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

[David Malouf]

todd, I think new users will definitely have an easier time.
I have been using Office applications since Word for Windows 2.0 and i
have to say that after a month of using Office 2007, I find it to be
FAR superior than Office 2004 or 2003 (Mac and PC). the ribbon works,
plain and simple. The visual cues are just what the doctor ordered,
IMHO.

-- dave


On 3/7/07, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists at toddwarfel.com> wrote:
> So, Liv, were you a regular user of a previous version of Office? I'm
> curious if the new menus are better suited for newer Office users who
> aren't bogged down in the old ways Office forced you to do things or
> not? I'd be interested to see the differences measured in time,
> effort, and satisfaction from old and new office with inexperienced
> and power users.
>
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Livia Labate wrote:
>
> > It's not "the ideal" product - if there is such a thing - since it
> > still
> > shares a lot of the existing Office issues, but MS would not want to
> > alienate existing Office users by enforcing a huge paradigm shift - I
> > think they struck just the right balance, which I find quite
> > amazing and
> > speaks volumes about the quality of the MS Office team (whoever they
> > are, I have no idea).
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Todd Zaki Warfel
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