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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Not willing to take a couple-month slowdown to all my DTP activities to learn a new program, especially since nobody's explained what makes it "better."
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More accessible styles support makes it heaps better. Changing every italicized word, or every indented blockquote, or every heading has become a lot easier to do. While this feature already existed at least in office2003, the fact that they put it where people would find it (and integrated it into the spellcheck thing) is very nice.
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Originally Posted by Lo Zeno
It speeds up the most common of tasks, but as a side effect it moved the less common functionalities to semi-hidden places.
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I do hate to disagree with people, but in pre-Office2007, every function was hidden in a random place. Now only some of the functions are, and they are generally in a more logical place. Why is it bad that it's in a different place when the new place is at least more logical?
Also, I don't really get what you base your "office is meant for the casual user" comment on. One of the major points of improvement in office07 was that they put document styles front¢er, whereas before you could pretty much never find them unless you knew they existed. This is a
major improvement when it comes to generating consistent formatting for most people, and I'm very happy that they've done this.
Anyway, this thread has quite a few posts that seem to say "I dislike having to relearn stuff, even if the new way is ultimately more efficient/intuitive" (no offense to the posters).