Is it possible to remove the Ribbon

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Steven

Hello,


I'd like to reinstate the older Excel 2003 menus and keysequences to Excel
2007, is that possible ?



Thanks in advance,


Steve
 
Hello,

Thanks for this, well researched. I wonder why Microsoft didn't want to
include such a transition in the first place ?

Talking of "transitions", does the Lotus 1-2-3 transition feature under the
Advanced menu in Excel 2007 still work ? (Perhaps I need to reinstall)



Steve
 
 
Hmmm.. even at 20US$ per user obtaining a Global site license for the
product would be rather prohibitively expensive, especially for some of the
larger organisations.

Can someone please explain how, the "Ribbon" is more productive ? Maybe I'm
missing something here, but using the mouse is surely more cumbersome than
using a keyboard, particularly if you have multiple-screens (which is the
becoming the norm these days for power users). What is the rationale behind
this change ?

Given that such a big change is taking place, has anyone weighed up the
costs of simply switching to OpenOffice - if so, what was the conclusion ?
I'd be very interested to know...

Regards


Steve.


Hi Steve,

You’ll find at least two or five products listed on Microsoft Office
Marketplace for each Office application if you search as:
For Access:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site...02321611033&num=100&hl=EN&as_qdr=all&filter=0
For Excel:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site...02674421033&num=100&hl=EN&as_qdr=all&filter=0
For PowerPoint:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site...02321631033&num=100&hl=EN&as_qdr=all&filter=0
For Word:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site...02321641033&num=100&hl=EN&as_qdr=all&filter=0

Regards,

Fanfoe
 
Steven said:
Can someone please explain how, the "Ribbon" is more productive ? . . .
Click to expand...
....

The short, sweet, cynical answer is MSFT wants to sell more units of
Office. The lemmings, er, existing customers who already have licenses
to older versions are likely to upgrade eventually no matter how MSFT
mungs the UI. The growth market is people who've never used Office
before (mostly school aged children and youth). The new UI is meant
for these potential new users who have nothing to unlearn, and once
they learn it it'd be a lot harder for them to try out ribbon-free
alternatives.

The ribbon is all about customer lock-in. If you already have an
Office license, MSFT considers you already locked in (even if you skip
individual upgrades). If you don't already have an Office license,
MSFT wants to make it as difficult as possible for you to consider
alternatives once you do get a license.

More fundamentally for Excel users, the ribbon was designed for Word.
Arguably it may be better for Word users. But where Word goes, all
other Office products must follow, whether that makes sense for the
other products or not. And that means having as few different ribbon
tabs in different Office products as possible. And that means living
with some meaningless tab names.
 
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