[sims] Office 2010 compatibility?

[zag]

Office 2010 is great, the "save to" PDF function is worth the upgrade alone.

 

Add to that the big paperclip attachment button in outlook and its a must have upgrade

 

Seriously though, having auto account setup in outlook for services like gmail, a proper inbox bar chart free space, smaller office files, better ribbon interface (and yes It really is better after a bit of use), sharepoint integration all have their uses.

Edited January 27, 2011 by zag

[GREED]

Office 2010 is great, the "save to" PDF function is worth the upgrade alone.

 

Add to that the big paperclip attachment button in outlook and its a must have upgrade

 

Save to PDF was a free add on for 2007 as well.

[enjay]

I am honestly interested in opinions on this, both positive and negative.

 

And that is why I answered your question!

[scholarpack]

Office 2010 is great, the "save to" PDF function is worth the upgrade alone.

 

Only been in Open Office for about 6 years..

[DrCheese]

Save to PDF was a free add on for 2007 as well.

 

True, but pre SP2 you had to install it separately. It was in office 2007 but Adobe moaned.

[matt40k]

I totally understand the business reasons why Capita don't support it yet, but as I said in my first post they would not get away with waiting so long if there was actual competition in the market.

Myself, I'm not fussed given that we are sticking with 2007 for the moment.

 

Sage doesn't support Office 2010 yet (I believe), nor does a ton of other software.

 

As for the whole Capita support Office 2003 argument, they won't just drop it, if the hardware spec still says Office 2003, your fine for about 3 years. Personally, until Jon Wood says it's being dropped, I wouldn't worry.

 

Having said that, I wouldn't like to be deploying Office 2003 - however don't mix the environment, aka 2003 and 2007, one or the other!!

[GREED]

And that is why I answered your question!

 

And I am glad you did! lol

 

I said that because I am not looking to be besieged by moans about 2007/2010, as I have recieved before!

[GREED]

It was in office 2007 but Adobe moaned.

 

Shame!

[zag]

Oh and I forgot the pretty pictures of peoples faces you can attach to contacts and emails. I love that feature in 2010

[icttech]

We have been using Office 2010 with Sims since Sep 2010. We have not had an issues with Sims and Office 2010 regarding compatibility, reports extract fine into Office.

 

I thought for consideration might be uses training as there is a change in menu layout which most staff will need to some getting used to, especially for those who are going to go from 2003 to 2010

[Gibbo]

Only been in Open Office for about 6 years..

 

We've always put CutePDF on all our images, gives staff the ability to PDF anything then.

[DrCheese]

Shame!

 

Office 2007 Beta rather, my bad

[vikpaw]

We have been using Office 2010 with Sims since Sep 2010. We have not had an issues with Sims and Office 2010 regarding compatibility, reports extract fine into Office.

 

I thought for consideration might be uses training as there is a change in menu layout which most staff will need to some getting used to, especially for those who are going to go from 2003 to 2010

 

Can you make and run a mailmerge report?

Do the late letters work for you?

I#ve heard the latter work on occasion but the former never.

[PhilNeal]

SIMS will not work with Office 2010 in all areas until the spring release.

[bgarston]

Works for me too. :-)

[PhilNeal]

Guys this isn't helpful - there are areas of SIMS that NO NOT WORK WITH Office 2010!

[Sivadam]

I would dare to suggest that you guys that do not have problems with Office 2010 may not be using SIMS to it's full potential?

Apologies if you are!

 

For example, do you include Assessment graphs within AM7 Reports? We have a case open at the moment where the Axes Labels on the graphs are currently delivering points scores rather than the Sub-Levels that they were delivering prior to the Autumn Release. This is Office 2007!

 

Quite a sophisticated use of Word and, at some point, we need to test this sort of thing on Office 2010 after the Spring Release. But it will only be done on the one workstation first! I had enough problems converting from Office 2003 to 2007 in terms of Templates for AM7 Reports, Profiles Reports, Merged Reports to produce all the Letters and Certificates within Attendance, Exclusions, Detentions etc etc.

[SYNACK]

What is is with MIS suppliers, you guys do somehow manage to take your sweet time supporting software. Is it a problem with your development pipeline or just a lack of foward planning. Our local supplier is just as bad and still has not got official x64 support even though we have it working just fine.

[zag]

What is is with MIS suppliers, you guys do somehow manage to take your sweet time supporting software. Is it a problem with your development pipeline or just a lack of foward planning. Our local supplier is just as bad and still has not got official x64 support even though we have it working just fine.

 

I think the proof is earlier in this thread. Capita do not use beta or Release candidate software for testing because "it might change".

 

The entire point of Microsoft releasing those version is so that partners can prepare their software.

 

So until they change this policy I doubt it will change in the future. 1 year is far too long though.

 

Although saying that, Capita have managed to push out sharepoint 2010 support for SLG which is pretty impressive. Its just a shame when the trainer turned up he had never used sharepoint 2010 and all his training documents were for the 2007 version!

[enjay]

I think the proof is earlier in this thread. Capita do not use beta or Release candidate software for testing because "it might change".

 

Fair enough with Beta, but not RC - like you say, that's the whole point of the RC version.

[SYNACK]

I think the proof is earlier in this thread. Capita do not use beta or Release candidate software for testing because "it might change".

 

The entire point of Microsoft releasing those version is so that partners can prepare their software.

 

Even with that rather misinformed policy they have still had a year, do they program with punchcards? Our MIS systems took two and a bit years to be certified for Vista, almost 4 if you count the beta time it is just abysmal.

[JaTayler]

2010 is not supported yet, so not worth the risk IMHO.

 

We have Office 2010 here & generally SIMS works fine with it.

The only problem that appears to have manifested itself (and as a result, required us to downgrade the problem machine to Office 2007), was when the user was trying to attach / print mail merged letters to the students information.

 

At the moment, 2010 isn't supported by SIMS.

I believe that they are in the process of looking at getting support for it.

[matt40k]

At the moment, 2010 isn't supported by SIMS.

I believe that they are in the process of looking at getting support for it.

 

Yes, Spring 11 release, out in March.

[Sivadam]

There goes that echo again...............

echo again .................

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[zag]

So is Sims now compatible with Office 2010?

 

I just had a member of staff trying to use some templates for reports and she's telling me she rang Sims and they told her to "re-install office 2007" as a solution. She also said that capita told her that other schools are not using office 2010.