GIVE ME MY TOOLS BACK!

[plumtreeblossom]

MS Office 2007 is overflowing with FAIL. Nothing is where it's supposed to be. It looks like goddamn MySpace. It's a complicated and useless toy now, not a product for professionals who NEED TO GET STUFF DONE RIGHT NOW.

I can't find anything! You know, when I was job hunting and got tested on Office apps, I scored nearly 100% on Word and Excel, and about 85% on PowerPoint. That was, of course, on the previous and sensible version. If I'd had to test on Office 2007, I would have failed utterly and would never have been able to get a job.

And MS made sure to take out anything useful (like, um, the "Help" tab) and replace it with webby crap. If I wanted to be using Dreamweaver, that's exactly what I'd be using. I want the old Excel back and I want it now.

At least I still have the old version at home. I will use it until I am the last remaining user in the known universe and I have to run it on an antique computer at a museum somewhere. That's how much I hate Office 2007.

Comments

Re: Are you allowed to change settings on this computer?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yes, those were the days.

Gone is the Tools menu. Replacing it are tabs that look for all the world like OKcupid. I'm in Word right now, and if you can customize the tabs, I can't tell because there no more Help menu. I guess click-down muenus aren't kewl anymore. You just get what they've put on the tabs and that's it.

A few bare-bones functions are now in the right-mouse click, for us old people. I am completely dependent on that -- it's the ony way I can navigate, and the functionality I get is little more than a 1980s word processor.

This bites it.

Re: Are you allowed to change settings on this computer?

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I looked up Office 2007 to see if it was just hiding from you, and now I see. 'Ribbon' indeed. It eats way too much screen. It does say you can make the myspacey Ribbon thing relatively small (though this is NOT what any of us have been accustomed to think of as minimizing). Doesn't say anything about customizing tabs, though.

And you can add commands to the little toolbarrish thing by right-clicking the tool you want and choosing 'Add to Quick Access Toolbar', but you're right. This is horrible design. I can understand wanting to appeal to new users, but it should always have a 'revert to previous interface' choice. This is a nail in Microsoft's coffin.