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MS Office 2007
deadonthestreet
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So what with all the Vista hype, everyone seems to be forgetting that Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office along with it.
I really know nothing about it. Is it worth the upgrade? (I use Office XP) Does it actually do anything new or exciting or useful? Or is it kinda like Vista in that it is more or less the same old thing in a new coat of paint?
I really know nothing about it. Is it worth the upgrade? (I use Office XP) Does it actually do anything new or exciting or useful? Or is it kinda like Vista in that it is more or less the same old thing in a new coat of paint?
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I've read that it changes the way the tools are laid out. Now it's all boxes instead of long bars. Might be an improvement in usability (but then I never had problems with the tool layouts).
Will this new Office kick my ass in some awesome way?
it seems mostly like a coat of paint, BUT the new "ribbon" interface is actually a really nice improvement. i'm liking it very much, but it's not as if i can't go back to word 2003 again.
boxes? You mean like Photoshop or something?
I'm upgrading my entire office just because of the increased maximum spreadsheet size in Excel 2007.
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I'm still using Office 97, and I see no reason to change.
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No, it's like, okay, instead of your toolbar and menus, you have tabs. Clicking a tab changes the toolbar to a different set.
We're upgrading because our office regularly needs to generate spreadsheets well over the maximum row length that Excel 2003 allows (65k).
For regular home user (and most other businesses, really), I wouldn't recommend the upgrade.
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oh... no thank you
[edit]Oh, there ya go. Looks less boxy than I remember :P
Imagine the formatting toolbar being one long bar with a line of icons. Now put these icons into a rectangle instead. Add other rectangle toolboxes (like standard and drawing, w/e).
I think it was changed to help other toolbars with less icons arrange themselves better (instead of say, stacking a long and short bar together, and then you can't tell which toolbar is which if you don't look closely enough). I haven't tried out Word 2007 to see if this is the case though.
Hasn't Gnumeric had spreadsheets of arbitrary size since forever ago?
Or maybe I'm thinking of some other program.
If I'd ever heard of Gnumeric I could probably tell you.
I wasn't at this company when they moved to Windows/Office from Linux/OOo, so I'm just playing with what I'm given.
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This screenshot is from MS's website (here):
At the top you have the "ribbon" which is context sensitive. If you create a chart and are entering data, the ribbon buttons will change to reflect what you would use for the chart. The same goes for graphs and images and everything else.
Office 2007 also has live previews. According to MS: "Live Preview is a new technology that shows the results of applying an editing or formatting change as the user moves the pointer over the results presented in a Gallery."
That's also a nice feature. You don't have to select something to see the result, then decide you don't like it and hit undo. You can just mouse over something else and see how it is.
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Ah... well, that makes sense. And yeah, I'd never pay more than a cent for a large suite of programs that I'll only ever use as a simple word processor anyway.
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The new default font is Calibri, a font thta's very similar to Arial, the only noticible differences are that it's smaller and squatter. And even less serif-y.
The champion remains Computer Modern.