With Windows itself, there is an option to select the "classic Windows" interface, instead of the designed-for interface of the particular version (at least one can make WinXP look very much like Win2000). All MS needed to do was to provide a "classic" interface (everything in its legacy place) option for the Office 2007 applications, and all would be well. Too expensive, too much in a hurry, or too lazy to do that? But then everything I need to do seems to be a capability of Office 2000 anyway, so I just use it.
Fred Holmes At 06:55 AM 4/20/2009, Chris Dunford wrote: >This seems to be my day for posting miscellany. > >There's been considerable criticism here regarding the Office ribbon: it >makes no sense, users hate it, the organization is random, etc. This is an >interesting article about the woman behind it and how it came to be. As some >WFBs have kept repeating, and MFBs and other WFBs keep denying, (a) it's not >random, (b) it's based on mountains of data about how real users actually >use Office, and (c) it's quite popular, not universally loathed as some >would have you believe. > >http://tinyurl.com/csawdu ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
