Alex,
Your advice is perfect! The only advantage to having office 2007 right
now that I've seen is that sometimes those who have it send attachments
with the .docx extension that can't be opened with earlier versions of
Word. Then you have to e-mail the sender and get them to convert it and
resend. A real pain. I don't think learning Office 2007 is a huge
crisis, but it is a productivity killer if it is installed on your
computer and you have to hit the ground running with it. I haven't even
personally put it on my main laptop that I used for most tasks because
it just feels so cumbersome. The only think I can hope for is that
Microsoft hears all of the terrible feedback about that product and
does something to remedy it.
Sue B.
Alex Midence wrote:
Dude, I'm gonna tell it to ya
straight. Don't listen to anybody trying to sell you on 2007.
Especially, don't let them do it to you if you're using office
applications to do your job. It is one major productivity killer. If
you want to upgrade, get 2003. You can buy it on eBay for a couple
hundred dollars if you don't mind going that route. Just make sure the
ad says it's brand new and stil in the box. If you go 2007, just
pretend you got yourself a whole new wordprocessor to learn. Go in
with the mentality of a rookie/newbie because all your old hotkey
friends are no more. Most folks just don't have that kind of time.
They buy the same software's upgrades when they come out because they
expect to just be able to jump right in and start working and producing
the same output of work as they did with the prior version if not
more. If they wanted to learn a whole new piece of software, they'd've
bought wordperfect or something. Jaws still works great with 2003 and
you can still hit the ground running with it straight out of the box
coming from office 2000. Don't just take my word for it on how bad 07
is. Just google "hate office 2007" and you'll see what I mean by
productivity killer. I wish with all my heart that I could go back to
2003 at the office but, everyone's been migrated and we are all still
fussing and cussing about it and it's been like 2 months already since
the upgrade. I'm telling you, it's just NOT worth it. It is one
royal, unmitigated, colossal, ferocious, and persistent pain in the
back side. Only reason I'm not using any more adjectives is because I
ran out of clean ones and, as usual when I think of this thing, I find
myself in great need of some scotch.
One man's opinion,
Alex
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Sent:
Friday, May 22, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject:
Re: Alternative Word-2003 menus for Word 2007
Hi Sue,
I'm still using one of the older versions
of Word, but feel as if it might be a practical idea to buy and install
Word 2007 one of these days in order not to be left behind with
decreasing jaws support for my Word 2000. But I don't even know a
couple of basic things, like can you just purchase Word 2007 alone, or
must you get it as part of that office suite, and is that an expensive
proposition? And second, how does a Jaws user learn to use Word 2007
and its notorious ribbon? Is there a tutorial or an instruction manual
for it somewhere online?
thanks.
Joel
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Sent:
Friday, May 22, 2009 6:01 AM
Subject:
Re: Alternative Word-2003 menus for Word 2007
I'm going to throw my two cents worth in on this one. I agree with
George that those menus aren't really all that useful. If you are new
to MS Office then skip them altogether and learn how the ribbons work.
If you are firmly attached to the menus as they were used in earlier
versions of MS Office, then these might be useful for finding commands
that you don't have keystrokes already memorized for. However, they
don't just add the menu bar back so that you can go on with things as
you always did, there is still new stuff to learn. I've found in
teaching that I can teach someone who was familiar with the menus to
use the ribbons in about as much time as it takes to teach them to find
and then navigate these add-ins. My vote is that if you are using JAWS
10, I'd go for taking the time to learn how to navigate the ribbons. In
case anyone is anxious about the switch to Office 2007, most of the
dialog boxes, once you get to them from the ribbon, are the same as the
ones in Office 2003 were, so getting to the options you need isn't
really all that different.
Sue B.
George B wrote:
Dave
eather have I they are kind of
confusing let me know what you figure out.
"God
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage
to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Anyone actually tried to
use these? They seem to be templates but I've not been able to make
them work.
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Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday,
May 21, 2009 03:55
Subject: Re: page
layout in word 2007
I can go
one step further. Below is the link to a web site from which you can
download a free add-on to Word 2007 that adds the classic Word 2003
menus. This way, you can have your cake and eat it too. If you are
befuddled by Word 2007's ribbon menus, you can just switch to the more
familiar Word 2003 menus.
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:20 PM
Subject: RE: page
layout in word 2007
Can
you tell me what Kim koomandos web site is please?
Hi, Kim
Koomando posted a program on her Cool Site of the Day on May 19th that
described a free program to replace the Word 2007 Ribbon with all your
familiar menus.
If you
search her site I expect you can find this particular post and the link
to the company that provides the download. Good luck, Mitch
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: page
layout in word 2007
Welcome to the confusing
world of Office 2007 and the ribbon!
You'll probably spend a lot
of time groping around the ribbon, looking for your old familiar dialog
boxes. It wasn't easy for me.
Simply to answer your
question:
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Sent:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 14:16
Subject: page
layout in word 2007
Hi: I just
installed word 2007 and when I go to page layout to hopefully get to
margin setings, it says hit tab or shiftt Alt followed by p. when I use
tab or shift tab it talks about help and alt and P do nothing. Any help
would be appreciated. John Fioravanti
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