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In addition to the above post by Jimbo one of the major changes to the ribbon in 2010 is that it is fully customizable
In addition to the above post by Jimbo one of the major changes to the ribbon in 2010 is that it is fully customizable
Hello Gary,
It's been said that "80% of word users only use 20% of the features" but as the actual 20% varies with each user all the functions are required.
I found the ribbon a little strange at first and it's the fact that the functions available are fixed that has I think stopped a lot of business people making the switch (it's not always about cost ), and i was amazes that Microsoft made the ribbon fixed in the first place
When 2007 first came out I trialed it on a small group of users, the support requests from this group massively increased, so being the lazy admin that I am, I rolled them back to 2003 and scrapped all further rollout plans.
Hi Guys,
I still am having a hard time finding stuff on the ribbons. Office 2000 was the last one I used and I had all the things I used most right in front of me all the time. I can see why they have all the stuff in there for people to use, but I want to organize it my way. 2007 has a bar for that, but it is small and limited. I've stopped using Word for letters and am now using Corel Draw (Wordperfect is embedded) for letters. I'll switch back if I can arrange things as I want.
Gary
Good Day Jimbo.
I did mention in my post that I had "read the FM" and had, in addition, taken a couple of online classes to learn how the @#$%^&* ribbon works. I also spent quite a numbers of hours over a 6 month period of time becoming familiar with it. I am familiar with the little up arrow at the far right of the menu bar which hides the @#$%^&* ribbon. And as I stated, I do (did) keep it hid until needed. (I tend to use mouse rather than keyboard shortcuts.) The fact remains that the @#$%^&* ribbon is anything in the world but intuitive. One must rely strictly on memory to perform whatever action they wish to perform, as no step leads logically to another. As evidenced by the 2003 to 2007 guide published by Microsoft (I'm too lazy to look up the website at the moment. I'm sure you are familiar with it anyway) it requires 3 to 5 motions (mouse clicks) in 2007 to perform the same operation that was/is possible to perform in 1 to 2 motions in 2003. If it were possible to actually turn off the ribbon and use a normal drop down menu with sub menus that are logically arranged and automatically open when one hovers over them, I would do so and not have problem with the @#$%^&* ribbon. Until then, to me and my arthritic fingers and feeble mind, the ribbon is inefficient, un-intuitive, and undesireable. That's "why this ribbon causes so much problem".
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
Hi All,
Goodies time
I assume that the MS conversion mentioned was ....
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...744321033.aspx
and for those who are looking to get the Word 2003 menu in Word 2007 have a look here ...
UBit Schweiz: UBitMenu (languages)
WarningI have yet to fully test this free add-on so I would advise anyone trying it to take all the normal precautions
Last edited by Barman58; 10 Aug 2009 at 13:27.
Jimbo, there is a quite enhanced photo management capability in Word 2010 beta that did not exist in 2007. There are a few other added features that I have not had (or have not taken) the opportunity to explore. Even though I despise the ribbon, the beta version that I downloaded from TechNet about one week ago does "seem" to offer several new features.
I guess it is not actually beta. It is a "Technical Preview".