Microsoft Office Annoyances? [closed]

"Clippy.

Available in Office 97 to 2003, turned off by default in Office XP and later.

Workaround: Just don't install the Office Assistants. They can be turned off at install time."

Personalized Menus - conceptually I get the idea, but nothing annoys me more than having to expand stuff to find the items I need. Thankfully they can be turned off.

"The UI change to the ribbon bar. Not because it is bad in and of itself, but there were functions I had to use occasionally which I just knew where they were. I know it's just a matter of learning where the functionality now lives, but because I don't use it all the time, I end up having to hunt around for it every time.

Fortunately I came across UBitMenu which gives you a ribbon tab with the ""classic"" menu and toolbars. Very handy."

"I find the fact that OneNote isn't (yet) cloud-aware (like Evernote) to be annoying. It spoils an otherwise perfect product.

Bring on Office 2010! ...and hopefully an iPhone client!"

"In MS Excel if you have a bunch of content that you've copied to the clipboard if you press ESC to get rid of the flashing dashed border around where the cells were copied from then Excel deletes your content from the clipboard. WTF?!

It goes against the expected behavior of the clipboard where the content is only erased when you replace it with new content... or you have a large amount of data on the clipboard when closing an application, and you are asked if you want to delete it."