Office 2007

jdhdiggs
jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
edited October 2008 in The Clubhouse
WTH is this BS? Good lord this is bassackwards from prior revs.

Anybody have any cool hints for increasing the usability of this "upgrade"?

Thank you IT group! Woo!
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited October 2008
    I downloaded this through my Technet subscription with MS. I absolutely hated it! Most of it I could have dealt with, but the changes they made to Excel were awful. I ended up removing it and installing Office 2003.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2008
    Cool hints?

    If you have a laptop, close the laptop, remove it from the docking station, firmly grasp the laptop with both hands and slam it into your forehead several times stopping when the blood in your eyes makes it difficult to see.

    Why do this? Because at least it produces something, blood. That more than you will produce with Office 2007.

    Don't have a laptop? No worries! Follow the directions above replacing the word "laptop" with the word "keyboard". Keep in mind that your productivity will decrease but your efficiency will go up in this instance because the keyboard lacks the mass of the laptop and has a rougher texture thereby inducing bleeding at a slightly faster rate although maybe not in the same quantities. But it's quality bleeding and that's what counts.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited October 2008
    I also hate it; luckily it is not compatible with some applications I use so I was able to go back to 2003...not sure for how long though.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited October 2008
    There's an app or add-on whose name escapes me now, which skins 2007 back to the layout of 2003, and gives the same 2003 interface/functionality.

    It may be googleable.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited October 2008
    Jstas: I tried that and the HDD fell out...

    John: I am finding that thing like my life depended on it!

    Actually, excel isn't TOO horrid, but access? WTF were they thinking!
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  • tryrrthg
    tryrrthg Posts: 1,896
    edited October 2008
    We had a HORRIBLE time with it at work, specifically Excel. It was not recognizing our EDATE functions which are HUGE in what we do. The dates would still show just fine when you looked at them, but if you actually selected that cell the value in it would be #na. And sometimes it would randomly change some formulas to values and we would have no idea what or where they were changed. It was one big clusterf*ck!

    We ended up going back to 2003.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited October 2008
    Office 2007 sucks - this may be the first thing we all here agree on....
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited October 2008
    We're also having some issues w/ it here. First week we got it, the entire office had Tourette's. Give it a few weeks and the you'll start to get into the swing of the new interface, but I still prefer the old.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited October 2008
    This is the app I was thinking of- Classic Menu for Office 2007. Trialware, free 15 day- you'll know by then if it's worth buying.

    http://www.addintools.com/
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited October 2008
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Office 2007 sucks - this may be the first thing we all here agree on....

    Yes, but How Much it Sucks? Very wide difference in opinions..:D
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited October 2008
    unc2701 wrote: »
    We're also having some issues w/ it here. First week we got it, the entire office had Tourette's. Give it a few weeks and the you'll start to get into the swing of the new interface, but I still prefer the old.


    What we are noticing is the learning curve is based on what type of user you were before. The casual users had no problem converting, the power users despise it.... I'm guessing you'd be in the latter catagory... ;)
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited October 2008
    Anyone using OpenOffice? I installed it on a few computers at my wife's work since all they use is Word and Excel. So far so good, no complaints.
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  • Mazeroth
    Mazeroth Posts: 1,585
    edited October 2008
    We still use 2003 at work but at DeVry they have 2007 installed on all their computers and it bugs the **** out me. I use Excel 2003 a ton at work and can't, for the life of me, figure out why the hell they would mess with something good. Excel is a fine program, not needing anything, and they made it nearly useless.

    You would think a huge company like MS would test this **** out before putting it into practice. Unfreakingbelievable.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited October 2008
    I've heard a few people say 2007 is pretty good once you get used to it. But I can't get used to it; I hate it.

    Still using Office 2003 here and loving it! Woohoo!
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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,621
    edited October 2008
    I was planning on upgrading this week, maybe not.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited October 2008
    Slower then, well reminds me of Windows Me. Very slow and bulky. Been a tester for my work and I can't really recommend it.

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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited October 2008
    Sami, I use OpenOffice on my laptop. I have the option of installing MS Office but I thought I'd try the other and OpenOffice works great...
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited October 2008
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    What we are noticing is the learning curve is based on what type of user you were before. The casual users had no problem converting, the power users despise it.... I'm guessing you'd be in the latter catagory... ;)

    The new interface makes me think of when I was driving across Ireland in a manual car. I could wrap my mind around staying on the left side, but every time I'd go to shift, I'd bang my right hand into the door, looking for the stick.

    Oh and interfacing Access to an Oracle backend? Good times. Even stupid **** that never should have changed, like how Word reads RTF files is a little off.
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,151
    edited October 2008
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    ... Actually, excel isn't TOO horrid, but access? WTF were they thinking!
    The more I think about it, the more I think Access has been, is, and always will be ... one ... huge ... effin' ... clusterf%ck!

    Excuse my language ... but Micro$oft exasperates me more every day (rediculous boot times, rediculous errors, lengthy shutdown times ...). I'm switching to Linux, Firefox & Open Office just as soon as I can figure it all out ...
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