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
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