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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the
Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
More than likely, the data MS used to determine which commands were used
most often (Customer Experience Program) determined most users didn't access the AutoCorrect dialog box through the Tools menu. Perhaps they used the AutoCorrect Options button or added words to AutoCorrect using spell check. The commands that were brought "closer to the surface" are those that the majority users actually use on a regular basis. I suspect you'll find more of these situations since you're not exactly an "average user". IIRC, you created your own version of Word using macros and such. ;-) If you think about it, how often do you actually use the AutoCorrect dialog box? The majority of the words I mess up are already there and once I set the options for my AutoFormat options and SmartTags I don't need to go back to them. If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. When I need it I just use the old accelerator keys, Alt+T+A since my usage isn't frequent enough to add it to the QAT. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Larry" wrote in message ... In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Put the autocorrect button on the QAT, then it is just one click instead of
the two in Word 97-2003 -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Larry" wrote in message ... In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to
OR you can right click on any spell check flagged word and choose autocorrect
options from the shortcut menu. OR click the AutoCorrect Options button for anything Word has already correct for you and choose Control AutoCorrect Options. Both of which are Two simple steps. How many different ways to get there in two simple steps does a user need? This is part of the reason the old menu system was getting cluttered and unwieldy - I for one am happy to see a little more organization in this new version... "Larry" wrote: In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Beth, You've opened my eyes. Now I understand the logic behind Microsoft's destruction of Word. By the same logic by which the menus were eliminated, since the "majority" of users don't create custom toolbars and custom menus, MS just did away with them as well. Or at least made it much harder to create and install them--I haven't figured this all out yet. In any case, the former beautiful feature by which you opened the Customize dialog box and could effortllessly create a new toolbar and give it a name put on it what you wanted seems to be gone. Hey, folks, the "majority" of users also never create a macro, never edit a macro, and never assign a custom keystroke to a macro or to a built-in command. So, by MS's logic of only keeping features that "most" users use, how come MS didn't eliminate VBA, eliminate macro recording, eliminate macros, eliminate the Macro dialog box, eliminate the VBA editing interface, and eliminate the Customize Keyboard dialog box??? The great thing about Word was that it had thousands of capabilities, and each user, depending on his interests, might only deal with a small part of them. So each person could in effect have his own "Word." But now we've moved away from such diversity toward a single uniformity. A single "majority rule" determines what will be in Word. Only what the 90 percent of users who are mediocre users will determine what is in Word. Everything that a more skilled and creative or just idiosyncratic user of Word might want to access is to be eliminated. That appears to be the logic. The only thing that saves the situation from total disaster is that MS has not yet been completely consistent in its program of destruction, so it has still left some "non-popular" features in place. Larry "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... More than likely, the data MS used to determine which commands were used most often (Customer Experience Program) determined most users didn't acce ss the AutoCorrect dialog box through the Tools menu. Perhaps they used the AutoCorrect Options button or added words to AutoCorrect using spell check. The commands that were brought "closer to the surface" are those that the majority users actually use on a regular basis. I suspect you'll find more of these situations since you're not exactly an "average user". IIRC, you created your own version of Word using macros and such. ;-) If you think about it, how often do you actually use the AutoCorrect dialog box? The majority of the words I mess up are already there and once I set the options for my AutoFormat options and SmartTags I don't need to go back to them. If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. When I need it I just use the old accelerator keys, Alt+T+A since my usage isn't frequent enough to add it to the QAT. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Larry" wrote in message ... In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:29:26 -0500 from Beth Melton :
If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. Can ha actually be done? I've experimented much more with Excel 2007 than Office 2007, but in Excel the only customization I could figure out was to add preselected commands, of which there were only about half a dozen. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Instead of using the "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" pulldown (which does
only have a limited number of options), Right Click on the QAT (or in fact anywhere on the Ribbon) and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" If you then select "All Commands" form the "Choose commands from:" pulldown, you will find hundreds of items that you can add to the QAT. Also note that you can control whether the customization applies to all workbooks, or you can set it up for just the active workbook. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:29:26 -0500 from Beth Melton : If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. Can ha actually be done? I've experimented much more with Excel 2007 than Office 2007, but in Excel the only customization I could figure out was to add preselected commands, of which there were only about half a dozen. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Larry
