I don't like Office 2007!

stevemcol

The user interface is awful. Can you set it to classic view?

OneADay

stevemcol wrote: »

The user interface is awful. Can you set it to classic view?

Its ultra carp - the 2010 version will revert back to the menu solution.

The only solution is to get something called classic start menu for office 2007 (costs money). http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/

This is how smart Microsoft are - they done the same nonsense with the classic start menu in windows 7.

DarkConvict

The Ribbon UI is okay, bit of a learning curve but no different to first having to use office 95. Although my old line manager hated it with a passion as it made Access much harder for him to use.

The ribbon in win7 has expanded to both Paint and WordPad, as well as several 3rd party programs. You know there is like a 80 page set of guidelines if you want to use the official ribbon in your own software, and then more guidelines about icons to be used like colours, 3d angle, shadowing etc. You really do need a professional icon artist to make them :O

I am a bit Hit and miss over the win7 taskbar, at times it is useful. But i hate not been able to quick switch been 2 excel documents due to the change.

OneADay

Sorry DarkConvict, I think the ribbon is S***

I tried Office 2010 Preview - its got ribbons and menu (wonder if mickysoft will stick to that logic).

stevemcol

Glad I'm not on my own. I just can't even bring myself to use it. It looks like a primary school teaching aid. :rotfl:

goRt

DarkConvict wrote: »

I am a bit Hit and miss over the win7 taskbar, at times it is useful. But i hate not been able to quick switch been 2 excel documents due to the change.

Office 2007 is very good after a period of time, stick with it for a few weeks

Win7 and excel - what's the problem, ctrl-tab works perfectly in excel2007 for me

pippa93

Don't know if this will help you, but it's proved useful for me when I've been totally lost before.
It's an interactive guide in which you click on the buttons as if you were in Word 2003 and it tells you where it is in Word 2007.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx

(I don't like it too much either and excel is worse- found macro stuff in 'view' section yesterday!)

Marty_J

Try this:

http://www.officelabs.com/ribbonhero

Willowx

If you know the old keyboard shortcuts (eg F10 > I > S for the symbol/character palette) you can still use those.

Lil306

I have to admit, I was VERY sceptical about office 2007

From a technical support perspective it's confusing, but I'm doing classes at a college now and once you get your head around things it's REALLY easy to use. Since the most common features are always accessible

I agree with others, stick with it and you'll find how great it really is. Consider doing an ITQ course at a local college. I'm doing level 1 at the moment even though I'm capable of level 3 already and working from the beginning is great. I have no problems using it and understand the functions a lot more.

poppy10_2

OneADay wrote: »

Its ultra carp - the 2010 version will revert back to the menu solution.

No it won't. In fact Office 2010 will be expanding on the ribbon concept.

OP, you are confusing familiarity with usability. You are used to the old system so that seems easier to you. If you actually give the new interface some time you will realize that it is much more powerful and user-friendly than the old system. I hated it too when I first got Office 2007, because I was so ingrained with the same interface that I had been used to since the days of Word 6.0. But within a day or two I was completely au fait with the ribbon and was able to do all my usual tasks much quicker than with the old menu system. Plus the more powerful features that were always hidden away in some arcane sub-menu before are now much more readily available to hand.
Just give it a chance, it'll be fine.