Thanks for the help Boni,
I know that in time we can learn to become comfortable with anything, but I
have to say it's a tremendous step backward in ease of use, IMHO. That being
said, I certainly do appreciate your helpful links. I have played around
with the "views" in 2007, but I can't say that I find it much easier to find
things... it seems HIGHLY counterintuitive to me.
With regard to the drawing toolbar, are you saying I have to actually have a
graphic selected first before I can start using drawing tools? No
scratch-built drawing of diagrams, objects, or other items? That is quite
different indeed. Hmmmm. I'll have to figure out some alternatives.
I'll definitely pass along your links to other users who ask me about
toolbars and such in my job. Thanks!
Some background on that last bit: I work on the help desk for Merrill Lynch
and the decision was made in the last few months to "upgrade" to Office 2007.
Unfortunately the decision to train people on it was not made on such a
broad scale. I've had some limited time to poke around in 2007 when remoting
into another user's PC to help with a spreadsheet, but only enough experience
to frustrate myself and the end user. :-\ I'd hazard a guess that most of
the corporate office users have it now, and half of the branch offices.
That's here in the US at least. Overall we have about 60,000 employees and
we're starting to get a LOT of calls from people on Office 2007. When people
ask us where to find, for example, the drawing toolbar - we're at a loss. Or
when we try to remote into their PCs to help them with a chart and we find
that we can't format it very easily, we end up looking like idiots. Actually
I AM an idiot, but that's beside the point. Bottom line, the perception
we're getting from our thousands of users on a daily basis is pretty negative.
Sorry to be such a party pooper about it - I definitely appreciate your
attempt to help. Thanks again!
-Austin
