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| Thread ID: 110450 | 2010-06-17 09:06:00 | Did you find Office 2007 a learning curve? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1111043 | 2010-06-17 09:06:00 | I've been using Office 2003 at home and at work and found it a challenge to use Office 2007. Most of the time I have been using Office 2000. I've taken up a course in IT and part of that is MS Office 2007. It's so slow following the book page by page for things I already know how to do. With employment agencies I have been assessed as a advanced user but with 2007 I am midiocure. Giving me headaches I found it better to skip the readings and just do the excercises and when I am stuck refer to the book. To me it appears Office 2007 and Windows Vista/Seven have this web look of it. It also has this start bubble than a previous start button - and in office we get a Office bubble. I've found that it can be more user friendly for non IT people and for those people who haven't spent much time with MS Office (like in a work environment). They require more clicks. You can draw the squares out when doing a table, I prefer to use the dialog box and do it the good old way :cool: I don't particularly enjoy flipping to diff ribbons to get a diff functions. The only adv I see is that you can preview the changes before you click the mouse. From the workplaces, I haven't come across Office 2007 yet. :waughh: |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1111044 | 2010-06-17 09:13:00 | Yes! Complete change from '97 and '03. I'm scared to go near Office 2010 in case it's an equally steep learning curve. However, I read somewhere that there's a Microsoft add-on for 2007 to give you back a toolbar with old-fashioned menus! | coldot (6847) | ||
| 1111045 | 2010-06-17 09:16:00 | There is an addon to give 2007 Office the menus from 2003. I will look it up. Currently using 2010 without the addon but I still have it so I will check to see if it works in 2010. It does work as advertised in 2010 as well. To be found here:- www.freewaregenius.com |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1111046 | 2010-06-17 09:16:00 | Office 2010's UI is pretty much the same as 2007. | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 1111047 | 2010-06-17 09:17:00 | I've used Office 2007 since when it was first released, and while it did take a few weeks to get used to, once you become familiar with the ribbon interface it's actually quite good. I will admit that initially it's hard to find things if you're used to the menu structure of Office 2003 and earlier. Office 2010 is very very similar to 2007 - I'm running the 60-day evaluation version at the moment and have barely noticed anything different. The integration with their online tools is nicer though, and their web-version of Office isn't too bad either. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1111048 | 2010-06-17 09:22:00 | I love Office 2007. :wub I use Office 2003 at work and I am constantly trying to do stuff which can only be done in 2007. For example, in Word highlight some text and a pop up menu with many of the standard tool bar functions appears immediately above it. So much easier than mousing up to the top tool bars. I use Word 07 for my studies at home and the inbuilt reference manager is awesome! The only thing that bugs me is they have categorised certain tools under headings which are not logical to me and I have to look through the various tabs until I find it. Overall, using Office 2007 was not a major learning curve and the whole ribbon thing or globe menu doesn't bother me. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1111049 | 2010-06-17 09:33:00 | I've used Office 2007 since when it was first released, and while it did take a few weeks to get used to, once you become familiar with the ribbon interface it's actually quite good. I will admit that initially it's hard to find things if you're used to the menu structure of Office 2003 and earlier. Office 2010 is very very similar to 2007 - I'm running the 60-day evaluation version at the moment and have barely noticed anything different. The integration with their online tools is nicer though, and their web-version of Office isn't too bad either. Absolutely on the nail Somebody; the other (for me anyway) massive advantage of 2007/2010 is the ability to perform so many of the functions using key combinations; being able to do this while navigating with the mouse makes everything so much quicker. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1111050 | 2010-06-17 09:38:00 | Hate the ribbon. It's a waste of screen real estate, and a waste of time hunting through it. But I suppose for those too challenged by a menubar that relies on something as archaic as text it may seem an improvement. I suppose for imigrants who are unfamiliar with the language it might be a big advantage to have a menu / ribbon that is a bit more context sensitive. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1111051 | 2010-06-17 10:04:00 | I use Office 2007 on both my desktop and netbook, and while the ribbon does take up a lot of space on the netbook, it can be minimised :thumbs: The ribbon for me was not a huge learning curve. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1111052 | 2010-06-17 10:52:00 | used it since we got the desktop and put it on my laptop. didnt take much to get used to it. now, when i have to on the university computers they run office 07, but i dont like it on xp computers. havent tried office 2010 though, doesnt look a whole lot different to 07, so no reason to upgrade. |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
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