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Those "massive usability improvements" for you were a massive step backwards for me and many other power users. It confirmed tat my switch to OSX was the right
by lancewiggs 14y ago
Those "massive usability improvements" for you were a massive step backwards for me and many other power users. It confirmed tat my switch to OSX was the right choice, as I had to abandon all of the hard-learned short cuts anyway.
I strongly agree with the original post - there has been no real pace of improvement in Office, and that's just sad.
- einhverfr 14y agoIndeed by 2007 I had more or less gotten rid of Word and gone to LaTeX. I haven't looked back since. It may not be for everybody but it is wonderful as a document generation environment. I recently switched to LateX Beamer for my presentations, and all I can say is "Wow." There is no easier way to create better looking presentations than that. (Actually, in all honesty, my LaTeX experience has changed the way I have used Word in those few cases I have had to use it, for example a contract writing technical documentation for Microsoft. I think every Word user should give LaTeX a try for a while. If you go back to using Word or similar, you can but your approach to documents will be much better.)
- viraptor 14y agoI'd like it if the next version of Word came with a device that zaps the user every time they try to change the font/style/size in-place. Than clippy should come out asking "it looks like you were about to do something stupid, would you like to learn about styles?"
- ZoFreX 14y ago> It confirmed tat my switch to OSX was the right choice, as I had to abandon all of the hard-learned short cuts anyway. Changes in Microsoft Office confirmed your choice to switch to a different Operating System? I assume you meant you switched to an office suite that only runs on OSX?