Is it possible to have Word 2003 and Word 2007 running side-by-side?
Not on my work computer. They removed Office 2003.
I’ve been on Office 2007 for several months now at work and 99% of the time I’m ok with it. I don’t like the ribbon, but I survive it.
What’s pissing me off is powerpoint - I do a lot of fairly simple slide shows for training purposes and then I present those. You have to be very careful with 2007, because it will skip slides while in presentation mode - not consistently, but I’ll switch slides and be 2 slides on from where I was supposed to be. I craft my presentations pretty carefully, use images to show concepts, and time things carefully, so one not showing can be problematic.
There’s a customizable menu option just to the right of the menu icon in the upper left corner. I’m not at my work machine so I can’t tell you how to do it but you can certainly customize a mni-ribbon with your File Save, File Open, Print, Spellcheck, Whatever-the-hell-you-want Commands.
YES.
That stupid menu in the upper-left hand corner causes too much damn trouble. If you’ve used Vista then you realize it’s a clicky button because it looks like the new Start Menu button, but you’ve never used Vista, you never know what the hell it is. Everyone in my office thought it was just a shiiiiiny logo. Finding out it was a menu revolutionized my workplace.
I’ve pretty much gotten used to it myself, but I’m a librarian in the smallest-staffed department with 19 patron computers, all of which now have Office 2007. Nobody, yet NOBODY, can figure out that everything’s hidden in the circle without me telling them.
Also, “Remove Space After Paragraph.” AAAAARGH.
But for myself, I’ve gotten used to its little quirks. I’ve been writing some training materials for it for the rest of the department, which will hopefully help everyone else.
I seem to recall that it is - we were trialing Office 2007 at my last place of employment just before I left (I wonder if they converted everyone?) and I seem to recall keeping Access 2003 (at least) so I didn’t need to re-learn that application in the last two weeks of my employment…
Grim
P.S. A bit of googling seems to show that it is possible, but not without problems…
It’s an option (which btw Word has too, neener neener), just take it off.
Points 2 and 4 are your 'puter’s fault, SpazCat .
Since then my computer’s been rebuilt and I have Word 03 again so all is well in Whoville.
You absolutely can insert the number of pages. If you’ve got an existing footer already, click on it so that’s what you are editing. In the menu area of your screen, a new tab will pop up - Header/Footer Design, with several different sections. Under “Insert”, you will see an option for “Quick Parts”. One of the suboptions there is “Field”. You can then select page # and/or a number of different things.
I can understand that this is a departure from “the way we’ve always done it”. I can further understand how “Quick Parts” might not have been the best name. But that being said, it seems that there is quite a bit of logic to the process:
-Select the Footer
-Select the menu section that deals with the Footer
-Choose what you want to do to the Footer (insert something)
-Specify what exactly it is you want to insert.
Learning curve aside, I don’t see what the big uproar is about…
Thanks very much for the explanation. I just tried it out, and it worked fine.
Now I’m wondering why the stupid help entry didn’t see fit to mention the existence of the “Quick Parts” tab.
FWIW, I was in a real hurry on Friday to type up an agenda, was incredibly frustrated that I couldn’t find any of the commands, and was even more frustrated with the “help” provided by the program.
I’ll agree with you there. For one, as I mentioned, “Quick Parts” is a fairly non-intuitive designation. Also, from checking the help entry - it is possible to ultimately get to the information I mentioned; however, I have to agree, it’s a bit of a pain in the hindquarters to do so. Anyway, glad I could help you do what you were trying to do…
Hey all, for what it’s worth, I’ve opened a separate thread for anyone that wants help with specific MS Office 2007 questions…
Seriously? No other questions? For all the people who complain about Office 2007, this strikes me as a decided gap in those who want to learn how to use the thing…
I appreciate the offer. If I have any other issues that I can’t figure out, I’ll post them to your thread.
With respect to my original rant, my main issue was that I already knew how to use MS Word. With this new version, I don’t. It’s something that I have to take the time to learn. IMHO, this is a stupid way for a company to deal with its users.
My company is having to give training for employees to learn to use the new Office 2007. What a waste of time and resources.
You know, if a car manufacturer came out with a new car model with totally different controls that required instruction for formerly proficient users to learn how to operate, nobody would buy it. It’s only because Microsoft has a monopoly on the office software environment that people put up with this crap.
Yes. In planning for doing a lot of training for the users at my hospital i installed 2003 and then 2007 on 30 laptops. When 2007 detects 2003 during install select the option to “Keep previous versions.”
However, if you need to switch back and forth between 2003/2007 then the suite has to “reinstall” itself, rather “reinitialize” i guess would be a better way of saying it? Depending on your system it shouldn’t take more than a minute. The laptops i did can switch back and forth in a few seconds but they are more like high powered portable workstations.
<3 Office 2007 
Yep, feel free.
But, in terms of your frustration with the differences between 2003 and 2007, I do feel your pain, especially in a situation where you have to get something accomplished very quickly.