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Old February 5th, 2010, 11:03 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
Bill Davy
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Default Is there a way to make Office 2007 emulate Office 2003?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" what@ever wrote in message
...
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...he-ribbon.aspx
for the history of the ribbon.

The ribbon is NOT going away and many more non-Microsoft applications are
adapting the ribbon interface. As with going from command line to GUI,
there is a learning curve. And I say it is about time for a change - it
has
me me more productive in the applications I use... and my attitude has a
lot
to do with it.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, OldHand asked:

| I'm sure numerous victims of this software do hope the ribbon will go
| away. If it doesn't, M$ office will go away, sooner or later.
|
| Did anyone try using these applications before releasing them, and if
| they did, did they produce a report we can read?
|
| These days we no longer expect routine software to be quite so
| irritating. For example, if you want to insert a footnote or a legend
| in Word, you have to remember that those sorts of insertion are not
| under Insertion, but they go under 'References' (French term). A
| legend is not a reference, so you tend to click around for a while
| till you find it.
|
| Font characteristics are under 'Acceuil', but subscripts and
| superscripts (which even schoolkids need) are nowhere easy to find.
| You can add them only to the top menu, which is quite ridiculous.
|
| Why can't we configure the menus ourselves?
|
| It takes time to learn new habits with new software. This is a total
| waste of time if the new software does nothing you need that you
| didn't have already. Nobody is going to develop good plugins for an
| application that is likely to be replaced quite soon by something
| else completely different.
|
|
|
|
| "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" a écrit dans le
| message de ...
|| There are third party add-ins available. Not sure if any are free
|| tho. I wouldn't count on them being completely what you want. My
|| personal suggestion would be to get used to the ribbon. It's not
|| going to go away and you may not always be able to rely on an add-in
|| being available.
||
|| --
|| JoAnn Paules
|| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
|| Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
||
||
||
|| "MicahV" wrote in message
|| ...
||| I greatly prefer the look and feel of Office 2003 when using Word
||| and Excel;
||| I am just curious if there is an "upgrade" or something similar
||| that can cause Office 2007 to act like Office 2003. Thanks for any
||| input.




But you don't use Word to edit your news postings or you wouldn't say "me
me" (and children should be discouraged from such solecisms too).



Personally, I loathe the ribbon, even if someone has managed to prove it is
better for me. I was not aware Microsoft has been elevated to a church yet.
I no longer go to church, and if I could avoid the ribbon, I would.