WTF Microsoft - Office 2007
 

Why oh why did they change the whole functionality from office 2003 to office 2007??????????????????????????????????????????

OMG - it is so difficult to work around vs 2003.

I find myself hitting help more than ever. I like some of the conditional formatting on excel - nice to have colors on my spreadsheet = but I would not call this "upgrade" intuitive.

am I the only one?

So I'm not the only person that was fit to be tied? I have actually found an improvement or 2, but it still makes me curse.

I've had it for 6 months - but man there are just a few things that I have to do where I am just frustrated beyond belief - to the point of chucking the computer in the canal.

Good god - what idiot at MS greenlighted this crap???

You are not alone. I've been using it for 8 months and not a day goes by where I do not curse the interface.

Also, from an interface designer Why Microsoft's ribbon sucks

While there are some definite improvements, it is so different than '03 that I still struggle. I have been using it for 6 months.

I have turned out some pretty cool stuff on Word.

Simple solution:
http://www.openoffice.org

I like Office 07. I think the design is superior to 03. If you don't like it, customize it.

There are some great customizations possible like adding icons to the Quick Access Toolbar, but I agree WTF?

Has anyone figured out how to change the Highlight color in Excel when you are searching for a cell. The find feature works fine, but I find it almost impossible to actually see the highlighted cell.

Fortunately my IT dept is stuck in the past (budget cuts), and we're still on '03 across the whole company.

I think this is a great alternative to Office or Open Office. A little slow because it runs on the Eclipse framework, but I've been using it for awhile and really like it.

if you think that 07 is bad, we use a cheap knock off
here it is http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203091976.jpg

Opening/editing/saving the new formats since before Office '07 was available via OpenOffice on ubuntu with Novell's doc format extensions...

Had to build a 20-page presentation on our system capacity outlook one day after I got the upgrade rammed down my throat. Talk about shytting one's self.
Getting a little more used to it now. Good interface to sharepoint, which is where we have to keep all of our crap now...

+1.

After installing Open Office we removed all the ms office installs here. Haven't regretted it for a minute. Great stuff.

No, sir. You're not the only one. I had a trial version, and aside from the cool look, the functionality was a disaster. With Microsoft Word, I had to literally relearn the software buttons to file, bookmark, spell check, etc. Plus, there seems to be no "overstrike" function, which I use often when editing. :rolleyes:

It's not just Office 2007, BTW. The version for Mac, Office 2008, is also hopelessly overdone - at least Microsoft Word is.

I reverted back to the older versions. At some point I'll go with Mariner Write or some other small word processing software, that just types, thank you very much.

That's good to know - and glad to hear that I'm not the only one -

The new "interface" is crap compared to the old one. It also seems slower to me, so probably more of a memory hog.

cut paste and undo is terrible, just to name a few, an epic fail by MS.

I hated to loose Office '95. Keep it simple.

I went Open Office because I wanted to stay legit on my new system at home, and Office cost WAY too much for what you get. I might give Linux a try at some point... I never have had a chance to see if games I play (Civ4 and half-life mostly) would run on it.