How to criticize Microsoft

Science and Life magazine, heading Letters from our readers, a letter from a person who worked for a long time in Kolyma, in response to the published design of the shovel. The shaft is not direct, but an arc. This man sent a drawing of the shovel used on the river. There was another bend on the pole. Daily many hours of "exercise" with such a tool with good reason can serve as proof of its convenience and reliability.



Take now Microsoft Office. This is also a tool, very complex, requiring training, but just a means to achieve some goals. Classic Design 2003 is love for life. The mouse itself found the right button. In 2007, I installed a new miracle and then demolished it very quickly. They changed not only the design, but also the layout. There was no desire to search for the necessary (to get used to). Most of all I work in Excel with worksheet functions, so I missed a bit IF ERROR, its advantages were obvious. I returned to the tabs only in 2010. Praise heaven, in 2013 they added a button. What do you want to do? I sometimes use it because I don’t know where is what I need. I still do not understand why it was necessary to change the user interface and location.



Recently, it was necessary to make an identical interface on different machines, and several interesting features were revealed. I want to say right away that I'm talking about a local account, about mail on mail.ru and the cloud there (100GB, free).



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Be sure to completely remove the previous office and additionally installed programs to it. Not to say very annoying. But they could not mount the code for this in the installer themselves? In addition, the old office may have personal settings. It’s so cool to have them automatically in a new one. Of course, you can save the panel settings, BUT the Personal file needs to be created anew and again (!) To bind and rename buttons on the user toolbar to macros from the personal macro book.



Outlook is not easy either. Microsoft provides the ability to synchronize some folders, but not all (junk email settings lists are not synchronized) on different devices if you have Exchange or Outlook.com mail. Moreover, as far as I know, in VBA there is no possibility to do this even in semi-automatic mode: export / import to a file with a macro.



Having this experience, I created a file with quite detailed instructions for setting up panels, views and other things, as well as data export files. I'll use it next week. Xiaomi did not justify traveling, I will set up a new laptop.



Nevertheless, the limits of creating a tool that is convenient for the consumer are interesting.



Useful links:



Step-by-step procedure for installing, repairing, reinstalling, uninstalling Office (all versions) for Windows

Synchronization basics: what can and cannot be synchronized, Outlook 2016 Outlook 2016 for Mac Outlook for Mac 2011