New Office for Windows

[Jenda]

I do all my typing in a program not much more complex than notepad.

Then I format/spell check it.

I find this twice as productive, all the fancy buttons and the autoformating is a pain in the ass and if you do it afterwards you'll do it twice as fast because you don't waste as much time mucking around while you're typing it.

 Sounds reasonable. I really hate the autoformatting crap.

[Aloone_Jonez]

You can turn all of that shit off you know.

[Refalm]

I do all my typing in a program not much more complex than notepad.

Then I format/spell check it.

Vim 7 is going to include a spellings checker. If it's out, you're going to be thrilled, I'm sure of it

[piratePenguin]

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[sledz41]

I agree the new beta office is terrible, the colour scheme for me is bad and the over done amount of buttons makes it look simply ugly.

[dmcfarland]

Thats one ass ugly interface, and Im sure what ever comes out will be bloated and buggy as hell. It really bummed me out when WP and Lotus allowed themselves to become irrelevent. I think WP 6x and lotus are still better than anything M$ has put out.
Im sure this new version of office is going to take up even more HD space and be a bigger pain in the ass than Oriffice 2003. I prefer Open Office. Hopefully it will continue to improve.

[MarathoN]

Office 2000 is pretty good, I reckon that's the best Office version to date, just like Windows 2000 is the best Windows OS to date.

[dmcfarland]

I think WP and Lotus were the best products of their class.

[worker201]

Word Perfect did in fact rock.  And Quattro, Corel's spreadsheet, was light years ahead of Excel.  Ah, the good old days.

[dmcfarland]

So was lotus 123 for DOS with wysiswyg, and windows 3.1. Excel blow turds.