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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 3474213" data-attributes="member: 12037">In Vista if you click to rename something, it only highlights the area before the extension. So if you click to rename "GreatWhiteShark.jpg", it will only highlight the "GreatWhiteShark" area and leave the ".jpg" unhighlighted for change.Are you advocating for lack of change because it takes time to adapt to new GUIs?MS Word in the past has been horribly designed. So much so that an estimated 80%+ of its functionality is not used by most users, because they either don't know it exists, don't know how to find it, or it was too complicated to use. It's arguably the most horribly designed interface Microsoft has ever created.The new interface is different. By definition it is going mean there's a learning curve associated with this change. The question becomes, once a user is more intimate with the new GUI, do they prefer it to the old one. And, I would give an unequivocal "YES!" answer to this question. Learning new things is not bad. That's why my company is using Lotus Notes instead of the far far (repeat that 100 times) better MS Exchange. Lotus Notes quite frankly sucks, but because people at corporate know it and don't want to learn something new, we're stuck using it.In the world of software even end users can't just stick with what they know. They have to be willing to adapt and keep up with the times. I'm sure when the accounting department, for example, here learns that I can add functionality to Office to make their life easier, they'll take the 2 or 3 hours to learn to use 2007 in exchange for the countless hours of work it will save them in the future. At least, I would hope that from them.</blockquote>

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