> > Of course, there's no reason for you to switch if you've already *paid* > for MS Office! ...until you start getting people sending you files in > the *new* MS Office formats (Office 2007). Then you'll be faced with the > choice of either trying Open Office for free or paying for Office 2007 > and suffering its awful user interface. >
That exact thing happened to me in the first week Office 2007 went into use (I have Office XP Professional 2002 on a home user license). I went to Office Update, found a patch and a few minutes later was reading the "incompatible document". For interest sake I just checked, and .docx is also in the "save as" drop down list. Pretty easy, really. Regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mark Roberts > Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 4:32 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PS CS4 > > PN Stenquist wrote: > > > On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > >> PN Stenquist wrote: > >>> If someone sends me a Powerpoint presentation that was made with > >>> Microsoft Office, can I edit it in Open Office? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >>> And even if I could, would the original author be able to open and > >>> revise my edit when I returned it? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > > Well then, okay:-). > I've been using Office 2007 at school for about 18 months now and I've > given up on it. It's important to thoroughly try any new user interface > for yourself for an extended period before rejecting it, because people > always prefer an interface they're accustomed to over something new, > even if the old way is demonstrably inferior. This is one of the major > known aspects of usability testing. But after a year and a half of > testing by myself and other members of the Computer Science and > Informations Systems department, everyone's pretty much convinced that > the new Office interface is a failure. > > To tell you the truth, Microsoft deserve kudos for *trying* something > new. Most companies get complacent with things like this. But the > experiment is a certifiable failure at this point and at the very least > they ought to make the "ribbon" interface optional in the next version. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
