aaarrgghhh Office 2007

[milanbenes]

all pc's at clientco have been upgraded to Office 2007

it's taken me an hour to figure out how to print from excel

it's kind of like Word / Excel etc for the iphone generation everything is pretty
pictures instead of words and menus is that because the next generation cannot read ?

oh well

Milan.

[AtW]

They went downhill ever since Office 97.

All they needed to do was to increase max number of rows in Excel and kill Clippy*

HTH


Not CUK Clippy...

[MarillionFan]

all pc's at clientco have been upgraded to Office 2007

it's taken me an hour to figure out how to print from excel

it's kind of like Word / Excel etc for the iphone generation everything is pretty
pictures instead of words and menus is that because the next generation cannot read ?

oh well

Milan.

Ctrl-P you luddite.

They're called Ribbons btw, you know the stuff you program for clients to change their tapes???

[Sysman]

it's kind of like Word / Excel etc for the iphone generation everything is pretty
pictures instead of words and menus is that because the next generation cannot read ?

For maximum confusion, leave Hide extensions for known file types switched on and try to convert a load of OpenOffice documents to MS Office formats.

Result: a load of files which all have the same name, and you have to guess which format they are by looking at the icons.

[Troll]

all pc's at clientco have been upgraded to Office 2007

it's taken me an hour to figure out how to print from excel

it's kind of like Word / Excel etc for the iphone generation everything is pretty
pictures instead of words and menus is that because the next generation cannot read ?

oh well

Milan.

Have to agree with you on that old benes it's a pile of pointless shiite- & illustrates what happens when clueless change-for-change sake types get into positions to influence companies

Whenever I get these "wtf were they thinking of moments, the idiots from the Apprentice and their brain storming sessions spring to mind.

[2BIT]

They went downhill ever since Office 97.

All they needed to do was to increase max number of rows in Excel and kill Clippy*

HTH


Not CUK Clippy...

nah row count was fine, I only wanted more that 65K rows when I was using excel stupidly

[Doggy Styles]

all pc's at clientco have been upgraded to Office 2007

it's taken me an hour to figure out how to print from excel

it's kind of like Word / Excel etc for the iphone generation everything is pretty
pictures instead of words and menus is that because the next generation cannot read ?

oh well

Milan.

Why didn't you use the option of retaining the old 2003 look and feel? That's what I did when I upgraded to Office 2007.

I've got 2010 now, and decided to get used to the ribbons. When I can't find a command I look it up in the Help.

[AtW]

Why didn't you use the option of retaining the old 2003 look and feel?

Was there such option in 2007? I certainly could not find it in 2010 - whoever decided to remove "classic" view with Menues that generation of people got trained it is a bigger cretin than product of sasguru and andyW's love.

[milanbenes]

what are you talking about ribbons ? you been smoking something ?

as for 2003 look and feel had no choice it autoinstalled when I booted up last week

Milan.

[d000hg]

Have to agree with you on that old benes it's a pile of pointless shiite- & illustrates what happens when clueless change-for-change sake types get into positions to influence companies

By that logic, the standard menu system we all know and love wouldn't have been created either.