| Many Computers still run on older Software and need | | | | thinking of. That is all very puzzling. Than on a second |
| certainly updates. Nearly all software can be | | | | look, I realized a round push button with the Microsoft |
| downloaded from the net. On occasion a Microsoft | | | | logo on it in the upper left corner. This push button |
| Word download can take forever, if your connection is | | | | holds the objects of the previous file tab. |
| slow. However it is the download is almost all the time | | | | I was so glad seeing that button. Now I could open |
| the better solution. Even a Microsoft Word download is | | | | and save a file. The next task was to look around to |
| faster than buying the CD. | | | | find some new functions. Generally there are at least |
| However, if you need to be updated, you have to bite | | | | no obvious new abilities in Word. I'm sure there are |
| the bullet. After some experiences, that my Word | | | | new functions, but the powerful abilities were always |
| version was not able anymore to open .doc files, which | | | | simply invisible. What on the other hand is very visible, |
| are nowadays called .docx files, from my business | | | | is the modern looking toolbar. In the past we had a little |
| partners, I decided to make the Microsoft Word | | | | menu box flipping down, when we clicked on a menu |
| download and I updated to Word 2007. After I started | | | | tab, displaying us the different functions to select from. |
| the newly installed Word, I was a little bit shocked. | | | | The exact same commands were also available in the |
| Everything, yes really the whole thing had been altered. | | | | toolbar. The puzzling thing in the previous version was, |
| I was not able to find anything any longer. Even the | | | | that the commands were all double. |
| regular task to open a file was not possible. | | | | It was simple to see after the Word download, that |
| The User Interface was very atypical to the standard | | | | this was different now. All commands are merely |
| windows kind. All large software packages look in | | | | available once and the click on a menu tab |
| some way similar since a long time. We have normal | | | | automatically produces the right toolbar below the |
| elements on the GUI, like a main menu and a toolbar. | | | | menu tabs. The now newly labeled tabs open |
| Especially Microsoft was recognized for consistency. | | | | commands, which are ordered by task instead of type. |
| That means the menu was really always present and | | | | This is a great deal better to understand. |
| generally the menu tabs were named more or less | | | | Upgrading with the Microsoft Word download to |
| equal. I could spot a main menu, but the labels at the | | | | version 2007 was undoubtedly the right choice. My |
| tabs were confusing and unusual. The File tab, which | | | | workflow is much better now after I am used to the |
| was the first in the menu is not present any longer. | | | | new Word technique. The new design and |
| The File tab is imperative, where is it? Maybe I just | | | | appearance was a great idea. |
| have to pinch my nose to open the file I am just | | | | |