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From: Peter Olcott on 20 Jun 2010 00:02 On 6/19/2010 9:38 AM, Joseph M. Newcomer wrote: > It was only terminal idiocy that got rid of customization features. In Office 2007, > EVERYTHING I need to do on a second-by-second basis is now four clumsy mouse clicks and > nested menus away; in Office 2003, I had custom toolbars with everything I needed. Yes, > they have a custom toolbar, but the same terminal idiocy caused them to limit it to an > unusably small number of commands. It is like they went around and asked the professional > Word and PowerPoint users "What is it you need to work effectively, every day", and when > they got the answers, they said "Let's get rid of each of those features, they are only > critical to experts". From my viewpoint, Word and PowerPoint are so crippled as to be > totally unusable. Alas, any time I don't spend in VS or in one of these newsgroups is > spent in Word or PowerPoint. > Like I already said Microsoft is telling everyone (with your comments, now making it several different ways) please quit using and supporting Windows. By the way Thunderbird (it also has a built-in spell checker) is a much better newsreader than Outlook express, except for two things: (1) It does not seem to have a usable watch thread feature. (2) It is intolerably slow loading the messages from a newsgroup when one has several years worth of message headers stored locally. To circumvent this I simply only load the most recent headers, then it is plenty fast enough. To view very old messages I simply go back to Outlook express. Thunderbird is especially good at formatting messages and replies. Although you may view a message in HTML mode, replying is much better with text mode. > In Office 2010, you can create your own customizable ribbon bar. Now, if only they don't > continue the idiocy that says "We know what ribbon bar you want to see, and we are going > to change it whether you want us to change it or not..." > > It is a well-known principle of GUI design that you do NOT surprise the user by changing > what they are looking at! This has been known for 30 years (back when user interfaces > were done on character-based screens!) Apparently this principle escaped the total fool > who put an "Add and Edit" button in the MFC Wizards; whoever did it was obviously never a > programmer! > joe > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:27:44 -0700, "David Ching"<dc(a)remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote: > >> "Giovanni Dicanio"<giovanniDOTdicanio(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message >> news:u43ssrUCLHA.5584(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> Yes, it is using programming... but I was thinking about some form of RAD >>> approach built inside Office itself, like it was possible with Office 2003 >>> and previous versions for the toolbars. >>> >> >> Outlook 2010 (and I presume other Office 2010 apps) does have a "Customize >> Ribbon" dialog that lets you populate a tree containing contents of ribbon >> tabs, with the desired commands. >> >> -- David > Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP] > email: newcomer(a)flounder.com > Web: http://www.flounder.com > MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm |