> The Word 2007 team has spent a lot of time defending the changes to the
> interface, but I share your sentiments.

> They took a familiar interface, something that people learned and got used
> to over many years, and they simply took this investment of billions of
> user-hours, and threw it out of the window. IMO, the designers of the new
> interface are either very dumb, or very arrogant.

Worse - they stole familiar and frequently used key sequences and made them 
perform quite different and irrevocable actions - possibly without warning.
One example:  Alt-F V used to preview a page before printing. Now it takes a 
document in old format and converts it to the "latest" format with possible 
severe alterations and no automatic way back. It's a 3 way race between 
whether they are deliberately malicious or just very very very stupid, or 
both.

Interestingly, some older Word formats cannot be read by the latest 
version(2) without an add in converter. In my one attempt to download this 
when prompted it took a long while [tm], then did and install, then failed 
to work anyway. It's hard to believe that these people looked at being at 
risk of ruling the world not too long ago.


   R

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