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Sorry but just for clarity, what 5% of your needs is in the new Office compared to 2007? Only reason why I say that is I hear this 95% a lot. When we looked to
by baldfat 11y ago
Sorry but just for clarity, what 5% of your needs is in the new Office compared to 2007? Only reason why I say that is I hear this 95% a lot.
When we looked to switching away from Office to something else people would say 95% was covered by say Google Docs or another tool and people would go hmmm and see that as a negative. I asked for the person to tell me what the 5% we were missing and maybe we could fulfill that need with another tool. One week later we made the switch since no one could find a single thing anyone would be missing. One year later no one is missing anything and we were covered for 100% of our work needs.
- atmosx 11y agoIn terms of needs the vast majority of the population is okay using Google docs. On the the offline front, ODF[1] is taking over country by country because you can't beat free. [1] http://mrpogson.com/2015/09/17/libreoffice-installations-in-eu-governments-approach-one-million/ http://mrpogson.com/2015/09/17/libreoffice-installations-in-...
- ZenoArrow 11y agoDepends on what you'd want to use it for. The only features I can think of that you might want to use a version of Word later than Word 2007 would be the Apps for Office functionality (and possibly better integration with later versions of SharePoint, but I don't know what those features would be).
- reptation 11y agoA couple of years ago I was typing a thesis and needed Endnote/footnote support. This was something Word seemed to do better than Google (now I just use Knitr for everything).
- baldfat 11y agoWOW I would have never thought of using Knitr for that but it actually would work great as long as you don't need Unicode support for left to right languages and even than you could just throw in Latex.
- roel_v 11y agoWait, are you saying you moved from Office to Google Docs and nobody could find a thing there missed? So nobody ever used table of contents, styles, paragraph formatting, a document that has mixed landscape/portrait pages, cross-references or templates? How is that possible? What kind of profile are those users, I mean, what sort of work do they do in Word? (I'm assuming we're only talking about Word here and not Excel, because then it'd be even harder to believe)
- baldfat 11y ago100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents. We didn't go with Docs but it would have worked fine. I would say our company of 400 people have very little need for Word and they don't know how to use Excel besides making budgets with no real complected formulas.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago> "100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents." Did you explore using Mail Merge?
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoOr Notepad?
- ZenoArrow 11y agoWhy would Notepad be any better than Google Docs in this instance?
- baldfat 11y agoWhy would people need mail merge when making written reports? Heck I bet you the money in my wallet that less than 1% of current users even know how to do a mail merge let alone have a use for it. Sure in the 1980s and 90s doing mail merges for people's Christmas letters felt like a killer app at the time doesn't really get used much these days in Office.
- elorant 11y agoTranslation isn't very good, not as good as online tools like Google Translate which I find myself visiting quite often.