Practical! Office 2007 and 2003 interchange experience

Money always said, in the siege of the people want to come out, in the siege outside the people want to go in, this sentence used to describe Office 2007 is exactly the same. This new release version, changed from Office 97 to 2000 to XP to 20,031 through the classic interface, in giving people the experience of the super dazzle, but also let many "veteran" instead of "find North."

So many users with Office 2007 want to change back to the 2003 classic interface, and many users who can't move 2007 want to experience a new version of Office on their old versions. What's the solution?

1. Return to Classic, OFFICE 2007 Retrieve classic Menu

"OFFICE 2007 Beautiful is beautiful, but also too difficult to use, even find a save for the function of a half-day." Xiao Yang doesn't live to complain. In fact, it is not office 2007 difficult to use, the new version did a lot of human changes, more suitable for use, but the subversion of traditional operations but let "veteran" are difficult to adapt.

But it does not matter, Microsoft after a set, can help us find the transfer or hidden function, return to the classic interface. Currently includes the classic menus and toolbars for Word/excel/powerpoint 2007.

The use of software is very simple, after installation, as long as the normal open OFFICE2007, it will be the form of plug-ins automatically loaded, and you will find that the familiar menu and toolbar has appeared in front of. (Figure 1)

Figure 1

TIPS: The drawback is that this plugin is not free.

2. Put on 2007 of new Clothes

OFFICE2007 's gorgeous, let us envy, but its resources occupy but let still use the user of old machine to be deterred. Although Microsoft provides plug-ins, can give OFFICE2007 retrieve classic menus and toolbars, but it seems impossible for the old version of the OFFICE2007 to add a gorgeous coat. Then let's do it by ourselves.

Extract resources first. We use WORD2007 as an example to illustrate that other Excel, PowerPoint, and other operations are similar.

Use resources to modify the software, such as Restorator2007 open the WINWORD.EXE file in the OFFICE2007 installation directory. Find the icon item, which includes a number of sets of icons, we only need to extract 1 for Winword.ico, saved in the Office 2003 installation directory. (Figure 2)

Figure 2