WORD latest version

No! What you see is what you get. If it wasn't broken why did you replace
it? There are lots of people happily word processing with Word 97 ... and
2000 ... and 2002 ... and 2003!

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wm.king RemoveThis @sympatico.ca wrote:
> Is there any way to switch to the traditional interface? I'm sure the
> wholesale change is wonderful for those of the "new and improved"
> school but I am an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" reactionary.
>
> Bill King.

Why there is no setting you can choose that will revert to the previous
interface, there are some options:

http://www.addintools.com/english/menuword/

http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/20/111

The 2nd of these offers a free version.

In my own case, I had to learn the new interface (that'll teach me to sign a
pesky contract), and ultimately found considerable relief by making the
Quick Access Toolbar look more like the Word 2003 formatting/standard
toolbars:

http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2007/05/02/making-word-2007-a-littl...ore-fam

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


<wm.king DeleteThis @sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to switch to the traditional interface? I'm sure the
> wholesale change is wonderful for those of the "new and improved"
> school but I am an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" reactionary.
>
> Bill King.

On Dec 1, 6:33 pm, "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <h... RemoveThis @1x2y3z.xnw> wrote:
> Why there is no setting you can choose that will revert to the previous
> interface, there are some options:
>
> http://www.addintools.com/english/menuword/
>
> http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/20/111
>
> The 2nd of these offers a free version.
>
> In my own case, I had to learn the new interface (that'll teach me to sign a
> pesky contract), and ultimately found considerable relief by making the
> Quick Access Toolbar look more like the Word 2003 formatting/standard
> toolbars:
>
> http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/2007/05/02/making-word-2007-a-litt...
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
> Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
> Web:http://www.herbtyson.com
>
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> news:2c004777-4586-4d0a-a539-48a7bc4863e2@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
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>
>
> > Is there any way to switch to the traditional interface? I'm sure the
> > wholesale change is wonderful for those of the "new and improved"
> > school but I am an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" reactionary.
>
> > Bill King.- Hide quoted text -
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I discovered an additional new feature of WORD 2007: once you use it
24 times, it locks - permanently, I presume. You can see your
documents but make no changes. Not only that, but it accuses you of
piracy. I thought EVERYBODY (I mean, little people like me, not IBM)
just borrowed their friends' software to install programs. Did earlier
versions of WORD have this pirate-apprehension-feature?

On the other hand, the documents I worked on did successfully re-load
back into WORD 97 (I thought someone said it did not work backwards).

Mr. Tyson's tips for making WORD 07 look more like traditional
versions were helpful, but with this weekend piracy episode added to
all the new and unwanted features, I thought 'why bother'. I will just
delete the whole god-awful thing and redouble my search for a good
copy of one of the older versions.

Comments welcome.

Your friendly luddite,
Bill King.

P.S. I do not believe in capital punishment but I might be willing to
consider an exception for Bill Gates.

Here on Earth, unlike wherever you're from, people do not work for free.
Microsoft's thousands of employees have to pay for their clothing, cars,
houses, food, etc. For that reason, they do not give their software away.

If you were misled about how the economy works here, you might try filing a
complaint with your travel agent when you return to your home planet.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


<wm.king.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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I discovered an additional new feature of WORD 2007: once you use it
24 times, it locks - permanently, I presume. You can see your
documents but make no changes. Not only that, but it accuses you of
piracy. I thought EVERYBODY (I mean, little people like me, not IBM)
just borrowed their friends' software to install programs. Did earlier
versions of WORD have this pirate-apprehension-feature?

On Dec 8, 5:53 pm, "Herb Tyson [MVP]" <h... RemoveThis @1x2y3z.xnw> wrote:
> Here on Earth, unlike wherever you're from, people do not work for free.
> Microsoft's thousands of employees have to pay for their clothing, cars,
> houses, food, etc. For that reason, they do not give their software away.
>
> If you were misled about how the economy works here, you might try filing a
> complaint with your travel agent when you return to your home planet.
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
> Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
> Web:http://www.herbtyson.com
>
> <wm.k... RemoveThis @sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>
> news:23ba8404-d76c-4dc0-82e8-1f031bcbdc6a@x8g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
>
> I discovered an additional new feature of WORD 2007: once you use it
> 24 times, it locks - permanently, I presume. You can see your
> documents but make no changes. Not only that, but it accuses you of
> piracy. I thought EVERYBODY (I mean, little people like me, not IBM)
> just borrowed their friends' software to install programs. Did earlier
> versions of WORD have this pirate-apprehension-feature?

Oh, I don't know Mr. Tyson, the little people have been sharing word
processing programs for 25-odd years now and it's never seemed to
bother Microsoft before. Probably helped to make WORD as popular as it
is.

And if thousands of people were employed on WORD 2007, I don't know
what they were doing. To me it is just capitalism run rampant - make
something look different, call it improved, make it as incompatible
with its predecessors as possible, change the switches and sell
training. There is no productivity gain whatever.

All I want to do is type. Word Processing has BEEN invented. I would
gladly contribute a few dollars to the development of a basic public-
domain computer-typing programme if I thought it would be permanently
available in the same basic form and widely used. Kind-of like the
QWERTY keyboard (although I know it's not the most efficient design)
and the typewriter mechanism. Or Google chat-groups. Basic technology,
non-proprietary. For highly specialized applications, I am sure there
is some benefit to the latest update of WORD and I appreciate the
information persons such as yourself willingly provide, but I continue
to believe that the vast majority of users find these ongoing word-
processor updates a nuisance and their primary appeal is to novelty-
seekers - and that Microsoft is ingenious at foisting this stuff on
people who don't want it.

That's just my view. I don't think it's extra-terrestrial.

Bill King

If all you want to do is type, Notepad and Wordpad do quite nicely... and
they come with Windows, and without piracy issues. If you want something
higher powered, OpenOffice is free. It is quite good, has been around for
years, and comes without piracy issues.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


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>All I want to do is type.