hey, has anyone who is a heavy user of Word switched recently from 2003 to 2007? I knew I'd have to change eventually (it's what the gov't uses now) so I had it installed today. I knew they'd fucked Word up royally but now that I'm actually using it? I SERIOUSLY want to cockpunch Microsoft.

Does anyone have any hints about making it usable again?

It's seems to have deleted my normal.dot too. feh.

It is hard, lisah, when nothing is where it used to be. I suggest using Help to find features you're looking for. It's quicker than trying to poke through options.

Some stuff I use frequently: headers and footers are under Insert. Margins are under Page Layout. Spelling and Grammar, Word Count, and Track Changes are under Review. Zooming is under View. Print and Save As are accessed by clicking the Microsoft symbol in the top right.

Anything else, just ask. I may know where it is.

It's seems to have deleted my normal.dot too. feh.

Well, Office 2007 changed all the other file extensions; maybe this has a new extension too?

Anything else, just ask. I may know where it is.

Thanks, Dana. I found an interactive thing on their website were you can look at the old interface and it will show you were the command is on the new interface. The problem is that I'd customized all my toolbars and had macros and they are all gone.

Mostly I want to vent. I figured things are generally kind of hard right now, so why not through another challenge in the mix? Possibly not the smartest thing I've ever done.

Heh, yeah, there's a hell of a learning curve before it's comfortable again. Among the things that have helped:

The quick access toolbar, aka the top line on the screen where the doc name is displayed. You can add frequently used commands there so you never have to hunt for them (mine has save, print, accept change, keep with next, undo and redo).

Ditto with the quick style gallery (on the main bar at the top of the screen) - it's worth the time to rearrange the icons there so styles you frequently use are at the top.

Other than that, it's mostly learning where the hell they've stashed things. I like that "change case" can be accessed from the main ribbon. I'm less fond of the fact that to insert a table you go to insert, to insert a comment you go to review, and to insert a page break you go to layout, when they all used to be grouped under insert. Feh.

Ditto with the quick style gallery (on the main bar at the top of the screen) - it's worth the time to rearrange the icons there so styles you frequently use are at the top.

Oh this is good to know!

I figured out the quick access toolbar and put, among other things, Insert Page Break on it right away.

Thanks for your help, Dana!

okay, here's a puzzler. I have a document that I made changes in, sent it to a reviewer who also made changes. Got it back and used the Next button on the Reviews place wtf ever it is now to go through the reviewer's changes and, while my changes are still visible, I can't use the Next or Previous buttons to get to them. Which is a problem! It's a 600+ page document with changes throughout and I'm just supposed to look through the pages for changes now? I can't figure this one out at all.

(Thank you all for listening to my whining)

ETA NEVERMIND! I figured it out. User error. Change is hard! (TM)

headers and footers are under Insert.

If you're working in Print Layout, once you have headers/footers, you can just double-click on them to edit.

and to insert a page break you go to layout, when they all used to be grouped under insert.

On mine, you can insert a page break from the Insert tab.

lisah,

After working with Word 2007 for 4 months, I said "fuck it" and I moved over to a Mac. I am someone who found it so objectionable that I never adapted. I hope you find it easier than I did.

I'm trying to copy a windows disk onto a mac. I was using the help button to figure out how to copy and looked up duplicate, and it and instead of explaining the duplicate function to me, it started it. It the duplicate function just an extended copy or will it do something I hate? If I need to, how do I stop it?