August 20th, 2011 | 
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Question: Is Microsoft 2007 the most inane thing you’ve ever encountered?
Four months ago, my “day job” employer upgraded to Microsoft’s latest creation. I’m finding Word and Excel enormously irritating, what with the complete redesign and the new “ribbon” thing instead of the longtime traditional drop-down menus.
Anyone else find them a pain in the butt? I’m actually very fast in learning new things, but having used the “traditional” windows set up for 15 years I just find this drastic redesign off-putting. It’s particularly hard since I have XP on my home computer and have no plans to change.
Oh, and the really swell thing about 2007 is that with all the “improvements” they’ve made, the Help function continues to be as helpful as trying to converse in Greek with a chimpanzee. You type in two very specific key words, and up pops inane things that have nothing whatsoever to do with either word you typed, such as a query of “Insert arrows” resulting in vital topics like, “How to order wine at a French restaurant in Lithuania.”
What do you think?
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Answer by jess
i loove your analogies, nothing conveys frustration like a large dose of some classic sarcasm.
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Yeah, it’s insane, it’s sick, it’s cool, it’s totaly out there, it cost’s a small fortune.
I use open office, it is all the above, but it is free.
I actually love the new Office. It’s easier to access features you don’t usually see in other MS Office versions. Maybe the whole irritating thing will only last for, like, a week or two. But you’ll get used to it.
It depends on the extent to which someone uses Excel in his/her work. If you use Excel basically for making certain reports, then Yes, Office 2007 is a pain. But if you’re an advanced excel user (macro, VB, Graphing, data analysis & many add-ins) , then you’d feel that Office 2007 is a big help.
I think the problem that most users face is that they are not able to work as fast as they were used to do, due to various reasons.
+ sometims it becomes very slow
+ new menu style
+ compatibility problems
Do not worry. Since you have about 15 yrs of experience working with excel, you’ll get used to the latest one quickly.
Here is a link to help you with the new menu style
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA100860481033.aspx
Click on the link that says “Excel Ribbon Mapping Workbook”