On 01/29/2013 09:44 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 29/01/13 14:35, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
+1
Extensions/add-ons are a great way of keeping unnecessary features
out of the way of the majority users that never need certain features.
I think the generally used stats are that 80% of users know about
less than 20% of features in MS Office. That's not a different 20%
for each user adding up to 100% amoungst 5 users. It's more the case
that if you stripped MSO down to 20% of it's features then 80% of
people wouldn't notice anything missing. In terms of actual usage and
from just observations and conversations with individuals i would
agree with Tim about it being more like 1% of features being used 99%
of the time. People tend to not use most of what they know and they
don't know much. They focus on just getting the job done, not on
fancy ways of doing it.
Regards from
Tom :)
+1 - and that's from many years experience as a Systems/Management
Accountant in many organisations from the one-man-band to large
UK-quoted companies. The same is true for VBA - I have NEVER in all my
years worked in a company where VBA was used...or macros come to think
of it.
Macros got a well deserved bad reputation as malware vectors in the late
90's. At that time, MSO (and probably other software) allowed unsigned
macro execution by default; the behavior exploited in the late 90's. My
understanding is the current practice (not just MSO) is to only allow
properly signed macros to run without specific user intervention. Thus
unsigned macros will not normally run when the file is given to another
user limiting macros usefulness as a feature. A proper certificate is
required to sign and release a file with macros to others and AFAIK this
requires time and money to get from a third party.
I would expect most (vast majority) of users to not even use macros.
Outside of simple macros that can be recorded writing a macro requires
some programming knowledge. And most users do not have any programming
skills.
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