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Feasty
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PostPosted: 10:12 - 21 Jul 2009    Post subject: Grrr... office 2007 Reply with quote

God I hate computers, and I work with them for a living!! If only I could go back to the dark ages and knock 2 pieces of stone together for the rest of my life I'd be happy. Twisted Evil

So at my work we've just been upgraded to Office 2007, great and why? I have no idea, it's a pain in the arse.
I liked my Office 2003, I like my classic look, I liked the fact that every window that pops up looks the same, has the same basic layout etc. I like being able to read lots of figures on a basic grey background and not hurt my eyes with colours.

Now it looks crap! I can't change Orifice 2007 colours or layout, I can't change it to the classic style... Evil or Very Mad

Worse still... I think okay, man up - I'll get used to it, move into the 21st century and all that. But I can't even change my effing XP settings to match the Orifice 2007 look!! If only I ran the chuffing IT dept here, I'd put us all back to Windowsand Office '98. Smooth, quick, easy and lets you change what you want! GRRRRR....



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PostPosted: 11:29 - 21 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I share your hatred.

Took me many burst blood vessels before I even got to grips with the basics again with excel.

The most cuntish thing about it is they have changed their default font to something called Calibri, which I dont like, I was quite happy for 15+ years with Times New Roman.

They don't like you making your own decisions about fonts though, and despite wiping every trace of the font from the system, it somehow manages to change it back from TNR to calibri if I so much as click away from the line I am typing.

I want it to burn in the fires of hell for eternity.

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PostPosted: 16:40 - 21 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sure that Office 2K7 was freshly squeezed from Satan's sphincter.
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PostPosted: 17:04 - 21 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

In MO2K7's defence Calibri is much more readable font than TNR. I printed my dissertation using Calibri. Smile
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PostPosted: 23:17 - 21 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

i fucking hate office 2007. much preferred the classic layout.
i do really like vista/7 over XP which i could not stand
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PostPosted: 08:42 - 23 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Office 2007 sucks balls.

Excel is particularly bad. What they were thinking when they designed the toolbars is beyond me.

I haven't met a soul who likes it yet.
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PostPosted: 09:47 - 23 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hear your pain...

Wait till you decide to save something quickly, throw it on your flash drive, drive to a clients to show them the doc you have done for them, only to discover that they have an 'unofficial' version of Word 2003 and cant read .docx files...

and all because you forgot to save as word 2003 version instead ....

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PostPosted: 13:23 - 23 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damofo D.O.G. wrote:

I haven't met a soul who likes it yet.


You have now!

Maybe i don;t count though as i'm not a power user and most of the things i need to do in a document can be done with the ribbon which is a nice addition.
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PostPosted: 13:14 - 24 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

RealNinja wrote:

and all because you forgot to save as word 2003 version instead ....

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Fuckin A or work for ages on an excel spreadsheet, remember to save it 03 compatible only to have some lousy prick open your precious spreadsheet in 03 and continue to edit the only copy loosing all the formatting you spent ages on getting just right.

Other than that I'm used to it now and don't mind it.
Took me ages first time around to find how to save and print stuff Confused
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