I share your feelings. It seems far too much user customisation has been sacrificed for little reason. I like the Ribbons and the groups of small command icons - but not the groups, command icons or order that they have provided. I know that some of this can be customized but it should be possible for ANY user to change it using simple tools out of the box. As it stands, I probably use 15% of the tools in each Ribbon - so the rest is a waste of space. I should be able to simply mix and match just like I could in 2003. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Larry" wrote in message ... Beth, You've opened my eyes. Now I understand the logic behind Microsoft's destruction of Word. By the same logic by which the menus were eliminated, since the "majority" of users don't create custom toolbars and custom menus, MS just did away with them as well. Or at least made it much harder to create and install them--I haven't figured this all out yet. In any case, the former beautiful feature by which you opened the Customize dialog box and could effortllessly create a new toolbar and give it a name put on it what you wanted seems to be gone. Hey, folks, the "majority" of users also never create a macro, never edit a macro, and never assign a custom keystroke to a macro or to a built-in command. So, by MS's logic of only keeping features that "most" users use, how come MS didn't eliminate VBA, eliminate macro recording, eliminate macros, eliminate the Macro dialog box, eliminate the VBA editing interface, and eliminate the Customize Keyboard dialog box??? The great thing about Word was that it had thousands of capabilities, and each user, depending on his interests, might only deal with a small part of them. So each person could in effect have his own "Word." But now we've moved away from such diversity toward a single uniformity. A single "majority rule" determines what will be in Word. Only what the 90 percent of users who are mediocre users will determine what is in Word. Everything that a more skilled and creative or just idiosyncratic user of Word might want to access is to be eliminated. That appears to be the logic. The only thing that saves the situation from total disaster is that MS has not yet been completely consistent in its program of destruction, so it has still left some "non-popular" features in place. Larry "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... More than likely, the data MS used to determine which commands were used most often (Customer Experience Program) determined most users didn't acce ss the AutoCorrect dialog box through the Tools menu. Perhaps they used the AutoCorrect Options button or added words to AutoCorrect using spell check. The commands that were brought "closer to the surface" are those that the majority users actually use on a regular basis. I suspect you'll find more of these situations since you're not exactly an "average user". IIRC, you created your own version of Word using macros and such. ;-) If you think about it, how often do you actually use the AutoCorrect dialog box? The majority of the words I mess up are already there and once I set the options for my AutoFormat options and SmartTags I don't need to go back to them. If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. When I need it I just use the old accelerator keys, Alt+T+A since my usage isn't frequent enough to add it to the QAT. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Larry" wrote in message ... In Word 97-2003, to open the AutoCorrect dialog box, you (1) click open the Tools menu and (2) click AutoCorrect. Two simple steps. To do the same in Word 2007, you (1) open the Office button, then (2) click on Word Options, then (3) use the down arrow to get down to Proofing, then (4) click on a button that says AutoCorrect options. That's four or more steps, compared to two simple steps in the earlier versions of Word. In Word 97-2003, the AutoCorrect dialog box is instantly seen, one step from the surface of Word. In Word 2007, it's several layers away from the surface. Now please someone explain to me: WHY? How does this new design make Word's basic commands "easier" to get to? If Word were an automobile, it would be as if they put the gear shift inside the glove compartment, and called that a more "user-friendly" car! |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Along with what Doug told you, you can also add any command from the Ribbon,
including entire groups, to the QAT. Just right-click the command and click Add to Quick Access Toolbar. If you want to add an entire group, right-click the group name. To remove them from the QAT, right-click the command and click Remove from Quick Access Toolbar. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:29:26 -0500 from Beth Melton : If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. Can ha actually be done? I've experimented much more with Excel 2007 than Office 2007, but in Excel the only customization I could figure out was to add preselected commands, of which there were only about half a dozen. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Another great example of how Word 2007 "brings commands closer to the surface"
Again at the moment I don't have 2007 in front of me, but once you add the
command or the group to the TAC, I'll bet they're only accessible via the mouse, right? Because how could the TAC have accellerator keys accessible by Alt+Key combinations, given that the Ribbon has monopolized them all? Larry "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Along with what Doug told you, you can also add any command from the Ribbon, including entire groups, to the QAT. Just right-click the command and click Add to Quick Access Toolbar. If you want to add an entire group, right-click the group name. To remove them from the QAT, right-click the command and click Remove from Quick Access Toolbar. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:29:26 -0500 from Beth Melton : If you find you need to access a dialog box frequently then just add it to your Quick Access Toolbar. Can ha actually be done? I've experimented much more with Excel 2007 than Office 2007, but in Excel the only customization I could figure out was to add preselected commands, of which there were only about half a dozen. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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