Office 2003: Who designed this?
Okay, don't get me wrong. I mostly love Microsoft Office 2003. But there are some things that I just can't stand.
Open up a blank Excel workbook, and then another one. Look at the taskbar - two Excel buttons, one for each worksheet. So like any other Windows application, each workbook is treated as a seperate window, right? Wrong. Minimize them both. Open one up, move it a bit, and then open the other one. You'd expect the second one to be shown in a seperate window, but it's not - it takes the first workbook's window. Eventually you notice the second set of minimize/restore/close buttons in the top-right of the window and realize that you can press the restore button to see both workbooks at the same time. Great! It seems that there is just one main Excel window which contains all open workbooks. Thing is, Excel should have just one taskbar button for itself. Microsoft should know this better that anyone else for obvious reasons. So why must they completely balls up the system - is it just to confuse people?
Word has a small problem too. Why are there two close buttons for each open document? It would make sense if Word was like Excel, with just one main window containing all open documents. But it's not - each document opens in a seperate window. Why can't they just make it so it acts like you expect it to?
Open up a blank Excel workbook, and then another one. Look at the taskbar - two Excel buttons, one for each worksheet. So like any other Windows application, each workbook is treated as a seperate window, right? Wrong. Minimize them both. Open one up, move it a bit, and then open the other one. You'd expect the second one to be shown in a seperate window, but it's not - it takes the first workbook's window. Eventually you notice the second set of minimize/restore/close buttons in the top-right of the window and realize that you can press the restore button to see both workbooks at the same time. Great! It seems that there is just one main Excel window which contains all open workbooks. Thing is, Excel should have just one taskbar button for itself. Microsoft should know this better that anyone else for obvious reasons. So why must they completely balls up the system - is it just to confuse people?
Word has a small problem too. Why are there two close buttons for each open document? It would make sense if Word was like Excel, with just one main window containing all open documents. But it's not - each document opens in a seperate window. Why can't they just make it so it acts like you expect it to?
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