This quarter all the computers in my studio have been switched to Office 2007 and it has to be the worst software upgrade I have ever experienced. The new "ribbon" across the top seems deliberately designed to keep you from accessing any commands and/or menus. Thank God the keyboard shortcuts are the same; without them I would still be trying to figure out how to print anything. But the real reason I'm starting this thread is to reach out to you, ILX, and hope that ONE of you can tell me how to make my Word documents actually look like they will on a sheet of paper, since some genius has decided that the default configuration should be to display no margins, which not only hurts my eyes, it also makes it basically impossible to lay out a page of simple, plain, unadorned God Damn text and have any confidence about what the thing will look like. I have been reduced to writing business letters in InDesign for fuck's sake!
The only upshot I can see is that that arrogant little paperclip menace seems to have been eliminated, but I think all they did was grind up his spirit and spread it through the entire software package. Have they learned nothing after all this time?! AUGH!!!!!!!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:23 (eighteen years ago)
should be a tile in the bottom right that says "print layout"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:27 (eighteen years ago)
It's on print layout, though.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:36 (eighteen years ago)
Can't speak for any of the rest, but the new Word is awesome, first Word I've liked since 5.1. It's seriously good, if you make allowances for some baked-in stupidities that MS can't let go of now (mostly paragraph style handling). Best bit is you can add most-used commands to the window titlebar, so *finally* doing proper references and citations is a dream.
Don't have it in front of me, but yeh the view commands are down at the bottom of the window. Margins come up fine on mine.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)
i don't fuck with word 2007 unless i'm using a school computer but i've found it to be pretty fucking easy tbh. i think the redesign is pretty handy
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:42 (eighteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2278319720_eec849c718_b.jpg
No margins... :( I can make them come up by going to View - > One Page, but it's kind of hard on the eyes.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)
margins are fine on mine too.
ill tell you what can go f itself though - READING LAYOUT
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:58 (eighteen years ago)
i've gotten used to the toolbars replacing the drop-downs, i like them now
― Jordan, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:06 (eighteen years ago)
It means more mousing around and scanning the screen wildly though! Pulling down a menu, all the things you want are right there - this way, you click, everything changes, your eyes have to search around to find the thing you want... BAD BAD BAD
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)
Only because you don't know where stuff is yet, obv.. If it were the other way around you'd be all "having a toolbar, everything you want is grouped together there with icons, pulling down a menu you have to read through everything to find what you want!" At first I hated it because it's change, but I do think it's more usable.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
― haitch, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)
I only used this once when they upgraded it on a pc I don't use that much. Maybe the design will sink in, but I spent about ten minutes trying to do one simple thing simply because I had no idea wtf anything did.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 02:13 (eighteen years ago)
the whole edit/options/format/preferences nonsense deserved to die long ago.
supposedly the next version of office puts them back in :(
― abanana, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 02:19 (eighteen years ago)
Fuckers keep saying that I don't need a Mac at work and hence no Office 2008 and that I should use a PC and Office 2007 and screw you control freaks with Alex in NYC's rusty butter knife.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 02:22 (eighteen years ago)
My favorite thing is the big, candy-like button in the upper left. Sometimes it glows, and sometimes it doesn't. Mystic!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 13:18 (eighteen years ago)
screenshot pls
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 15:26 (eighteen years ago)
Doctor Casino already posted a screenshot.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 15:27 (eighteen years ago)
oh..work blocked, i guess
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 15:44 (eighteen years ago)
jesus what screen res is that screenshot on?
― Ste, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 16:37 (eighteen years ago)
Technology news flash is here. Thirty-inch displays are now and fab.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 16:42 (eighteen years ago)
ok dr casinos screenshot looks NOTHING like my office 2007. is that on a mac?
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 16:47 (eighteen years ago)
Nope, PC. Maybe it's some kind of school/institutional version they have installed?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)
Worst software upgrade would actually be from XP to Vista, obv.
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)
screenshot looks pretty much like my word 2007 does, except ours is set to the black theme
― stet, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
Just once I'd like to see ONE release of Office that addresses all the problems that have been there for 15 years, instead of cramming new functionality down our throats.
Microsoft has been making questionable choices for about a decade, but at some definitive point in the last three years it haemorrhaged on a grand scale and completely lost the plot. Vista is the clearest example of that; when a free OS is more useable and reliable, the future unravels pretty damned quickly.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)
w-wait there are *themes* now!? ffs.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 22:53 (eighteen years ago)
"The ribbon is improved in Office 2010"
lol
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)
At work we've been on Office 2003 since it came out, so I was hoping this was a deliberate policy to skip 2007, give 2010 a year to see if there were any major issues, and then go straight to that. But no, our IT people have decided, now 2010 has been out for over a year and people have spent 4 years complaining about the 2007 interface, that we should all upgrade to 2007.
IAs about Excel 2007:- can't fucking find any menu options- file format is now zipped xml files, theoretically more "open" than the previous proprietary binary stuff, but grep won't find data in an xlsx (whereas it usually did for an xls), because all the data is zipped- dangles the promise of more rows and columns at you, but if you use too many you can't open the sodding file again, thanks Excel- did I mention that I can't fucking find any menu options
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:03 (fourteen years ago)
the "let's go with a proven release' mentality is such a broken joke
― dayo, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:10 (fourteen years ago)
So, I just downloaded Excel 2016 for the Mac, and, ummmm.... WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE VBA EDITOR?!?!?!?!?!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 6 November 2016 14:01 (nine years ago)