Upgrading from Office 97 to Office XP

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My company will be upgrading from Office 97 (WinNT) to Office XP
(WinXP). As of right now they are telling us that training dollars
just aren't in the budget. Meaning - well, handouts, web references,
book... whatever the business units want to pay for.

We have wide variety of users. Some do one or two things in Word or
Excel, some power users...

My feeling is that when we roll these people out they are going to be
alarmed at the jump. Multi-facted clipboard, task pane, adaptive
menus, smart-tags... these are the big ones off the top of my head
that just "appear". Without training some users are going to be
"surprised". I also assume that this will increase the volume of
calls to our helpdesk. The idea of "no training" is silly on this
basis alone. Moreover it totally sidesteps the idea of showing them
all the new features that would improve productivity.

My main question though is for anyone who has done this upgrade - what
are the new features that "surprise" people. What things (in what
apps) have changed enough for the basic user to require a formal
introduction / training.
 
The first think I'd do is read through some of the stuff at the top of the
PPT FAQ (url below)
There's an entry about "Do this before you use PPT for anything serious"

I'd make sure every user has a copy of this or, better yet, if you're going
to do a network rollout, you might be able to hand out PPT with all these
settings in place already.

You're more than welcome to crib and distribute that FAQ as is or as
modified to suit your house style.

And make sure your users know how to find us here. There's a FAQ about that
too.

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Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
PPTLive ( http://www.pptlive.com ) Featured Speaker
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PPT FAQ: http://www.pptfaq.com
 
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