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RE: Word 2007: Lessons on usability
It's easier? Oh yeah? Ok, tell me about those common-use items those of us not into or feeling the need of insanely complicated graphics but who instead work with words (text) can no longer find --if they exist at all. Here's a good example: I write and edit word text documents constantly, and it is usually very important to know the page count as I work. After a lot of time wasted on the ridiculously unhelpful "help" section and far too much time frittered away in experiementation, I still cannot find any way whatsoever to make the program display show 1) a standard page without the silly 3D top/bottom/side effects to mimic a piece of paper an inch above a flat surface 2) with clear marks of the bottom of the page (ie what in Word 2003 showed by a simple horizontal line with a little space above and below in which text did not appear) 3) and a page count including line/column information on the bottom bar. In other words, standard display for people not mentally caught up in wasting time and memory on mimicry effects while doing simple text documents.
16th Jul 2009

































