jgharston wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote

Word and Excel do need to be taught,

No, word processing and spreadsheets. You don't teach somebody
to drive a Ford Focus, you teach them how to drive a car.

Word processors and spreadsheets are a lot
more complicated than a car user interface wise.

It isnt really feasible to teach either word processing or spreadsheets
without using specific examples of those, and it makes no sense to not
be using the most commonly used ones.

Its arguable if its worth bothering with the pre 2007 UI of Word and
Excel when few will bother to get those older versions for their own
systems and the student versions of the latest UI are so cheap.