For reasons that have nothing to do with speed, file format or anything "serious," I hate it.
When you create a new paragraph in Word, it now skips a line and a half. Why? Word has never done this before, but now it's making my documents look like a web-page? This is a rather serious problem for me because I teach college freshmen, and I require papers by the "page-length." I've had to convert all of my assignments to word counts because Word screws with the page count by adding in all this wasted space.
And where's my right-click "Insert" menu? Who was that harming?
The mac version doesn't have this problem, but on the PC there's no default icon for "print." Not a big deal, you add it to your toolbar, but the only time I print from a PC is in a computer lab on campus. Can't add to the toolbar there. Thankfully, CTRL-P still works. But I saw a student the other day have to get up and ask for help because she couldn't figure out how to print. So I tell her, well, you click that big circular flashing thing on the top left. Now that makes sense...
I also hate it because I had all of these assignments written up explaining how to do things in Word that I now have to redo because the menu structures are so vastly different.
I don't mind new menu structures, as long as they are MORE intuitive. Sure, maybe MSWord made some dumb menu choices back in 1991, but here we are a quarter-century later and those dumb choices are what we call "standards." Why change them? Computers make things too easy sometimes. The Dewey decimal system is full of bad choices, too, but no one's moving that many books around. A few icons and menu choices, though? Sure, we'll go bury those back in some sub-menu you've never thought of before. And we'll change all the key-strokes, too. Just for fun.
And we'll remove macro's, after all, who uses those? Oh, you've had the same macro for 15 years? Tied to the same keystroke? Well, not anymore! Have fun!
Anyway, some might think these aren't legitimate complaints, but I've been using MSWord since it was on a blue screen with a blinking, square, white cursor and everything was keystroke this, F2-that, etc. This should be the most familiar and comfortable program out there, and instead it's frustrating and full of poor decisions. Seriously, why skip that extra line? Isn't that why we indent new paragraphs?
