StarOffice Calc v. MS Excel: - SVN

StarOffice Calc Usability Evaluation
Today we’re going to use StarOffice Calc, a program you may not have used before. To get you
started, you’ll have 5 minutes to explore the system. Take a look at the icons, menus, and
toolbars. After 5 minutes we’ll start the test.
(System exploration - 5 minutes )
(Administrator opens StarOffice Calc file)
Here’s the data file you’ll be working with in StarOffice Calc
(Repeat the following for all four stages)
We’d like you to change this data so that it looks like this
(show the printed sheet for StarOffice Calc for the relevant stage)
Do you have any questions?
(When they finish the relevant stage of StarOffice Calc tasks)
Great. Now I’m going to ask you a few questions about what you just did.
(ask task-level questions )
(When the user has completed the chart in StarOffice Calc) Great! You’ve finished the first half
of the test! We’d like you to save this document in a way that you think will allow it to be
opened in Excel. You can save it to the desktop... Now close the StarOffice Calc document …
Now open your document with Excel. Take a look and see if the data looks the same… Now
close the document …
(Ask StarOffice Calc general evaluation questions)
Switch to Excel
This part of the test will be very similar to the last one. I’m going to ask you to perform similar
tasks on this Excel data set.
(Repeat the following for all four stages)
We’d like you to change this data so that it looks like this
(show the printed sheet for relevant Excel stage)
Do you have any questions?
(When they finish the relevant stage of Excel tasks)
Great. Now I’m going to ask you a few questions about what you just did.
(Ask task-level questions… )
(When the user has completed the chart in Excel): Great! You’re finished with most of the
Excel tasks! For the last part of the test, we’d like you to save this document to the desktop
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