Office 2007 Update Will Take A Lot Of Getting Used To
Get ready for Office 2007, the most sweeping update to Microsofts popular suite of productivity applications.
An extensive re-education awaits those who will upgrade to the new Office 2007. Its truly a redesign. The menu bar and navigation buttons for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for example, look completely different.
But before buying, Id suggest you do think about whether you’re willing to spend the time learning new ways of doing things. Office 2007 has a great many new features and controls.
Theres something else thats very different: Microsoft uses a different format to save files with Office 2007 that, without a special viewer that will have to be downloaded, makes them unreadable with earlier versions. When saving a document with Office 2007, you have the option of saving as a previous version which makes them compatible with earlier versions but Im betting this change alone is going to cause massive amounts of confusion among the early adapters.
That said, the beta of Office 2007 that Ive been testing for the past couple of weeks is faster, more powerful and lots more...