Archive for September, 2010

I had first used Office 2007 at work when we needed to upgrade to use its Sharepoint capabilities. At first, I hated it since it was so vastly different from earlier versions of Office. Most of my frustration was with Word. You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even figure out how to open up a file! You have to click on the Windows icon at the top of the screen. What genius thought that it was intuitively obvious to look for the file open, print and save functions behind the damned Windows icon?! If you google “Office 2007 nightmare” you get thousands of hits!

However, after about a week or so of enforced practice, I got used to the “ribbon.” Once you start to figure out where everything is, it is easier to work with this version since you don’t have to click through as many layers of menus to find what you want. Other features I like are the canned formats on the ribbon in Word and the fact that you can create larger spreadsheets in Excel.

The main reasons I purchased Office Ultimate for my home were because it included Access and OneNote. I think Access might be available on Office 2007 Professional but OneNote, a new application, is not. OneNote is kind of like Evernote for Office. You can use it to create “notebooks” for different topics, and “clip”/”copy” from other Office applications, Lotus Notes and web pages to your notebooks. It also can store sound and maybe video notes as well. In Office 2010, OneNote will be part of more versions of the product.

In summary, I think you will come to really enjoy the new Office format after a while, but you shouldn’t rush out to get it if Office 2003 meets your needs.
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