PN Stenquist wrote:
On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
PN Stenquist wrote:
If someone sends me a Powerpoint presentation that was made with
Microsoft Office, can I edit it in Open Office?
Yes.
And even if I could, would the original author be able to open and
revise my edit when I returned it?
Yes.
> Well then, okay:-).
Of course, there's no reason for you to switch if you've already *paid*
for MS Office! ...until you start getting people sending you files in
the *new* MS Office formats (Office 2007). Then you'll be faced with the
choice of either trying Open Office for free or paying for Office 2007
and suffering its awful user interface.
I've been using Office 2007 at school for about 18 months now and I've
given up on it. It's important to thoroughly try any new user interface
for yourself for an extended period before rejecting it, because people
always prefer an interface they're accustomed to over something new,
even if the old way is demonstrably inferior. This is one of the major
known aspects of usability testing. But after a year and a half of
testing by myself and other members of the Computer Science and
Informations Systems department, everyone's pretty much convinced that
the new Office interface is a failure.
To tell you the truth, Microsoft deserve kudos for *trying* something
new. Most companies get complacent with things like this. But the
experiment is a certifiable failure at this point and at the very least
they ought to make the "ribbon" interface optional in the next version.
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