Brian,
As
far as Office 2007 goes, I’ve found the online 2003-to-2007 migration
guide very useful. You click on the Office 2003 way of doing tasks, and it
shows you how to do the equivalent task in Office 2007.
Go
to this site and click on the “Start the guide” link :
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx
Also
see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
There
are similar guides for Access, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, also.
Thomas P. Carter, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1322
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Brian
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Vista and Office 2007
NAGers:
Vista: I’ve been running
Vista full-time on my workstation for nearly a year. We were planning on
rolling out Vista by now, or at least in the Spring. As things look now,
no way. I seriously doubt we’ll do it even in the Spring.
Like others, I’ll wait until M$ “finishes writing it”
and especially, the software and hardware vendors catch up to it. Just a
month or two ago I looked into several statistical packages we use and one of
three I looked at ran on Vista. PalmOne is still only in beta with Vista
as of yesterday (I checked, yet again), I’ve had problems with HP inkjet
drivers and Maxtor One-Touch backup software (which is still totally broken,
even after a new release) Until vendor support catches up and stabilizes,
we will not be going Vista.
User on it so far: 1
Expected by end of Spring
semester: 1
Office 2007: I’ve been on
it for 6 months now and still find it super annoying. I don’t know
who these people are that say they learned it quickly. Roughly once a
week I spend ~5-20 minutes looking for some stupid, simple function that
I’ve known how to find for over 10 years. I always try to find it
myself first, it is “easier to use!”, of course, but I usually end
up resorting to searching for it in the Help. No users have it yet and
when asked about it, I show them the ribbon and so far all have said “no
thanks”, though I’d let anyone have it if requested. We have
pushed out the compatibility pack, and that appears to have slowed requests for
the product. I’ll quietly try and skip it entirely, if possible, as
I don’t see a need. Some faculty will want the new
“pretty” (and more distracting) 3D graphs, however, so I expect
requests to come in from that eventually.
User on it so far: 0
Expected by end of Spring
semester: perhaps half-dozen to dozen
Brian Hoort
Agricultural Economics