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Excel 2007 - Custom menus is missing!
I have looked at Excel 2007, and the major thing I miss, is the ability to
changed / customize the menus, as it is possible in Excel XP (and 2003 i think). I am a keyboard user of Excel (working with the mouse is much slower, and gives me pain in my arms/hands/shoulders and neck), so I have customized my Excel with a lot of extra functionality in the menus, so that I don´t need the mouse very often. And that is great! And very efficient! In Excel 2007 the menu are gone. The ability to customize them is much poorer. Is MS only thinking of mouse users (and not of number cruchers like me). If MS does not make the menus and customiziation available in Excel 2007, I will stay at Excel 2003 !!! By the way: The extra colums/rows in 2007 is great (I hope this also means that it can handle much lager sheets - with more than 65.000 formulas...). And also I can see that the functionality has also improved. |
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Excel 2007 - Custom menus is missing!
From my limited experience with Excel 2007 Beta:
1) I miss the menus. The Ribbon is a iconized cartoonish replacement for menus. I think it was meant to be pretty rather than usable. The Ribbon might be a little better if I could at least customize the contents. 2) I use a couple of personal Add-in's that add menu items under some of the pre-2007 default menus. Since the menus no longer exist in 2007 (replaced by the "Ribbon") all the menu items get thrown into a Ribbon tab called 'Add-ins'. So they are now no longer grouped with similar built-in menu items. 3) I don't know how a completely custom menu header would show up on the Ribbon. I'll have to give it a try. 4) My custom keyboard shortcuts still work. However, other users of my add-in may not know the shortcuts, and since the menu items are converted to ribbon buttons they don't show the keyboard shortcut anymore. 5) The ALT key still gives keyboard access to the "Quick Access" toolbar and the "Ribbon" tabs. When the ALT key is pressed keyboard access keys are displayed in relatively large, high contrast icons floating over each toolbar and ribbon item. I like this much better than the small, hard to see underscore of pre-2007. Søren Thade Petersen wrote: I have looked at Excel 2007, and the major thing I miss, is the ability to changed / customize the menus, as it is possible in Excel XP (and 2003 i think). I am a keyboard user of Excel (working with the mouse is much slower, and gives me pain in my arms/hands/shoulders and neck), so I have customized my Excel with a lot of extra functionality in the menus, so that I don´t need the mouse very often. And that is great! And very efficient! In Excel 2007 the menu are gone. The ability to customize them is much poorer. Is MS only thinking of mouse users (and not of number cruchers like me). If MS does not make the menus and customiziation available in Excel 2007, I will stay at Excel 2003 !!! By the way: The extra colums/rows in 2007 is great (I hope this also means that it can handle much lager sheets - with more than 65.000 formulas...). And also I can see that the functionality has also improved. |
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Excel 2007 - Custom menus is missing!
As mentioned by others - this is a big point of concern by many people who've
seen Excel 2007, and it's almost a show stopper for many. They have 'legacy' Excel packages that are heavily dependent on custom menus and the lack of support for them is causing many to say "so much for upgrading to Excel/Office 2007". And they don't want to have to learn a new language in order to move to the new platform. I agree - many of the other improvements are true improvements (extended number of columns and rows, extended length for number of characters in a formula, etc) but the move to 'ribbons' seems to outweigh all the other benefits to many. You are not alone in your disappointment. "Søren Thade Petersen" wrote: I have looked at Excel 2007, and the major thing I miss, is the ability to changed / customize the menus, as it is possible in Excel XP (and 2003 i think). I am a keyboard user of Excel (working with the mouse is much slower, and gives me pain in my arms/hands/shoulders and neck), so I have customized my Excel with a lot of extra functionality in the menus, so that I don´t need the mouse very often. And that is great! And very efficient! In Excel 2007 the menu are gone. The ability to customize them is much poorer. Is MS only thinking of mouse users (and not of number cruchers like me). If MS does not make the menus and customiziation available in Excel 2007, I will stay at Excel 2003 !!! By the way: The extra colums/rows in 2007 is great (I hope this also means that it can handle much lager sheets - with more than 65.000 formulas...). And also I can see that the functionality has also improved. |
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