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Thread #135008   Message #3076846
Posted By: JohnInKansas
17-Jan-11 - 09:28 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Windows 7 Disappearing desktop shortcuts
Subject: RE: Tech: Windows 7 Disappearing desktop shortcuts
No help for Win7, but a "formerly tech" newsletter received today indicates that Microsoft finally has posted information about where commands used in Office 2003 can(?) be found(?) in Office 2010.

Roadmap for the Ribbon Interface offers "interactive" programs that display Office 2003 menus, and when you hover over a command it purports to tell you where the command is among the 745 commands on the eight tabs (in Word, without the Developer tab you have to add to do anything) on the Office 2007 Ribbons.

You can (it says) run the programs from the web site, or download them to your own computer to run when the need arises.

Also offered, is a set of "Roadmaps" that provide Excel spreadsheets showing lists of Office 2003 commands with the "new Ribbon" commands that "sort of" correspond to them.

In typical fashion for the "new Microsoft," the "Interactive Guides" require you to click on the links and go to separate sites where the download buttons are located.

With no explanation, in the following paragraph where the "Roadmaps" are offered, clicking on the links takes you to a page that tells you that they're available, but there ain't no download button to give them to you. (The page appears broken.) For the Roadmaps, back on the previous page, you can right click and "save target as" to get them (which doesn't work for the "interactive programs).

Note that there are separate downloads for each of the Office programs, in each category.

The nuts are still running the asylum, apparently, but anyone using Office 2007 might find these helpful.

Also on the first page linked, under "Additional Stuff" there's a link to "Download Help to Get Started" that pretends that they've produced an actual "Help file" that you can add to your office programs if you can tolerate having two separate help buttons in them. I haven't looked at whether it actually has anything helpful in it, but it's available for anyone interested.

John