Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

Vishesh Saxena — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:16:11 GMT

Regarding Treeview control in Excel 2010...Just tried this on my system. m using Excel 2010. I have added a treeview control on the sheet, saved it and closed. When I reopend, I could actually see my treeview but in a different location. If you open and close a new workbook over the one having treeview it will show it fine. So this resolved here. Remember DO NOT save here.

But another issue is...if you do save and close the workbook; then if you open it Excel would not recognise it as a treeview control. Try this...in the design view right click to see the properties of Treeview; it won't show up.

Really tricky this issue...

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

princessdi222 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:21:53 GMT

Okay, I know things need to change, and I've been re-learning updated software for 25-30 years now. Only one thing I can't find in MS Office 2010 -- how to invoke autotext entries via keyboard entry. It used to be you would type the autotext, then hit ctrl-shift-v, and the entry would appear. Now, automatic text doesn't always appear when typing (and I might have used a different term to save it under) and I have to choose insert-text-quick parts. Anyone have the answer? this is really slowing me down.

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

Mik — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:02:58 GMT

from Cmac - "Unfortunately you still have the ribbon. I used to have lists of the commands I used regularly, but now I have to dig in who knows how many layers to get the obscure command I use all the time. A user" ribbon with auto or manually maintained "most used" commands would be great. I still keep 1 PC with an old version of Office that has this feature. I use it when I am truly in a hurry"

Look, I love Billy G and all his Redmond kids too.

The thing is, I was not born deformed, did not become paralyzed, and find that stupid mousing around is an excuse to burn time, chase down empty rabbit holes, and just get nothing done. That being said, I do understand the need for innovation. - regardless of the other wonderful features - going backwards on productivity negates any other advances IMHO. I have a machine with cute-sie Win7, and THANK YOU Billy's kids for allowing me to un-cute-sie it by having a classic Winders scheme. If I wanted a cute-sie commie command and control apple computer, I would have purchased one thank you very much!!!

Moving on to Orrifice 10, I ask why. I am still using Office 2003 because it works and is made for productivity. Do you look at the keyboard when you are typing??? I did not think so. Then why do you think that foolishness is needed when operating basic spreadsheet and word processing? Do NOT tell me about how it all still works the way it did!!! Now they have hidden the keyboard shortcuts so they don't get learned, the user has no more additions to their common and known tactile interface. I would say thanks but don't feel up to telling a big stinky lie at this point.

This version of office is like wide screen monitors - great for looking at (as soft digital porn) yet absolutely foolish for productivity for the vast majority of users doing basic work. I am ashamed to say that I have TWO versions of office onboard my desktop machine:

OFFICE 2003/xp - for work

OFFICE 10 - for translating work created by folks with too much unproductive time on their hands

When the current version allows me to revert to a productive toolbar from this silly cute-sie dribble, I will only need one office package. Until then, I get to double spend on these apps. Maybe the thing to do since I am being forced to re-learn is to move everything to Google docs...............

What I love about Office 2010 is that I WILL NEVER USE IT. It will either get an update / re-release - to quit penalizing me for knowing office basic commands or I will end up migrating elsewhere. I do NOT buy software to get kicked in the nose like this. This is very insulting.

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

Tempeltat — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:19:16 GMT

Congratulations! Does the Office 2010 support the ODF format? Because then we can finally switch back to our good Microsoft Office in the work place! It is such a pain.

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

bluford59 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:51:39 GMT

Change is never easy, but there are some tools to help you get the most out of the ribbon. Check out what Crabby Office Lady has to say about the ribbon -- blogs.office.com/.../ribbon-portal.aspx or tips and tricks on how to transition to the the ribbon here -- office.microsoft.com/.../office-ribbon-find-commands-FX101851541.aspx

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

gliattitd — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:23 GMT

The ribbon is indeed too busy. Please pay attention to your users. I was trying to find how to put a header on every page of a word doc and it took me almost 15 minutes just to dig down to where that info was located. You should allow your users to go to the old format if they prefer.

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

PBColeman — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:14:23 GMT

Office 2010 is a great product that offers easier accessibility to features. You can right click any feature on the Ribbon and add it to the Quick Access Toolbar for quicker access. You can also remap the Ctrl F key to open Find/Replace as it did in version 2003.

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

Hazzie — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:59:59 GMT

Hopefully Microsoft will take heed of these comments. I've used Office since forever and my productivity took a real nosedive since the arrival of that awful ribbon. I used to use Word for pretty much everything, from dashing off a diagram to typing up a shopping list, but no more. Just way too many clicks, hunting through tabs and "Why the heck did they put that there?"

I want my nice businesslike Office back, so please dump the teenage test team, buy in some decaff and for gawd's sake listen to your customers!

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

lennyrats — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:18:34 GMT

Personally I dislike making changes for the sake of change. I reluctantly leapfrogged from Office 2000 to 2010 to avoid the in-betweens versions. Why "Contol-F" was changed I don't know understand? I don't want to go tp the gobble-gook on the left-side of the screen to do a simple find. I now have to do a "Control-H", with care. to accomplish my "Control-F" find. Also the "More Commands" list for "Customizing the Quick Acess Tool Bar" is a real quagmire to search through all the different features and I care not to do that by trial and Error by their labeled names that don't make sense. I did spend 30-years in computer systems design so I think I know something about design. Len Rattini, CCP

re: Office 2010: A record-breaking first year

MBell — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:52:16 GMT

office.microsoft.com/.../CL101817133.aspx

If you knew where something was on the Toolbars and can't figure out where it is now on the ribbons this is a great resource. Office 2010 does take a lot of getting used to since things were moved around and not necessarily in the same way. I found I was able to customize the Quick Access Toolbar to give me the same features I used most frequently from the Toolbars. The only one I found that did not make the transition is the $ for accounting formatting is not available which means I have to go through multiple clicks to get the same results that the icon did for me in one step.