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  1. Re:"The criticism died down"... oh really? by RDW · · Score: 1 · on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office

    I am still not as productive in Office 2007 as I was with previous versions of Office, and neither is everyone else in my department.

    It might be worth deploying one of these if you want your sane interfaces back:

    http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/featuretourpart3.php
    http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
    http://www.addintools.com/index.html

    The starter edition of the first one is free, and amongst other things includes a classic menu interface for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The others need paid licences for business use, but also support 2010, and the third one has versions that support Access, Outlook, etc.

  2. Re:Is there a classic mode? by stupid_is · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected

    ta-daaa

    Not everything is in there, but certainly most of it

  3. Re:Screw Up Or Forced Upgrade? by Voyager529 · · Score: 1 · on Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out

    In my opinion, it really depends. The Ribbon was a royal pain for the first 2-3 weeks, because I had to find commands that I used to know where they were. That was, indeed, annoying. Once I found those though, the ribbon made it a whole lot easier to find commands that I used less consistently, or that seemed to be obscured. Styles, mail merging, tracking changes,

    I remember having to deal with page numbering in Office 2003, and spent half an hour trying to figure out how to get it to do what I wanted it to do. I fired up Office 2007, and had the job done in about five minutes. While adding comments has been around since office 97, no one ever used it. I can't tell you how annoying group projects were when it came time to make the final version to hand in, because showing the rest of the group how to add comments was an exercise in futility. Now, I can tell them "Click 'New Comment' in the 'Review' Tab".

    I don't think the Ribbon is the perfect UI, nor do I think that it should become a universal interface (DirectDVD is a prime example of a software UI that doesn't need it), but I do think that in the case of Office, it did solve a bunch of problems that the original UI had. Options are available to help if you're having issues finding something specific.

    Sorry if I come off as an MS shill, I'm not on their payroll, nor am I a fanboi, nor am I trying to attack your personal preference, and I apologize if I came across as such.

  4. Re:Does that mean... by stupid_is · · Score: 2, Informative · on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word
    If you hunt around you can get a free RibbonCustomizer(TM) from somewhere or other that adds a new ribbon that looks like the old interface - should save you some pain.

    Google gives me this.

    I'm getting to like the new ribbons, but sometimes the location of a function seems a tad obscure....

  5. Re:Not the biggest fan by ami.one · · Score: 1 · on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked

    To get old/classic menus back use this: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer (On first run after install goto view>customize ribbon>Schemas>Classic UI)

  6. wrong link by quickOnTheUptake · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use

    here's the right one

  7. The ribbon is fully customizable by sid0 · · Score: 1 · on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"

    There are programs to customize the Ribbon. It's fully customisable, just not from within Office.

    A quick google search threw up http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/ind ex.php, and I suspect a full-featured OSS solution will be available soon, if there is the demand for it.

  8. Re:Keyboard Shortcuts by pdschmid · · Score: 1 · on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss

    five minutes of it attempting to boot? Could this be the reason why it takes five minutes: http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/20/110