[IxDA Discuss] “The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office”

[Alexander Baxevanis]

From the same article:

"Beyond the top 10 commands or so, however, the curve flattens out
considerably. The percentage difference in usage between the #100
command ("Accept Change") and the #400 command ("Reset Picture") is
about the same in difference between #1 and #11 ("Change Font Size"),"
according to Microsoft's data."

So suppose you took care of the 5 most used commands, a far bigger
challenge is to organise a flat (in terms of usage frequency) list of
500 commands. And that's why such sort of analytics is not
particularly helpful, and you really need to go beyond "commands" and
look at the bigger picture of how people are using a word processor to
accomplish some task.

Cheers,
Alex

On Feb 19, 2008 11:43 AM, Jens Meiert <jens.meiert at erde3.com> wrote:
> Thought this Google OS post [1] hasn't been posted but would be of interest:
>
> > the most used features in Microsoft Word 2003 […]:
> >
> > 1. Paste (11% of the usage)
> > 2. Save (5.5% of the usage)
> > 3. Copy
> > 4. Undo
> > 5. Bold
> >
> > These five commands account for 32% of all the command usage
> > in Microsoft Word 2003 […]
>
> Probably unsurprisingly, these numbers appear to show some kind of "Pareto principle" usage ("20 % of the application commands are used in 80 % of the time"). Does your experience support this?
>
>
> [1] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-frequently-used-features-in.html
>
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> Jens Meiert
> http://meiert.com/en/
>
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