MS Office 2007 installation question...

[BobSch]

Too bad MS didn't include a compatibility mode where the user could switch from the '07 interface to the classic one.

[Uncle Cracker]

Too bad MS didn't include a compatibility mode where the user could switch from the '07 interface to the classic one.

I'm sure their research concluded that it would make entirely too much sense to do so...

[RayintheUK]

Yeah, I think I'll keep my 7 year-old (you name it) because a 3 year-old whatever is bound to be no better.

It was a new design and a considerable advance on the 2003 version, better integrating its component parts. The menus are based on context rather than only content and after a little learning is, IMO, superior. What new software doesn't have "learning?" How would it be new otherwise?

Ray

[cgallery]

Yeah, I think I'll keep my 7 year-old (you name it) because a 3 year-old whatever is bound to be no better.

LOL. You don't have time to read my list.

It was a new design and a considerable advance on the 2003 version, better integrating its component parts. The menus are based on context rather than only content and after a little learning is, IMO, superior. What new software doesn't have "learning?" How would it be new otherwise?

Ray

What can you do in '07 that I can't do in '03?

On the UI issue, all I'm going to say is that I prefer to tell people to "Click on 'File,' then 'Open'" rather than "click on the thing that looks like a [blank], now click on the picture of the [blank], no the other [blank]."

Why learn what the symbols mean when I already know the words?

[annunaki]

Free

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