At work is Office 2003/2007 installed?

[Spennyboy]

Hey guys,

At work have you got office 2003 or 2007 installed? (or both?)

If your in management, what have you rolled out to your users?

Curious if most places have been upgraded or are most still using 2003?

Remeber this is for AT WORK... not what you use at home.

Ta.

[Over Carl]

At work most people still using 2003. A few people who have made a good case for 07 have got it, and 2 out of 10 site offices are strictly running 07, admin and presentation room get both, the rest get whatever their pc originally came with

[Brydo666]

I'm still using Office 2003 at work... I installed a plugin called Xobni to our systems which integrates with Outlook to index mail and provide instant search results - it works a treat.

[BertRoot]

2007 and the amount of moaning when people switch is like being in a fucking nursery. Grow up cunt0rs and move with it.

[inspectercoley]

Want the new office tho cos 2003 is limited by number of records in excel quite a lot...

[stimpy]

Just to throw a spanner in the works, I have Office 2004 installed (Apple Mac), I hate the stupid thing and have only ever used it to make powerpoint presentations for clients to use.

[flipper321]

We've got 2003 here and 2007 in an overseas branch.

Trying to get an update to 2007 as the multi-cpu awareness of it would be very helpful for certain stuff I do.

[dalboy]

2003 at our office. Simple fact is people dont like change - theres no real reason to go to 2007.

New layouts / save formats etc... would confuse people. Majority of our clients are on 2003 as well so you can imagine the problems with different versions.

We've installed the 2007 compatibility pack for our Office 2003 so we can read 2007 files.

Simple and no problems. Oh and cost as well of 2007 to rollout would be too big to warrant.

[DJAd]

We have 2007 on the work machines but I prefer 2003 myself.

When I tried to install them both it gave me some messages not advising it so I shat it.

Can you run them both? I would like Outlook 2007 but the rest can fuck off.
Which needs to be installed first if that matters?

[Delboy_1976]

We've got Office 2003 at my work with the 2007 viewers for whoever needs them.

[Fear345]

1997 i shit you not left over from our last owners oh how fucking shameful.

[willp2003]

generally xp/2003, but we (IT) are trying vista and 2007. I like 2007, but when/if we roll out across the sites then all hell will break loose, with miserable fuckers who don't like change.

[dalboy]

We have 2007 on the work machines but I prefer 2003 myself.

When I tried to install them both it gave me some messages not advising it so I shat it.

Can you run them both? I would like Outlook 2007 but the rest can fuck off.
Which needs to be installed first if that matters?

Cant see why it cant be done.

install 2003 custom not including outlook.

then install 2007 custom just outlook.

There may be conflicts further down the line though.

[Greyfox]

Everyone at my work has 07 installed.

[Mystical_2K]

i work at a university and they only install 2003 (except for a few high up moaners who threw their dummies out and wanted 2007 but then wanted 2003 because 2007 was *too different* - knobs!)

personally from the couple of people that have had 2007 i hope they never install it here because the amount of support calls ive recieved from these few people asking me how to do stuff they could do on 2003 is really annoying, especially when they wont buy me a copy of 2007 to help me troubleshoot these ones!

[DJ OD]

Both and it's a sore subject. Pisses me off no end...

Newer equipment has O2k7, but because older equipment has O2k3 we have all the newer versions running in compatibility mode and all files saved in O2k3 format. Due to the "big grid" this has caused no end of moany users saying that their new(ish) PC is slow to open files, keeps crashing and hanging.

Until the whole place has upgraded equipment with all machines running O2k7, then we're buggered.

Older machines running the O2k7 compatibility bollocks, but users are moany fucks...


DJ OD

[funkyg]

Probably about half and half here. New machines get 2007, the older ones have 2003 with the compatability pack. Most of our accounts dept have all been upgraded to 2007 due to a few gremlins in the the compat pack with Excel, but everyone else will have to wait until they get a new computer. No point in upgrading just for the sake of it, in our case anyway.

Oh, and we have a couple of users that seem to have slipped the net and are running Office XP/2000.

[Over Carl]

We have 2007 on the work machines but I prefer 2003 myself.

When I tried to install them both it gave me some messages not advising it so I shat it.

Can you run them both? I would like Outlook 2007 but the rest can fuck off.
Which needs to be installed first if that matters?

Dunno if it works the other way round but if you install 03 first then 07 it works.

Only problem is you can't have two different outlook's.

Also if you do keep both, say if you run word 03, then word 07, then word 03, each time you switch you will see the installer screen for a few mins. Here's a registry tweak to stop that. (As usual with reg tweaks - use at your own risk). Basically you need to add the following keys to the registry, you can do this by click start, run, then typing

reg add string

where string is one of the strings below. Will need to do both.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

[MsDG]

The whole thing is a fucking Mess (Thanks MS)

When you work in a situation where there is a shit load of PC (3000) it is a total nightmare.

If you a running W2k (and there are). You can't use 2007
If you have below 512meg then forget it
If you have 512meg then you can have it (if you don't like doing much work)
If you use fucking massive excel spread sheets, you will find it a lot more painfull in 2007
If you import data directly from other sources like cognos, you are also fucked in 2007
If you have loads of users that struggle to know one end of a mouse to the other, the 2007 menus are like learning klingon to them.

So what do we have....

Upgrading Hardware, memory, OS & user training.... just for a word processor??

Fuck off

The Answer... Star Office 9 (or open office - same thing)

That opens anything (and looks quite a bit like Office 2003)

[Over Carl]

Was gonna get into this earlier but didn't have time.

I was reading up on the reasons for the change to the ribbon toolbar. Apparently ms were getting annoyed with people requesting feature to be added into office products when the reality was that they hadn't found the feature which was present, but hidden away under menus and submenus.

So the new interface automatically brings commands you are likely to use next to your fingertips making your life easier.

This actually was pretty much what a couple of people who have gotten used to it have said which makes me think there could be truth to it.


However, the flip side - is this some kind of dark consipiracy? At work, out of the 3 admin ladies, the head one seems to have cracked it with relative ease. The other two have difficulities - one to the point where I don't think she should be let near anything powered by electricity. They both managed with 2003. A far fetched conspiracy theory I came up with is that ms are trying to stop incompetent people from using their products so shit in the workplace gets blamed on poor users rather than poor sw. (not to mention increased training costs).

Tbh, I doubt my theory, but I've noticed autocad is going the same way. Why? If they wanted to bring relevant commands to your fingertips, they could've brought back the now defunct screen menu, but instead they've just made everyone have to relearn skills essential to their work without any good reason.