Word 2007 is unacceptable and must be changed

[Stan Brown]

If that's not it then if you have Adobe's PDF Add-in its known to cause
sluggishness.

Really? Just by being installed?

I do have a PDF writer installed, as it happens; I think it's
Adobe's. It wil be interesting to benchmark it without.

 

[Beth Melton]

If the PDFMaker add-in is also installed, yes, it's know to cause issues.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
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[Mike Hall - MS MVP]

Larry

I like the new look.. everything is out there, plain as day.. no more
searching through drop down menus, moving the mouse onto arrows while try to
select a function.. it doesn't take too long to get used to it.. what is the
real difference between clicking on the Office button as opposed to the old
FILE tab?

You have obviously never used Lotus WordPro.. now that was a confusing app
if ever there was one, yet after a little use, one could start to see the
value in context sensitive boxes..

What Stan has just said cancels out volumes of electrons justifying each
new
MS innovation on the basis that "This is what people want," "MS tested
thousands of Word users and found that they don't use Feature X or Feature
Y," "MS is seeking to maintain and expand its market for Word, and it can
only do so by appealing to the broadest possible user base," etc. etc.

No. The reality is that MS comes out with a new version of Office, and
the
corporations either buy it outright or get it automatically the next time
they buy new computers, and so everyone ends up with the new version of
Word. Period. Individual desires of users, collective desires of masses
of
users, have nothing to do with it. MS puts forth what MS wants to put
forth, and the world buys it. MS got rid of toolbars and the menu bar, MS
replaced the File menu with the "Microsoft Office button," because MS got
onto a kick and decided that these were neat ideas and that everyone had
to
conform to them, not because there was some demand or need for the
"Microsoft Office Button" in the real world.




, so MS eliminated it in the interests of

I think you're right.

In large organizations, software is typically deployed by IT
departments, and the decisions are typically made by people who don't
actually use the software in question. For some reason the decision-
makers seem to believe that "newer is better", even if they have to
pay to upgrade.

I'm not saying Office 2007 is a bad thing; I think it's too early to
say (aside from obvious flaws like slow graphics and slow
calculations in Excel 2007). But I'm saying that the quality of
Office 2007 will have only a minor impact on the level of adoption.

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/