With the release of 8.5.1 I thought I’d make the switch. So far I’ve been impressed. I’ve used 8.5 to play with XPages but I’ve not used it as my main development tool, so I’ve haven’t updated existing apps. Today I’ve been updating a 7 app and wanted to add some ‘computed text’ but couldn’t find it under the ‘create’ menu. After much hair pulling and unhelpful ‘help’ files telling me it’s still under ‘create’. I’ve (finally) found that the menus default to ‘simple’ menus and you have to switch on ‘advanced menus’. (‘View‘ -> ‘Advanced menus‘).