Office 2007

[jdhdiggs]

WTH is this BS? Good lord this is bassackwards from prior revs.

Anybody have any cool hints for increasing the usability of this "upgrade"?

Thank you IT group! Woo!

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

I downloaded this through my Technet subscription with MS. I absolutely hated it! Most of it I could have dealt with, but the changes they made to Excel were awful. I ended up removing it and installing Office 2003.

[Jstas]

Cool hints?

If you have a laptop, close the laptop, remove it from the docking station, firmly grasp the laptop with both hands and slam it into your forehead several times stopping when the blood in your eyes makes it difficult to see.

Why do this? Because at least it produces something, blood. That more than you will produce with Office 2007.

Don't have a laptop? No worries! Follow the directions above replacing the word "laptop" with the word "keyboard". Keep in mind that your productivity will decrease but your efficiency will go up in this instance because the keyboard lacks the mass of the laptop and has a rougher texture thereby inducing bleeding at a slightly faster rate although maybe not in the same quantities. But it's quality bleeding and that's what counts.

[Ricardo]

I also hate it; luckily it is not compatible with some applications I use so I was able to go back to 2003...not sure for how long though.

[John30_30]

There's an app or add-on whose name escapes me now, which skins 2007 back to the layout of 2003, and gives the same 2003 interface/functionality.

It may be googleable.

[jdhdiggs]

Jstas: I tried that and the HDD fell out...

John: I am finding that thing like my life depended on it!

Actually, excel isn't TOO horrid, but access? WTF were they thinking!

[tryrrthg]

We had a HORRIBLE time with it at work, specifically Excel. It was not recognizing our EDATE functions which are HUGE in what we do. The dates would still show just fine when you looked at them, but if you actually selected that cell the value in it would be #na. And sometimes it would randomly change some formulas to values and we would have no idea what or where they were changed. It was one big clusterf*ck!

We ended up going back to 2003.

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

Office 2007 sucks - this may be the first thing we all here agree on....

[unc2701]

We're also having some issues w/ it here. First week we got it, the entire office had Tourette's. Give it a few weeks and the you'll start to get into the swing of the new interface, but I still prefer the old.

[John30_30]

This is the app I was thinking of- Classic Menu for Office 2007. Trialware, free 15 day- you'll know by then if it's worth buying.

http://www.addintools.com/

[John30_30]

Office 2007 sucks - this may be the first thing we all here agree on....

Yes, but How Much it Sucks? Very wide difference in opinions..:D

[jdhdiggs]

We're also having some issues w/ it here. First week we got it, the entire office had Tourette's. Give it a few weeks and the you'll start to get into the swing of the new interface, but I still prefer the old.

What we are noticing is the learning curve is based on what type of user you were before. The casual users had no problem converting, the power users despise it.... I'm guessing you'd be in the latter catagory... ;)

[Sami]

Anyone using OpenOffice? I installed it on a few computers at my wife's work since all they use is Word and Excel. So far so good, no complaints.

[Mazeroth]

We still use 2003 at work but at DeVry they have 2007 installed on all their computers and it bugs the **** out me. I use Excel 2003 a ton at work and can't, for the life of me, figure out why the hell they would mess with something good. Excel is a fine program, not needing anything, and they made it nearly useless.

You would think a huge company like MS would test this **** out before putting it into practice. Unfreakingbelievable.

[audiobliss]

I've heard a few people say 2007 is pretty good once you get used to it. But I can't get used to it; I hate it.

Still using Office 2003 here and loving it! Woohoo!

[Polkitup2]

I was planning on upgrading this week, maybe not.

[engtaz]

Slower then, well reminds me of Windows Me. Very slow and bulky. Been a tester for my work and I can't really recommend it.

engtaz

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

Sami, I use OpenOffice on my laptop. I have the option of installing MS Office but I thought I'd try the other and OpenOffice works great...

[unc2701]

What we are noticing is the learning curve is based on what type of user you were before. The casual users had no problem converting, the power users despise it.... I'm guessing you'd be in the latter catagory... ;)

The new interface makes me think of when I was driving across Ireland in a manual car. I could wrap my mind around staying on the left side, but every time I'd go to shift, I'd bang my right hand into the door, looking for the stick.

Oh and interfacing Access to an Oracle backend? Good times. Even stupid **** that never should have changed, like how Word reads RTF files is a little off.

[Kex]

... Actually, excel isn't TOO horrid, but access? WTF were they thinking!

The more I think about it, the more I think Access has been, is, and always will be ... one ... huge ... effin' ... clusterf%ck!

Excuse my language ... but Micro$oft exasperates me more every day (rediculous boot times, rediculous errors, lengthy shutdown times ...). I'm switching to Linux, Firefox & Open Office just as soon as I can figure it all out ...