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2003 view in Office 2007
Hi
I have just installed Office 2007 and am not impressed with toolbars etc. All I want to do is type letters and I found the 2003 view much easier Can I turn on a view similar to 2003. Regards Graham |
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"Graham" wrote in message
... Hi I have just installed Office 2007 and am not impressed with toolbars etc. All I want to do is type letters and I found the 2003 view much easier Can I turn on a view similar to 2003. Regards Graham If all you want to do is type letters then the Ribbon is much BETTER because you can minimse it..... |
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If you were happy with Word 2003, why did you upgrade? Did you know nothing
about Office 2007 before installing? The new UI is hardly a secret. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham" wrote in message ... Hi I have just installed Office 2007 and am not impressed with toolbars etc. All I want to do is type letters and I found the 2003 view much easier Can I turn on a view similar to 2003. Regards Graham |
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:15:57 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: If you were happy with Word 2003, why did you upgrade? Did you know nothing about Office 2007 before installing? The new UI is hardly a secret. This is great -- and typical. This guy asks a perfectly good question. He gets 2 replies essentially telling him he's (a) he's wrong and (b) he's stupid. Why not just answer his question and leave your damned personal opinions out of it. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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LurfysMa wrote:
This is great -- and typical. It is typical of Usenet, though I had hoped it wouldn't be when related to MS, as MS is a corporation, and MVPs are representatives, of a sort, of that corporation. In other words, Usenet is composed of learners and experts, and experts often forget that learning is an unending process. It's a question of big dogs and little dogs, and the small bit of power afforded those who have the answers. It's much worse on the comp.* hierarchy, where the experts will sometimes actually refuse to answer your question just because they can, or flame you for small things like top posting, or not giving enough information in your post. There's netiquette, and then there's learning how to post a question in such a way that the experts will answer it and not flame you. The two are not the same. The latter takes a great deal of experience, and a certain amount of diplomacy--both of which it is assumed any poster will already have. I really do despise power games, but even on an MS group, it has to be expected. Those who have the answers just sometimes can't resist the urge to leverage that power. Ian -- http://sundry.ws/ |
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There really wasn't much of question there. It was mostly complaint and the
one "question" didn't even end in a question mark. If the OP had read any of the many similar questions here, he would already know that the answer to his question is no. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:15:57 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you were happy with Word 2003, why did you upgrade? Did you know nothing about Office 2007 before installing? The new UI is hardly a secret. This is great -- and typical. This guy asks a perfectly good question. He gets 2 replies essentially telling him he's (a) he's wrong and (b) he's stupid. Why not just answer his question and leave your damned personal opinions out of it. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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There are 3rd party products that can make Word 2007 look like Word 2003
(I'm surprised that none of the developers have leapt to recommend their wares). But there is nothing that comes with Word 2007 that will let you do it out of the box. I haven't examined any of the 3rd party offerings, so I can't make any recommendations. If you plan to stick with Word 2007 (and not revert to 2003), here are a couple "classic menus and toolbars" references: http://www.addintools.com/english/menuword/default.htm http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/20/111 You can also achieve a good deal of the Word 2003 look and feel by carefully sculpting the Quick Access Toolbar. One approach is shown he http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/?p=50 -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Graham" wrote in message ... Hi I have just installed Office 2007 and am not impressed with toolbars etc. All I want to do is type letters and I found the 2003 view much easier Can I turn on a view similar to 2003. Regards Graham |
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Dear Miss Suzanne know-it-all Barnhill,
has it occurred to you that Gordon, like me, might have been forced to upgrade to Word2007 because he 1) needed to use other components of Office2007? 2) reasoned (wrongly as it turned out) that an 'upgrade' implied an improvement ? 3) wanted to give the new edition a chance before deciding that he didn't like it ? While you are at it, perhaps you can tell me how, for example, a "Japanese greeting" option makes your work easier (unless you have a lot of Japanese-speaking friends). Word 2003 allowed a lot of customization which is now lacking, beyond a feeble 'Quick Access' toolbar. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There really wasn't much of question there. It was mostly complaint and the one "question" didn't even end in a question mark. If the OP had read any of the many similar questions here, he would already know that the answer to his question is no. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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2003 view in Office 2007
Dear Intertroll
Suzanne did not reply to Gordon: she replied to Graham. Her answer was perfectly satisfactory. Would you upgrade your car without looking at the specs of the new car? So why blindly upgrade to Office 2007 when you are happy with Office 2003 and all you want to do is write letters? I suggest that any version of Office is overkill for writing letters and that the free WordPad (or many other free text editors) would suffice for letter writing. I don't see that Suzanne greeted anyone in Japanese either. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "A. Vella" wrote in message ... Dear Miss Suzanne know-it-all Barnhill, has it occurred to you that Gordon, like me, might have been forced to upgrade to Word2007 because he 1) needed to use other components of Office2007? 2) reasoned (wrongly as it turned out) that an 'upgrade' implied an improvement ? 3) wanted to give the new edition a chance before deciding that he didn't like it ? While you are at it, perhaps you can tell me how, for example, a "Japanese greeting" option makes your work easier (unless you have a lot of Japanese-speaking friends). Word 2003 allowed a lot of customization which is now lacking, beyond a feeble 'Quick Access' toolbar. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There really wasn't much of question there. It was mostly complaint and the one "question" didn't even end in a question mark. If the OP had read any of the many similar questions here, he would already know that the answer to his question is no. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Dear Suzanne's friend,
I confused the two Scottish names/surnames, that is true but you did not answer any of my points. There may be several reasons - not just the ones I mentioned as examples - why a person might have to upgrade. Moreover I never said i wanted to write just letters though, in any case, Word is not supposed to be a DTP program. If you did not understand my reference to the Japanese greeting you have no idea what we're talking about. I suggest you go back to your video game and let someone more mature (Bill Gates himself perhaps?) interact with your company's clients. Whether you like it or not we ARE the people forking out the money from which your salary comes from. "Terry Farrell" wrote: Dear Intertroll Suzanne did not reply to Gordon: she replied to Graham. Her answer was perfectly satisfactory. Would you upgrade your car without looking at the specs of the new car? So why blindly upgrade to Office 2007 when you are happy with Office 2003 and all you want to do is write letters? I suggest that any version of Office is overkill for writing letters and that the free WordPad (or many other free text editors) would suffice for letter writing. I don't see that Suzanne greeted anyone in Japanese either. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP |
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