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Re: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7
Subject:Re: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7 From:Lisa G Wright <writingweb -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 May 2012 14:48:31 -0500
Gene, that is pretty funny! I am lucky in that I no longer have to have a
bunch of different versions of things for what I work on now. I just live
in the moment with what's set up on my work computer, so the differences
with the other versions don't mean a lot in my world. The differences I DID
note from version to version are minor and specific to individual
functions, so I'm not wedded to one particular UI overall.
Lisa
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> I currently have one XP32 system, two XP64 systems, one Win7-32 system and
> another running the Win8-64 developer beta. Office 2000, 2003, 2007 and
> 2010 are installed. I jump back and forth between all, and don't find the
> switch terribly confusing, but I'm not doing any actual document production
> in 2010 that requires advanced features. On 2007 and 2010, you have a
> choice of which UI you want to use, and the "best" one is the one you
> prefer.
>
> It strikes me as just plain goofy to be arguing over UIs in the versions
> of Word that actually give you the option of using your choice of UIs.
>
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