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Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-they-are-ready-for-the-support-calls dept.

feminazi writes "Computerworld has a review and visual tour of the newest installment of Office. No more toolbars & menus; those have been replace with 'ribbons.' Of the various products in the suite, Word is the most changed. Styles are easier to invoke, but no easier to create or understand. A couple of the redeeming characteristics is the ability to save as PDF and XPS and an improved Track Changes. Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet -- and new and better visualization abilities. Lots new in Outlook including multiple calendars and direct support for RSS feeds. And the apps all work together better than before. From the article: 'The major change in Beta 2 was the introduction of Office SharePoint Server.' This means that Sharepoint Server is required, but it also means more & better collaboration and advanced search abilities are supported."

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  1. Ribbons! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    They sound revolutionary:
    For example, the Home ribbon in Word offers shortcuts for the clipboard (cut, copy, paste) and font formatting (font and font size, underlines and superscripts and so on) -- the kind of everyday tasks most of us use in Word.
    *snort*

    Seriously - MS, openoffice is carving away the "Office 97 provides all our needs" segment & the collaboration market you're so eagerly chasing is... well lets say I don't think its got the potential you think it does.

    I have a request tho' - I'd like the click+scrolly wheel zooms in a different direction for word & ie bug fixed. Please?
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  2. 1 million row spreadsheets? by LordKazan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet

    what kind of a jackass ....? use a fucking relational database! I don't want to think how blazingly slow that big of a spreadsheet would be, not to mention any dataset that large is going to almost certainly be something that is supposed to be used by more than one person at a time

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  3. Gee, Office 2007 .... by Compulawyer · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    .... looks just like Mac OS X 2001!

    The more things change, the more things stay the same. Plagarism is the sincerest form of flattery. Insert your own snide copy-related wisecrack here.

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  4. Re:WTF (interface changes)? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I like to learn new *useful* things, not things that are only new because of some goofy-ass arbitrary decision to change things around.