[1970-01-01]

Office features haven't increased in value since Office 2000. It's been 99% bugfixes, 1% feature evolution since then.

[blibble]

30% devolution

they even broke the Save dialog in an attempt to push their onedrive garbage

what used to take 1 click now takes 3-4

[akira2501]

Teams used to be one button to attach a file to a chat.

Now I have to hit the '+', at the bottom of the window, wait for the dialog to fully load, then click 'Attach file', at the top of the window, wait for the dialog to load again, then click 'Upload from this device', again at the bottom of the window.

I sincerely HATE my coworkers for asking for attachments now.

No one at Microsoft is paying attention to the product as a whole. It seems like teams of middle managers all vying to get their dumb feature included in the product. It's an incomprehensible mess of poorly thought out misfeatures.

[wlesieutre]

I still haven’t figured out how to export a copy of an excel sheet to csv without that csv becoming the document I have open afterward, and having to close it and reopen the xlsx file.

(note: desktop Excel 2016)

There's an "Export" section in the awkward full-window UI that they replaced the File menu with, but instead of exporting it's just another way around to add extra clicks (File -> Export -> Change File Type -> CSV -> Save As) and get to the same "Save As" dialog that makes the CSV file take over your window as the active file after you "export" it.

You can also get to that via Save As -> Browse and pick CSV in the "save as type" dropdown, which behaves how you expect Save As to work (where that copy should stay active in the window afterward, as opposed to Export where it shouldn't). But this spot is also stupid because now have to go File -> Save As -> Browse because somebody at Microsoft wanted to insert an extra page where they could default your location to OneDrive and make you click Browse to get a normal file browser.

I saw an article yesterday about how Microsoft is moving toward "user-centric design" and removing ads from Skype, but how about doing that in the products anybody gives a shit about?

[wlesieutre]

Dumb as it is, the quickest way to get a CSV export is probably to make a new document and copy/paste the contents of the sheet into it, then save as CSV and close

[readthenotes1]

Yet what it does is really good. Goal seek in excel is fantastic (in the ~2003 version I have).

Being able to install 20 year old software on a new computer and have it work is pretty nice.

Of course, some people may think subscription fees and cloud storage are features, but to me they are bugs...

[matt3D]

Maybe not in Word but Excel is a completely different beast these days.

PowerQuery and the Data Model have more in common with python than the Excel of old

[rvnx]

The ribbon actually was a good idea (~2003 I think)

[kevin_thibedeau]

2007. 2003 was the last without that abomination.

[ronsor]

I feel like the ribbon is one of Microsoft's most universally reviled design choices, next to Metro UI.

[tomrod]

As an office 2003 power user (God, has it been so long!) the 2007 office ribbon was awful.