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MBender
Brass Contributor
Nov 17, 2021

New style is ugly

How does the following make sense? Yellow post-it note? OK, fine, that's what we had before. But now we get an additional black border (black probably due to the visual style)? Did you guys ev...
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MBender
Brass Contributor
Dec 06, 2021
Did you try to use the config tool I linked? You can pick which update channel you want your Office install to use. You can opt for something like the semi-annual channel. This means you get more time before the new updates hit you. Hopefully MS might actually resolve some issues by then.

I know, good joke, right? 😛
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GrandBee
Copper Contributor
Dec 07, 2021

No I have not tried the config tool.
Like you say Microsoft will eventually override it and put new gui on. So it could be more time wasted.
I feel I am spending more time on customising ribbons and trying to live with this than actually the work I want to do on personal laptop.

 

The irony if you open up options, the ribbon customisation is old style gui, laden with so many drop downs it's hard to know what the heck is the point of all this. And so I really have time to create a toolbar, add a button, remove a button. The stuff that the product itself should have done properly in first place.


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Another thing that is getting annoying are the scroll bar width and shapes. Trying to copy the miserable Apple design, Microsoft have made scrollbars smaller in width and rounded.so if you are trying to move side to side on spreadsheets you have to keep one eye on your mouse pointer to catch the scroll bar.

Reminds me of when Microsoft decided it could build mobiles by buying a company and making that company non existent by pretending Windows could compete with ios and Android.

Too much money to waste and if anyone did that in a normal company they would be sent packing by shareholders.

If and when this new look hits business computers, then you would see more anger from users.