Bob Davis (1:106/114) wrote to All at 09:33 on 01 Mar 1997:
 BD> I haven't seen much discussion in here about Word 97. Everytime I
 BD> re-read the new features, I think "ho hum".  One of our more
 BD> skilled word processing persons just received Office 97 on his new
 BD> PC at home. He uses Office 95 at work and is quite proficient with
 BD> it. I asked him what he thought about Office 97 and he said he
 BD> hates it.  I asked him why and he specifically mentioned the
 BD> toolbars. He said its very difficult to see what the buttons do,
 BD> since they are grayed out, until you move your cursor over them. He
 BD> specifically mentioned the text justification buttons as being very
 BD> difficult to see.
What kind of video is he using?  How many colours?
 BD> I think this is one of Microsoft's dumber ideas and cannot see how
 BD> it came out of their useability labs.
I'd like to see the effect before I believe it.
 BD> It appears to me that Office 97 may be one of the growing trends in
 BD> software -- change for change sake to keep the revenue generation
 BD> at a constant pace from installed base of users.
I do not yet have my copy of Office 97 but I hear good things about its 
integration from people who do not believe in change for change's sake.  When 
I install it, I'll report back.
Take care,
Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.yk.ca)
Moderator CAN_SYSLAW 
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