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.
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".
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]
