What made me hesitate, the frustrating experiences with Office 2007 and 2010. In particular, were the ribbon concept I could not make friends. Compared to the efficient work with Office 2003 it always felt like a wooden leg. Finally I switched unnerved on Office 2003 back. But after more than 10 years and the expiry of the support it was finally time for an upgrade, especially since some things just Internet-related functions were not really on the cutting edge.
The first two weeks are in software change so usually the most frustrating time: Much of what you had previously done with a few mouse clicks or keyboard shortcuts Ruck-Zuck, now is the pesky fumble, and in the worst case you have to use complicated workarounds. The loss of productivity, the one experienced in recent weeks can be extremely distressing and annoying. Until you look after all partly zurecht- with the changes, has partly resigned.
Judging by what I've experienced with other upgrades and especially the earlier versions, I find myself at the end of the ominous two weeks remarkably relaxed, almost tidy mood: The change is well managed better than expected; I am mainly in Outlook, Word and Excel, which I most frequently use, pretty good at home and will hardly plagued by nostalgic moods. (And change is extremely rare to Office 2003 which I have not yet uninstalled the safe side.)
Of course I had initially and still have to look for some functions and settings. But the new Office is quite logical, or better said: built intuitively appealing. Apparently its developers have really thought about how and where the user would look for the respective functions, and thereby fall astonishingly often right.
Anyway, I find myself from the outset surprisingly good deal, and it is left open only a few puzzles. One of them is how to deal with English citations individual passages assigns the correct language in bilingual texts German text, so that the spellchecker will work meaningful. The automatic speech recognition works within "mixed" sections not very good, and it serves no useful purpose, always press in the English sections on "Ignore", because then perhaps English Typos be overlooked. As far as I've seen, you can assign individual passages indeed a language, but this assignment appears after you close and re-open the document to be lost.
But there are also a number of new features that I feel as real progress and foremost the ability to save documents as PDF, making it quite superfluous as annoying as expensive Adobe Acrobat. Also very pleasing is the ability to convert PDF files in Word and edit them. The installation on other computers went smoothly; only annoying that you have to download the entire package again, which is quite time consuming when a slow connection.
Overall, my first impression is very positive: The first MS product, for which I give 5 stars. I'll report back if I maintain this review after prolonged use.
