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Dec 16^th, 2007 at 2:38pm

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I'm just wondering what you guys think. While, I like the new UI of 2007, it's really not worth it to me, since I'm good at using the others. I have to anyway, since my school has updated to to 2007.

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2007 at 3:20pm

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The UI of 07 is pretty, but trying to find stuff in it is a pain in the arse. Not to mention its default settings all need to be changed so that any documents you save are backwards compatible. Oh did I mention that older Excel documents don't open properly in 07.

Its a nice package to have, but if I hadn't gotten it for free (thank you Staples) I wouldn't be using it.

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Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2007 at 5:46pm

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I personally will stick with 2003 until forced to use 2007 at home. I however do have to use 2007 at work and once you get used to knowing where to find everything it's just as good as 2003 if my humble opinion.. Wink

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Reply #3 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 4:27pm

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'03 Cause I haven't tried the others Grin

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Reply #4 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 5:40pm

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I would like to know who at MS had the bright idea of making manually turn on the rulers in word 2007! You use them for any type of school report! I don't like the new Power Point either.

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Reply #5 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 7:55pm

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Full version of Office 2007 Home and Student was installed on my laptop...It was free, so I'm not complaining...I like the UI...Very clean and looks professional... Cool

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Reply #6 - Dec 17^th, 2007 at 8:14pm

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I would like to know who at MS had the bright idea of making manually turn on the rulers in word 2007! You use them for any type of school report!

You don't need them. Just set your default margin size to whatever the school wants it to be (usually 1 inch) and you no longer need them.

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I don't like the new Power Point either.

They went for a more Apple Keynote approach on it. I have used keynote for a few years now, so I am very comfortable with it, but at the core its still the same old powerpoint.

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Reply #7 - Dec 18^th, 2007 at 4:19pm

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ctjoyce wrote on Dec 17^th, 2007 at 8:14pm:

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I would like to know who at MS had the bright idea of making manually turn on the rulers in word 2007! You use them for any type of school report!

You don't need them. Just set your default margin size to whatever the school wants it to be (usually 1 inch) and you no longer need them.

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I don't like the new Power Point either.

They went for a more Apple Keynote approach on it. I have used keynote for a few years now, so I am very comfortable with it, but at the core its still the same old powerpoint.

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Ahhh...what I meant was the fact that the margins aren't the same throughout the papers I write, and I need to change it on demand, so that approach doesn't work (MLA, AMA, Chicago, are also a bit annoying, but doable). Thanks, though.

I suppose you're right, PP07 the same basic thing, but still...the old one worked fine! Another thing that annoys me, my school updated to 2007 apps for everything, but the computers a still Pentium 3, 256 mb gigs...so things are less than fast. Try crashes opening menus and starting things.

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Reply #8 - Dec 29^th, 2007 at 5:49pm

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I have no choice, I am stuck with 2007. I hate it, it's vista like..euugh.

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Reply #9 - Dec 30^th, 2007 at 4:38pm

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I have Office 2003 on my system.

I've seen the 2007 version at the library. Yuck is all I can say, even though I mainly use MS Word. The good thing is that I have a choice of using the 2003 version there as well.

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Reply #10 - Dec 31^st, 2007 at 5:44am

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I appear to be one of the few that uses open office, although i have office 2000 installed, as OO doesnt have all i need, but i dont use it out of choice. Open office is so much better, might be behind microsoft visually, but smaller and so much more packed with applets and neat little things like that.

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Reply #11 - Dec 31^st, 2007 at 11:41am

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Really I have 2003 on my computer. I just need a good word processor, I don't need all the fancy stuff that goes with it. Nice a simple. Cool

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Reply #12 - Dec 31^st, 2007 at 1:39pm

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I use Open office, its free why not use it? But I do like the new 2007 stuff but I don't have the money to buy it and I don't need to use it daily so open office does it for me.

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Reply #13 - Jan 1^st, 2008 at 8:41am

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I am using 07 but the GUI is taking some getting used to... 03 had a nice layout, but the graphics bit got improved over time.

Office 0307 anyone?

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