[IxDA Discuss] Anyone else having trouble getting used to Office 2007 menus?

[David Malouf]

I Michael,

I have been using it at home for quite awhile and I LOVE it!
Especially Powerpoint for some reason, though Excel is good too.

I think the biggest problem I've noticed is that people don't realize
that the circular logo at the top is actually a BIG menu item. Save,
Undo, Redo etc are in there AND they can customize the quickbar at the
top to add other items that seemed primary to me that didn't make it
in their mind.

Pet peeve is that Word defaults its "normal" text to have double
spacing on, which for me is totally an HTML thing that doesn't work
for me.

Otherwise I have learned to totally love it and now at work I don't
have it, and I really miss it. :(

I do have to say that I tend to float between versions of Office
really well. At one point I had Mac Office 2004 (work), OpenOffice,
and office 2003 all running at the same time.

-- dave

On 3/6/07, Michael Micheletti <michael.micheletti at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a new laptop with Office 2007 installed on it. And oh my goodness
> am I ever sloooow getting anything done in Word or Powerpoint. I keep
> searching for a "Revert" command in Word especially, where I'm normally
> swift and assured. The missing Help menu spooks me too (it's a teensy button
> now). Didn't find anything there, will check online next.
>
> I'm sure they've tested the apps 1000s of times - I've seen their labs, been
> a test subject, and know what pros MS are about usability testing. But here
> I am, expert-level Word user for years, struggling. Is it just me finding
> out my brain is now full and I should park on the porch in my rocking chair?
> Or are others also challenged by this obviously attractive, improved,
> better, tested, etc interface?
>
> Michael Micheletti
>
> p.s. It sort of reminds me of something a support guy at MS told me years
> ago when I was beta-testing Windows NT: "it's instinctive once you get used
> to it."
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