Keep struggling with office or do you choose to be effective?

In almost all companies in the Office products are commonly and widely used. Even business critical processes like planning & scheduling, cost calculations and reports are created in Excel, PowerPoint and Access. The main objection to the use of this tooling is not the tooling itself, but very inefficient and incompetent use of it. Most users have familiarized themselves in these tools, occasionally supported by a colleague.
On the other hand Office has developed as well. However features such as PowerPivot, special graphics and Macros are unknown to most users. The result is that an unnecessary amount of time is lost because users don’t use the latest features. For some knowledge workers this can add up to a few hours a day!