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I don't need an answer, and I don't want to play games, I just want to get
some work done.
WORD 2003 has gone seriously BACKWARDS in ease of use, with precious little
gain that I can see.
1. Duplex printing used to be so simple, including a clear picture of how to
insert the paper for printing the back side. It used to ask simply "print
double sided" in the print window. Why did you do away with that? Why should
the user have to remember something that the computer can easily show you?
Grunt work like that is what computers are FOR!
2. REVISIONS used to be so simple, and keyboard friendly. Now TRACK CHANGES
is built solely for gum-chewing mouseketeers. Do you think everybody out here
likes the rat?
3. Opening a new document was simple and, again, keyboard friendly. If one
wanted custom templates, they were easy to find with just a keystroke or two.
Now it's tabs and sub-sets and . . . what a smozzle.
4. Same with [Start] [Find] [Files] in XP. Am I in the minority who want to
generally search for All Files and Folders? Why does it not default to my
last search area, or all files and folders? Keystrokes, boys and girls,
keystrokes are dollars.
5. Oh, and these cute toolbars that start short and then lengthen out, and
won't access a hidden option until you lengthen the pull-down out to reveal
it. will somebody find the guy that programmed that one and kick him in the
knee for me?
Now your program is, frankly, a pain in the neck, designed for time-wasting
teeny-boppers.
Sit your crew down and watch Star Trek again and see how complicated their
computer is for the users. That's what we want -- not levels and tabs and
keystrokes and having to print something AGAIN because we forgot how to put
the blamed paper into the printer.
So that's my input, for today. Hope I didn't muddy the waters by trying to
be too diplomatic.
Jack Sevy
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some work done.
WORD 2003 has gone seriously BACKWARDS in ease of use, with precious little
gain that I can see.
1. Duplex printing used to be so simple, including a clear picture of how to
insert the paper for printing the back side. It used to ask simply "print
double sided" in the print window. Why did you do away with that? Why should
the user have to remember something that the computer can easily show you?
Grunt work like that is what computers are FOR!
2. REVISIONS used to be so simple, and keyboard friendly. Now TRACK CHANGES
is built solely for gum-chewing mouseketeers. Do you think everybody out here
likes the rat?
3. Opening a new document was simple and, again, keyboard friendly. If one
wanted custom templates, they were easy to find with just a keystroke or two.
Now it's tabs and sub-sets and . . . what a smozzle.
4. Same with [Start] [Find] [Files] in XP. Am I in the minority who want to
generally search for All Files and Folders? Why does it not default to my
last search area, or all files and folders? Keystrokes, boys and girls,
keystrokes are dollars.
5. Oh, and these cute toolbars that start short and then lengthen out, and
won't access a hidden option until you lengthen the pull-down out to reveal
it. will somebody find the guy that programmed that one and kick him in the
knee for me?
Now your program is, frankly, a pain in the neck, designed for time-wasting
teeny-boppers.
Sit your crew down and watch Star Trek again and see how complicated their
computer is for the users. That's what we want -- not levels and tabs and
keystrokes and having to print something AGAIN because we forgot how to put
the blamed paper into the printer.
So that's my input, for today. Hope I didn't muddy the waters by trying to
be too diplomatic.
Jack Sevy
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...768da5&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement