Re:I Maintain That I Don't NEED It (Score 2, Informative)

We're all intelligent people here (I think), and we're all capable of weighing the pros and cons of software. Office 2007 should be no different. If you want to present a good article to me on 2007, I'd like to see all sides of the issue, not just telling me why I need to use it.

It is a cost/benefit equation, which probably works out differently for each individual. For me, it is Excel 2007 with its much improved colours, better graphing, bigger worksheets, built-in Dashboard styles that outweighs the significant costs of the steep learning curve of the new interface - I have been using Word since Word 2.0, and have probably referred to the help file more in the last two weeks than in the previous 10 years.

Although there are changes to most applications (but not, disappointingly, the VBA Editor which Microsoft did not bring into line with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE) whether the sum of the benefits of particular changes in the individual applications is greater than the cost is an individual assessment based on your own usage of the new features.
My summary:

• Excel - great changes for the most part. (+10)
• Word - big changes to the interface makes it hard to find things, and the other changes are not that significant. Problems with PDF files created through Acrobat. (-3)
• Access - it took me 5 minutes to work out how to create a new query this morning as the ribbon (Create|Other|Query Design) does not appear when you go to the Queries view (-5)
• Powerpoint - not used yet 0
• Outlook - not used yet 0

Total = +2