Comments on: Things to Hate About Office 2007

By: Melody

Melody — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:00:13 +0000

Fara – I really felt for you. I started using it on the fly, too, and under pressure. Take a look at my tip for getting through that if you haven’t figured it out already. I don’t want to waste space Scott’s blog explaining it, but the short of it is, you put all your most common commands on the bar at the top until you figure out where the heck things are. http://tribeofadmins.com/who-loves-office-2007 about 3/4 down if you need it.

I’ve really enjoyed this post – it’s nice to see I’m not alone out there!

By: Fara

Fara — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:31:56 +0000

It IS worse. It’s ‘07 with Whipped Cream and Cherries on top. It’s just about as frustrating. I SO dislike everything bubbly and smoothed out about XP and Vista, that every chance given to make it look “Classic” I take.

I’m totally Old School Windows and I’m damn proud of it!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:19 +0000

I can only imagine that as 2010 comes out, that it’s going to get worse…

By: Fara

Fara — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:35:22 +0000

I swear that’s not even funny. I literally WAS brought to tears.

When you’re in a super hurry and your expected to be on top of everything and you can’t get what was once the most minor of Office tasks completed, you might just lose out on an excellent opportunity.

Can you sue Microsoft for causing such undue stress with such a horrendous Office Version?

By: Juan Fermin

Juan Fermin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:17:05 +0000

Here’s another one, I have client that I’ve been upgrading 1 user at a time to Office 2007 (mostly so I can go over with the the differences and how to properly use it). EVERY time I upgarde another user, the new 2007 installation completely screws up the Calendar for all the users. It scrambles the Color codes and creates a TON of new categories.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:08:21 +0000

At Christmas, among my visitors was a brother-in-law who works in upper management at Exxon-Mobil.

We discussed my woes with Office 2007 and I asked hime if E-M had upgraded to this version.

He said that E-M never upgrades unless there is a ‘business reason’ to do so.

Ergo, that huge world-wide corp is still using XP and Office 2003. The obvious costs of any upgrade include 1)the initial cost of software, 2) the use of ‘help desk’ staff to load new software on each computer, 3) creation of employee training classes, 4) down time for all staff [one presumes that everyone in the company with the possible exception of the grounds keepers uses production software and I suspect the grounds keepers even use computers], 5) further down time as staff adjusts to the new software.

I suspect that other large corporations, not to mention the government, have also maintained the older systems.

Bottom line: MS is killing the goose that laid their golden egg.

Me: I use WordPerfect which wisely keeps the word processor familiar and keeps Quatropro mirroring Excel 2003 and Presentations mirroring Power Point 2003.

As a writer with material in-print for more than 30 years, I can’t say enough about WordPerfect. The key life saving feature that I love is: REVEAL CODES — it lets me see exactly where a controllin code has appeared in a document so I can revise it.

And, when I insert a code such as ‘double-space,’ the entire document beyond the insertion point is then double spaced. When I want to revert to single spacing, I just insert a new code at the appropriate location.

With MSWord, I never know what is controling the appearance of the document and those stupid little paragraph markers are virtually useless.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:54:02 +0000

What a great analogy!

like swapping the brake and the gas pedal in a new line of cars.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:41:53 +0000

“Help”

Why in the world would you hide a “Help” menu?

I too Googled “I hate Office 2007″ just to commiserate a little. This pile of crap raises my blood pressure every time I try to use it. I swear, it’s like swapping the brake and the gas pedal in a new line of cars.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:06:03 +0000

I trialed office 2007 back in 2007 and hated it, installed the Original Menus program and wondered why I would keep using office 07 instead of the speedier 2003, so I switched back. In December I upgraded 4 computers, and added two new PCs to our office, and tried VERY VERY hard to find a legit copy office 2003, but now I am stuck yelling, cursing, sending vulgar messages to microsoft about this damn ribbon again. I can figure out how to indent a bullet in a sub-list in a word document! I’m a friggin comp engineer, and used office 95, 2000 (best version in my eyes), XP, and 2003. Amazing that microsoft was able to screw up Windows XP AND Office 2003 in just one year. Luckily you can still get Windows XP for now, but I loathe office 2007. You nailed it – where are the shortcut keys that kept me working fast and efficient versus having to look things up online – I taught myself office 95 in a matter of weeks – where is the Switch To Classic Menus button? There is a damn button for everything else?!?!?!

By: Dave Ziffer

Dave Ziffer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:34:26 +0000

You may be interested in my rant against wide-screen laptops, shiny screens, ribbons, and scatterbrained deconstructed menus at:

http://www.projectpro.com/letters/usability.html

It’s an attempt to put all this complaining together in a coherent way.