Experience The Best--Office XP

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3.1 Excel XP 3.4 Access XP 3.5 PPt XP 3.2 Outlook XP 3.3


Next, according to the examination from American Institutes for Research (AIR), the average task completion times (minutes: seconds) for all participants (n=22)*. Across all tasks, Office XP outperformed Office 2000, both in shorter task times and the number of tasks successfully completed. On average, all participants completed the eleven tasks faster using Office XP than using Office 2000. When using Office XP, they completed the tasks in an average total time of 20 minutes and 6 seconds, whereas when using Office 2000, they completed tasks in an average total time of 43 minutes and 42 seconds.
Office XP Office 2000
Task Average task completion time Average task completion time Time difference
1: Incorporate existing PowerPoint content from multiple presentations onto one slide. 2:30 3:00 0:30
2: Insert, format and label a diagram in a PowerPoint slide. 1:00 4:17 3:17
3: Apply a new design template to a PowerPoint slide. 0:31 1:35 1:04
4: Apply another new design template to a PowerPoint slide. 0:21 1:18 0:57
5: Find and fix three formula errors in an Excel spreadsheet 4:...