Does a "non commercial use" version lack some functionality?

[ASF]

I've tried to password protect a document. When I follow the instructions,
the option doesn't seem to be where "help" says it should be.

I click on the MS Office Button, click Save As, but no Tools option exists.

Thoughts?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you used "Other Formats" to open the actual Save As dialog? Tools in
the bottom left-hand corner. But AFAICS, it just allows you to access the
Save Options, which don't offer a way to password-protect the doc. If you
use Office Button | Prepare | Encrypt Document, you can specify a password
to open. I don't see any "Password to modify" option short of using IRM.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Assuming there is a Tools button in the bottom left corner of the Save As dialog
(I don't believe it's any different except for the license, but I don't have a
Home & Student Edition to check), select General Options from the menu. There
are password entries there for opening and for modifying.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, pooh! I just assumed that the Options accessible from Tools would be
the same as the Word Options accessible from the Office Button, but
obviously General Options is not replicated there. <sigh> Am I the only one
who finds it odd that you can't set these options except when actually
saving the document?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I think the whole Options thing needs a thorough overhaul. There have always
been little "options islands" scattered around every Office application. Back in
the days before Office 2007 beta started, I heard Jensen Harris talk about the
way the Tools menu had become the "junk drawer" of programming, and he was
determined to put everything into a logical place. I don't know whether the
teams ran out of time but plan to continue consolidation, or whether the old
code is just too hard to straighten out. But they certainly still have a lot of
junk drawers hidden in odd places.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, there seems definitely still to be work to do, and the best time to do
it would be before the results of poor decisions become too familiar to us
and thus cast in stone.

 

[Beth Melton]

It's already too late for me then. ;-) In a few months I'll have been using
Office 2007 for three years. Granted the Options dialog box was still being
overhauled during a good portion of that time but I've become familiar
enough with those in the Advanced section to know how many "clicks" it takes
to get to the option I'm looking for.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Suzanne,

During testing the feeling was that the programmer's only grudginly agreed to sort the 'compatibility options' list alphabetically
before release (By version wasn't going to happen <g>)

Some of the location of the options in Word 2007, beyond the time/importance perception of the dev folks, may have to do with a tie
in to the deployment customizations where certain features can be turned off, and some of the option locations were related to
having 'Office wide' and 'app specific' ones follow similar paths to access them. It would be nice if all of the Office apps, for
example, inherited Word's keyboard customization dialog, but in some cases features seem to go with on the 'only in-common'
approach.

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Yes, there seems definitely still to be work to do, and the best time to do
it would be before the results of poor decisions become too familiar to us
and thus cast in stone.

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi Bob,

That's only some of what I was referring to.

It would be "logical" (even if maybe technically difficult because of
long-ago decisions about where things are) to put all options in the Options
dialog, instead of having some that are available only through a button in
the Save As dialog. That was the subject of the original post.

There are also things like this: Within the Word Options dialog, there is a
section of "Printing options" on the Display tab, and a section of "Print"
options on the Advanced tab. I think it would be preferable to have them all
together -- maybe on a Print tab? Then there are "Display" options on the
Advanced tab, many of which are no more advanced than those on the Display
tab.

It gives the impression of a random jumble. Heck, it takes me ages to find
things in there, and I know what I'm looking for! Pity the poor user who
doesn't know what half of these things are for -- and the Help doesn't help.
Why isn't there a 2003-to-2007 Rosetta Stone for the options like the one
for the commands? (That's something I'm sporadically working on.)

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