Why I Hate the Office 2007 Black Skin December 30, 2006
Posted by ioannusdeverani in Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Windows.trackback
I am using the Vista Transformation Pack and I wanted to make my Office 2007 blend in, so I applied the black colour scheme that it includes. Then I put it back to blue. Here's why:
It is ugly as heck. It is just too much on the eyes. Too black. Yuck.
Back to blue it is….
Errr…. why? I love the black style
I like the black stile too… But, I don’t know, how to change it… Can enyone tall me?
I don’t like New Office at all
Want to install old one…
The black is too black, the blue is too blue and the grey is too grey… Crazy designers!
If you put lots of buttons on the quick access toolbar, some of them disappear into the background because they are black too.
This Office is the worst update ever. Waiting four years for improvements only to have all our customisation options removed!
Jaw meet floor.
Martin Gifford.
stop complaining you asshole whiners
you got to appreciate the sftware that is available to you as I need 80% of you DID NOT BUY the product so SHUT the fuck up and stop complaining…
pitcrap, ur a piece of crap.
roman… out.
RamRod,
Thanks for your support…
A classic case of dinosaurs beating their heads against progress.
Adapt.
This software will make you work faster.
”
If you put lots of buttons on the quick access toolbar, some of them disappear into the background because they are black too.
This Office is the worst update ever. Waiting four years for improvements only to have all our customisation options removed!
Jaw meet floor.
Martin Gifford.
”
– What on earth are you talking about?
“I don’t like New Office at all
Want to install old one…
The black is too black, the blue is too blue and the grey is too grey… Crazy designers!”
Crazy customers! Why oh why is this software being protrayed as a lame duck with comments like this? How can the grey be too grey? How is that even important?
Its lame comments like these which make me really afraid for the user community. I hope none of you wield any decision making power, because i can only see damaging views from these corners.
How the hell do i change the skin, im on windows xp sp2
Well, first color is important, otherwise such options wouldn’t be there. Second, gray is too for gray for me as well.
I generally prefers gray theme, but this gray lack contrast/color variation (I think a part of it has to do with that title bar isn’t colored base on the window theme), whereas the black theme has too much contrast that it hurts my eye. Blue theme gets me tiring after a while.
Although I like the new layout for office in general, just haven’t get used to it yet
Rob wrote: “This software will make you work faster.”
Please explain how 3 or 4 or more clicks is faster than 1 click. When you could customise the menus, you could set up Word to have everything you use just one click away. And you could move menus and toolbars to where you liked them – like right next to your work. The QAT doesn’t cut it.
To understand what I said about the black colours, set up Word with the black theme. Then put the QAT at the top of the screen. Then fill it with buttons, and you will see some of the buttons are hard to see because they are black too.
Nevertheless, if you like Office 2007, then I’m glad for you.
Strike 1 – The low contrast colur schemes mean that people with limited vision really struggle. we have one such person in our office.
Strike 2 – The ribbon takes up far too much space on my small widescreen laptop leaving me with insufficient work space. No, I don’t want the option to hide it and then bring it back, I want it smaller.
Strike 3 – The new menu/ribbon structure is counter-intuitive to the way I have worked for the past 12 years – and I can’t change it
Strike 4 – (and Office 07 is already on the way back to the shed) you can’t customise it. the QUT is a sop that just isn’t good enough. not enough space, not enough options
Strike 5 – My old customisations and short cuts don’t work any more and Office wants to re-assign my shortcut keys when I assign them (try it and see).
Strike 6 – I hate the way it handles styles. Especially tables and fonts.
I’ve now embarked on customising Open Office to do all the things we did with Office XP. I’d rather go open office than pay MicroStupid any more of my hard earned.
After 6 months of frustration and reduced productivity, I am un-installing office 2007 professional and re-installing office xp professional. Microsoft no longer follows good GUI design practices with too many colors, too many fonts, too many large icons (rather, too many pictures) and very poorly placed commands within a non-productive menu system. Instead they have created GUIs that were meant for those who can’t remember where they saved their pictures or for those who can’t navigate through simple menus. – I want my money back.
a rant about a skin? what a loser
I just had Office 2007 forceably installed on my computer at work. I had fought the installation messages even to the point where I did a hard shut down when the software attempted to install – however, all of my attempts finally failed when I got stuck in a long meeting and returned to find that my computer had o2007 installed much to my horror. I echo the sentiments of everyone who says that the GUI design is dreadful. I consider myself a highly efficient and quick user of powerpoint (since my job involves lots of ppt engineering) however this version makes you want to pull your hair out. Things that used to be done with only one click now require 2 and even more clicks. Now, for the people who say that this is a small price to pay for more more “sensible” or “intuitive” design miss the price in ergonomics that my finger has to endure with more clicks and wrist movements to get to spatially inefficient menu locations. I seriously doubt that Microsoft did any real GUI design that considered the additional cognitive loading and inefficiencies from a superficial reorganization of their menus. For me, the core functionality and behavior is still there, it seems that they just decided to unilaterally redefine the mental model for millions of users and hence reduce everybody’s workplace efficiency. Only people who don’t use short cuts and advanced features probably won’t mind having to learn how to navigate to new button locations or icons since this is the way that a basic user works anyways.
you dumbasses probably dont even know how to use 07, so stfu morons and go buy an Office 07 for dummies, and quit complaining, its fine the way it is, you got a problem? shove it. I suggest you worry about something more than something as pointless as a program that half of you probly didnt buy to begin with.
I don’t like the black one that much, but i still like it! Its better than the office xp style by far!!!!!
The GUI interface is crap. The ribbon is annoying and multiple clicks for doing single click tasks like in old versions – does not make sense. Back to the drawing board. The programmers were way to excited about images and icons. A fluent user of Office products does not need all these stoopid graphics. Advise for the developers: ditch the graphics and get back to simple basic navigation. If you need a picture to tell you the function – you must not be able to read – so what is the point of using the software.