Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate
Reason for purchasing Office 2007
My husband purchased this version of Microsoft Office to replace and upgrade the 2003 one that he was using. I did not need to buy this for myself. This one allows you to use it on two computers, one is a laptop and he decided to put it on mine as he uses it from time to time while at home. Office 2007 includes new applications and server-side tools. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft FrontPage has been removed from this and is replaced with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer which is better in my opinion. Its not all that different really from 2003, but I will tell you what is below and a little about it all.
New features of Microsoft Office
There is lots of good new features with this Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate compared to the 2003 addition, and most of them are far better than the 2003 version in my opinion. Microsoft Office SharePoint is now replaced from the front page and is far better in my opinion, well laid out and easier to use. It has a new improved new user interface which Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access have all been improved and carefully upgraded. The new default font used in this edition is now called Calibri.
Microsoft Office 2007 includes great new features and they are directed towards data sharing also. SharePoint now replaces the front page. It now has server components for applications such as Excel, which work along side this service. It is used with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, which actually hosts this SharePoint site. Excel Services are very good and will allow any of your worksheets to be created, edited and maintained by your browser browsers. SharePoint can also be used along with Word documents for editing and for sharing your documents. SharePoint can also preform, PowerPoint slides in a great little Slide Library, from which the slides can be used as formatting templates for your work. SharePoint can now help manage Power Point with shared reviews and presentations.
File menu
File menu has now been replaced with Office 2007 button and is situated at the very top left hand side of the window. It provides instant access to all your Office applications including, saving, opening, printing and sharing your files. You can choose lots of lovely interface colors for this as well which is a good feature I like using.
A new mini toolbar feature, which is actually a context menu, which will come up automatically when you select your text. This really is a very useful feature that allows access to all your formatting control features without having to use your mouse like the older 2003 version. I really love this little toolbar on this new one.
Access Toolbar
This is a really good feature and is situated in the title bar. It is used for most functions. This tool bar can be customized (unlike the mini toolbar) which is good to suit your own needs. Any command you want can be added to this for quick access and I find it is excellent. Keyboard shortcuts can also be customized like in the previous version of 2003.
Tabs will appear when certain things are selected on Office. Selecting an image or picture for example, will bring up all your pictures. All these tabs remain hidden until your selection of an object is chosen.
Ribbon
Ribbon now replaces all the menus and toolbars. It holds all the the command buttons and all icons also, will organize commands as sets of tabs, which will group the relevant commands together for you. All your different applications have their own sets of little tabs. Different options may be grouped together in here also. The Ribbon was designed for quicker and easier access, without having to use your mouse and it really is a fantastic new feature to office. I prefair this much better indeed. You cannot completely remove the Ribbon, but you can mimimize it down if required. It does take a while to get into the way of Ribbon I have found, but when you do its great.
This is an excellent new feature that is found under the tab Ribbon on Office. It has 115 layout graphic templates in this. There is lots of features on this that I am still learning about and there is also quick styles and things on here also. It can also change your font color to match your documents theme which is really nice. Templates need to be downloaded from Mircosoft office online though and if you had the 2003 version on your computer it might tell you that your product key is invalid and I have heard a few complaints about this, but so far I have had no problems.
Mircosoft office New Office Open XML
The Office Open is a new type of file formating, used with this system. Now my Word documents are saved using the 'docx extension' which now replaces the doc extension on the 2003 version. It still can save all your documents in the previous format, as it is compatible with it though. Also there is an add-on available, now called "Compatibility Pack" that will let office open 2000 and the 2003 and can save them in the new 2007 format, which is really great. This new office XMLhas a ZIP file container on board and this allows your documents to be saved 75 times smaller than before due to it compressing data so this is very useful. This is a really great new feature on 2007 I really am pleased with.
Grove is the host to your documents on Office. It is also manages your workspace. It is a good peer to peer feature, that shares files really well. It will allow one to one and group messaging and monitors alerts on your activities well. It has a built in calender also, but it will not work with mircrosoft outlook. Overall this is an excellent feature on this new 2007 version of office I like also.
Mircrosoft 2007 Office Outlook
Outlook on this new version of Office, will only work with 2000 and above. Evolution, Outlook Express and Entourage are all left out of this version now. To speed up your searches, Outlook now indexes, emails and contacts etc. This is a good touch and is really helpful I have found. All your search folders are updated as well and now you even have RSS feeds also. You will also find that Outlook now supports text-messages and SMSs, which is all very handy indeed. All Contacts can now be shared among users, by e-mail, Exchange Server or by your SharePoint site. You can now view Office e-mail attachments without having to open a separate window which is really good in my opinion. This new Office Outlook is far better in my opinion and I like it much better than it was before. It will take time though to get used to everything, but once you do there will be no going back to the older one.
Quick and new styles are now available to Office Word. A new spellchecker is on here also, but I find it has a few faults 'like telling you words that are spelt correctly' are wrong, which can be really annoying. Word count works well and updates, as you type. I like this feature as it's useful. A good translation tool converts your words into US English, Spanish and even French and is an excellent feature that I use often. I really love using Word on here for my website entries. I can upload them directly to my website from here, as it supports Windows Live Spaces as well as a few others. The Full screen reading layout is really great and can now show two pages at a time with full screen use, plus a few important tools for reviewing with. I really like all the new styles of Word on this version. Great improvements though overall.
Microsoft Office Excel
This really is great for worksheets and offers three new fearures I have found useful, being Color Scales, Icon Sets and Data Bars. The Color Scales will color automatically, backgrounds acording to the values ot it. A new Quick filter option allows you the selection of multiple items from a drop down list of items in the column, which is good. It also has a new charting engine, which supports formatting and chart layers and can be customized for your needs now, which I like. Spreadsheets can now be used in a way that mirrors the formatting, that will be added when printed by the new Page Layout view. Excellent improvements overall to Excel in my opinion.
OneNote is now used to support multiple notebooks and this is very useful indeed. Notebooks can now be shared with a few computers. Notebook templates are now included on this as well and are really nice. Outlook can also now be used to send mail to OneNote, or even access pages in OneNote that are linked to other tasks etc. All your Audio and video recordings are now also tagged, so that they can be searched for, so easily indeed. Great new support that is really useful and well thought out in my opinion.
Powerpoint
There is quite a lot of improvements to this feature, that I really love. It renders 3D graphics and also also text based graphics now also. There is far more support for formats such as your mp3 and wma files on here. All your slide librarys can now be saved and the Presenter View is really improved on here alot. Great touches overall to powerpoint and certainly for the best in my opinion.
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate really does deliver better results faster and easily shares information with others well. All the new features on here make it a really pleasing experience that I love and will not be without now. It gives me better results in less time and helps me create my documents faster and far easier than before. Everything really is Improved on 2007 Office and a lot of effort can clearly be seen on here in them doing so. I really am better organised now than before and I also find it saves me a lot of time, as I do not have to search menus over and over like the 2003 version. I highly recommend Office 2009 but if you use 2003 it still is good for now.
It did take me around a week to get used to it all but it certainly was worth it in the end. I still am learning from Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate and enjoy everything new I come across. I really do recommend anyone that can afford to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 to do so. It really is worth it and you will find it a lot better than before. I highly recommend this to everyone as I really love most things about it. It works well with Vista also which surprised me.
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