Excel 2010

[Tom]

Using it full time now at work, my opinion is it is nowhere near as good a program as it used to be. They took a nice, easy to use program and made it much less user-friendly and got rid a lot of good stuff. Definatley will never buy it for home use.

You used to be able to go to one toolbar on top and do everything, now you have to hunt through tabs and some stuff makes no sense at all as to why it is where it is.

Combine it with Win7, and productivity at work is down 50% at least.
Neither program is worth a good sh*t!

In Excel. you used to be able to go to Page Set up and select sheet and define the print area and rows to include on all pages. Cant' find that function anywhere. All I can find is manually select every cell you want printed. Big improvement!

[Native Texan III]

Agreed - bloatware and change for the sake of change and fooling companies into buying new licences.

You can set your own ribbon controls to get back to what you actually wanted before you got Excel 2010

Set one or more print areas

On the worksheet, select the cells that you want to define as the print area. You can create multiple print areas by holding down CTRL and clicking the areas that you want to print.

On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Print Area, and then click Set Print Area.

[Tom]

I do it that way, but in the older versions, I could just type in the range in the Sheet tab.

Plus, with some Blue Ray error in W7, Excel 2010 has a nasty habit of just quitting randomly.

[hcap]

http://www.addintools.com/office2010/homebusiness/purchase.html

...Classic Menu for Office Home and Business 2010

I have not tried it. I can deal with the new ribbon. But I still do most work in Excel 2003

(Pivot tables are a plus in 2003/2010 versions)

[Tom]

Thanks, hcap - will give it a try. :ThmbUp:

[PeteKoch]

Tom, when the ribbon was introduced in Office 2007, I felt the same way you do. This link helped. Now the ribbon is 2nd nature and I wouldn't/couldn't go back to 2003 and earlier if I wanted to.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/interactive-excel-2003-to-excel-2007-command-reference-guide-HA010149151.aspx

[Tom]

Thanks, Pete!