Last month, my office went through a full Office 2...

2007-07-12T15:57:00.000-07:00

Last month, my office went through a full Office 2007 upgrade. It seemed like a logical thing to do, it was a way to put everyone on a level playing field (most of the systems were running various versions of Office).

Ever since then, I have heard non-stop complaints from my co-workers about how slow everyone's systems are running (I too have noticed a big difference in speed, or lack thereof), how it takes forever to open up any Word or Excel file, and the fact that some computers crash when there are multiple Excel files open at once! The massive changes in menu setup is the least of their worries! That shocked me since people fall into their comfort zones and won't budge unless they are forced to.

Since I have been hearing so many complaints/issues/problems with this upgrade, I have had our offsite IT guy assess our memory capacity on various sytems in the office. He assessed that there will need to be some memory upgrades and some new computer purchases required to run Office 2007 smoothly.

If I had any idea that this would have turned into such a HUGE problem, I would not have recommended purchasing this upgrade until I had full confidence that our existing systems could handle it.

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Last month, my office went through a full Office 2...