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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
There is a choice, it's called MenuOffice. Or there can be a large drop in productivity, that's the company's choice.
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I've worked with Word for years. I have seen no such drop in productivity from people moving on to Word 2007. In fact, after a small learning curve most people use Word more powerfully and efficiently than before.
I personally have noticed a leap in my efficiency with the new ribbon interface, though at first I hated it.
I am in charge of formatting and layout of my company's documents, and I have seen an increase in people using styles properly since the switch to Office 2007. People are using features they didn't know existed when they were buried in the Word 2003 menu.
Word 2007 makes it easier for new and inexperienced users to do things properly and to find the common functions they need; as an advanced user it makes me work more efficiently, and any time lost to learning the new interface was gained back quickly in improved efficiency.
I'm now using Office 2010 beta at home and it is basically Office 2007 with a few improvements - much like Windows 7 is Windows Vista with a few improvements. The new find bar on the left of the window is a great little feature in Word 2010, and the ribbon can be customised without fiddling with XML (though I'm yet to fully explore the ribbon editing in any detail so I'm not sure how powerful the options are - certainly better than the non-existent options in Office 2007).