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  • From: John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Off topic Office 2007
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:39:57 -0800 (PST)

Hi, Barbara, 

I found that I had to reply to your email about Office 2007.  While I do agree that there will be a transition period, once the transition to Office 2007 has been made, you should experience an improvement in efficiency for most people.  I was forced to make this transition (to 2007) during the past summer, then had to move back to Office 2003 (change in employment).  The transition to 2007 took about a month of aggravation, but once done, really increased my efficiency.  I miss it now that I am back with Office 2003.

While MS did not make the transition easy, I feel that this product did have some significant improvements over the typical "release-new-software-just-to-make-more-money" that typically occurs now.  I do agree with you, however, that there is no compelling reason for most home users to make the transition at this time.

[I have used every version of Office since it was first released, taught classes about Office use and supported Office users during the past decade]

John



--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Harrick, Barbara <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com> wrote:
From: Harrick, Barbara <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Off topic Office 2007
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 1:35 PM

Hi Jerry and all. Agreed, XP is the most stable platform.  I was
actually talking about Office 2007 which we have running on XP. Office
2007 has done away with all pull down menus entirely and has what they
call a "ribbon" across the top of either Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.

Finding ANYTHING is virtually impossible. Stay with Office 2003 if you
want to keep your sanity.

Microsoft will let you preview Office 2007--if you ever want to feel
good about your computer and computer skills--just download that!

Barbara Harrick
Senior Technical Editor/Writer
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:44:26 -0500
From: "Harrick, Barbara" <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Posting in Outlook
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Hi all. We use the full version of Outlook. Full Outlook also opens a
new window when you reply. In the 2007 version the choice of HTML or
plain text is under Options, Plain text. (Do not upgrade to Office 2007
unless you HAVE to--what a disaster, but that's not fruit-related and I
will keep off of my soapbox :))

In the 2003 Outlook, I remember the choice being obvious, when you hit
reply--the choice is right above the subject line--no pull down menus
needed.

Barbara


Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:04:11 EST
From: Jwlehman@aol.com
Subject: [NAFEX] Off Topic...Windows versions, (extension of open text
or HTML)
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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In a message dated 2/6/2009 6:44:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
b.harrick@ilslaunch.com writes:

> (Do not upgrade to Office 2007unless you HAVE to--what a disaster,
but
> that's not fruit-related and I will keep off of my soapbox :))

If upgrading may I suggest going directly to XP or Mac. I've used
Windows
2003, 2007 and now XP. XP is much much more reliable, that is, it
doesn't lock up
nearly as much as the pervious Windows versions.

DO NOT UP GRADE TO MS VISTA! I did and returned it and the computer to
the
point of purchase after using it several days. Non Microsoft programs
didn't run
100% and some not at all, Microsoft of course, didn't have patches to
support
them. Bill Gates wrote Vista to block his competition from being used on
his
system.

My soap box!

Jerry



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