Until now I have been using Excel 2002 and was able to use my combination of
Excel and Lotus commands to get around very effectively.

I was able to access the Lotus commands by setting the menu Help/Lotus 1-2-3
Help/ to Demo.

I also had ticked Tool/Options/Transition/ Transition Navigation Keys and
applied the forward slash as the menu key for Lotus 123 Help.

I haven't been able to find these features in 2003. Can anyone tell me
where to find them?

hi,
like you, i too was a long time lotus user. microsoft has been slowly
abandoning lotus. they stopped file support at wk4 which was R5. 123 format
file didn't appear untill 2000. I have xl2003 and i think in xl2003,
microsoft finally discontinued lotus help. or at least i can't find it either.
you know what i miss the most. the classic keyboard menu. no mouse required.

sigh.
FSt1

"Doofus Downunder" wrote:

Until now I have been using Excel 2002 and was able to use my combination of
Excel and Lotus commands to get around very effectively.

I was able to access the Lotus commands by setting the menu Help/Lotus 1-2-3
Help/ to Demo.

I also had ticked Tool/Options/Transition/ Transition Navigation Keys and
applied the forward slash as the menu key for Lotus 123 Help.

I haven't been able to find these features in 2003. Can anyone tell me
where to find them?

i think in xl2003, microsoft finally discontinued lotus help

Yes it's gone. And in Excel 2007 all Lotus file support is history.

--
Jim
"FSt1" wrote in message
...
| hi,
| like you, i too was a long time lotus user. microsoft has been slowly
| abandoning lotus. they stopped file support at wk4 which was R5. 123
format
| file didn't appear untill 2000. I have xl2003 and i think in xl2003,
| microsoft finally discontinued lotus help. or at least i can't find it
either.
| you know what i miss the most. the classic keyboard menu. no mouse
required.
|
| sigh.
| FSt1
|
| "Doofus Downunder" wrote:
|
| Until now I have been using Excel 2002 and was able to use my
combination of
| Excel and Lotus commands to get around very effectively.
|
| I was able to access the Lotus commands by setting the menu Help/Lotus
1-2-3
| Help/ to Demo.
|
| I also had ticked Tool/Options/Transition/ Transition Navigation Keys
and
| applied the forward slash as the menu key for Lotus 123 Help.
|
| I haven't been able to find these features in 2003. Can anyone tell me
| where to find them?
|
|

OMG! So they think we will continue to *upgrade* if they remove features?

I also used the mouse-less hotkeys all the time. Using the mouse takes up
far too much time.

I think I'll install my old version of Excel on the new machine and forget
about the new one.

Thanks for the confirmation of my worst fears, guys.


"Jim Rech" wrote:

i think in xl2003, microsoft finally discontinued lotus help

Yes it's gone. And in Excel 2007 all Lotus file support is history.

--
Jim
"FSt1" wrote in message
...
| hi,
| like you, i too was a long time lotus user. microsoft has been slowly
| abandoning lotus. they stopped file support at wk4 which was R5. 123
format
| file didn't appear untill 2000. I have xl2003 and i think in xl2003,
| microsoft finally discontinued lotus help. or at least i can't find it
either.
| you know what i miss the most. the classic keyboard menu. no mouse
required.
|
| sigh.
| FSt1
|
| "Doofus Downunder" wrote:
|
| Until now I have been using Excel 2002 and was able to use my
combination of
| Excel and Lotus commands to get around very effectively.
|
| I was able to access the Lotus commands by setting the menu Help/Lotus
1-2-3
| Help/ to Demo.
|
| I also had ticked Tool/Options/Transition/ Transition Navigation Keys
and
| applied the forward slash as the menu key for Lotus 123 Help.
|
| I haven't been able to find these features in 2003. Can anyone tell me
| where to find them?
|
|