MS Office 2010

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I work for a Fortune 500 engineering company. As a consequence, I use MS Office at work. Have since ~'97. My company still uses Office 2003. My wife uses Office 2007 for her business.

I hate Office 2007. Hate the new icon layout. Want menus.

The Good News. MS is offering each employee of my company a free copy of Office 2010.
The Bad News. The layout looks just like Office 2007.

I don't have enough cuss words.
(and trust me, while I seldom use them here on BF, I have a full command of the vernacular.)
 
Thanks, I'll check that out.
Wonder if I can get corporate IT to approve it for us at work.
 
Bob W said:
I'll stop using Office 2000 when they pry it from my cold dead hands. :D
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Till I got this, I'd been continuing to use Office '97 at home.
If push comes to shove, I'll keep using it.
 
knarfeng said:
I work for a Fortune 500 engineering company. As a consequence, I use MS Office at work. Have since ~'97. My company still uses Office 2003. My wife uses Office 2007 for her business.

I hate Office 2007. Hate the new icon layout. Want menus.

The Good News. MS is offering each employee of my company a free copy of Office 2010.
The Bad News. The layout looks just like Office 2007.

I don't have enough cuss words.
(and trust me, while I seldom use them here on BF, I have a full command of the vernacular.)
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I find it precious how many, many times I've been reassured how much easier to use Office 2010 is.

I find this reassurance while looking (yet again) for instructions on how to do some incredibly basic thing that would have taken me 3.04 seconds to do in Office-NOT-2010.
 
While I have to use Office at work, 2003, last time I replaced my PC at home I refused to load MS Office onto it and, instead installed Opensource Office.

Wouldn't use anything else at home.


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I love Office 2003. Use them both at work & at home. I'd appreciate some functions of Office 2007 that 2003 don't have, but I can live without them a won't use 2007 because of their layout. Now we were promised to get Office 2010 at work, I still haven't seen what they look like. Seeing now their layout looks like 2007, I will find out more and problably refuse to upgrade. :grumpy:
 
monger4142 said:
office 2007/2010 are fully compatible with office 2003, your company wont allow you to use 03?
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There are issues there. If a spreadsheet is created by one employee in Office 2007, and that employee uses a function that's new to 2007, the Office 2003 user might not be able to view or work on that spreadsheet properly, because he doesn't have that new feature. Even with the compatibility packs for Office, there are definite version issues. Lots of version issues.

I personally hate Office 2007 with a passion.
 
I've used Office a lot in my former job and use OpenOffice at home. In my current job, OpenOffice is the standard.
 
monger4142 said:
office 2007/2010 are fully compatible with office 2003, your company wont allow you to use 03?
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Well, maybe the company will allow me to keep 2003 if I give them the right arguments, although the compatibility really isn't full in fact... we'll see.

OpenOffice users, is there any fast and easy way to convert the MS Excel macros to Open Office?
 
Filip.J said:
Well, maybe the company will allow me to keep 2003 if I give them the right arguments, although the compatibility really isn't full in fact... we'll see.

OpenOffice users, is there any fast and easy way to convert the MS Excel macros to Open Office?
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One of the "problems" with Openoffice is that it doesn't support many of the more complicated functions of MS Office, especially complex Excel calculations and so on.

At home I don't need complex functionality so it doesn't concern me.


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I like to use some of the work stuff also at home for my tiny files, but honestly, I don't really need it.
 
Our company switched to 2007 a year ago. It's not soo bad anymore. I don't even notice or miss 2003 anymore. If 2010 looks like 2007, I'll be happy.
 
I've been in IT for a while now, and worked for several large companies. We (IT) hear this alot. The new versions are not going to go away and you are going to have to upgrade eventually. Having everyone running a standard suite of software makes it easier to ensure compatibility, easier to support, easier to restore machines and easier to keep secure. You may as well suck it up and learn the new interface. If for no other reason than to not look like a knucklehead if you have to use someone else's / conference room PC.

I use open office on my home PC.
 
My work uses Office 2007 and last year i got 3 licenses for home. Its not that bad after you get over the intital problems. Like most things its just a matter of habit.
 
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