In their continued effort to destroy their own software, Microsoft got rid of the File menu in Excel 2007. Well... no, not really, it's still there, they took the label off, and now it looks like a decoration. They replaced it with a rounded circle in the upper left corner with a little picture of 4 colored squares. It looks like a bit like the Microsoft "flag", except with squares instead.
MOST, but not all, of the old File menu's options are there, like "Save", "Save As..." and "Print...". I'll blog separately about where they hidden some of the other basic everyday features. On what planet is a circle with 4 squares more "obvious" than the word "F i l e" ? If you had NEVER used a computer before, I suppose "File" isn't very obvious either, but it's not 1980, so that argument doesn't hold.
Although Office 2007 has some improvements, I am floored by the number stupid changes they've made that confuse anybody who's ever used their products before. Stunningly bad ideas.
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