF FORMAT
You can save files in PDF format (or XPS format) by installing a free
add-in
program provided by Microsoft

BUILDING BLOCKS
Building Blocks are available that provide you with built-in
professionally-designed, pre-formatted cover pages, headers, footers, text
boxes, boilerplate text, etc. (building blocks) with a single click;
custom
building blocks can also be created

DOCUMENT THEMES
*Document themes allow you to Live Preview and then change the design
(fonts, colors, graphics effects) throughout the entire document with
several
clicks in conjunction with the active Quick Style set
Applying a different document theme applies the same colors, fonts and
effects to your documents for a consistent, aesthetically-appealing look
*A single document theme generates a variety of Quick Styles for each type
of graphics (picture, shape, SmartArt, chart, text box or WordArt) and for
CONTAINERS for text other than sections and the document
*The actual number of Quick Styles for each type of graphics is 30 or more
and for text other than lists, sections and the document is 25 in total
in
each Quick Style set
*The 30+ Quick Styles for each type of graphics update their colors, fonts
(if applicable) and effects whenever a different document theme is
applied,
effectively creating a brand new set of 30+ styles
*The 25 text Quick Styles in each set update their colors and fonts
whenever
a different document theme is applied
* When changing color settings such as the font color, border color (text,
table, picture), outline color (shape, SmartArt, text box), fill color
(shape, SmartArt, text box) and shading color (text, table, picture),
making
the selection from the "theme colors" in the color picker harmonize
automatically with the active document theme

PROPAGATING FONT PAIRS
*A new font pair concept (+Body and +Headings) is incorporated in document
themes that changes the font of nearly all body text and all headings with
just 2 clicks
*The default font pair for the default document theme, "Office," is
Calibri
(+Body) and Cambria (+Headings)

(DEFAULT) AND NORMAL STYLE
*It is now possible to change default font formatting and paragraph
formatting settings (Set Defaults tab of the Manage Styles dialog box)
that
ripple from the Normal style into nearly all other paragraph styles and
linked styles
*Moreover, default paragraph formatting settings can also be set from both
tabs of the Paragraph dialog box (new in Word 2007)
*The Normal style - the paragraph style that word automatically applies to
all text you enter and the style upon which nearly all paragraph styles
and
linked styles are based - helps make text far more readable; with the
default
"Office" document theme and the default "Word 2007" Quick Style set

NEW TYPEFACES
*Typographic capabilities that include new typefaces provide you with a
clean, fresh look to your documents and make them far easier to read,
especially electronically
*Word 2007 also includes improved ClearType support for better on-screen
rendering

GRAPHICS QUICK STYLES
*Graphics Quick Styles can be applied to pictures, clip art, shapes,
SmartArt, charts, text boxes and WordArt
*They automatically harmonize with document themes to create
aesthetically-appealing results; see also Table styles and Table Quick
Styles

QUICK STYLE SETS FOR TEXT
Quick Style sets allow you to Live Preview and then change all the heading
styles, body styles, etc. with just a few clicks; there are 11 sets of 25
named styles each that are attractively designed to harmonize with other
members of the set and with the active document theme

SMARTART
SmartArt presents a visual representation of information that you can
quickly and easily create, choosing from among several different TYPES
such
as List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy and Relationship, each of which has
numerous different LAYOUTS and coordinates automatically with the active
document theme

ENHANCED CHARTING
Powerful charting capabilities allow you to prepare professional-looking
charts using the enhanced charting features in Excel 2007, which are also
available in PowerPoint; they coordinate automatically with the active
document theme

CONTENT CONTROLS
*Content controls allow you to add text and graphics to a document or a
template in predesigned pieces such as rich text, plain text, combo lists,
drop-down lists, pictures, date pickers and building blocks
*This feature is especially useful for creating templates and can be used
to
update documents automatically with information from other sources

CONTEXTUAL SPELL CHECKING
Contextual spell checking verifies that you are using the word in the
right
context

DOCUMENT INSPECTOR (REMOVE METADATA)
The Document Inspector lets you easily remove before distributing a
document
private metadata and hidden data that you don't want others to access

TRI-PANE REVIEW PANEL
*The tri-pane review panel allows you to find out the changes made to a
document easily
*You see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved
text
clearly marked


"Phil" wrote:

I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil