One of my classes has a test tomorrow so my office hours were busier than normal today. One of the students asked a fairly basic question which was followed by a, “because it’s completely different in Office 2007. I learned how to do it in Office 2003.”
If you haven’t used Office 2007, you may not know that it is radically different than Office 2003. In fact, until Office 2007, the product interface was almost unchanged for ten years. The new menu ribbon takes some getting used to, but is more intuitive than the old static menu bar (if you are a new Office user).
Once I showed my student where the setting was in the new interface, everything was fine. Then I told him that he would be using a different program when he started his first teaching job in four years. By then Office 2010 will certainly be out and everyone will be switching to it.
Learning how to learn has never been more important. It is especially true in technology where one can expect a new office suite or operating system every couple of years. This year we got both at the same time.
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