Comments on: Office 2007 - can we decide on a UI document model, please? http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/ General musings and programming stuff Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Lee http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-217899 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:01:38 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-217899 Dear Microsoft, It's called Windows. Note the s at the end, which signifies plurality. Screwing us down to one window is not what Windows (again, note the s) users want. I.E. tabs are stupid for the same reason. I paid for Windows, plural, and I want windows, plural, in Excel! Just to be clear: 1. Multiple workbooks in a single Excel window will not do; that is still 1 window 2. Multiple Taskbar buttons (1 per each multiple workbook in a single Excel window) will not do; that is still 1 window Sick and tired of being screwed down, Lee Dear Microsoft,

It’s called Windows. Note the s at the end, which signifies plurality.
******** us down to one window is not what Windows (again, note the s) users
want. I.E. tabs are stupid for the same reason. I paid for Windows, plural,
and I want windows, plural, in Excel!

Just to be clear:
1. Multiple workbooks in a single Excel window will not do; that is still 1
window
2. Multiple Taskbar buttons (1 per each multiple workbook in a single Excel
window) will not do; that is still 1 window

Sick and tired of being screwed down,
Lee

]]> by: Jordan http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-66516 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:19:53 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-66516 I just installed Office 2007 Ultimate with the specific hopes of finding an SDI mode in Excel. Damnit all. I just installed Office 2007 Ultimate with the specific hopes of finding an SDI mode in Excel. Damnit all.

]]> by: C. Moya http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-22688 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:04:48 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/05/30/office-2007-can-we-decide-on-a-ui-document-model-please/#comment-22688 Yeah. This has been a longstanding gripe and I find unfathamable that it isn't addressed in Office 2007. Not only is it frustratingly unintuitive, it's a serious productivity killer. For instance, opening up new documents in Excel is impossible while a dialog is open or it's otherwise busy (such as running a time-consuming macro). We have Excel macros that pour through a spreadsheet and lookup things in a database that may take 20 minutes.... my users complain that Excel (all their open documents) are innaccessible during this time!!! I really wish all Office apps (including Word) implemented a Tabbed document Interface (like Access 2007 seems to have and FrontPage has today). But, I'd settle for all of them to have Word's True-SDI. Yeah. This has been a longstanding gripe and I find unfathamable that it isn’t addressed in Office 2007.

Not only is it frustratingly unintuitive, it’s a serious productivity killer. For instance, opening up new documents in Excel is impossible while a dialog is open or it’s otherwise busy (such as running a time-consuming macro). We have Excel macros that pour through a spreadsheet and lookup things in a database that may take 20 minutes…. my users complain that Excel (all their open documents) are innaccessible during this time!!!

I really wish all Office apps (including Word) implemented a Tabbed document Interface (like Access 2007 seems to have and FrontPage has today). But, I’d settle for all of them to have Word’s True-SDI.

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