You can easily write macros in Lotus if you know the menu commands, no programming experience needed-and all the menu commands are right there on the screen.
The reasons provided by most of the individuals I asked are: These add-in programs have their limitations as well, but many thousands of users (according to my sources) say they can live with the limitations as long as they have the classic menus. So many users hated it that multiple vendors have created “Classic Microsoft menus” add-in programs such as Add In Tools, UBit Menu, Office Classic Menu, and more. Thanks to this standard, for instance, the key combinations of Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V -Cut, Copy, Paste- were the same in Word, Excel, Photoshop, Corel Paint, Quicken, and hundreds of other programs.Īnd then Microsoft moved to the Ribbon menu.
#WHAT IS LOTUS 123 WINDOWS#
The CUA standards made it easier for users to learn new Windows and OS/2 programs because they all had similar menus, dialog boxes, keyboard shortcuts, and so forth. Equivalent commands such as File, Save, Exit, Print, Cut, Copy, Paste, Edit, View, Help, and hundreds more had to follow the same design for every program regardless of the genre.
#WHAT IS LOTUS 123 SOFTWARE#
The Classic menus were a product of the CUA (Common User Access) Standards developed by IBM in 1987, which determined the user interface for all Windows, OS/2, MVS/ESA, VM/CMS, and OS/400 software applications. I know I’m not alone in clinging to an ancient software program that’s exactly what I need. Allen Bonde, VP and research director at Forrester, told me that, “Where SaaS (Software as a Service) applications don’t have a foothold, we often still see customers sticking with older tools because they see a risk in switching to a newer system, or there just isn’t a compelling alternative.” It’s not just random individuals, either, but entire companies: “There are pockets of this behavior in smaller firms,” Bonde noted, “but also in sectors such as healthcare and government, where we see less digitally mature companies.”
#WHAT IS LOTUS 123 PRO#
Why? Because I have some legacy software that is incompatible with Windows 8 and 10: dBase III+, Paint Shop Pro 7, PageMaker, several graphics programs and plugins-one is the first version of Andromeda, which offers some amazing graphic effects-and a few other applications that were originally DOS-based. Last week I received an email notice from Microsoft informing me that, as of January 14, 2020, they will no longer support Windows 7, which I still have on one of my desktop computers.