I don't know about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 (XP), Pick Tools->Options. Uncheck "Windows in Taskbar", and you will have the old MDI style back. Excel 2002 has a similar option.
What bugs me is that all of the Office XP apps do the "Windows in Taskbar" thing differently. Word has multiple top level windows. Excel still has MDI, but with a button for each doc in the taskbar. I think Powerpoint has some other variation. Talk about consistency!!
If didn't know otherwise, I'd expect Quit to Quit the Javascript Debugger. I never did like that particular bit of brain damage (one command to close all top level main windows of an app).
A perfect example of the problem with Linux for the average desktop user. Thank you.
FYI,
MOST people just want to get in a car and get from point A to point B. They don't want to deal with a manual transmission.
MOST people don't want to fly a 747. They want to get in one and get from point A to point B.
MOST people don't want to jump from a perfectly functioning aircraft.
As long as average people have to deal with that extraneous arcana to get simple (or even complex) things done, they will not use Linux on the desktop.
And when hardware and software support for desktop oriented technologies starts or continues to lag or fade because other platform providers do cater to the average user's needs, I will have no sympathy for you.
The reason I stopped using that Win98 single click setting about 30 seconds after turning it on was the delay in opening the next folder after clicking on a folder icon.
The time difference between single and double clicking may have been the same for all I know, but it seemed slower with the former.
I remember reading somewhere that the delay (short but noticeable) was purposely inserted to simulate clicking on a real hyperlink or to allow it to capture accidental double-clicks (note that IE does this on real hyperlinks). Though I don't know if I'm just hallucinating that.
Considering how MS likes to reinvent the Windows UI through Office in regards to menus and toolbars, a case could be made that a good chunk of Office code _should_ be part of the OS.
There are some Office UI features I'd like to use without having to resort to hacks and third-party re-creations.
They fixed that in Windows XP. The start menu button now extends fully to the bottom left corner and the task buttons extend to the bottom of the screen. This even works when you use the classic theme instead of the Fisher-Price one.
The following would seem to back up that observation:
In the days of Excel 1.0 through 4.0, most people at Microsoft thought that the most common user activity was doing financial what-if scenarios, where you do things like change the inflation rate and see how this affects your profitability.
When we were designing Excel 5.0, the first major release to use serious activity-based planning, we only had to watch about five customers using the product before we realized that an enormous number of people just use Excel to keep lists. They are not entering any formulas or doing any calculation at all! We hadn't even considered this before. Keeping lists turned out to be far more popular than any other activity with Excel. And this led us to invent a whole slew of features that make it easier to keep lists: easier sorting, automatic data entry, the AutoFilter feature which helps you see a slice of your list, and multi-user features which let several people work on the same list at the same time while Excel automatically reconciles everything.
I have person at work that actually typed a column of numbers into a spreadsheet, added them up with a calculator, and entered the total back into the spreadsheet. Talk about underutilization!!
I do the books for our corporation and a few other businesses. We only use the basic features of QB (enter checks, make deposits, do payroll, print reports, reconcile accounts), and my largest DB has been around 40MB befre I got around to archiving and closing some old years.
- I have never had db corruption in the 4 years or so we've been using QB (we back up nightly though, just in case:).
- It is slow when it gets big. Its also slow in multiuser mode. I'd love to have the QB front end on a SQL database.
- I regularly (once a month) import 400+ checks from our custom commission payment system via IIF files using a short perl script to generate the import file. I too wish the IIF files were a bit more straightforward. It'd be nice if one could export transaction via IIF too, but at least one can squeak by with an excel report if you need to abandon QB
Intuit appears to have a SDK for an XML based API now. I dont know how good it is though.
You don't say what OS/GUI you are using, but in Windows, right-click on the Start menu and pick explore.
Note also that Windows XP is getting away from icons on the desktop; ie: none (except recycle bin?) by default. I believe NeXtStEp didn't have a desktop either. Icons dropped there fell into a black hole of sorts. Apple tried to carry this thru in early MacOS X releases, but current mac users would have none of it IIRC.
I think NextStep also forced you to keep at least one file manager window open, to keep that access to the file system handy.
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That's what fuel intermix ratios are about.
