Re: OT: Classic Menus for Office 2007

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:42:51 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:32:36 -0500, Journey <journey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried a program that someone here posted about, Classic Menus for
Office 2007, that makes using Office 2007 easier for people used to
the pre-2007 menus and toolbars.

http://www.addintools.com/

It's excellent. It makes using Office 2007 more productive for when I
want to get things done rather than search all over the new ribbon
interface. It doesn't replace the ribbon but rather adds a new option
to it which brings up the older menus and toolbars.


I think you should scrap Office 2007 and go back to
Office 2003 <grin>. Seriously is there any real pluses for
you, using Office 2007 over 2003?

I need to know Office 2007 basics well enough that I can help people
learn and use it at a local agency I volunteer for. The department of
vocational rehabilitation buys new computers with Vista and Office
2007 on them for people who need them for school and as work aids.

As a matter of principle, I want to transition to Open Office. I have
gotten as far as installing it :-) Microsoft has me hooked though,
because I want some of the programs of the MS Office suites enough
that even if I use Open Office for word processing and spreadsheets
I'd still want MS Office for OneNote 2007 (which is excellent),
Outlook, Access, and Publisher.

For large writing projects a program like Atlantis (
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/ ) is good for managing a
large number of open documents and copy/cut-pasting between them, but
it lacks things like tables so isn't good for complex formatting.

Side note:

If Word 2003 and 2007 are installed on the same PC, when switching
between them each will go through a time-consuming install process.
The following registry tweak can be executed at a run prompt so this
won't occur:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
.