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Office 2007: Getting The Best From Word
| Author | Simon Williams |
| Published | 10th Dec 2008 |
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When Microsoft Office 2007 first made its appearance last year, there were lots of comments on its revamped interface, with its radically different look. Microsoft had bitten the bullet and made usability changes which require its customers to relearn the ways they set about everyday tasks.
The functions that were originally all on drop-down menus are grouped together in full view at the top of the screen. The whole interface is a lot more graphical and immediate, as you can directly get at many functions you used to have to dig down to reach.
It's not just about looks, though. Office uses a new file format, based on XML, which makes it more directly compatible with other applications. According to Microsoft, it also produces smaller documents, separates out macro scripts, making it easier to block rogue code, and makes documents less susceptible to corruption. Word 2007 still opens and saves Word .doc files, though, so you can create and edit the mass of files you probably already have in the older format.
Getting the most out of the new version of Word involves a bit of learning, a bit of exploration and a bit of knowing where to look for the best bits. Hopefully, this feature and its accompanying videos will provide at least two out of the three.
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JellyUK said on 10th December 2008
Paul said on 10th December 2008
Interesting, you actually picked one of the biggest examples of inconsistency in Word 2007 (or perhaps more accurately, one of my biggest bugbears!).
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basicasic said on 10th December 2008
Nice PR puff piece about the Vole's biggest rip off.
TheMonkeyHead said on 11th December 2008
I found this feature really useful. I think that the tutorials are a really good use of video, and would like to see more (newest version of excel?)& maybe Cliff could do some ... more
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I wish that Word 2008 (the mac version) was just a port of Word 2007. I absolutely had the "formatting pallet". When i use my mate's pcs, i find that Office 2007 is ... more