Hello Bob!
 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 skilled
 BD> word processing persons just received Office 97 on his new PC at home.
 BD> He uses Office 95 at work and is quite proficient with it. I asked him
 BD> what he thought about Office 97 and he said he hates it.
Hmm. I love it...Loads of handy things...
 BD>   I asked him
 BD> why and he specifically mentioned the toolbars. He said its very
 BD> difficult to see what the buttons do, since they are grayed out, until
 BD> you move your cursor over them. He specifically mentioned the text
 BD> justification buttons as being very difficult to see.
A bit exaggerated maybe, but the toolbars have indeed been changed to the 
internet explorer 3.0 model. They're quite readable with enough colour depth 
(16-bit or more).
 BD> I think this is one of Microsoft's dumber ideas and cannot see how it
 BD> came out of their useability labs.
They should have left a choice for the new and old style, I agree.
 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 at a
 BD> constant pace from installed base of users.
Office 97 is one hell of a useful program with lots of nice features and 
shortcuts.
All the best,
Stefan
Internet: Stefan.Assmann@club.innet.be
Homepage 1: http://www.stefan95.net
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