Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Microsoft's "upgrades" to 2003 are bloatware that took a relatively decent product (even though MS Word remains miles behind Word Perfect in terms of intuitiveness and ease of use. But that's another discussion) and too often made it unnecessarily frustrating.
We still happily run 2003 after having downloaded and run the
Office Compatibility pack from MS. We can now open the later docx et al files and also write to that format.
Try modifying a pivot table in a .xlsm
Once I got past the learning curve of the ribbon (mostly where to find things) I do like 2010. I do
not like the way database objects are handled in MS Access. They really f*cked it up and now everything opens in a container that mimics a tabbed browser. Thankfully it can be turned off, but it cannot be turned off by default and is DB specific. (
http://databases.about.com/od/tutori...ccess-2010.htm)