Teams will be upgraded to Office 2007 before the 16 November when the students will be upgraded.

13 Oct Library Administration
15 Oct MB
20 Oct Central – Info Services, Interloans and Bindery
21 Oct Central – Lending
27 Oct Education
3 Nov Law
10 Nov PSL
11 Nov Eng

At 4pm the day before Library IT will remove Office 2003 and clean up profiles. Those staff working after 4pm cannot use Office, and will need to use a web browser to access email. After the Library closes Office 2007 will start to install. Library IT staff will be available from 8.00am, do NOT login to any workstation or laptop until Library IT staff tell you to. Once you have been upgraded do NOT login to any workstation of laptop that still has Office 2003, this includes the student installed PCs where you will need to use a training login until 16 Nov. If in doubt call Library IT as you will create problems not only for yourself but also for anyone who logins into that workstation.

The IT Help page has information on using Office 2007 and links to the ICTS help which is extensive. Library IT is happy to arrange training after the upgrade if you need it, but experience with Collections staff was that it was not required. It does take an hour or so to become used to using the new layout. If you need advanced help with Word or Excel then Carole and Liz are happy to help otherwise contact Library IT.

Library IT will be asking staff who work only in extended hours to change their password so that Library IT can do the conversion for them during the day. We have a process worked out with ICTS that we will explain to affected staff in more detail. If you are away during the conversion you must contact Library IT before you first login to ANY workstation.

The good news is that once you have got used to Office 2007 you will find it is much nicer to use.

Cheers

Anne