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I see. I will have to look at it in more detail. I only spent about an hour
with it and it was mostly UI stuff. The only in-depth stuff I did was for BCM in Outlook. That has been changed dramatically for the better and I am very anxious for it. I will have to look at the rest of the suite. -- Guy Forefront Business Solutions www.forefrontbusinesssolutions.com www.forefrontbusiness.com "CMM" wrote in message ... I wasn't talking about the "new" ribbon... it's fine. What I meant is that this new window dressing (as cool as it may be) is going to distract from the fact that the underlying programs are largely unchanged. Case-in-point.... try aligning two Excel documents so that you can see both at the same time. Ahhh, the Windows 3.1 MDI interface rears its ugly head. In 2006! That's fine... but, why doesn't Word work the same way.... or vice versa. Consistency is key! Worse, dialogs are still as unintuitive as ever (Modify Style in Word for instance. Formula dialog still requires expert training in Excel). They haven't changed one iota. Etc etc. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com "Guy" wrote in message news:US6dg.35078$Qq.23655@clgrps12... Wow. I am surprised. Everyone I have spoken with loves the new UI. I found it very intuitive from the first minute of use. -- Guy Forefront Business Solutions www.forefrontbusinesssolutions.com www.forefrontbusiness.com "CMM" wrote in message ... I gotta say that I am profoundly disappointed with Office 2007. I'm still trying to understand the ribbon... (it seems to basically be just an "exploded" menu bar)... but in essense, this is nowhere near the revolutionary release MS marketing is contending. 1) Excel and PowerPoint STILL have the same confusing, horrible MDI / fake-sdi interface. How hard is it to get Word's true SDI right? Even better, implement a nice TABBED document interface. Give the taskbar a break. This is a showstopper. 2) Dialogs are just as unattractive- and more importantly, unintuitive- as ever... in fact they look completely untouched. For instance, Word's Modify Style dialog box (with the unintuitively placed Modify button in the lower left hand side) is just as unweildy as ever. Excel's equation dialog doesn't look like it's been touched since Windows 3.1. 3) Why does resizing the window not resize the view? How do we get a Text Width view? Oh, now I have to go into dialog box to do it?! You gotta be kidding me. Word's "view" of a document is just as distracting and annoying as ever. 4) No *unified* Template Center / Gallery / Task Manager? Office has needed an attractive, nicely designed Task Manager for a long time. The old New / Open tools were a beginning but they were never IMPROVED. The idea wasn't bad.... it just wasn't followed through on. Often, I'll need to create a document but not sure which app to use (Word or Publisher... I don't know!!! I'm so confused! Let me call IT.... wait I am IT!!!). There's more... but these are biggies. So far, I don't see much in this release that especially compelling. Same old Office..... with a new menu bar. -- -C. Moya www.cmoya.com |
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