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I'll admit it. I sometimes start using a new program or utility just because it is new, and based around a feature that I'm looking for. The truth is that most of the time when you're looking for a feature, it's probably in a program that you've already been using - you're just not utilizing its full potential.

This isn't so bad on a personal level, but in the workplace, this can become a nightmare. I work in a busy work environment, and each engineer has his favorite tools. What tends to happen is someone looks for a tool to accomplish a task without knowing that a tool already exists to take care of the task. Now you have two tools when one could complete the job. On top of that, other people in the workplace have a new tool to deal with.

Yes it's great to try new programs out to see if they have something that's useful, but the feature you're looking for may already exist in a program and you just haven't seen it.

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