What Can You Expect?

The upgrade will take place during the overnight hours. You will receive an email from ITS a day or two in advance of your date, with more specific details about when the upgrade will occur, and in what state to leave your computer when you leave for the day.

When you return to work, you may see a screen regarding Office when you log in, but no other action should be necessary.

All faculty and staff will be receiving, via campus mail, quick reference cards that describe some of the changes that you will see when using the new software, plus hints on some of the new and existing features.

What Do You Need To Do?

Laptop Users: You will need to, as soon as possible, contact the helpdesk or your support team to verify that you computer is ready for this installation. Additionally, having your computer left in the office and plugged into both power and data is necessary to receive the upgrade.

Faculty: If you are a laptop user and will not be on campus during the upgrade, please contact your support team to make arrangements for this to happen as soon as possible when you return to campus.

Resources

Sign up for available training classes (What's New in Office 2007; What's New in Office 2008) - http://web.grinnell.edu/humanresources/registeronline/

Office 2007 Information for PC Users for web-based training and for brief, video-based "How-to's"

Office 2008 Information for Mac Users for web-based training and for brief, video-based "How-to's"