Office 2007 — Better But a Tough Switch 484
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Office 2007, coming out Jan. 30, is a 'radical revision,' writes the Wall Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg. 'The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new. In Word, Excel and PowerPoint, all of the menus are gone — every one. None of the familiar toolbars have survived, either. In their place is a wide, tabbed band of icons at the top of the screen called the Ribbon. And there is no option to go back to the classic interface.' He adds, 'It has taken a good product and made it better and fresher. But there is a big downside to this gutsy redesign: It requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.'"
CTRL-F1 cuts the ribbon (Score:2, Informative)
CTRL-F1
But when you have a week when you're not under intense deadlines, give it a chance. I've really learned to like it, and think it does add some clarification to UI that was the definition and punchline of "Bloatware"
Re:Great. (Score:3, Informative)
Retraining (Score:5, Informative)
Doesn't sound great to me.
Re:I've bee using Beta 2 since sometime in the sum (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yeah, you know what they replaced it with (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Been Using 2007 for about 2 weeks (Score:5, Informative)
Re:CTRL-F1 cuts the ribbon (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yeah, you know what they replaced it with (Score:2, Informative)
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/ [adobe.com]
Re:Keyboard shortcuts? (Score:4, Informative)
Is there an equivaent to this on the ribbon? It seems almost entirely mouse dependent based on the pictures.
This was what I most wanted to touch on. From what few keyboard shortcuts I did know (cut, paste, Italics, Bold, etc), they all have the same shortcut. If, however, you wish to know what shortcut a particular option has, all one has to do is hover the mouse over the "button" that activates the option and some help text will pop up, including the keyboard shortcut (if that option has one).
Thank you for at least asking, instead of bashing it blindly.
Re:"save as" one of the hardest to find items. (Score:2, Informative)
"Steep learning curve" means easy, not difficult! (Score:2, Informative)
I guess the correct usage of this phrase has a shallow learning curve. {Prof. Jonathan}