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Microsoft Office 2007 users, your opinions are wanted
zridling:
In my word processor review last year, I found a lot of things to love about Office 2007, and now that the program has been out a while, I'm wondering how users like it so far, and what things they would change now that Office 2009 is in development.
J-Mac:
Hi Zaine.
I just got a new notebook last week with Office 2007 Professional but I haven't used Office enough yet on that machine to get a good feel for it.
Two things I can say so far:
* First, I am not very fond of the ribbon interface just yet. BTW, I know that MS does not want us calling it that, but what the heck else can you reasonably call it?
* Second, I created a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 and tried to upload it to Google Docs so I could print it later from my desktop PC. (While I was able to get the new notebook to connect wirelessly to the internet through my router, I have not yet solved the problem of getting this Vista Notebook to share with, or even SEE, the XP PC's on my network). However it could not be uploaded to Google Docs - error (from Google) says that it could be a few issues but the most likely seems to be that Excel 2007 has data validation turned on by default. And try as I might, I cannot get it turned off. That's a real bummer.
Jim
justice:
I would really like the interface if there was also a search tool built in that would search through all options. It was there in the betas but then removed as research found that people didn't need it. But the help is extremely good so I can always find what I want through that. Apart from that, and the fact that office is getting more resource intensive (not a problem on modern pcs that are supposed to run vista/office 2007) it works really well and especially Outlook 2007 is very much improved and an excellent tool.
johnk:
As I said elsewhere, I dislike Outlook 2007 with a passion. It's one thing producing a bad product, but it's even worse to take something decent (Outlook 2003) and then spend four years making it worse. Months later and I'm still annoyed (and using Windows Live Mail for email/contacts -- still the best IMAP client I've found).
As for Word, I switch between 2007 and 2003. I use 2003 most of the time as it's much quicker to load. No other reason really.
Best thing about Office 2007? The new font collection that came with it. In particular, Constantia and Consolas are superb, on screen and in print, and I use them all the time. I like Calibri too. But of course you don't need Office 2007 to get the fonts. If you have Vista, they're part of the package, and if you're on XP, I believe the latest version of the Powerpoint viewer will install the new font collection.
CWuestefeld:
Unlike some others here, I really like the Ribbon. But there are other things to dislike. Just yesterday I was frustrated (and still am, I haven't found a solution yet) because I can't see the style definition of a piece of text. It used to be back in Word 2003 that the task bar would show you the effective style even for ad hoc formatting that hadn't been assigned a named style. I've been trying to figure out why one bulleted list has extra space between the items, and I don't see any way at all to determine in one place all of the formatting settings for the offending list.
I think your question focused on Word, but let me add my complaining about Outlook as well. Its stability is abysmal. I can't imagine why they removed the shared folder for small workgroups feature. Its threading model is horrible: not only does it freeze up when doing Send/Receive but it freezes the whole darned computer (and it's a dual core CPU, so I think that means that it's freezing the Windows message pump itself). And when I send email from another application, that blocks all access to Outlook.
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