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Originally Posted by Lo Zeno
Office's ribbon, in particular, is tailored around the casual, home-pc user: as long as you are a common student writing your school essay, or you are writing an article for your local newspaper, it works fine and makes the most common functions easier to find. But as soon as you need specialized functionalities, or specific yet-not-so-commonly-used macros, you have to hunt them and they won't be where you were used to in older versions of Office.
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My few attempts with O'07 were nightmares. Among the Word features I regularly use:
Custom page sizes
Custom margins
+/- font size for entire document
Change paragraph line spacing
Change font character spacing for a few words
Resize picture
Change from "in line with text" to "square" or vice versa
Adjust table settings: size of cells, rows, columns; borders/shading; alignment
I remember trying some of those in '07 and telling the person who was asking for my help, "I can be here for an hour trying to find the right settings, or you can give me a copy and I can fix it at my desk in five minutes." I suppose I could learn a new location/method of applying all of those. But I haven't heard what *advantages* Office07 has, that makes up for all the scrambled layout problems.
I'm not a casual, beginning user; I don't need the paperclip to tell me how to write a letter or format a report. On the one hand, it's nice that MS has created software for nongeeks who are now stuck using computers at work. On the other, the long-term geeks can't help them when they can't find anything.