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10 September 2007
Office 2007 Anyone else here running it? Opinions?
I am. Like it so far, the interface, inserting symbols, that kind of thing. Have it set to "old school" formats, so I'm compatible with the rest of the world.
I've thought about buying into Office 2007, upgrading from office 97. Is it solid and reliable? Will it slow my system to a crawl, or put its claws so deep into WinXP that I'll never root it out if I try to uninstall?
I hate the new menu structure. It took me twenty minutes to find the "Pivot Table Wizard" after it moved from the Data drop down menu to somewhere else. It moved to "Insert" WTF microsoft? I 've been using pivot tables in Excel for 10+ years and it has always been in the same place. Why fucking move it?
In options and help, there are still hints/settings for Lotus 123. But couldn't they have a classic mode for those of us that hate change. I love the million rows max versus the 65K rows.
Outlook is the least changed and the one I like the best.
birdherder, they have obviously expanded Excel's functionality... and moved stuff around. I found it hard going, as well, but I know I'll be used to it in a few days.
It's not like I need a book or a training day. It's not THAT different.
Price probably dropped, dg. If there's one thing I've learned as an IT Manager, it's that companies only invest in IT infrastructure if they have nothing else to spend it on. In every office everywhere, everyone bitches about their network but no one ever gives the IT Man a budget.
Nah, it is because they are supporting a network of around 100k users across a state several times the size of Texas and they have a standing policy of not implementing anything until it has been absolutely proven to be totally stable (well, as stable as anything from MS gets, anyway). Seems like a good strategy to me, actually, in this environment. I believe the help desk has been swamped with calls because people are confused about the buttons changing colour, so I can understand the hesitance to introduce changes.
Yeah, medium-sized companies are teh suck when it comes to budgeting - big enough to need formal budgets so you can't just sweet-talk the boss, too small to really be able to afford to budget properly for infrastructure the way big organisations can. I work for the government so, not only do we have plenty of money, we don't have to make a profit - all we have to do is put up a sound business case for whatever we need.
My new laptop had a 60-day trial version installed, but I had to uninstall it before those 60 days were up, as it didn't want to cooperate with my translation programs. Other than that, I quite liked it, or at least I liked Word. The new interface seems so much more intuitive to me. I didn't even so much as take a look at Excel or Access.
I wouldn't dream of running it without a dual core machine and 1gb of DDR.
My laptop (a Celeron M with 512 MB of RAM) managed to run it... well, not too bad. In fact, it actually ran better than Office XP: it didn't crash constantly the way XP does (but that's probably due to Vista being a huge load of crap).
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