Monday, June 12, 2006

OFC201: Office 2007: What's New

This sesion was presented on the new version of Office scheduled to
release end of this year/first of 2007.

The number of menu items since Word 1.0 has gone from less than 50 to
close to 300 in Word 2007.

Early Feedback on Office 2007: majority of beta users are eager to use
new interface. Also noted that advanced users experience more of a
learning curve.

Excel: 1 million rows, 65000 columns (max)

Notes from Demos:
Menus have been replaced with tabs. Also, an Office Button has been
added. Also, in the recent files list, you can pushpin certain files to
stay in the list no matter how many documents you open.

To change margins, click on Page Layout tab. They have listed the most
common used margins setting.

Also, if you want to change font for a selection of text, you highlight
the text, click on font drop down and as you scroll through the fonts,
it will change the text you have highlighted to give you a live preview.


They also have put the header/footer option in the correct menu: Insert
vs View

Overall Impression: very impressive, many new excel features that make
the user interface more user friendly.

This session was broadcast through Technet. I will post a link to the
archived copy along with the ppt slides

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