Navigational Learning Curve

[cwmagui]

Why do I have to completely re-learn how to use Micro-Soft products every
time there is a new release? I have become quite proficient at using Access
2003, but now I spend most of my time trying to figure out where things are.
Does the Easter Bunny work for you when he's not hiding eggs? Can I make
2007 look like 2003?

 

[Rick Brandt]

Why do I have to completely re-learn how to use Micro-Soft products every
time there is a new release? I have become quite proficient at using
Access 2003, but now I spend most of my time trying to figure out where
things are.
Does the Easter Bunny work for you when he's not hiding eggs? Can I make
2007 look like 2003?

No you cannot. Then of course there is nothing forcing you to use 2007
either. If you prefer 2003 keep using it.

I only began switching my development from Access 97 to 2003 recently. I
figure that means I won't have to move off of 2003 completely for quite some
time.

 

[cwmagui]

No you cannot. Then of course there is nothing forcing you to use 2007
either. If you prefer 2003 keep using it.

I only began switching my development from Access 97 to 2003 recently. I
figure that means I won't have to move off of 2003 completely for quite some
time.
.
Actually, the government "upgraded" me to 2007 so I guess there is something forcing me to use 2007.

 

[Larry Linson]

Why do I have to completely re-learn how to use Micro-Soft products every
time there is a new release? I have become quite proficient at using
Access
2003, but now I spend most of my time trying to figure out where things
are.
Does the Easter Bunny work for you when he's not hiding eggs? Can I make
2007 look like 2003?

The user interface had been, on the whole, quite consistent in Access since
version 1, in 1992, through Access 2003. There was a long, very long video
available at one time of a presentation at a conference explaining the
development of the ribbon user interface. Whether one agrees with the
reasoning behind the Ribbon is another issue and whether in the reasonably
long run, it will save the customer company money. I do not have any clients
that were willing to invest in the employee retraining and lose the
second-nature expertise their employees have, so none moved to 2007. I
understand you do not have that option.

As far as I have been able to determine, the Easter Bunny is not employed by
Microsoft. (Neither, by the way, am I, nor are most of the people who answer
questions here.)

Microsoft purposely did not provide a way to use the "classic" menu user
interface with Access (nor Word, nor Excel) 2007. There are some
third-party software add-ins that simulate the menu interface, but I have
not used any of them.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP