Is There A Way To Change The Look And Feel Of Ms Office 2010 To Be Familar As 2007?

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Is There A Way To Change The Look And Feel Of Ms Office 2010 To Be Familar As 2007?

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I really dislike - even HATE ! ! - the MS Word interface. I previously used 2010 with a former employer and really disliked it enough that I got the employer to allow me to use 2007 - which has an interface that goes back 20 or 30 years. The new interface is not intuitive ! ! ! !

Some software companies have acknowledged this problem when they listen to one of their rocket scientist programmers and allowed them to make all kinds of changes to a software program that they rarely use - THEY ONLY WRITE THE PROGRAM - so some - LIKE THE WINDOWS 7 INTERFACE - that

It this a possibility for MS Office or at least MS WORD ? ? ?

Since I have only installed Office 2010 last night and realized what problems I had this morning when I went to do a resume, I realized that I am probably not alone and that MS probably has a forum or solution to this problem - otherwise I will dig out my old disks for 2007 - using them mostly with only an occasional journey to the disorienting land of 2010.

DARRELL HENRY

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I suspect you mean the 2003 (and earlier) "menu" vs the 2007/2010 "ribbon" user interfaces. Because the 2007 and 2010 ribbons are virtually identical.

So, if your question is more like "can we revert to the menu system in Office 2007/2010" the answer is ... kinda.

You can get freeware and cheap (under $100) "addons" that will add a "Menu Tab" that mostly recreates the menu interface within the ribbon.

Menu Tab addins

http://www.addintools.com/english/menuword/default.htm - menu addin 2007 only, free trial

http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/ (free fro private use or 0.65 Eur per user & per language!!!)

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=799&zoneid=12 – a review of UBitMenu

http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=862867&promo=100511 – Classic Menu for Office 2007 ($30)

http://www.addictivetips.com/microsoft-office/add-classic-menu-in-office-2010/

http://download.cnet.com/Classic-Menu-for-Office-2007/3000-18483_4-10637184.html

http://www.obutilities.com/classicmenu/ - a COM add-in that displays the classic menus and toolbars in Microsoft® Excel® ,Microsoft® Word and Microsoft® PowerPoint® (Office 2007 and 2010).

http://www.indelibleink.com/WordMenu.html - Indelible Ink Word Menu addin

http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=847883&promo=100511 – Ribbon Customizer for Office 2007 ($40)

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm Customizing the Office 2007 user interface. Info about 2 purchased addins, Ribbon Customizer™ and ToolbarToggle™ add-ins for Office 2007. They also have limited functionality trial versions

http://accmsoft.com/office-2007/classic-style-menus-toolbars/ - A powerful and easy-to-use add-in for showing the classic menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003 on Ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010.

http://www.indelibleink.com/WordMenu.html - Free version of 2003 menu addin. There are several different install options, quite cool. Installed cleanly on my admin ID, but not in my user ID. Installs a template in the C:\users\USERID\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP folder. WordMenus.dot is the 2003 menu alone. WordMenu.dot is the 2003 menu with the standard toolbar. WordMenusTB is the vertical orientated 2003 menu. It looks like this

http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=927295 - Saavvii for Microsoft Word 2000, free to try

http://www.toolbartoggle.com/Contact.aspx - ToolbarToggle ($20) - 2 modes, full toggle replacement for Ribbon or Adds new tab to ribbon. Allows customization of menu portion, adding macros using right click “customize togglebar” feature, not Word customize. I haven’t tried it, but if it lives up to propaganda it looks best yet**. 5 day free trial.**

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Stefan Blom 341K MVP Volunteer Moderator

To display the Paragraph dialog box you can make use of the right-click (context) menu, which has been around for a while. Or you can click the dialog launcher button (the little arrow on the bottom right) of the Paragraph group on the Page Layout tab.

To change the default format, do the following: Create a new, blank document (for example by pressing Ctrl+N). In the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), click the Manage Styles button. On the Set Defaults tab, make the desired changes. In particular, make sure the Line Spacing is set to "Single" and that Spacing Before and After are both set to zero. When you are done, select "New documents based on this template" and click OK.

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Stefan - thanks for the input. I was doing a cut and paste of a prospective employer's addrss from a web site into an existing resume. When I did this - each line was like double spaced and attempting to find the FORMAT - PARAGRAPH - and SELECTING SINGLE LINE. is just not easy to find in the newer 2010 software. Suggestions or is there ANOTHER TEACHING PROGRAM for the software?

The big move from the old DOS environment into WINDOWS was a big move. You rarely needed to pull out the thick manual to do something was like this because of the pull down menus and GUI style. Its like MS Office 2010 went backwards.

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Stefan Blom 341K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Office 2010 and 2007 are rather similar. If you want to use the classic menu system (File, Edit, etc.) you'd have to go back to Office 2003. In the long run, getting used to the new ribbon interface may be easier.

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