FYI Word 2007 users who must have menus

[Larry]

Irony is famously dangerous to use in e-mail and online discussions where
people do not know each other and are not seeing each other face to face,
and it often leads to misunderstandings. The writer may think that his or
her comment is obviously ironic, but it may not appear that way to others.
This is especially the case when the comment is a criticism or attack.
Friends can kid each other this way because they know they're kidding. With
strangers it's different.

To say to someone, a complete stranger, "You might want to go in to have
your obsessive-compulsive levels checked," and then add the emoticon
indicating, "See, I didn't mean it, so don't hold me accountable for what I
just said," is not nice.

I have been attacked at this forum for attacking Word 2007. But I've never
used personally insulting language about anyone, which certain people in
this forum such as Greg have been doing.

And now I suppose I'll be attacked for what I just said.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Beth,

Some may see it that way, but for me, the newsgroups help increase my
knowledge of the applications.You see, the newsgroups are a two-way street.
I learn something new every day, either by reading advice offered by others
or researching a question, and that makes me more of an asset in my
profession. There's only so much you can learn on your own.

Exactly

Plus, I learn about what concerns people and how different people see problems
from other angles.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

That might be me to whom you are referring.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

When you try 2007, try the Toolbar Toggle addin.

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[Guest]

Oh, this is a very good point! Bravo!

Microsoft has just gotten to the place where they "feel" and "can" do what
they want without regard to the user (especially the current users.)

I've been a strong MS user for years. I remember installing Office 95 with
3 3/4" floppys. I was barking at others to look at Word and not Word Perfect.

The problem is no one is coming up with a viable competetive product. The
solid base Microsoft has built with it's tools and methods gives them clout
to do what they want.

Microsoft kicking itself in the rear with a way off base new product (which
has plenty of new and fun tools) does not meet the current user base. This
is the competitions opportunity to come up with a viable new option (highly
unlikely though.)
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Chris Hayes
Still a beginner (only 12 years)

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wrote that song about "Spam"]

 

[Graham Mayor]

You have to wonder at the mind set of some of our software giants. Lotus
used to have a seriously good word processor - AmiPro - which was easier to
use than Word and did just about everything that a user might reasonably
need; and Lotus was then highly regarded, but they screwed it up and
introduced the ridiculous Word Pro as a replacement. Maybe the former Lotus
destroyers now work for Microsoft?

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[LurfysMa]

Oh, this is a very good point! Bravo!

Microsoft has just gotten to the place where they "feel" and "can" do what
they want without regard to the user (especially the current users.)

I've been a strong MS user for years. I remember installing Office 95 with
3 3/4" floppys. I was barking at others to look at Word and not Word Perfect.

The problem is no one is coming up with a viable competetive product.

Hardly. Google office (docs & spreadsheets) is a very real threat to
M$FT. Nothing to install. Ever. No migration. No upgrades. No
licensing. Free.

Documents can be accessed from any PC anywhere in the world. Nothing
to take with you. Easily shared documents.

There are problems, of course. They have your data and there are those
ads. Millions and millions of ads.

The
solid base Microsoft has built with it's tools and methods gives them clout
to do what they want.

Microsoft kicking itself in the rear with a way off base new product (which
has plenty of new and fun tools) does not meet the current user base. This
is the competitions opportunity to come up with a viable new option (highly
unlikely though.)

Based on what?

IBM looked totally invincible for 50-60 years. Even faced multiple
anti-trust & monopoly actions. Then a college dropout stole an OS and
knocked them of their pedestal.

Now, less than 20 years later, Google is such a threat that M$FT is
trying to buy Yahoo to stay competitive.

Software is not like any busioness ever. The barriers to entry are
close to zero and the cost of distribution is getting close to zero,
too.

Stay tuned.

 

[Terry Farrell]

The problem for MS (as I see it) is that Google was there first and it works
brilliantly as a search tool. So millions of us have Google set as a home
page and use it all the time. Even if (as MS suggests) MSN search is as good
as Google, why would the Goggle-based users swap to MSN when they already
have a service that they are more than comfortable using.

Buying Yahoo is a mistake because that won't make Google users switch to MSN
and it may alienate some (anti-MS) Yahoo users and force them over to
Google.

To get users to switch, MSN needs a significant lead in search or Google
screws up. The only advantage I have found with MSN is that the MSN-Encarta
World Map is significantly better for route planning than Google Maps for
Eastern Europe and Asia: it isn't significant an advantage to stop me using
Google as my home page though.

Terry Farrell

 

[Gordon]

The problem is no one is coming up with a viable competetive product.

If you don't need Outlook, then Open Office is a VERY viable competitive
product....