On 4 February 2011 09:36, Ken Springer <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, Gordon, > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker > <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >> But that applies to ALL applications, whether FOSS or proprietary. In my >> personal experience in large corporations, 75% of MS Office users only use >> 25% (or less) of the functionality... > > > I absolutely agree with your comment about MS Office users. But in my > experience, I would say your observation of "75% of MS Office users only use > 25% (or less) of the functionality..." might be a bit high. :-)
Which part is high -- the percentage of users or the percentage of the available functions? In my experience, I'd say at least 90% of the users use maybe 10% of the functions. When teaching an introductory course to Windoze, I encourage beginners to use WordPad. The vast majority of people don't need anything more. Of course, users are frequently unaware of available functions. That, of course, is what led M$ to eliminate the menu structure and introduce that @*&@#$&* ribbon. (Personally, I think it was the 'personalised menus' that were more at fault -- what users didn't use didn't appear -- so how were users supposed to find existing functions?) -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
