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Subject:RE: Moving to Word 2007 From:"Margaret Hassall" <Margaret -dot- Hassall -at- computershare -dot- com -dot- au> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:57:27 +1000
Gene wrote: I find it much more satisfying to bend reality to my will.
I've never had much success with that - pity :-)
Anyway, I have recently upgraded to 2007 and found it much easier than
expected. I used the MS list of 2003 - 2007 commands a lot at first,
which was very helpful. That and adding items to the Quick Access
Toolbar make working easy. For our company, the improved interaction
with Share Point makes a big difference. I have not yet worked out our
own themes, but only this week I have experimented with creating our own
"ribbon" to replace our company toolbars, and I am happy with the
progress so far. My early reading said you can't change the ribbon which
was a concern as we have a lot of Word and Excel toolbar macros. But you
can with a bit of XML fiddling.
I'm part of a pilot upgrade - when we upgrade everyone we will point
people to the MS tutorials rather than try and create our own courses
(we are a big company). I have stepped through most of them and found
them very helpful as well. The online help, though, is not as good.
There are lots of little things that are useful - zoom factor, create
PDF, copy/paste, document inspector,
Cheers,
Margaret
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Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2008 6:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Moving to Word 2007
Well sure, if you actually want to learn the new interface.
I find it much more satisfying to bend reality to my will.
Gene Kim-Eng
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To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Moving to Word 2007
Or you can download an interactive link that compares the Word 2003 menu
with the Word 2007 menu side by side. It has saved my butt more than a
few times.
Tammy Van Boening
Curriculum Developer
Charter University
Charter Communications, Inc.
6399 S Fiddler's Green Circle
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Office: 303.323.6007
Cell: 303-909-5752
tammy -dot- vanboening -at- chartercom -dot- com
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From: "Butler,Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC"
<Darren -dot- Butler -dot- ctr -at- Robins -dot- af -dot- mil>
> The way the commands are now grouped seem goofy to me so shortcuts may
> be the answer for folks like myself.
> I still believe in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
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