Comments on: Things to Hate About Office 2007

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:52 +0000

WTF!!!?!?! What a hurricane of sh*t this is!!! I am at my wits end with this garbage Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Can’t find a damn thing in Explorer and I spend countless minutes/hours trying to figure out how to do something in Word or Excel that was once very easy to do! It’s like someone coming into your house and rearranging all the furniture, swapping things out of all your drawers and cabinets, moving things to different places (maybe throwing some stuff out) and you come home to this. I am absolutely outraged by the goons at Microsoft. My next computer will be an Apple. Had I known I would be going through this much trouble, I would have bought an Apple in the first place. Apple could have sooo much fun with this in their commercials blasting the PC. C’mon Apple, go in for the kill!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:02:45 +0000

Oh, and another thing that is absolutely obserd: they removed the cross hatch and stipple fill tools. I’d hate to be color blind trying to read a pie chart with different shades of grey, or printing on a black and white printer. What a disaster this program is.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:00:24 +0000

I share your hatred for the ribbon. I even took the time to mail them a letter expressing my discust for their lack of research before implimenting these changes. Even once i become familiar with the location of icons in the ribbons, i will never be as efficient as I was with 2003, simply because it takes at least 2 mouse clicks to get to the thing i want to do, whereas before I could customize my toolbars to have all my favorite tools right at my finger tips. It’s as though they polled the 50+ age category when making the UI more user friendly. What about the rest of us tech savy users!!!

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:01:27 +0000

How could I not have added this one?

I hate that Outlook auto-capitalizes the first word on a line after you press enter.

I was just reminded of it after a username / password fiasco that wasted not only my time, but two other peoples time, caused multiple emails and text messages saying “no, we cannot log in” and finally took a telephone call to resolve, all because Outlook capitalized the first letter of a secure password.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:23:27 +0000

I have been a medical transcriptionist for 10 years or at least trying to be. I honestly believe Microsoft Word 2007 should be called Microslop Word DC-10, because this program crashes every time I turn around. It is the worst word processing program I have ever had the misfortune to have to use. I have to uninstall and reinstall it just to repair it because running repair from what is now programs and features, not add and remove programs because I guess that was too obvious and easy and they had to make it more difficult for whatever reason, “cannot find” some file, apparently because I purchased it from the Microslop Online Rip-Off Store where they don’t have to talk to anyone or be confronted about the garbage they develop. Okay, not true, they are willing to grant me the privilege of sending them an email for a mere $36. How very considerate of them. I would willing to bet, had I kept better records, that I have lost enough money in the past year from Word-thless crashing, I might would have a case against them to recoup my losses from this piece of work program not saving, not recovering, not functioning properly to begin with, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

By: Cardifflaw

Cardifflaw — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:24:34 +0000

I am an attorney and I hate MS word 2007. The only reason that I still have it on my desktop is that many of my clients use it. However, the automatic formatting is killing me. I use wordperfect if I can get away with it.

By: Frusty

Frusty — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:56:15 +0000

Hate hate hate this crap.

By: Yvette

Yvette — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:54:25 +0000

MS Office 2007 sucks. Unable to open docs saved in earlier versions of word after trying for hours, and following all the suggestions. This is so non-user-friendly and totally crappy. It’s build to rip off and frustrate people. Totally hate it. Utter waste of time and energy.

By: Kantoormeubelen

Kantoormeubelen — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:47:13 +0000

Hi Scott,

I totally agree with you. I’ve been using Office for years, but now I’ve switched over to Google Docs: the whole cloudcomputing just works better and is mostly bug free. Plus you can open your docs and email on any computer you choose! Those are the biggest benefits.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:16:50 +0000

Honestly, I hate Office 2007 so much that I’m switching away from it. Since I’m going through the pain of switching, I might as well make the switch to Apple. Nice going Micro$oft!