I've been beta testing Office 2007 for some time and I don't get why everyone's crying about this "steep learning curve" Office 2007 is like a Dick and Jane picture book. It only took me a few minutes to learn where they moved everything. Switching to 2007 was like going from command line to a GUI. I'm working on a multi processor system and when I have to do vlookups on a 24,000+ row spreadsheet, I have to say it's faster then any Office I've used in the past decade. This is not to say that I love 2007, I find that all the added graphics has chewed up way too much of my screen real estate and I would prefer the small ribbons of the past. They should have made all the pretty graphics a choice - just like you can use a classic shell when using XP.
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I've been beta testing Office 2007 for some time and I don't get why everyone's crying about this "steep learning curve" Office 2007 is like a Dick and Jane picture book. It only took me a few minutes to learn where they moved everything. Switching to 2007 was like going from command line to a GUI. I'm working on a multi processor system and when I have to do vlookups on a 24,000+ row spreadsheet, I have to say it's faster then any Office I've used in the past decade. This is not to say that I love 2007, I find that all the added graphics has chewed up way too much of my screen real estate and I would prefer the small ribbons of the past. They should have made all the pretty graphics a choice - just like you can use a classic shell when using XP.