I liked the new format immediately. I find it more useful and intuitive
overall. Although this doesn't exactly describe most users I think to
someone not very computer familiar the new format would be decidedly more
intuitive than the old, as the buttons are grouped in logical ways and those
family relationships help one contextually understand what the buttons are
for.

All one has to do to put a favored button onto the quick access toolbar is
to right click on it in it's ribbon position and select "move to quick access
toolbar. Then if you go to the customize option which is available in
several areas, it's a simple matter to shift the positions of the toolbar
items to the order you prefer. Took me about 5 seconds to figure out.

There are a couple of things I wish were held over but in general I think
it's a real advance.

I am NOT a Microsoft employee or IT person.
Elliot Berlin

"C. Moya" wrote:

> I don't think the new ribbon UI will be hard to get used to... and in fact
> folks will find it productive in the long-run. Just give it a chance.
>
> My only gripe is the "default file format" WILL CAUSE MANY problems. I'm a
> power user... and I've already sent Excel 2007 format files to clients by
> mistake only to have them reply compaining "we can't read this file!"
>
> My only other gripe is that despite the "new UI," Office 2007 is not nearly
> as revolutionary as MS marketing would have you believe. The same old
> brainnumbing deficiencies and quirks and unintuitive dialog boxes are all
> still there. :(
>
> --
> -C. Moya
> www.cmoya.com
> "Lunge Forward" <lunge@forward.org> wrote in message
> news:OByvpN0MHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > With Office 2007, what was MS thinking? Surely not, this is better. I
> > wonder how much time in production will be lost when the 'general public'
> > start wondering where the 'undo' button is? Or the 'new' button? It's what
> > you get 'use to' but this is a complete relearn. Not just a few items to
> > relearn.
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