Posted on 02/12/2020 7:15:23 AM PST by dayglored
Now you’re talking. Maybe we can get to the fabled 20 hour work week when all the machines are doing everything for us. We’ll have so much free time we can finally achieve the “Pelosi dream” where Obamacare (and now Microsoft) will “facilitate the type of ‘liberation’ that the ‘Founders had in mind’ because it allows us to quit our jobs and become photographers, writers, musicians or “whatevers”
Those guys seem to be able to generate a reason a day to be glad (no, ecstatic) I didn’t buy into their Orifice365 cloud “service”. If I had it I’d be feeling serviced about now, but not in a good way.
I'm afraid you have a long wait.
I hear that. I've got an old Win7 Pro VM with Office 2003 on it, with the 2007 extension pack for docx, xlsx, etc. format. I've never warmed up to the ribbon, even if you can hide it.
To each, their own. That's the concept Microsoft had trouble with. You like Bing, use Bing. :-)
As this very thread demonstrates, freedom of choice is a wonderful thing because hey, different people like different things! What a concept! Ya got that, Microsoft?
Go to UBitMenu and get the English 2007 Office version, and get the old menu back, I’ve used it for many years:
http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
It would probably just include your file contents as part of the text search. So search for “thingamabob” you’d not only get all the web results but find out you used the word in 4 different documents in your cloud drive. Not really a big deal. BUT replace replace my default search engine, that’s a big deal.
Here’s how to make Office 2007 look like 2003:
https://ubitmenu.en.softonic.com
Also, Softronic’s got some useful apps at the bottom.
I enjoy and use Bing as my default browser...
*face palm*
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