>>Secondly, the political issue of getting the manager to let you adopt them woulbd be, I suppose, to use the old "if you don't use them you'll be left behind and that's not good for careers" ploy. <g>
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>>Presuming you've satisfied yourself as to the functional value of course... <g>
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>Well, not that I like the herd mentality, but if a feature is strongly "in vogue" you may as well go with it, or be left looking "dinosaurish" and indeed that may be bad for careers. I guess some of the users will like the toolbar upgrade too.
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>But it's still eye candy, mainly, isn't it?

Bruce;

Why not allow a user set up option to use different styles of such "features"? Then capture what each user selects and how often. You can then know who likes what and which approach is used most often. After all we are interested in handling data. :) One of the user selections could be "Random" and could just mix up the controls in any order it pleases.

Be sure all this is in compliance with federal regulations for use of software by handicapped persons.

Tom