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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
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).
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Not willing to take many hours/weeks to relearn stuff *to no advantage*.
What makes the new arrangement "better," other than "shallower learning curve," which is irrelevant to people who have already passed that learning curve? Are there editing features which are actually better arranged?
Can I make a dialog box that lets me edit font size & paragraph line spacing at the same time, or is that still multiple clicks no matter where they've hidden them? Have they fixed the screwball application of styles with find-and-replace? Have they fixed the way image anchors sometimes make a picture vanish if you move it too close to the edge of a page?
Does it create clean HTML output without all the Microsoft-specific baggage? Has it stopped saving the printer settings inside each document? Has it stopped creating an extra blank page after a full-page table? Stopped applying default paragraph settings if I use "delete" to remove a paragraph break, but not if I use "backspace?"
Word is glitchy. Word has a lot of problems. With Word 03 (and 00, which I have at home, and 97, which I'm considering installing somewhere just to get the cleaner HTML output), I'm familiar with the glitches, and know how to move around them. I don't need to trad familiar glitches for new, unknown glitches *and* an immense slowdown in my work until I've learned the basic layout.
Office07 may be a great program for new users, and it's likely that continuing users will have to learn it (or its future incarnations) at some point. But I haven't seen anything that explains why it's better for those users, other than "everyone will be using it in the future!"
For the amount of effort involved, I might as well install OpenOffice and learn to use something that's more universally compatible.