Mac OS X does no such thing. They have thier own GUI system based on Display PDF. If anything, X runs on top of that.
IMO, the whole point to the X design was to say "not my problem".
I don't know about Word 2000, but in Word 2002 (XP), Pick Tools->Options. Uncheck "Windows in Taskbar", and you will have the old MDI style back. Excel 2002 has a similar option.
What bugs me is that all of the Office XP apps do the "Windows in Taskbar" thing differently. Word has multiple top level windows. Excel still has MDI, but with a button for each doc in the taskbar. I think Powerpoint has some other variation. Talk about consistency!!
Is it bad that I keep reading that as "Star Trek: Terms of Service"?
How will they account for the "fact" that those battles happened before warp drive?
... big fan, less noise.
... but the source for those last two come with VC++ last I noticed.
Suing NeoNapster for trademark infringement.
There are window seats. Look at the leading edge of the wing in the picture.
If didn't know otherwise, I'd expect Quit to Quit the Javascript Debugger. I never did like that particular bit of brain damage (one command to close all top level main windows of an app).
IE fires up notepad for the View Source command, unless you tweak the registry to use something else.
There is a disposal fee for monitors and TVs to be paid at time of disposal.
A perfect example of the problem with Linux for the average desktop user. Thank you.
FYI,
MOST people just want to get in a car and get from point A to point B. They don't want to deal with a manual transmission.
MOST people don't want to fly a 747. They want to get in one and get from point A to point B.
MOST people don't want to jump from a perfectly functioning aircraft.
As long as average people have to deal with that extraneous arcana to get simple (or even complex) things done, they will not use Linux on the desktop.
And when hardware and software support for desktop oriented technologies starts or continues to lag or fade because other platform providers do cater to the average user's needs, I will have no sympathy for you.
The reason I stopped using that Win98 single click setting about 30 seconds after turning it on was the delay in opening the next folder after clicking on a folder icon.
The time difference between single and double clicking may have been the same for all I know, but it seemed slower with the former.
I remember reading somewhere that the delay (short but noticeable) was purposely inserted to simulate clicking on a real hyperlink or to allow it to capture accidental double-clicks (note that IE does this on real hyperlinks). Though I don't know if I'm just hallucinating that.
And here I thought you were going to make some kind of Quicken reference.
Considering how MS likes to reinvent the Windows UI through Office in regards to menus and toolbars, a case could be made that a good chunk of Office code _should_ be part of the OS.
There are some Office UI features I'd like to use without having to resort to hacks and third-party re-creations.
Try this?
That'd be like herding (cue) cats.
They aren't referring to assembly language there, if that is what you are getting at.
http://www.mesa3d.org/
They fixed that in Windows XP. The start menu button now extends fully to the bottom left corner and the task buttons extend to the bottom of the screen. This even works when you use the classic theme instead of the Fisher-Price one.
I have person at work that actually typed a column of numbers into a spreadsheet, added them up with a calculator, and entered the total back into the spreadsheet. Talk about underutilization!!
I do the books for our corporation and a few other businesses. We only use the basic features of QB (enter checks, make deposits, do payroll, print reports, reconcile accounts), and my largest DB has been around 40MB befre I got around to archiving and closing some old years.
:).
- I have never had db corruption in the 4 years or so we've been using QB (we back up nightly though, just in case
- It is slow when it gets big. Its also slow in multiuser mode. I'd love to have the QB front end on a SQL database.
- I regularly (once a month) import 400+ checks from our custom commission payment system via IIF files using a short perl script to generate the import file. I too wish the IIF files were a bit more straightforward. It'd be nice if one could export transaction via IIF too, but at least one can squeak by with an excel report if you need to abandon QB
Intuit appears to have a SDK for an XML based API now. I dont know how good it is though.
You don't say what OS/GUI you are using, but in Windows, right-click on the Start menu and pick explore.
Note also that Windows XP is getting away from icons on the desktop; ie: none (except recycle bin?) by default. I believe NeXtStEp didn't have a desktop either. Icons dropped there fell into a black hole of sorts. Apple tried to carry this thru in early MacOS X releases, but current mac users would have none of it IIRC.
I think NextStep also forced you to keep at least one file manager window open, to keep that access to the file system handy.
Sounds like They Live in reverse.