Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Oct 28 17:48:48 CDT 2011
Hear, Hear! -- Stuart On 28 Oct 2011 at 10:26, jwcolby wrote: > Mark, > > I fall in the no tolerance category. I tend to love new stuff, but I > also have to make a living and when things just cripple my > productivity I move slowly. When bugs cripple my productivity I just > wait for the bugs to go away before I go there. When they don't fix > the bugs I don't go there at all. > > Office 2000 was a huge rewrite of 97, but buggy. Office 2002 (XP) was > just a massive bug fix. Office 2003 was another massive bug fix. > Office 2007 was a massive bug injection. Office 2010 was another > massive bug injection. > > Say what you want but (like Windows XP) Office 2003 was the most > stable version of the product they ever released. IMHO Windows 2007 > has achieved that "very stable" status and I am now moving all my > machines to Windows 2007. > > IMHO Office 2007 has not reached that status. They never fixed the > bugs before they released Office 2010, and Office 2010 added new bugs > on top of the bugs introduced (and not fixed) in Office 2007. > > So I wait. For development Office 2003 is rock solid and stable and > (mostly) just runs under Office 2007. I actually do use Office 2007 > runtime because it gives me "free license" to distribute the app, but > I do the dev under Office 2003 and then just test under Office 2007. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 10/28/2011 9:06 AM, Mark Simms wrote: > > John - there are hot-keys. In fact in my applications, I try to > > establish them for the users...however, it's tricky because some > > appear to be reserved. What's really needed is a lot more > > documentation...of course. The RibbonX book was good, but it still > > (after 800+ pages !) was not enough for me. The problem is: there's > > so very few Access developers remaining that use 2007, and even less > > that use 2010. In fact, this post: > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/accessdev/thread/422e15f1 > > -9a44-4e 0c-bd1c-9b878ac12f06 seems to indicate that those trying > > 2010, are going back to 2003 !! Me ? I love the challenge of > > "working around" the bugs. Others ?:NO TOLERANCE. > > > >> One big issue for me is the mouse centric nature of the ribbon. We > >> learn and learn and learn to use the keyboard. Never lift your > >> hands from the keyboard. Hot keys and menus accomplished that. > >> Ribbons destroy that. > > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >