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Office Rocker! : Coping with change

This is definitely a great blog entry - about how organisations and people manage change. 

Some things change

I have a lot of debates at the moment about how hard it will be for people and companies to adjust to the new release of Office.  The first discussion usually surrounds the new user interface and how different it is.  I'm not going to go over all the reasons behind the contextual approach again.  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. 

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If it all goes wrong and you really can't find your favourite feature the Office online animations are fab.  These give you a mock up of 2003 UI, you click on your beloved feature and it switches to show you where it is in 2007.

Word 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

Excel 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

There are also an impressive and growing list of training resources which give you bitesized lessons which companies are free to reuse.  Books like this one are also great companions (under a tenner) if you are trying the betas.

Source: Office Rocker! : Coping with change

Posted Mon, Sep 25 2006 9:53 AM by David Overton
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Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog » Blog Archive » Office 2007 Transition Videos wrote Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog &amp;raquo; Blog Archive &amp;raquo; Office 2007 Transition Videos
on Mon, Sep 25 2006 2:30 PM
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andrewbettany wrote re: Office Rocker! : Coping with change
on Mon, Sep 25 2006 7:09 PM

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the posting, you are doing a great job showing us where everything is and when it happens!

I am very pleased with Office'07, or at least I was until the recent Office tech refresh/ Vista RC1 combi.  After only  dozen crashes per week, I am now experiencing a dozen over the last 2 days, and these are nealy all Office related (prining/page setup (using vista supplied drivers)).

Could I ask couple of questions?

[1] Do you know of any sites which are offering public support yet? - the SBSC newsgroups are still avoiding it like the plague.    

[2] Is it fair to assume that the various builds should work together - ie RC1(5600) and Office Beta2 TechRefesh?

[3] Is it possible to remove the Office Tech refresh  since most of my problems are from this

[4] What versions are you using?

[5] It would be nice to see somewhere a user RC1/Beta   rating/feedback somewhere so that we know we are not alone experiencing these problems.

Devil Despite the script utility my IE7 still is refused when accessing IE5+ only websites:-(

[7] Do you find problems, or are they suppressed?

Vista and Office are really great, and I can believe MS must be working flat out with the devel now that the end game is near. It must be like a sweat room in there at the moment.

Good luck, and keep letting us know what is happening.

Regards

Andrew

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