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Office 2007 Ribbion

RhinoRhino TheRhinLOLRegistered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
How do I get rid of the ribbon in office 2007 and get the old menu bar?

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  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Unfortunately, you don't.

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  • DHS OdiumDHS Odium Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Fortunately, you can't get it back. In a week of using it you'll realize how much better the ribbon is, and wonder why you ever wanted a shitty menu bar in the first place. I'm being completely serious, good riddance. Bring on Office 2010! No menu bar in sight.

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  • RhinoRhino TheRhinLOL Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DHS Odium wrote: »
    Fortunately, you can't get it back. In a week of using it you'll realize how much better the ribbon is, and wonder why you ever wanted a shitty menu bar in the first place. I'm being completely serious, good riddance. Bring on Office 2010! No menu bar in sight.

    Eh, that's subjective personal preference. But for us, the highlighting "effects" just kill network bandwidth when running over RDC/VNC (it refreshes the entire screen when the stupid thing does it's little "fade in/out" effects). I'd rather have a well responding toolbar, then a slow ribbon.

    Secondly, how do you use keyboard shortcuts with the ribbon? Alt-F, Alt-O opens a new file in old office; not in new one though.

    Also we have a bunch of [crappy] automated scripts/macros that use the toolbar. We moving those off to automatically generate open office docs; but in the mean time if we can't get rid of the ribbon we'll stay with 2003 and then just move directly to open office and skip 2007.

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  • LaOsLaOs SaskatoonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Rhino wrote: »
    DHS Odium wrote: »
    Fortunately, you can't get it back. In a week of using it you'll realize how much better the ribbon is, and wonder why you ever wanted a shitty menu bar in the first place. I'm being completely serious, good riddance. Bring on Office 2010! No menu bar in sight.

    Eh, that's subjective personal preference. But for us, the highlighting "effects" just kill network bandwidth when running over RDC/VNC (it refreshes the entire screen when the stupid thing does it's little "fade in/out" effects). I'd rather have a well responding toolbar, then a slow ribbon.

    Secondly, how do you use keyboard shortcuts with the ribbon? Alt-F, Alt-O opens a new file in old office; not in new one though.

    Also we have a bunch of [crappy] automated scripts/macros that use the toolbar. We moving those off to automatically generate open office docs; but in the mean time if we can't get rid of the ribbon we'll stay with 2003 and then just move directly to open office and skip 2007.

    You can turn off the highlighting effects... I think. I mean, when it pops up with a little toolbar with font and other options when you highlight text. I think you can turn that off. I also thought you could turn off the "preview" function where, if you have things selected and go to change them (the font of a selected paragraph, for example), it will show you the effects of the change when you mouse over the option before you click it.

    Use Ctrl for your keyboard shortcuts and they work just fine. Alt? Really? Just seems so strange.

    But no, there's no getting rid of the ribbon.

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  • KiplingKipling Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Rhino wrote: »
    DHS Odium wrote: »
    Fortunately, you can't get it back. In a week of using it you'll realize how much better the ribbon is, and wonder why you ever wanted a shitty menu bar in the first place. I'm being completely serious, good riddance. Bring on Office 2010! No menu bar in sight.

    Eh, that's subjective personal preference. But for us, the highlighting "effects" just kill network bandwidth when running over RDC/VNC (it refreshes the entire screen when the stupid thing does it's little "fade in/out" effects). I'd rather have a well responding toolbar, then a slow ribbon.

    Secondly, how do you use keyboard shortcuts with the ribbon? Alt-F, Alt-O opens a new file in old office; not in new one though.

    Also we have a bunch of [crappy] automated scripts/macros that use the toolbar. We moving those off to automatically generate open office docs; but in the mean time if we can't get rid of the ribbon we'll stay with 2003 and then just move directly to open office and skip 2007.

    Disable animations and such in Word Options. I think you mean the box that pops up when you hold it over text - disabling anything that says "Live" in the options should fix that. When you hit Alt, letters pop up - just type letters in sequence then. Word Options would be Alt, F, I. Opening a file would be Alt, F, O.

    It helps to have the "where is this Office 2003 button/menu control on the Ribbon" link handy in the beginning. There are version for Excel and Powerpoint too.

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx

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