To be amazed how hard it is to use Microsoft Word now?

[1jan2020]

I'm not talking about using it to write stuff. But when it comes to saving the document, it's an absolute nightmare! That big black screen, with so many different options for what to do (and none of them very helpful). It's really not obvious how to simply save something to the desktop. It honestly looks like something from the 1980s, so clunky!

I really wish I still had my old version of Word which was so incredibly simple. It also had a nice bright background and saving to the desktop took about two seconds. Why have they made the save screen so complex to use - and why the incredibly basic looking background/graphics?

It does take a bit of time to get used to it, but it is way better in the long run (in my opinion)

100% - having gone through the pain barrier as you do with any new system or computing approach, and the haze of confusion has lifted, the benefits of cloud computing are immense

• ability to co-create a single document. If anyone remembers the nightmare of circulating a document and getting 10 separate versions back, will see the benefit of distributing 1 link to all recipients in an email, ensuring they all have permissions to the SP or Teams site and everyone posting their changes into the source document - Gamechanger!
• ability to modify a document simultaneously. Remember when you went to open a file, only to have the File Locked message pop up "Bill is editing this file, do you want to open it in Read only" 😡 and Bill is on leave today 😡 🥊
• Auto-Save comes into its own when you forget to save, you get distracted, the phone rings, your screen freezes etc or your computer tells you it's going to log you off for a server update, and when you log back on, you think you've lost your edits, but no, Auto-Save has got everything there in the file. Game-changer!
• collaboration / MS teams Chat. Saves massive volumes of emails, and keeps a clear audit trail of conversations in chronological order. My only whinge here is I somethings forget which Teams channel a conversation was in, but the Search capability is pretty good and improving.

Seems like a good place for one of my favourite memes.

I don't recognise any of this. What big black screen?

You just press file, save, desktop?!

Me either.

I just customise Word by choosing my often used actions from All Commands.

Sounds like she's using Dark Mode.

Oh oh, I haven't opened it for awhile as I've been using Google docs.

What on earth did they do to it?

Oh no! Not Access.
Is it completely gone?

Ok I looked at Wikipedia and it still exists. Latest windows release September 19th.
Meltdown avoided.

I can't believe I first used it almost 31 years ago from it's first release!

Sheesh, I'm old lol!

I agree, I've been using Shareporint for 18 months now and it does take a while to get used to it. It does have it's benefits with sharing documents, managing access to links and being able to retrieve older versions.

I do not like working in Excel in 365, so I always open it in Excel app - in fact, I do this with Word and PowerPoint too. Teams - I can't get my head round though, it is collaborative I can see for doing a video link, but I don't know how to make it really work for me.