thank you both for pointing that out. I will tell the person who has this behemoth on her laptop.
I guess, though, that I just don't see a benefit to the the upgrade, and certainly not one to justify that type of struggle. I don't want styles to automatically "correct" my outline. I don't want the Spellcheck in Outlook to relentlessly change "your user name" to "you're user name" in my work emails. I just want a little word processor where I can peacefully make a list without worrying about word wrap but also without having to say noooo... I really *do* want this to be Roman numeral III. My question is, what is so much better about hiding the menu and putting "Save as" under some hieroglyph for "Home" instead of under "File" where they have very suggessfully trained users to expect it? It flies in the face of usability as it has been explained to me, and if it does something better it, this soomething does not appear to be something that I do with Office. </rant> >> -----Original Message----- > >Yeah - what he said. ;^) > >I'm LOVING Office 2007. Bring on more WYGIWYS software! I'm through with >WYSIWYG! > >Of course I can't use it at the actual office (we're still on Office 2000 >enterprise wide). > >It is a jarring change - but I found that after about a week I was starting >to "feel" it. Once you start picking up the underlying concepts a lot of >things become very natural (like this). > >I was really annoyed that I couldn't have my "Styles" gallery on the right >hand side like I'm used to... until I noticed the little chevron on the >gallery elements that let you add them as explorer bars. Once I found that >most of my problems with it went away. > >My only real gripe is that MS seemed to pay lip service to Outlook and >nothing more. It got some of the makeover (the message editor features the >Ribbon) but was left pretty much untouched at the core. I'm not that upset >- I still love Outlook (once I configure it correctly) but there are some >issues that have been outstanding for 10 years now (why can't I backup and >restore my email accounts!) > >Still, Word is a freakin' dream for me. > >Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231367 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
