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Reasons to use the old style menus in 2007
THANKS! I'll give it a try.
"Randy" wrote: On Sep 4, 11:12 am, Heidi wrote: Thanks Earl, I'll give installing the 2003 a try. Which of course brings up a whole new issue. When I purchased this computer a week ago, vista and temporary office were installed. Because my old computer had sp and office pre-installed and I purchased the professional. When I called MS Support on how to upgrade it onto my new computer, they basically laughed at me because I don't have the original install disks. And even though I have the upgrade disks, need the first version to prove I upgraded. Which is why I purchased the 2007 full version because apparently MS needs the extra money. Course I got the new computer because I have a nasty reloading Trojen that MS Defender and Norton detects but do not completely remove, so my old computer keeps getting reinfected at every boot and will need to be wiped out. So I won't be using the software that comes from that machine. OK, I'm just venting here, sorry. I've been a loyal MS fan for about 20 years until 3 weeks ago. Just called IBM to find out if Lotus has a Vista version, they do not but I'll be watching for it. BTW, the store that I purchased my computer from said that MS will stop support on XP and office 2003 within a year. We're hosed. I was just playing with the Excel pivot tables, they dropped the drag and drop in the spreadsheet, have to go use the pivot side screen to make it happen. Also, it's a bear to figure out how to show row detail and subtotals. Hard to get the page drop down along with the detail in the pivot table itself. I've been tested as an Excel Expert, am a pivot table guru and now have to relearn from scratch. Pivot tables were Excels crowning glory ... used to be. Everything I do takes way too long, but now feel like there is no other choice. I make big bucks to be an expert and financial systems analyst, now with 2007 consider myself a beginner. Thanks for letting me vent ... off to try again. "Earl Kiosterud" wrote: Heidi, You can do a system restore to get 2003 back. It doesn't affect your saved files, but does roll back installed software. In XP, it's in the Accessories group -- don't know about Vista. If you haven't installed other software, done updates, etc, then use a recent restore point that is before you installed Excel 2007. As a side note, when you install a new release of something like Excel, you can choose a different folder at that point in the install wizard, and it will keep the old software. Then you can run either. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com Note: Top-posting has been the norm here. Some folks prefer bottom-posting. But if you bottom-post to a reply that's already top-posted, the thread gets messy. When in Rome... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Heidi" wrote in message ... I want the 2007 menus back: I'm dyslexic and the new ones are almost unusable for me because it's too distracting. I wear bi-focals and need to do back bends to see the ribbon bar. Short cut keys seem to have disappeared. Learning the new menus is not the issue, it's needing to do something and having to go to help for hours. Every time I spend the time it's a reminder of how happy I am :(. I don't have nor want to make the time to get things done. BTW: This new question screen is in super tiny print. Plus the "type your message' popup on this field is keeps reappearing as I'm typing my message. How do I turn off informational popups. If Microsoft won't give us a drop down menu option with short cut keys, I want to install 2003. Does 2003 work with vista? And where do I find the directions to backdate my Office Professional version from 2007 to 2003. If I can't do that on vista, I want directions on how to go back to XP on my week old machine. Spending yet another $30 for a third party menu systems is not an option, I don't want to worry about upgrades, etc. Microsoft, you need to hear this. No kidding, I'm being very polite in showing the amount of frustration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Heidi, Perhaps you should try to download OpenOffice.org at, believe it or not, www.openoffice.org. This is a free productivity suite that has a spreadsheet component named Calc, that is very similar to the earlier version of excel. It isn't an exact clone, but does a good job, and may help you out. The alternative is probably to find your original Excel 2003 CD. |
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