Office 2007 - Interlude

Now that I've gotten used to some of the differences, I don't have many significant objections to the UI changes in Office 2007 other than the fact that they were made at all. Of course, I've only worked with Excel so far. And I've tweaked the UI to look much more like the old Office that I'm used to.

And I've found a few things I like. I'm especially in favor of the zoom control in the lower right corner of the Excel status bar.

But...

There's still a tiny annoyance. The window control buttons - you know, those (usually) three little buttons in the upper right corner of the title bar that let you minimize, maximize, and close the window - look like they are greyed out. To me that means disabled. C'mon, let's not have to unlearn all of the visual hints we've come to take for granted. (The buttons in a MDI child window look fine.)

Oh, and everything is Blue. Does Microsoft have something invested in sky blue? Or is it robin's-egg blue? What happened to good old Steel?