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Excel 2007 Tips (New)
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Excel 2007 Tips (New)

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

thanks! I will check this out. My own tip is that I wish I hadn't "upgraded" to this version of Excel...I feel like my productivity has been set back 10 years.  :(

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I see no need to upgrade!  I was forced (company wide upgrade to Office 2007).

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

When I included MS Office as an option to my new laptop I had no idea that it was going to look or work as differently as it does.  It has the feel of having been developed with ease of making the final end-product appearance taking priority over the nuts and bolts of getting the sheet/workbook to work right in the first place.

All of the Office 2007 products use the new interface, which I find extremely frustrating to use.  Most of the features that are easily found are the ones I rarely (if ever) use.  The ones that I do tend to use are buried out of sight.

But you can add your own buttons above the ribbon and arrange them to suit your own preferences.  It's not as compact as working from menus, and icons aren't always the best answer for eyes that in my case have just entered their 7th decade of duty, but at least it lets you work around some of the "noise".


Norm

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Clyde38 (Electrical)

Thank you
L S Thill

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

Great Clyde38. That is helpful.

Version 2007 is a such a setback when most of us cannot handle 2003 anyway!

Bad move by Microsoft that will always confirm the engineer's scepticism of MS Office

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

Ought to be worth $16 USD.  Thanks.

Loosely related - it looks like there's a comparable product to "fix" Word 2007.


Norm

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

There's even a product to do all of Office 2007, for around $30 USD.

Why do we have to pay for this?  Shouldn't this be a free add-on courtesy of MicroSoft?

tg

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

That forthright of a thing to do might just be an alien concept to their strategy and marketing crew . . .

I really don't understand why they couldn't have left the traditional menu arrangement available as a setup option.  There was a huge installed base of customers who were long-accustomed to the menus.  It wasn't broken, so it didn't need fixing.  Should have let the newcomers to the product do the tinkering if they think it will help them or if an appearance change is all they're after.[/rant]


Norm

RE: Excel 2007 Tips (New)

i'm willing to bet that "their" software engineers think as we (i?) do ... " i can make this better ..."

someone 'round said "better is the mortal enemy of good enough" ... some truth in that !

here we're on 2003 still (thank goodness by the sound of it), at home i've still got '97 (oh, and the ba$tard creation "works" ... ).

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