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Ian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: MS Office 2007 Edition

I have just recently purchased, and installed this software. It has, IMO, by far the best graphics display even created. I am currently uploading a picture of it. For those of you that are used to the normal layout. You're in for a huge change. I can't even find the file menu anymore, but there are always hotkeys, so it's all good. Post what you think about it.

Picture can be found Here.

Sorry, but I couldn't get the img tags to work.
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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh

I am using it, but sometimes Word-2007 drives me crazy. These ribbons have the tools in other places than they used to be in earlier Word versions. Important commands are not there anymore, but the Quick access toolbar can be customized to get some of them back in sight. I also installed Word-2003, so if I need to do some more complex document editing, I use the old one, where I can find my favorite commands.

If someone knows a free tool to create our own ribbons, or get the old menus back, please post a link here.

Ian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:16 am Post subject:

Are you referring to the items found in the menus?
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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh

Yes. The menus activate ribbons, holding buttons of different sizes, organized into groups, not the traditional list of commands. I must customize these ribbons...

Ian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:21 am Post subject:

Alt + F > Alt + I > Customize

Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh

This is how I customized my Quick Access Toolbar. I wanted to create new ribbons with my favorite commands, or change existing ribbons, or replace them with the old style menus. My version of Word does not allow that from the Word Options / Customize tool. Did I miss something?

Ian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

I think they have removed all menus except the file menu. Which (If you haven't already figured it out) can be accessed via the icon in the upper left-hand corner of the GUI.
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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh

Ian · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

Lol, they even took out the box you use for editing charts. It is not just another excel window. When you create a new chart, an Excel window is opened (Not just a spreadsheet. A window.) Now, it takes up way to much space. I'm going to have to go with maj on this, and say the ruined it.
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Dragonscloud · Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

I had an opportunity to muck about with Vista and Office 2007 a bit. Some of the changes are cool, but from a lot of what I've read, the bugs and bloats leave me feeling very disinclined to downgrade to Microsoft's latest offerings.

My organization is not ready for applications based on Office 2007. I had been coding for what I thought was the lowest common denominator (Office 200), and have come to find out that there are some machines in the corporation still using Windows 98 and Office 97. For my own design goals and implementations, I don't require anything beyond the functionality of Office 2000, although I have Office 2003 installed. Rather than a bunch of new features incompatible with previous version of Office, I'd rather see a version that fixed all the bugs from previous versions and optimized for performance.
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Kosova · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Prishtina

word 2007 is really useful and the graphics are great, i dont have a problem using it
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Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh

Yes, Word-2007 is OK. Recently I used it to write a 70 page document with hundreds of figures, tables, different styles, fonts, footers, sections, etc. It is fast and recovers nicely from a PC crash. The integrated multilingual support is great: I can switch between different languages instantly. It has more commands than I can remember. My only problem is that I cannot find those commands. After 15 years I have to re-learn it, which was not necessary if I could switch back to the old interface. So, the question remains: does anyone know an easy (free) way to customize it?

Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Pittsburgh