Word 2007 - it's awful!

Knub

People in "opposed to change" shocker!

jimbugalee

I hated it at first but have now got used to it as people above have said.

I think it was raised in the first point but I don't like the bit where you insert i.e page number or number of pages. I can't seem to get it how it used to be where you clicked on the field you wanted. You can only pick the options they give you.

I have found that most of our users who aren't so technie have had no problems using it. Maybe less than the old version?!

The most anonying thing is people still saving as docx when not everyone is on 2007 yet.

melbury

Could somebody please explain to me what is this ribbon thing that keeps getting mentioned.

Although many people like it, I don't think it is very typist friendly. I seem to spend ages searching around for things like how to change the margins and still trying desperately to get some autotext set up:mad:

It seems to be more for people looking at the screen and using a mouse rather than touch typing.

superscaper

melbury wrote: »

Could somebody please explain to me what is this ribbon thing that keeps getting mentioned.

Although many people like it, I don't think it is very typist friendly. I seem to spend ages searching around for things like how to change the margins and still trying desperately to get some autotext set up:mad:

It seems to be more for people looking at the screen and using a mouse rather than touch typing.

Margins: Hardly ever bother with it myself but found it within 2 seconds of opening Word just now.

Autotext: Not even sure what I was looking for but found Building Blocks which contains Autotext in about 5 seconds and the info that you can customize the quick access to have Autotext specifically put there.

Are you sure you're not deliberately frustrating yourself just because it's different and requires a bit of "relearning". I mean the 2 things you mentioned that I don't even use I managed to find pretty quickly without even resorting to Help.

loudcox

^^ I have to agree. And I'm a keyboard person who really hates using the mouse.

Absolutely the worst mistake anyone can make is to buy an app to recreate the menus as this means you'll never get used to using the ribbon. The ribbon is also (in general) a much more logical organisation of features.

If you want to use the keyboard, what you may find helpful is to print out a list of keyboard shortcuts (most of the old XP/2003 ones still work) - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938 and do a google...

sharkie

superscaper wrote: »

I'm so glad, means it's not as bloated as it could have been then.

It big any way, and extra percent would make no difference any more, but the product would be more saleable

robt wrote: »

Yes, much more sensible to have to have two lots of help files and two lots of support available...

Has that 95% of staff statistic got anything to back it up? I have seen many companies adopt it with minimal problems as it is so intuitive.
have been then.

Think the help files only get called when the help button is pressed and do not reside in memory, but disk space. True that disk access will be a smidgen longer.

Go on then, explain again to the majority other punter on this page how "...minimal problems as it is so intuitive" - that cat won't bark

ok so it is not 95% - sue me for lying http://www.playfuls.com/news_05364_Windows_Vista_and_Office_2007_Are_Out_to_Play.html

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sharkie wrote: »

Go on then, explain again to the majority other punter on this page how "...minimal problems as it is so intuitive" - that cat won't bark

You'll find the majority of people who are vocal about how unintuitive it is haven't even bothered to (much as a I loathe the phrase) RTFM. "office 2007 help" is all that Google needs typed in to bring up 376,000,000 links, many of them the extremely good CBT resources Microsoft has released free of charge to aid in the transition.

When we made the transition all we got sent around was a document with the keyboard shortcuts and a few basic diagrams and that was it. No retraining en masse, just a simple crib sheet with some links to guess what, the MS site! Very few people after half an hour were unable to do what they did previously, and within a week everyone was working more efficiently before. If your company cannot manage that, whoever is in charge of change management shouldn't be in that position..

sharkie

anewhope wrote: »

You'll find the majority of people who are vocal about how unintuitive it is haven't even bothered to (much as a I loathe the phrase) RTFM. "office 2007 help" is all that Google needs typed in to bring up 376,000,000 links, many of them the extremely good CBT resources Microsoft has released free of charge to aid in the transition.

Wow, only 376,000,000 links - so few for such an intuitive piece of software

I typed in similar "office 2003 help" and got 172,000,000 reference. Not bad considering it has been around 7-ish years

[Deleted User]

sharkie wrote: »

Wow, only 376,000,000 links - so few for such an intuitive piece of software

I typed in similar "office 2003 help" and got 172,000,000 reference. Not bad considering it has been around 7-ish years

And

hundredk

I have Office 1997. It does all I need and more; the menus are easy to navigate and you can find the functions where you expect them to be.

All very well adding all these new whizzy features, toolbars, ribbon interface etc etc but how many are really needed or used. I imagine the vast majority of office and home users use the basic funtionality for basic letters, tables, columns etc.