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Office 2007 Transition Videos
Posted: 9:38 am
September 25th, 2006
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IT Culture, Microsoft

As a followup to my last post I just found this interesting tidbit over at David Overton’s site:

“…The research in our labs, and this matches what I observe with the people I know who start using 2007, is that it takes between 2 days and a couple of weeks to feel at home in the new user interface. Now this is NOT how much downtime each user suffers making the transition, it is the time it takes for them to feel as confident with the new release and to take advantage of the new usability…”

I don’t buy this for a moment. I’ve seen people uninstall Office 2007 because they could not be productive due to all the changes. Maybe thats days to weeks with training? I’ve been in beta for quite some time and I still find myself looking for stuff in the old places. Wish Microsoft could build in “Classic” view for Office 2007 because as much as I like the new UI in Outlook I can’t be bothered ™ with it in PowerPoint or Excel. But I digress, the reason I started writing all this is to tell you:

Dave found a neat site that has videos called “Interactive Command Reference Guide” – click on a feature on Office 2003 UI and the video shows you where its at in Office 2007. Pretty neat!

Word 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

Excel 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

7 Comments

AlNail |

That would be pretty useful if both yours and Daves links were broken.



David Overton |

ahh, the links check that you are running Office 2007 – something I will chase up on.

ttfn

David



CharlesM |

Thats right, it works with Office 2007.

Looks pretty good too. But there you go proving Vlad’s point that the training expense for this is going to be serious – it is not a plug and go as Microsoft describes it.



Opie |

Perhaps we can get those in 2003 or downloadable? It might be easier to show people the value if they saw what they had now vs. how it looks in 2007.



CScriber |

Outlook is something I spend most of my day in so I was comfortable when I installed it. Dave is right, its pretty straight forward.

Where things go bad are advanced functions. For example how do you turn the message into plain text? How do you manage previews of media? These are the things I waste minutes a day on and they do pile up at the end of the week.

I would seriously like an answer to these questions:
1) How much training will I require to move to Office 2007?
2) Where can I obtain it for free in an online form before purchasing Office 2007? (free, before purchase not because I’m cheap but because I will need to demo this for clients that consider Office 2007)



David Overton |

to set to plain text, in the e-mail, go to the options tab on the ribbon and it is there in plain sight ;-)

for more – anyone can download an eval of Office Beta 2 TR or you can get the full version online at the preview site – http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview

I love outlook, I love poweroint and excel. I don’t write enough in word to think one way or the other, but the ability to make pretty blog entries very simply is astounding (I don’t do pretty blog entries, but when I want to – it is a doddle)



Lou Dowling |

I tried to submit a statement before, however it hasn’t shown up. I believe the spam filtering may well be damaged?








 

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