Our company only recently upgraded to 2007. This was a major upheaval for a lot of the more inexperienced users. The rest of us more or less embraced the change, though I can get Excel to crash quite easily.

I run 2010 at home, and I don't really like it one bit.

So what are the new "features" of 2013?

I'm still using Office 2003 Professional and it does everything I need.  

Office 2003 is not listed on the Win 8 compatibility list and not supposed to work but I have it installed on my Win 8 Pro installation and Word and Outlook (what I primarily use) works OK on Win 8. 

MachineClaw


work just upgraded to office 2010 and it's driving me nuts.
 

unfortunately i know exactly what it feels like and even worse: with excel you'll never get over losing v2003. i do make a lot of work / money consulting for engineering companies and consider myself a power user of excel, but when I was forced to move to 2007 / 2010 I almost suffered from a fatigue break in my index finger having to click a million times more often to get the same things done ...
 
so i refused to upgrade from access 2003 for 2 more years, but just recently had to go through porting my developments to access 2010, 64 bit. 2 weeks of work plus numerous headaches, just to get the same functionality back - and worst of it all: they still have that 2 GB file size limit in place which is absolutely ridiculous ... 7 years of development and license upgrades and no change???
 
and it gets even better: counting all crashes of Excel I had in the last 15 years is certainly a smaller number than what I had in the past 2 months!
 
considering all that cake has done a great jop revamping sonar and getting X2a stable! IMHO

 
change is hard.  as I get older changes is more challenging.
 

it's definitely NOT an age thing. this pseudo-streamlining of software just to fit new gadgets is one of the most annoying developments in recent years!!!!
 

change is hard. as I get older changes is more challenging.

 
Change is hard for many, not just older.  My day job, before retiring, was as a  Regional LAN/WAN Network and Hardware Help Desk Manager for a US Federal Government Agency.  Before the agency migrated from "dumb" terminals (IBM 3270 terminals) to LAN, I was sent to a 1 week "managing change" seminar.  My tech staff (hardware help desk techs and network techs) were used to change, but the people at our field offices which were administrative types were not really (or not most) ready for a major change in the way they did work with computers.  It was a major task when we went from teletype machines to the dumb computer terminals.  From the dumb computer terminals to PC's and LAN's was even a bigger shock to how they did their jobs as each employee was to get a PC and have access to the agency's remote computer complex.  What small amount of PC computers that were on the sites (maybe one or two PC's) ran older DOS applications including WordPerfect, Lotus 123, dBase, etc.  The new LAN systems (initially Novell netware for the LAN) would be client server systems and MS Office applications, along with a 3270 emulator for on-line access to the agency's central office computer (CICS mainframe) complex. 
 
Talk about a technology shock... They were given training on using the computers and one person in the office was given LAN Administrator training.  In preparation for the LAN conversion, my Help Desk staff was increased and given prior training including PC hardware troubleshooting and repair training.  I was also given contractor help staff, initially Novell CNE's and later MSCE's.