Need office users to fill out survey

[John]

Hi All!

I'm conducting a survey for my college research project and need responses.
It's for
MS office users and I need as much of a response as possible.

Under the name question, just put your first name and your last initial. I
just need it as a separate identifier. if you have a handle that you use in
the newsgroup, feel free to use that, too. There is no personal information
asked for.

Here's the link: http://www.summitcadd.com/ms_word_survey.htm
Thanks,

John

 

[John]

I just got a very irrate responder who wrote me off as spam between all of
his self righteous explicatives. The information in this survey will go no
further than my presentation in class next month and that will only be
generalized. I'm sorry if you're too used to dealing with shady characters
here, but you're going to have to take my word that I'm not one of them.

 

[DatabaseBen]

not interested...
but thanks for the offer...

oh wait, you had nothing
to offer in return for taking
a survey... silly me.

 

[Tom Willett]

So what is your point? Are you the spammer?

 

[John]

No, I'm a college grad student trying figure out if software developers are
loading their product with lots of unnessecary features that the end users
have no need for.

I'm also an AutoDesk Certified Prof in my day job

 

[Val]

And you need to conduct a survey to figure that out?

Word 2003 has 1074 commands (and I doubt that number includes all the
options and settings). Who do you know uses more than some 10% subset of
that?

Oh, that's actually somewhat less than the 1175 commands in Word 2000. But
they make up for it, Word 2007 (B2TR) has 1758 commands!!!

Val

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

It's actually 20%. If you want data on this stuff, read
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/14/66 and make sure to read the 4 posts
of the "Office UI Bible" linked there.

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[Gary Smith]

The answer to that question is "it all depends on the user." No doubt
there are at least a few users who love absolutely every feature of
Office, but I'm sure that most users do not use many of the features or
even know that they are there.

Be aware that an online survey that depends on volunteer respondents may
produce interesting results, but those results have no statistical
significance and cannot be applied to any larger group.

No, I'm a college grad student trying figure out if software developers are
loading their product with lots of unnessecary features that the end users
have no need for.