Well, Walter. It seems the threads got a little off-track, but I hope you
found the answer you were looking for amidst the assistance-jockeys.

I have a personal word of advice for you since I deal with this kind of
thing with my customers all the time. I have an IT company and all my
customers are currently going through the headaches of updgrading now or in
the near future.

As annoying as change is, the truth is that the XP interface is dying and
will never be coming back.. it's been replaced with Vista. The same with
Office. The old interface is dying and has been replaced with another new
one. While you certainly CAN force the new vewsion to look like the old one,
you're eventually going to have to adopt the new one anyway.. it's just part
of the game when you deal with growing software applications.

Learning office 2007 was hard for me at first and I'm one of the most
advanced users you'll find out there. I kept constantly stopping my work in
2007 and then opening the files in 2003 because I knew where all the buttons
were.
Eventually I just uninstalled 03 and forced myself to learn 2007 the hard way.

In the end.... 2007 is a lot easier to use. Once you get the feel of styles
and the new interfaces, there are lots more options available to you. It only
took me a couple of days constantly presing the Help key to be pointed in the
right direction o most all of my questions. Now, I wouldn't go back for
anything.

Just my $.02.


"Walter Cohen" wrote:

> I have Vista Home Premium and also Office 2007.
> My wife continues to complain that she has such a hard time in Excel 2007
> with not being [easily] able to find the same buttons and options, etc...
> So, is there a way to uninstall Excel 2007 and install Excel 2003? This
> means I would still keep Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, etc as part of Office
> 2007.
>
> Or alternatively, is there a way to open a new worksheet/book in Excel
> 97-2003 format when I launch Excel 2007? I already have the option set to
> auto-save anything in Excel 97-2003 format (XLS).
>
> Thanks,
> Walter
>
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