I haven't seen much discussion in here about Word 97. Everytime I re-read the 
new features, I think "ho hum".  One of our more skilled word processing 
persons just received Office 97 on his new PC at home. He uses Office 95 at 
work and is quite proficient with it. I asked him what he thought about 
Office 97 and he said he hates it.  I asked him why and he specifically 
mentioned the toolbars. He said its very difficult to see what the buttons 
do, since they are grayed out, until you move your cursor over them. He 
specifically mentioned the text justification buttons as being very difficult 
to see.
I think this is one of Microsoft's dumber ideas and cannot see how it came 
out of their useability labs.
It appears to me that Office 97 may be one of the growing trends in software 
-- change for change sake to keep the revenue generation at a constant pace 
from installed base of users.
Bob
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