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To cut or not to cut - The lousy MS Office ribbon
Curt:
TechRepublic ... encourages users to upgrade to Office2007. They also ... say that "Sticking with Office 2003 is a better choice than Office 2007" but .. for paying members.. -lanux128 (May 18, 2007, 02:27 AM)
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:o
I just might loose any kind of faith in such a company! :mad:
Curt:
Ribbon haters should read Computerwold's article about pschmid's RibbonCustomizer (Free or $30 Pro versions) and Addintools' Classic Menu (several versions at $15-$30). -Curt (May 14, 2007, 10:38 AM)
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A new and third way has arrived: [Edit: $30]
We are pleased to announce our latest new product:
PowerPlugs: Classic Menu for Office
• Brings the Office 2003-style menus and toolbars back to Microsoft Office 2007
• Adds familiar menu access to all the new features and tools of Office 2007
• Keeps all the ribbon tabs of Office 2007 fully intact, so you can get the best of both worlds.
• Works seamlessly inside of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook and even Access
• Supports all languages supported by Office 2007
For a limited time you can get PowerPlugs: Ultimate Combo for PowerPoint (which now includes PowerPlugs: Classic Menu for Office) for just $299. That’s almost 80% off the price of buying all 10 included products separately. Hurry! Don’t miss out. Offer ends Dec. 31st.
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cranioscopical:
A new and third way has arrived:
We are pleased to announce our latest new product:
PowerPlugs: Classic Menu for Office
Brings the Office 2003-style menus and toolbars back to Microsoft Office 2007
For a limited time you can get PowerPlugs: Ultimate Combo for PowerPoint (which now includes PowerPlugs: Classic Menu for Office) for just $299.
Visit CrystalGraphics.com
-PowerPlugs
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-Curt (November 20, 2007, 07:48 AM)
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Thanks for the information, Curt.
I glanced too quickly at your post and the figure of $299 surprised me.
I see that the piece to which you refer is more than reasonable.
PowerPlugs: Classic Menu for Office (Plugs into Office 2007) $29.95
edbro:
I used Office 2007 for about 6 months in conjunction with the free version of RibbonCustomizer. The add in worked great but for the life of me, I couldn't see anything in 2007 that was better than 2003. 2007 was very slow for me and as I said, I needed a 3rd party utility to get the functionality I wanted. I went back to 2003 (except for OneNote) and I couldn't be happier. Very snappy and I prefer the menus to the ribbon.
Here's another beef: Just because I loaded OneNote from my 2007 disk, MS keeps wanting to install updates for Word 2007, Excel 2007, etc. Not to mention the frequent Outlook junk mail updates despite the fact that I never installed Outlook to begin with from either Office version. :mad:
armatostr:
I started using 2007, and really liked the ribbon , my sister and dad love this version and they are long time word users. Once she got very angry at me when i removed it from her old computer and installed 2003 instead, now 2007 is back. But now i'm trapped with OOo, i lost my installation disc... i miss it :( .. yeah i don't really like OOo that much especially because it crashes when using it during long work sessions.
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