I can’t bring myself to like Office 2007. My Vista PC came with the software last year. I tried it for a while, got rid of it and installed Office 2003.
Liking to experiment, I reinstalled Office 2007 and now wish I didn’t.
It’s hard to know why Microsoft changed the traditional interface that worked. Using Word 2007 is like learning the program from scratch; so many things are different, even how to save a file.
The default Calibri font, point size and paragraph spacing is annoying. I’m sure this can be changed, but why upset traditional users the moment they open a blank file?
The Help file says: “The new, results-oriented Office Fluent user interface presents tools to you, in a clear and organized fashion, when you need them …”.
It’s not clear and organised compared with the previous version.
There are meant to be new, improved sharing features for collaborating with colleagues, but I never use these and find them irritating when they sometimes appear in “finished” files.
I think Microsoft have over-engineered the software.
The only feature I like is the easy conversion to PDF.
I’m more likely to use Atlantis (which now supports docx files) or OpenOffice.
Speaking about docx, that’s the another annoying feature of Word 2007. So many people can’t open the files. Why change the world’s most common document format?
Rant over.
