Ms Office Version

[Siddharth Rout]

Which MS-Office version do you CURRENTLY use?

Or if you own a Company or work in a Company (size immaterial for the time being) Which Office version is used in Majority?

If you have a pc at home and you work as well then please give preference to "Work"

[dilettante]

Hard for me to justify an upgrade beyond 2003, since MS gave me two free copies.

Plus, no ribbon!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I need this to be multiple choice. At home I use 2003. At work, I currently use 2010, but if you had asked about three months back, I would have said 2007.

[Siddharth Rout]

@Shaggy: I have updated the above post.

Or if you own a Company or work in a Company (size immaterial for the time being) Which Office version is used in Majority?

[Nightwalker83]

Yeah, I use Office 2003 as well! I find it confusing trying to figure out where everything is located on the newer versions.

[Pradeep1210]

Office 2007 along with Windows 7 came preinstalled with our new systems our organization purchased recently. So I have no options.

Earlier I was using 2003 and was content with that. In 2007 and upwards, I find it confusing to find the correct feature on the ribbons. I find it more confusing than the simple menubar & toolbar we had earlier. They should have at-least given some option to restore the old look

[dilettante]

Well cheer up, soon you'll have some new Office flat-look to complement Metro.

[Pradeep1210]

That may be possible, but I'm not going that route. I don't want to be left behind the time.

[thebuffalo]

2007 Enterprise, only way to go.

[Hack]

You should have used checkboxs instead of radio buttons.

I am still on Office 2007 at work, but I run Office 2010 at home (Enterprise in both cases)

I didn't vote because I wasn't sure which one to pick.

[Siddharth Rout]

Hack, Please see my 1st post

If you have a pc at home and you work as well then please give preference to "Work"

[Hack]

I was supposed to read the first post?????? Who knew?

[Hack]

There is a mixed bag at my company....we have a little over 5,000 desktops/laptops and about third are running Office 2007 with Windows 7....another third are running Office 2007 with XP (I am in this group) and the final third are running Office 2003 with XP (Those are the groups that I know about. I wouldn't be surprised to find some group or other running Windows 7 and Office 2003 - that would be just like this company).

We have exclusively moved from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 (maybe there is a God!) and we are being upgraded to SharePoint 2010.

The desktop/laptop community, however, remains a hodgepoge.

[baja_yu]

I personally didn't find anything new since Office 2000 that I would actually use. So if the old one works, why waste the money.

I voted for 2011 at work, but at home I use OpenOffice, which does a more than good job, for free.

[thebuffalo]

Obviously because Mario Kart 64 is the best

There is a mixed bag at my company....we have a little over 5,000 desktops/laptops and about third are running Office 2007 with Windows 7....another third are running Office 2007 with XP (I am in this group) and the final third are running Office 2003 with XP (Those are the groups that I know about. I wouldn't be surprised to find some group or other running Windows 7 and Office 2003 - that would be just like this company)

Only the special people ( me and my manager ) get 2007 in my office, possibly the accountant too. Everybody else gets 2003.

[JuggaloBrotha]

I use Office 2002 (not even on the list) and Office 2010 equally, so it'd be nice if this was a multiple choice poll.

[dilettante]

They do appear to support an ad-hoc sort of connectivity, but it would take time to figure it out and of course it doesn't seem to follow any normal standards:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/...river_Tutorial

[Siddharth Rout]

@JuggaloBrotha: There is a reason why I deliberately didn't include a multiselect which I will disclose when I close the poll.

>>>I use Office 2002 (not even on the list)

It is. Other is for all other MS Office versions + Any other spreadhseet Apps like OO.

>>>and Office 2010 equally

Do you use both the versions at home?

Thanks to all who voted, are in the process of voting or will be voting.

Even if I get a sample of 20 votes (users who are working in an org), I will close the poll. As of now we have these users who have voted based on what version is used at their work place.

Shaggy Hiker
Pradeep1210
Hack
baja_yu
thebuffalo

So 15 more to go.

BTW it doesn't mean that if you are not working(probably studying or working from home) then your vote is not valuable. Trust me it is. So please do vote

Thanks again.

Sid

[SJWhiteley]

I use 2010 because that's what they had on the shelf.

I.Hate.The.Ribbon. Why, oh, why is it so bad?

But also the poll indicates 'other spreadsheet' but isn't it about MS Office? Word, OneNote (which I actually quite like - if only it didn't have a ribbon), outlook, etc.

[Hack]

Everyone hates the ribbon at first, myself included.

You get used to it....in fact, I had to do something in Excel 2003 the other day and could not, for the life of me, remember where anything was.

[JuggaloBrotha]

@JuggaloBrotha: There is a reason why I deliberately didn't include a multiselect which I will disclose when I close the poll.

>>>I use Office 2002 (not even on the list)

It is. Other is for all other MS Office versions + Any other spreadhseet Apps like OO.

>>>and Office 2010 equally

Do you use both the versions at home?

I still can't select "other" for Office 2002 until you change the poll to allow me to select both.

At work I use Office 2002 and 2010 equally. At home I use Office 2003 & 2010 equally, but you specifically said in the post that you're interested in what people use "at work" or for work.

Everyone hates the ribbon at first, myself included.

You get used to it....in fact, I had to do something in Excel 2003 the other day and could not, for the life of me, remember where anything was.

I love the Office 2010 Ribbon, but whenever I try to use Office 2007 I have a lot of difficulty finding things, I doubt I'll ever get used to the 2007 ribbon. I also like how in 2010 you can customize the ribbon, that's something that Office 2007's really needed.

[Icyculyr]

I use iWork

[Derokorian]

I, along with everyone else, use Office 2010 on Windows 7 at work (some 32bit some 64bit). I use 2010 on windows 7 on my personal PC's as well.

[Nightwalker83]

Office 2007 along with Windows 7 came preinstalled with our new systems our organization purchased recently. So I have no options.

My laptop had the same setup but it didn't come with any Microsoft cds to reinstall the software if needed. Needless to say the option to create a backup of the system failed all because of 1 disk. Thus, I had to reinstall Win 7 afresh and use Office 2003 which, I actually prefer.

[FunkyDexter]

The true answer is "whatever version the client puts in front of me" but I selected 2003 because that's the one I seem to end up on most. Arguably, though it's 2007 becuase that's what's on my machine at home which belongs to my company so is my "official work PC". I don't actually do much work on it though.

I'm not really sure why people object so strongly to the ribbon. It can be a bit of a culture shock at first but doesn't take long to get used to. I don't really see any substantial advantage it gives me over the old menus but I don't find it much of an obstacle either.

[Pradeep1210]

My laptop had the same setup but it didn't come with any Microsoft cds to reinstall the software if needed. Needless to say the option to create a backup of the system failed all because of 1 disk. Thus, I had to reinstall Win 7 afresh and use Office 2003 which, I actually prefer.

They charge a few dollars extra for the CD/DVD, but I think its worth the spending keeping in view that you are buying a new system. It's not included in the default package they offer. Just inquire.

The other painful way, if you want to save that amount is to download the setup from each vendor's website. The keys are usually in the package, or on a sticker on the system.