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 International Launch Services 1875 Explorer Street, Suite 700 Reston, VA 20190 office (571) 633-7430 fax (571) 633-7536
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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> Message-ID: <104BC7B1D4AE8E4A9F0B85850CEA1D1502BEF943@ils-ex2.ilslaunch.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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
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Jwlehman@aol.com Subject: [NAFEX] Off Topic...Windows versions, (extension of open text or HTML) To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Message-ID: <d69.3c8961b2.36bdb97b@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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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