The learning curve for the beta, for the most part, appears to be short and sharp!

 

I feel like I'm getting up to speed pretty quickly (I'll certainly not forget where "save as" is located) and although a couple of features have gone walkabout, they've usually been pretty easy to track down.

 

The User Interface team over in Redmond are a step ahead and have created some useful tools to help Beta 2 users track down favourite features.

 

They've called it the "Interactive Command Reference Guide", but I much prefer "Lost and Found" :-)

 

Word 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

Excel 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 Interactive Command Reference Guide

 

These only work if you have already installed the beta! (If you haven't and you just want to check out the new look, visit the preview site and view the product demos.)

 

I got these links from Jensen Harris's excellent blog and while I was there came across another excellent "getting started" resource - a one page hit-the-ground-running introduction to Office 2007: http://officeblogs.net/UI/WelcomeToOfficePDF.zip

 

Looks like my learning curve might flat-line very soon.