wendyzski

Had to "upgrade" to Office 2007 today. Boss wants everyone on it by Monday and since a couple of people are taking days off later this week I wanted to do it while there were people available to fix it if it broke. I think the idea is that as an innovative IT company we need to be using and familiar with the latest toys. We've already got people inquiring about Vista. *shudders*

Had a lot of trouble getting the new Outlook to sign into our server. But mostly I HATE the new look. Now, remember that I'm the kind of person that still switches back to the "Windows Classic" interface because the XP interface looks like something designed by Fisher Price for 'My First Computer' - all the blobby inflated menus with the bright colors...

Well the "default" interface for Office '07 is a stylish and cheery light blue with streamlined edges and lots of semi-transparent menus - sort of like old airplane style combined with echoes of Star Trek. And changing the Appearance tab in the Display Properties changes the colors for everything EXCEPT Office 2007! I had to go to online help to figure out how to change that, and you only get blue, silver or black. So then I had to go change my desktop and my Trillian interface and rearrange my Yahoo Widgets so they all harmonized and I coud actually FIND the icons I needed from the brightly colored and often clashing mess.

The most obvious change is that in most of the programs you now have sort of the bastard stepchild of a dropdown menu and a toolbar to deal with - sort of tab-ish things with pictures like the toolbar but squished up into the tab. I suspect that it's got one of those "intuitive" things where the items you use most often will be on top, but at the moment nothing I need is where I can see it.

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You know...... i actually *followed* almost everything you just said!!

WOW!! Um.... but gimme a few days to study before the quiz, please? *grin*

Have to use new software. It's stoopid-looking and makes things hard to find. Not sure yet if it works any better than the old stuff.

And we're in the middle of "upgrading" to Windows XP and Office '03. It's taking a year or so to get the whole company through the process; meanwhile, those who have upgraded are having trouble sharing presentations with those who aren't there yet. You'd think (ha, ha) that work groups, departments, and cross-functional teams would get done together, but of course, NO.

Sigh.

Can sympathize, even from way back here.

Word Processing & other experience:

1985 (Apple //c)
PFS Write
AppleWorks 2.7
ELM Mail
online dialup connection, 300 baud.

1987-1991 (Apple //c, Apple //e, Apple II GS, Macintosh, IBM)
AppleWorks 2.7 upgraded to AppleWorks 3.0
Word Perfect 5.0
PINE Mail
EtherNet, FidoNet
online dial-up connection, 1200-2400 baud
download pirated games with Z-Modem

1989
MacWrite
MacWord
dBase
Lotus 1-2-3
Macintosh Desktop Publishing

1995
Microsoft Works
IRC (through library)
internet connection (through library)
e-mail
Telnet acess

1998-2005
Microsoft Office
Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT (usually at work, not home)

Tax return, May 2005.
Went from a 6GB Pentium 2, Windows 98, to an AMD Athlon-64 with 80GB, Windows XP.

Yes, I had computer experience in junior high. I was a spoiled rich kid. I graduated high school in 1989, had used five different (but similar) computers, and could already do five different word processing programs! Apparently, that doesn't seem to matter anymore. No, I've never used that program. The part about how adaptable I am usually seems to fall on deaf ears though. :(

Ugh

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upgrading sucks... sometimes. adaptability rules!