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"Were'nt Earlier versions (pre 2000) MDI ? till progress set in for
2000.."
There are actually two stpuid "innovations" in Office 2000. The first was
the collapsable menus. What a royal pain to have to exapnd you're menus
every time you run the app. For those who like it (the minority I've talked
to) the feature should be an option or the last setting should be
remembered. Really, it should be an option (in the same place in every app
so it's easy to find) in all office apps. Turn it on and off. I would
definitely turn it OFF!
The seocnd one is this one, SDI/MDI issue. I hate that one too. It
clutters the task bar and despite nuerous features that try to give you a
fast and easy way to identify which SDI document is the one you're looking
for, you can never quite tell. And forget using Alt-tab to select your
program with so many documents it's imposssible. With alt tab you can't
even tell which word document is the one you want. At least on the task
bar, they attempted to clue you in but it still is terrible.
Office 97 was better in this respect. They should roll out those two
features.
Microsoft makes good software generally, but this is Microsoft at it's
worse -- throwing in features for the sake of change. They do it in windows
and they're doing it in office. It's as if they have a committee devoted to
ways to change office just to make it different. If those two features
really passed usability testing with flying colors I'd be really surprised.
They were probably some project manager's pet idea who forced them in with
no usability testing whatsoever. No one in MSFT actually dare criticize it
because it was their job that was at stake.
But who can blame them. Afterall, if something wasn't different, visibly
different, why would people spend the money to upgrade?
-----Original Message-----
From: CnC [mailto:carlandchristel@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 10:48 PM
To: Judy Kettenhofen
Cc: JerryWar; Rod.Grisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Chris Cheatham';
'Omega List'
Subject: Re[2]: off topic - ms word
Hello Judy,
Monday, December 31, 2001, 7:12:45 PM, you wrote:
JK> I can hear the poor QA Engineer on msw2000 whose arguments
JK> fell on deaf ears. Instead, ms actually had to publish the
JK> software to believe that poor person.
JK> Judy
JK> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, JerryWar wrote:
JK> #Amazing, absolutely correct. I never noticed that before.
JK> #
JK> #Jerry
JK> #
#>> -----Original Message-----
#>> From: J. Rodney Grisham [mailto:Rod.Grisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
#>> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:58 PM
#>> To: Chris Cheatham
#>> Cc: Omega List
#>> Subject: Re: off topic - ms word
#>>
#>>
#>> Chris Cheatham wrote:
#>>
#>> > This is probably a dumb question...when I open multiple
#>> files at the same
#>> > time in ms word 2000, each file gets opened in a separate
#>> copy of word,
#>> > instead of as a window in one copy like it used to be.
#>>
#>> Sort of a technicality, but it is only one instance of Word. It's
#>> just that every doc. gets its own window.
#>>
#>> > With a dozen files
#>> > open it is a total pain. Anyone know if there is a way to fix this?
#>>
#>> There is no way in 2000; it is a Single Document Interface (SDI)
#>> program only. MSW 2002 offers the option of either SDI or MDI
#>> - M for multiple.
#>>
#>> Below there is a blurb from the web.
#>>
#>> Rod
#>>
#>> +++++++++++++++++
#>>
#>> When Microsoft introduced Office 2000, one of the more controversial
#>> features was that Word and Excel were changed from Multiple Document
#>> Interface (MDI) applications, where each document window was
#>> contained inside the parent application window, to Single Document
#>> Interface (SDI) applications, where each document occupied its own
#>> window. A side effect of an SDI application is that each document
#>> also gets its own button on the Windows taskbar, and you can easily
#>> switch between documents using the standard ALT+TAB key combination.
#>> However, some users found this new interface to be problematic,
#>> because multiple Word documents could quickly clutter the taskbar.
#>> In Word 2002, you can now optionally choose to use MDI mode again
#>> if you're so inclined.
#>>
JK> #
JK> #
Were'nt Earlier versions (pre 2000) MDI ? till progress set in for
2000..
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Best regards,
CnC mailto:carlandchristel@xxxxxxxxx
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