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Gave up on Office 2013

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debian0001

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Microsoft really took 100 steps backwards with the suite. They tried to make it more pretty and utterly failed. Everything is bigger and just looks bad. I'm even thrown off by the blinking curser and how the delays in Excel on moving the cell box with the keyboard is delayed. This is productivity software not a pretty game. I can't believe they can't create a solid platform and keep with it.
 
I have been using 2013 for probably a year now and prefer Word, Excel and Outlook to the 2010 versions. I use them all day, everyday.

Can you be a little more specific? Maybe we can help.
 
I admit it took some adjustment time and adjustment of default views but I'm now 99% happy with 2013. The syncing between machines is amazing and extremely useful.

The delay in Excel went away after the beta/trial versions I thought? I haven't seen it since, maybe I made an adjustment??

My one gripe/complaint is with Excel. Why did MS try to make it "look" cool???? Excel by its nature should be VERY BORING and straight to the point. No glamor or coolness needed. I live on Excel and consider myself a expert user. I would take 2010 interface back in a heartbeat but have learned to love all the other parts so theirs no going back.
 
The only think I love about Office 2013 is how snappy Oulook 2013 with Exchange and IMAP emails. If you delete an email for example it's gone instantly. In 2010 if you delete an email it hangs for 3 to 5 seconds until it's gone and some other slowness.

With that said, I still reverted to 2010 it is more professional IMO and easier to use

just my 2 cents
 
debian0001 said:
Microsoft really took 100 steps backwards with the suite. They tried to make it more pretty and utterly failed. Everything is bigger and just looks bad. I'm even thrown off by the blinking curser and how the delays in Excel on moving the cell box with the keyboard is delayed. This is productivity software not a pretty game. I can't believe they can't create a solid platform and keep with it.
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I agree, I tried using it for a little bit but just can't stand it. The color scheme of 50 shades of gray on white is just plain hard to look at for any amount of time and Outlook seems significantly slower even after disabling the animations.
 
At work we are finally updating everything to circa win7; it's going to be interesting in a decade when win7 support is dropped if the OS suite and related products are still designed for looks than business functionality.
 
Raincity said:
I want to see more color schemes than gray and more gray. Converting to 2013 has been hell on my eyesight.
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That's the biggest complaint I hear at work - everything looks the same.

That and it's intermittently slow.
 
From my upgrade experiences, when users are complaining of it being slow or sluggish.

1. Disable the hardware acceleration in the display options in Office - or update the graphic drivers

2. Check for 3rd party add-ons and disable them

These two things have fixed 99.9% of the problems I've seen.
 
stlcardinals said:
From my upgrade experiences, when users are complaining of it being slow or sluggish.

1. Disable the hardware acceleration in the display options in Office - or update the graphic drivers

2. Check for 3rd party add-ons and disable them

These two things have fixed 99.9% of the problems I've seen.
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rofl...Office has hardware acceleration? That's horrible! :biggrin:
 
Nothinman said:
I agree, I tried using it for a little bit but just can't stand it. The color scheme of 50 shades of gray on white is just plain hard to look at for any amount of time and Outlook seems significantly slower even after disabling the animations.
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Agree the plain coloring and fonts, I went back to Office 2010 after a day.
Luckily I got it for free.
 
I thought Office 2010 was cluttered... after coming off 2003; in fact, I'm still using Outlook 2003. I probably won't be going to 2013 until they force me to (which I'm sure they will at some point.)

Excel by its nature should be VERY BORING and straight to the point. No glamor or coolness needed.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Chiefcrowe said:
There's gotta be a way to add some new color schemes right??!
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There is about six thousand complaints on the color schemes posted at TechNet. MS official word is that they are taking the requests into consideration for improvement at a later date. Since I have not seen any third party apps to fix this. I am wondering if its even fixable. The sad thing is this must be by design since the Office 365 for the MAC does not suffer from this issue.
 
Chiefcrowe said:
There's gotta be a way to add some new color schemes right??!
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Nope. As Raincity says, there's a bunch of threads full of complaints on MS' own forums but the only official reply I've seen is "That's by design." I'm just amazed that such bad color schemes made it through QA. Hopefully they've realized just how stupid they were and will fix it in a patch or SP soon.
 
Maybe Microsoft actually wants to stop putting out software, so they are designing things that are either ugly, work strangely, or both.
 
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