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Review: A Comprehensive Look At Microsoft Office 2007

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The reworked interface for Word 2007 presents you with only what you need to see at any given time, and adds some subtle new refinements.

Live Preview lets you immediately see the effects of certain Word functions on a document, such as adding a table.
Microsoft's use of the XML format means that each document can be unpacked manually by using a ZIP-compatible archiving tool.
Excel also uses the new Office interface, and also offers some new interface tweaks, such as named column headings instead of the tradition
Microsoft Word 2007
The reworked interface for Word 2007 presents you with only what you need to see at any given time, and adds some subtle new refinements.

Microsoft Word 2007
Live Preview lets you immediately see the effects of certain Word functions on a document, such as adding a table.
Microsoft Word 2007
Microsoft's use of the XML format means that each document can be unpacked manually by using a ZIP-compatible archiving tool.
MIcrosoft Excel 2007
Excel also uses the new Office interface, and also offers some new interface tweaks, such as named column headings instead of the tradition "A...B...C" designations.

You can now use Office's Styles feature to format Excel cells. Colorful icons can indicate the status of your data -- Microsoft calls this visual annotation.
In Excel 2007, graphs are now easier to create and control, and you can see how your changes will look on the fly by hovering your cursor over the formatting command.
The new To-Do bar on the right side of Outlook's main window presents you with a condensed view of the most urgent goings-on in your Calendar and Tasks.
Outlook's abysmally slow Search function has been replaced with Microsoft's Desktop Search -- searches that used to take minutes now take seconds.
MIcrosoft Excel 2007
You can now use Office's Styles feature to format Excel cells. Colorful icons can indicate the status of your data -- Microsoft calls this visual annotation.
MIcrosoft Excel 2007
In Excel 2007, graphs are now easier to create and control, and you can see how your changes will look on the fly by hovering your cursor over the formatting command.
Microsoft Outlook 2007
The new To-Do bar on the right side of Outlook's main window presents you with a condensed view of the most urgent goings-on in your Calendar and Tasks.
Microsoft Outlook 2007
Outlook's abysmally slow Search function has been replaced with Microsoft's Desktop Search -- searches that used to take minutes now take seconds.

Outlook's new color-categorization scheme makes it a lot easier to identify categorized items visually.
Master styles now have a host of layout types, such as this bullet list. PowerPoint 2007 makes it easier to change layout defaults, which then are applied to the slides in your presentation.
When you insert a chart, PowerPoint 2007 opens an Excel worksheet with data; change the data and your chart is automatically updated within your slide.
If you have access to a SharePoint server, you can now insert PowerPoint slides from a shared library. You can set options to notify you when your included slides have been changed.
Microsoft Outlook 2007
Outlook's new color-categorization scheme makes it a lot easier to identify categorized items visually.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Master styles now have a host of layout types, such as this bullet list. PowerPoint 2007 makes it easier to change layout defaults, which then are applied to the slides in your presentation.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
When you insert a chart, PowerPoint 2007 opens an Excel worksheet with data; change the data and your chart is automatically updated within your slide.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
If you have access to a SharePoint server, you can now insert PowerPoint slides from a shared library. You can set options to notify you when your included slides have been changed.

Access 2007 comes pre-loaded with a number of quick templates for common database applications, so novice users can dive in and get to work right away.
Access's data-entry and -management tools not only make it easy to get data into Access and interpret the results, but allow you to change the schema (i.e., add columns) on the fly.
Among other improvements, the Ribbon menu system is now used throughout Access, and reports can be formatted while using live data to preview the results in real-time.
OneNote 2007 is not just an upgrade -- it has been so thoroughly reworked and extended that it might as well be brand new.
Microsoft Access 2007
Access 2007 comes pre-loaded with a number of quick templates for common database applications, so novice users can dive in and get to work right away.
Microsoft Access 2007
Access's data-entry and -management tools not only make it easy to get data into Access and interpret the results, but allow you to change the schema (i.e., add columns) on the fly.
Microsoft Access 2007
Among other improvements, the Ribbon menu system is now used throughout Access, and reports can be formatted while using live data to preview the results in real-time.
Microsoft OneNote 2007
OneNote 2007 is not just an upgrade -- it has been so thoroughly reworked and extended that it might as well be brand new.

The new industrial strength OneNote 2007 supports multiple notebooks, giving you much more flexibility and options when organizing your data.
OneNote 2007 lets you create shared notebooks -- either notebooks only you use that exist on more than one PC, or notebooks that several people use.
Unlike other Office 2007 applications, Publisher 2007 retains the traditional interface; however, it has been upgraded under the hood.
The Content Library allows you to build your own libraries of useful objects; it easily wins the
Microsoft OneNote 2007
The new industrial strength OneNote 2007 supports multiple notebooks, giving you much more flexibility and options when organizing your data.
Microsoft OneNote 2007
OneNote 2007 lets you create shared notebooks -- either notebooks only you use that exist on more than one PC, or notebooks that several people use.
Microsoft Publisher 2007
Unlike other Office 2007 applications, Publisher 2007 retains the traditional interface; however, it has been upgraded under the hood.
Microsoft Publisher 2007
The Content Library allows you to build your own libraries of useful objects; it easily wins the "Best New Feature" prize for Publisher 2007.

The most obvious difference in Publisher is an intelligent reorganization of the Task Pane, helped by some of the work done on Galleries for Word and PowerPoint.
While Groove 2007 has become a more managed enterprise application, it still offers a heavyweight collaboration environment with a lightweight interface.
InfoPath, a forms-manager application, has dual functions: as a designer application for creating XML-based forms and as an interface for working with the forms offline.
Microsoft Publisher 2007
The most obvious difference in Publisher is an intelligent reorganization of the Task Pane, helped by some of the work done on Galleries for Word and PowerPoint.
Microsoft Groove 2007
While Groove 2007 has become a more managed enterprise application, it still offers a heavyweight collaboration environment with a lightweight interface.
Microsoft InfoPath 2007
InfoPath, a forms-manager application, has dual functions: as a designer application for creating XML-based forms and as an interface for working with the forms offline.


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