Want to upgrade to Office 2007, but will it change all my menus, e

I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007, but I don't
want it to change all my settings. For example, in Outlook I have all my
FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within CALENDAR customized (colors and label
names), my toolbars in Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will
these all be changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
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Thank you.

tjsmags wrote:
> I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007, but I don't
> want it to change all my settings. For example, in Outlook I have all my
> FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within CALENDAR customized (colors and label
> names), my toolbars in Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will
> these all be changed back to the default once I upgrade?????

Just curious, why do you want to get rid of a perfectly good office
suite for one that millions are complaining about?

Alias

Millions? Care to provide statistics?

As for the OP, your calendar categories will be upgraded to allow for countless categories with many more assigned colors unlike Outlook 2002/3 with limited colors and categories.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Alias asked:

| tjsmags wrote:
|| I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007,
|| but I don't want it to change all my settings. For example, in
|| Outlook I have all my FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within
|| CALENDAR customized (colors and label names), my toolbars in
|| Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will these all be
|| changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
|
| Just curious, why do you want to get rid of a perfectly good office
| suite for one that millions are complaining about?
|
| Alias

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
> Millions? Care to provide statistics?

You don't read this group and how people are just madly in love with the
ribbon?

Alias
>
> As for the OP, your calendar categories will be upgraded to allow for countless categories with many more assigned colors unlike Outlook 2002/3 with limited colors and categories.
>
>
> --�
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
>
>
> After furious head scratching, Alias asked:
>
> | tjsmags wrote:
> || I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007,
> || but I don't want it to change all my settings. For example, in
> || Outlook I have all my FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within
> || CALENDAR customized (colors and label names), my toolbars in
> || Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will these all be
> || changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
> |
> | Just curious, why do you want to get rid of a perfectly good office
> | suite for one that millions are complaining about?
> |
> | Alias

"tjsmags" <tjsmags@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:137E2E06-77DD-4526-A46F-07A7FD2D32E0@microsoft.com...
>I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007, but I
>don't
> want it to change all my settings. For example, in Outlook I have all my
> FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within CALENDAR customized (colors and
> label
> names), my toolbars in Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc.
> Will
> these all be changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
> --
> Thank you.
>


Toolbars are dramatically changed. The Ribbon allows for no customisation,
BUT is (IMHO), with the Quick Access Toolbar which IS customizable, more
intuitive in the long-term than the old style menus....

Crap! I had no idea people did NOT like it. Tell me where and what to read!
What is 'ribbon'...the new name for the toolbar?
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Thank you.



"Alias" wrote:

> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
> > Millions? Care to provide statistics?
>
> You don't read this group and how people are just madly in love with the
> ribbon?
>
> Alias
> >
> > As for the OP, your calendar categories will be upgraded to allow for countless categories with many more assigned colors unlike Outlook 2002/3 with limited colors and categories.
> >
> >
> > --�
> > Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> >
> > Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> > How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> >
> >
> > After furious head scratching, Alias asked:
> >
> > | tjsmags wrote:
> > || I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007,
> > || but I don't want it to change all my settings. For example, in
> > || Outlook I have all my FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within
> > || CALENDAR customized (colors and label names), my toolbars in
> > || Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will these all be
> > || changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
> > |
> > | Just curious, why do you want to get rid of a perfectly good office
> > | suite for one that millions are complaining about?
> > |
> > | Alias
>

Hi Gordon,

The Ribbon can be customized, the right click menus can be customized, task panes that float can be added, just not through the User
Interface

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<<"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:OzH52qFDJHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Toolbars are dramatically changed. The Ribbon allows for no customisation,
BUT is (IMHO), with the Quick Access Toolbar which IS customizable, more
intuitive in the long-term than the old style menus.... <<
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

tjsmags, there are no more menus, as you know them, in Office 2007. You may
want to download a trial version from the MS site and/or look at the various
screenshots of the new Ribbon UI. Your menu customizations will be history
once you install Office 2007.

I used the trial version for a few weeks. I primarily use Excel. It had a
tendency to crash randomly. I found the new UI to be illogical, slow and
counter productive. For these two reasons, I opted not to shell out more $$$s
to MS and instead reverted to Office 2003. Voila! No more crashes and
productivity was back to normal.

Here's a survey of Excel users re the Ribbon UI.
http://www.exceluser.com/explore/sur...ey-results.htm

An excerpt from the above:
"You can read comments about the Ribbon, both good and bad, in the columns
at the right. Because I received many more negative comments than positive
ones, I included all positive comments but not all negative ones."

hth!

-- Gemini

"tjsmags" wrote:

> I have Office 2003 right now. I'm considering upgrading to 2007, but I don't
> want it to change all my settings. For example, in Outlook I have all my
> FLAGS customized, I have LABELS within CALENDAR customized (colors and label
> names), my toolbars in Word/Excel are set up the way I want them, etc. Will
> these all be changed back to the default once I upgrade?????
> --
> Thank you.
>

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message news:e6hDG0JDJHA.232@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Gordon,
>
> The Ribbon can be customized,

Please tell me how then, because AFAIK it cannot.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message news:e6hDG0JDJHA.232@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Gordon,
>
> The Ribbon can be customized,

A quote from Office 2007 help: (my emphasis)

"The Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task. Commands are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs. Because each tab relates to a type of activity, such as writing or laying out a page, it is not possible to customize the Ribbon without using XML and programming code."