Have You Ever Tried to Find Anything at Microsoft!

Now when one learns to use Microsoft products there is often the tendency by the company to change them to some new incomprehensible form. Just look at Windows 8. So when I saw this in PC World I though it is worth a comment. 

Let’s face it—navigating through a maze of menus isn’t what any user wants to do. And that’s why Microsoft is moving its intelligent search box, Tell Me, from Word Online to similar versions of PowerPoint and Excel. Tell Me, fortunately, is a very simple concept: It’s a natural language search box, similar to what you might find in Microsoft’s Bing search engine or Google. In Word, Excel and PowerPoint Online, it sits at the top center of the Ribbon, with the helpful cue “Tell me what you want to do.” Simply type in your request, and it’s off to the races. (As a handy shortcut, you can even type CTRL-‘ (the apostrophe) to auto-place your cursor into the Tell Me field.

As anyone who has ever tried to figure out how to work some of Microsoft's issues off of their web site knows, "Abandon all hope ye who enter", Dante's Inferno is an amusement park compared to Microsoft Help. Go to Google, get the advice or input and then hack your way through Microsoft. 

Office 2013 looks like a Kindergarten colored room, whomever chose the colors, well, no matter.

But really, use an online service to type, and then use Microsoft for help! Then use Bing! Now really guys, who put the magazine up to this one. Use Google, it works.