Microsoft: Office 12 to be more in your face

[derajfast]

please dont kill me......but i always thought the one great thing about microsoft was office...i just think that it is a very good and intuitive program...sure its a little cluttered with word...but i excel is fantastic as ais powerpoint....word is little confusing.....but i think this looks pretty awful and even more confusing

 

[slimflem]

* It looks like you're typing classified government documents, do you want me to leak them onto the Internet using a Windows security flaw?

....good one.

 

[iMeowbot]

It's not Clippy II. All they're really doing is highlighting interface features that you're most likely going to want next. Their last attempt, going so far as to hide less-common menu options, was pure evil and needed replacing.

 

[kaylee]

a few comics about "Binky" the paperclip:

http://www.ubersoft.net/d/19991120.html
http://www.ubersoft.net/d/20010423.html
http://www.ubersoft.net/d/20020305.html

 

[yg17]

Why cant MS do pro users a favor and make an option to turn off every single auto formatting, wizard, talking paperclip, ect? Sure, some of that crap is great for grandma, but a lot of people, myself included, absolutley hate auto formatting and would love nothing more than Word to be Notepad with the ability to change fonts and double space things.

 

[ibook30]

"It looks like you are typing code, would you like to steal some from :
Apple
Sun
Someone more talented than you .... "

 

[badmofo9000]

Why cant MS do pro users a favor and make an option to turn off every single auto formatting, wizard, talking paperclip, ect? Sure, some of that crap is great for grandma, but a lot of people, myself included, absolutley hate auto formatting and would love nothing more than Word to be Notepad with the ability to change fonts and double space things.

Use wordpad, the program that does just that. It is between the cluttered word and the plain old notepad.