MS-Office 2007 RibbonBar

Posted by JD 09/04/2009 at 13:16

Microsoft screwed their customers by not including a way to use the old menus and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, keyboard accelerators.

I’ve been using MS-Word since 1989. The menus have changed very little over all those years, but not completely. More importantly, the keyboard accelerators haven’t changed. That’s 20 years. 20 years of my fingers memorizing shortcuts. -f-v for print preview.

Then, in 2007, they spring a new menu methodology on me. I don’t have time to spend 3 weeks unlearning what took 20 years to “get.” I’m not interested.

OTOH, this is the best thing to convince my company to switch to OpenOffice (where the menu still makes sense). Fantastic. Thanks, Microsoft. Even though we’ve officially standardized on MS-Office 2007, I know the 20% of our company either uses Office 2003 or OpenOffice. That includes the CEO. He doesn’t have time either. We put off this standardization as long as was possible. I fear we made the wrong decision and should have forced everyone onto OpenOffice instead.

So, I recognize that some people without all the years of using the old menus may be more efficient under the new solution. That’s great, more power to you. Get back to work.

BTW, I’m not even close to the only person thinking this way.

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