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Are we the only department with Office 2007 on Citrix XenApp? It's relatively fresh (as in yesterday), but we plan to use it widely and do file-type association (associate .docx et al with opening Office 2007 app). All desktops still have Office XP 2002 installed, but anything that comes across, at least in the short-term, with the new file type will automatically create a Citrix session and open the respective 2007 product. This method will allow us to slowly introduce 2007 while still allowing 2002. Then eventually removing 2002, altogether. We plan on providing all relative training links from Microsoft to our end-users for reference to learn new ways of doing common tasks. Anyone else out there doing this? Pitfalls? I'm optomistic. David Benjamin >>> David McFarlane <[log in to unmask]> 1/15/2009 2:34:18 PM >>> At 1/14/2009 03:40 PM Wednesday, Ehren Benson wrote: >Any new installs are getting 2007, people with 2003/XP are getting >upgraded as they request it. Pretty much the same here in Psychology. If I do the install, then I also immediately change the default file format for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to the 1997 format, otherwise we have compatibility issues. Unfortunately, those settings only apply to the current login account, so if the user makes a new account then they will be back to the 2007 format. I wish I knew how to make that a global change. I had read a report that users experienced with the earlier Office at first hate Office 2007, but after a giving it week or two come to really prefer it. I always tell that to my users, and so far they agree. Many features have been moved to unexpected places, but after awhile people see that they have been moved to where they should have been in the first place. Office 2007 also does much better with live previews of changes you are about to make. OTOH, I am a keyboard snob, and I am not sure that Office 2007 provides a rich enough set of keyboard methods [As for me, I still use Word 2.0 for Windows 3.1 (from 1992), and I am slowly migrating to Excel 2000 from Excel 4.0 for Windows 3.1 (again from 1992) just because Excel 4 does not have tabbed sheets. And I have all this working under Vista (plus some old DOS apps that I refuse to give up).] -- dkm >Ehren J. Benson, MCSE >Windows Systems Administrator > >[log in to unmask] >517-884-5469 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >On Behalf Of Cheryl Akers >Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:31 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [MSUNAG] Office 2003 or 2007? > >We're in the middle of deciding of we need to upgrade. > >Our department is still on Office 2003. Are you all upgrading to 2007 or >are you still on 2003? >Cheryl > >Cheryl Akers, MS, CNA - [log in to unmask] >Microcomputer Support - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics