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All of Office 2007 = stupidity
Outlook 2007 isn't the only stupidity.

I loaded a test version of Office 2007 and an accountant with 15+ years experience with almost every spreadsheet application was literally left sitting in stunned disbelief at the removal of menus and menu bars.

I myself wanted to get access to a calendar template that was only available on Word 2007. The position of the drawing objects wasn't quite right so I wanted to drag them all at once. In every version of Word you'd take 2 sec to select the object selection pointer, select your objects, and move them.

I couldn't believe the mish-mash of crap that I had to go through to get that pointer.

Memo to BIll Gates: MS office became a defacto standard because from 1995 to 2003 the product was virtually unchanged from a UI perspective. To destroy over a decade of value to end-users by replacing everything with task panels and that idiotic round left-side "Start" button is beyond words. Maybe if that button actually was a start button, then it might actually make some sense.. instead it's really only to get access to the "file menu"
Posted by: ITTech001   Posted on: 01/12/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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All of Office 2007 = stupidity  ITTech001 | 01/12/07
I can't speak for others  xuniL_z | 01/12/07
It has been pointed out many times....  bportlock | 01/12/07
Don't get stuck in the past  Moosehouse | 01/12/07
Oh the past!  ike@... | 01/15/07
Hmmm, 1995?  Too Old For IT | 01/15/07
Well, isn't that  John Zern | 01/12/07
AMEN & AMEN!!  Kimska | 01/15/07
Can I get a WITNESS??  Too Old For IT | 01/15/07
Good, bring back plaintext.  robert.paul@... | 01/12/07
email's passe anyway  0369 | 01/12/07
IRL...  ogmanx@... | 01/13/07
Yeah...  ogmanx@... | 01/12/07
You're dating yourself happy  BitTwiddler | 01/12/07
He's dating himself?  swoopee | 01/14/07
Old folks  Kimska | 01/15/07
Mary Jo's at it again  Moosehouse | 01/12/07
Huh?  Cardinal_Bill | 01/12/07
and furthermore  Too Old For IT | 01/15/07
Yeah, yeah...  ogmanx@... | 01/12/07
Oh don't insult Mary Jo...  Grayson Peddie | 01/12/07
It's the usual semi-religious zealotry....  bportlock | 01/13/07
Yeah, go away if you don't like.  mrmckeb@... | 01/13/07
Hey Grayson  Moosehouse | 01/15/07
So whats your point?  mwiley_z | 01/15/07
Oops I forgot  Moosehouse | 01/15/07
Bill?  Kimska | 01/15/07
Not Unexpected  ogmanx@... | 01/12/07
There was nothng taken.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/07
as usual...  ogmanx@... | 01/13/07
YOu had no point.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/14/07
Where does it say that?  CobraA1 | 01/14/07
uh oh, no_ax called again  Monkey_MCSE | 01/15/07
Only the defaults have changed.  B.O.F.H. | 01/14/07
NEVER FEAR!  Ole Man | 01/12/07
My Rep Say's...  cglrcng@... | 01/15/07
Nothing to do with the client app...  robert.paul@... | 01/12/07
Several issues with this...  BitTwiddler | 01/12/07
I once saw a Mac kill a child  NonZealot | 01/14/07
Message has been deleted.  mcoulange | 01/13/07
Server farms and thin clients are the future.  HypnoToad72 | 01/13/07
That's so 80's talk...  BitTwiddler | 01/13/07
Opensource has always been the future  A.Sinic | 01/14/07
Seperate the Browser  dontknowdontcare | 01/13/07
The court ordered no such thing  Edward Meyers | 01/13/07
What planet did that happen on?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/07
Lotus Notes and Eudora?  KTLA | 01/13/07
Is it the same spokeswoman who said  genadyb | 01/13/07
Microsoft WORD?!  CobraA1 | 01/13/07
as Outlook is part of Office...  mdsmedia | 01/14/07
Lovely Hysterics  John_564 | 01/15/07
Office 2007  bmoller@... | 01/15/07
Office 2007 in General  Kimska | 01/15/07
SOFTWARE WRITING  BALTHOR | 01/15/07
Palm & Outlook 2007  neil.steiner@... | 01/15/07
A Local's View of Microsoft  tventura6@... | 01/15/07
Where has everyone been?  peter@... | 01/16/07
Really poor performance in Outlook 2008  jmahr | 01/17/07
Why is there an issue?  {DvT}Hex | 01/17/07
Office 2007  jgruben914@... | 01/17/07
I never liked MS-Office anyway  cynthia_1968 | 01/18/07
Great! HTML has no place in e-mail  drobinow | 01/18/07
Ribbon Menu  1Gatorgal | 01/18/07
well it's your part  cynthia_1968 | 01/20/07
Reason not to get new Office version  MikeGale | 01/31/07
Speculation on why...  fredmcgee | 02/06/07
Can I see some proof?  8string | 03/17/07
Really, try this  waterhzrd | 05/08/07

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