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- Experiences with Office 2007
I am finding the learning curve from previous versions of Office to Office 2007 to be very difficult. I should mention that I have not been a heavy user of the individual pieces over the years,just as needed for business support. However, with previous versions I had become accustommed to where to find needed functions from the menus. With the change to ribbons I cannot seem to find much of anything with any consistency. I find that the fucntionalities that I normally use seem harder to find, and from one session to another, I can't seem to remember what I had to do to get there the last time. At this point I feel I would gladly trade 2007 for the previous version if I knew it would run without problems on Vista (and be supported for as long as 2007). I find View and Insert to be particularly annoying. I do a lot of work where I make a copy of a document and change the header/footer to refelect a new period. The only way I have found I can do this is go to the Insert ribbon, choose Header/Footer (which in Excel tells me I have to lose my freeze panes). Then, after I make my changes I have to go to View and select Normal to get out of the Header/Footer view.
I don't personally as yet see the great advantage to ribbons vs. menus. It just seems to add another layer tothe things I use. Hopefully I will learn to use before they change it again.

Rating:

- Worth the upgrade
This was $270 well-spent. Some impressions after my first day of use.

THE RIBBON. I actually like it. But I am a heavy Office user who recognises button icons easily. Less experienced users might need more time to adjust. However you view it, these context sensitive menus are the only way forward to dealing with complex menu structures. For the menu buttons I really need to hang on to there is the bypass of sticking them in the title bar of the window (object alignment and distribution in PPT for example, "send-to-back" in PPT)

EXCEL. Finally, "unlimited" amount of columns: EXCELLENT. Professional color templates (similar to those in PPT) now for use inside worksheets AND graphs. GREAT. The ribbon includes some useful buttons that in 2003 required a menu deep dive (wrap-text-in-cell, allign-cell-top-not-bottom for example)

POWER POINT. I love the new drop shadows and image manipulation functions. A shame that many of my clients do not have 2007 installed yet... Not many people write about this, but the color palette functions are a BIG improvement over 2003. Each palette color now comes in a number of intensity shadings, very useful.

OUTLOOK. I have not noticed much difference except for a nicer looking user interface.

PERFORMANCE. My 2002 P4 with 768MB is suffering some performance reduction. I am planning to upgrade to a new system soon, but in the mean time I switched off the format previews in Power Point.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2008 additional observations:

Much improved color management. Once you have defined your color schema, PowerPoint makes it very easy to apply intensity levels of the same color in your presentation

Adding a monochrome color overlay to images
Sophisticated drop shadows. There are many useless graphical effects in PowerPoint (Microsoft had a look at Adobe products), the drop shadow is the one I actually use

3D text rotation. In a later post I will explain how to stick a 3D logo/text on an image (update: here it is), PowerPoint has a more basic function now that more or less does the same
PDF conversion plug, one that is free, and better than Adobe Acrobat (see this post)

Smaller file size

Much improved editing of data charts, fully compatible with Excel. Creating beautiful, simple and clean data charts used to require a lot of "hacks" in 2003. It's not perfect in PowerPoint 2007, but a lot better.
The proportion of tip of an arrow does not change anymore when you re-size the object

The selection pane tool that allows you to edit charts with many overlapping objects, without having to send them to the back all the time.

Rating:

- Steep learning curve
I deeply regret Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADEupgrade. The new ribbon means that I have to completely relearn commands that I have used effortlessly for years. Some users find the ribbon to be intuitive; to me it is cluttered and obscure. It has become a game in my office, when we are searching the first time for a command, to see whose guess will lead us to the hidden treasure. Unfortunately, in our intensely busy, deadline-driven office, we don't have time for this.

Especially disappointing is the lame Help, which I have finally abandoned. I've had to resort to Google-searches for the commands I need.

The only way I have been able to get any work done in Word or Excel is through the prior version's keystroke commands, which are still built in. But you have to know the entire series of keystrokes.

I feel betrayed by Microsoft. Such a sudden and dramatic change with so little support for users of prior versions has slowed my work to a crawl.

You would probably like Office 2007 if you are new to Office, if you tend to use just the basics or if you really like exploring new software. If you have invested a lot in using prior versions and just want to get your work done, be prepared to lose a lot of time. Either way, I strongly recommend downloading a trial version before buying it.

Rating:

- Worked great....even with TRIAL Versions of the software installed
Suffice to say IMO this is the best version of OFFICE in years....the improvements to OUTLOOK 2007 make it more than worth it.

Save yourself some money and install the FREE TRIAL Versions available directly from Microsoft for testing....then apply the upgrade....

I personally love it.

I have had ZERO problems installing and using it....but I must note I am using a brand new ATHLON X2 6000+ Build with all new hardware so it was a near virgin machine to install on.

Rating:

- The Ribbon is cool
As a long time Office user, it was an easy transistion to Office2007. The big attaction was the ribbon. It puts tools for a task right in front of you. And these tools change as the document changes depending upon what you are doing. It does add some cool formating and other features not found in the previous version, but the real reason to upgrade is useabliity. I have found it to be useful. Could you do without it? Sure, upgrading just makes life a little easier.

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