Read the Indezine review of Classic Menu for Office 2007.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
Introduction
About Classic Menu for Office 2007
Download & Installation
Using Classic Menu for Office 2007
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
The biggest feature in Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite is most certainly the interface. Gone are the menus and the toolbars -- now all the commands are available in the various tabs of the Ribbon. The Ribbon is much more intuitive -- but for seasoned users who have been working with Microsoft Office applications for more than a decade, it does involve a serious amount of unlearning.
An interesting add-in for Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel now brings back the menus and toolbars -- all inside a new Ribbon tab called "Menus"! The add-in is called Classic Menu Manager -- read on to learn more.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 is from Addintools, a company based in Haikou City, China. To learn more about other products and Classic Menu Manager visit their site.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 is an addin for some Office 2007 applications which allows the user to bring back the familiar menus and toolbars from previous versions of Microsoft Office in Microsoft Office 2007. This add-in supports all languages that are supported by Microsoft Office 2007.
Figures 1 and 2 show you the PowerPoint 2007 interface before and after installing Classic Menu for Office 2007.
Figure 1: Before installing Classic Menu for Office 2007
Figure 2: After installing Classic Menu for Office 2007
The figures above show PowerPoint 2007 -- and it works the same way in Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
My contact at Classic Menu for Office 2007 for this review was Lin Jie - thank you, Lin.
Download the installer, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. You'll end up with a Classic Menu for Office program group in your
Windows Start menu (see Figure 3 below).
Figure 3: Classic Menu for Office 2007 Start menu
group
Follow these steps to use Classic Menu Manager for Office 2007 applications:
Classic Menu for Office 2007 costs $29.95.
Support option includes e-mail support and an online FAQ.
If you are a diehard Office user who misses the menus and toolbars, Classic Menu is a great and economical way of getting them back.
However, I would suggest that you also get familiar with the Ribbon tabs that have replaced the menus since they do create an interesting, alternative workflow.
Having said that, it is good to see that the option of choosing between the menus and the Ribbon now gets back to the user -- and it's a no-brainer choice since you can now have both menus and Ribbon tabs!
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