Re: Access / Office 2007 - Menus

On May 19, 4:38 pm, prakashwadhw...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Office 2007 & thus Access has had it's menus replaced with the Ribbon
Bar. It's very disconcerting. In Word, Excel, Access, I feel totally
lost. Also all the shortcut Menu pulldowns don't work anymore ...

eg

Alt F-S  to save a file
Alt F-U for Page Setup in Word/Excel

etc. etc.

What I'd like to know is, how have you'll managed with the new Office
2007 series product without menus ... (i.e. those that have migrated).
I remember reading somewhere that a Menu Add-On is available by a 3rd
party product which provides menus for Office 2007 just like Office
2003 & it's previous versions. Is that a stable product ?  Should I be
using the 3rd party menu add-on or force myself to get acquainted with
the new Ribbon Bar System ?  And then what about the shortcut keys ?
How do I get that functionality back ?  I hate doing the mouse-
keyboard dance !

Best Rgds,
Prakash.

AddInTools is available as a trial from here:
http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/?gclid=COHA0e3_sZMCFSQdagod7U8dow

Personally I think you are just better off learning the new interface.
It doesn't take that long. IMHO the Ribbon is the least of Access
2007's problems.

I find the sluggishness of A2007 compared to A2003 to be the biggest
annoyance, followed closely by the fact that there's no option to not
have the Navigation Pane "always on top" in design view. This means
if you are designing forms that are almost full screen width, you are
constantly minimizing and maximizing the navigation pane or moving the
position of the form, or both. They couldn't have made it more
annoying if they had tried.

A simple option to either have the Navigation Pane "always on top" or
not always on top would have gotten rid of this annoyance. Perhaps
we'll see it in a service pack, but I'm not holding my breath. I've
never seen anyone else post that they find this annoying. Perhaps I'm
the only one. :-)
.

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