To want to brutally murder the idiot in charge of hiding all the useful MS Office functions?

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So I have a "chat" tomorrow about a long-term supply booking (part-time which is all I really ever want to look for) and the eternal joy of the observed activity going into a bunch of kids blindly, no idea of numbers/SEN/ability so pitch it at a level and hope... not to mention the kids get increasingly restless and ratty as stranger after stranger is wheeled out to them for their 15 minutes of scrutiny (I'm in the before lunch slot so I'm not holding out much hope).

I'm fucking GOOD with Publisher, brilliant at making resources and things - but we just "upgraded" to Office 2010 and every fucking button I'm looking for is bloody hidden in some kind of Crystal Maze meets Krypton Factor meets The Cube kind of challenge and test of endurance to find the bugger. What should have been a 10 minute job to do is taking bloody hours.

I want to find the fucker who hid all of my buttons and functions and brutally murder him... preferably with a paperclip with annoying wobbly eyes (and yes the creator of that paperclip and the monster who invented PowerPoint and thus sentenced an entire generation of adults to interminable death by PowerPoint talkathons for hours on end can die too). Oh and do you know how nightmarish it is to find FairyTale pictures that haven't been eaten, digested and spat out by the Disney monster?!?!?! That one's another rant though!

I'll go back to finding my "send to back" function now.

but I hate it, YANBU

Powerpoint is brilliant, try creating that crap in word!

Oh god YANBU. It took me about 15 minutes to work out how to add a row in a fecking table in Word today.....why??????

YANBU

I only use mine on a home computer but not knowing where crap is most annoying. Is it too much to ask for a simple File menu like it used to be instead of tabs and options and stuff??

Don't even get me started on the 2010 Outlook... For some reason I have 2 sets of mail boxes because I set up my gmail account in it.

This is why I intend to take advantage of the free MS Office Specialist training that work have on offer. I'm another "click everything until you find what you need" type at the moment.

I cant even work out how to get the bugger on my desk top. I keep logging in to the 60 day trial of MS 7 installed on my laptop.

Word and powerpoint I can cope with. Excel 2007 on the other hand - WHY????
The chart drawing is torturous and takes 5 times a long to put the data in than the 2003 version - where has my lovely chart wizard gone? And why is the "double-click on a chart feature to bring up the properties menu" gone? I could rant all day about the failings of excel actually...

Yes I hate it too! I was good with Office products when I went on maternity leave in 2008. I don't know where anything is now. Grr.

i love the new 2010 office but i did have to have extensive training for it
and i was great at pagemaker once upon a time!

I used to do pagemaker. I treated it like word for a while but everything kept shooting all over the page!

YANBU! We're interviewing for an admin assistant where I work and I was supervising the skills tests on our lovely shiny new Office 2010. It was a great way to find out who gets sweary when stressed

They got rid of the shortcuts. For that alone I would sentence them to millions of years in paperclip hell. I used to be QUICK in Excel. NOw none of the bloody shortcuts are there.

Sods.

So write a bloody macro!

Well I would

If I knew what one of thems was!

This is not the place to explain but look in the help files or any book about Excel and all will be revealed!

As a complete IT geek who's used all sorts of packages over the last 15 years I have to say the ribbon bar is without a doubt the most awful goddamn piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune to use!

I just downloaded the Ubitmenu which was posted on page 1 and thank the poster a thousand times!!!

Well yes you can write a macro (or fart around recustomising the toolbars back how they were, download plugins and guides to where they've hidden everything ...) but it's not very user-friendly to have to! Most Office users just want the software to be easy and intuitive so we can get our work done. We don't want to have to rummage in the bowels of the programme to find the most basic commands.

It's just shit design.

I am SO with you OP. Design-wise, word is one of the glitchiest, crappiest bits of software EVER. You have to spend EONS clicking through layers of dialogue boxes to overide the programmers' pre-programmed specifications for picture positioning, font spec, sizes, line spacing etc. Why the hell would anyone want their picture to jump 8mm to the left or right when you want to position it exactly?

It was developed by someone with the design sensitivity of a baboon.

Andrewofogg Why should I need to when the functionality existed and they TOOK IT AWAY? That's what I'm complaining about, the arsewipes decision to remove useful, heavily used, functionality from a UI.

Have had 2010 for a couple of months now, at first I was in tears with it, literally. But now apart from a few niggles I LOVE IT and would never go back! Persevere, with the help of the guides, and you'll get there. Not the best time for an upgrade for you, with an important interview coming up

The old layout - especially in Word - was a bloated dog's breakfast. There had to be something slicker and better, and this is it. There are plenty of books which have lists of how-to-do-it new style. Get used to it!

:P

I still sometimes have situations where if I could use good old vi - the early Unix editor, I would have the job done in no time. Trying to get the same thing done in modern tools is well-nigh impossible.

OpenOffice is the ultimate crap. You get what you pay for and it is free.

In what way is it crap?

I love openoffice