From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:te7jt2dr183emi4n3cppkvfld0rudgi29r{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:13:58 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> 6. Customers are confused by Office 2007's ribbon-like user interface;
>> I find this one especially humourous, in light of the TV
>> commercials that Microsoft runs about the UI being
>> known by everyone.
>
> I only have one customer who has upgraded to Office 2007 so far (I'm
> advicing against it for any who have Office 2000 or later and don't really
> need anything new), and surprisingly she's finding the new ribbon
> thingamajickie easy to learn. Really, I thought I'd be in for the endless
> "where's this and that and nothing works and how can I something
or other"
> calls for the next year, but she's already fairly comfy with it after only
> two weeks - and no training or nothing.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (I can't find half the things I want from the new UI...)
>
>
Shrug. Unless you're a "power user" then all the Office Apps are
basically the same. My mother moved from Lotus Smartsuite on Win9x to MS
Office on Win9x to Open Office 1 to Open Office 2 w/o any difficulty.

With most it's a matter of fabbing up the 5 or so main templates the user
uses & then....

Adam

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