Office 2007: Worth to upgrade!

With the new upgraded version of Office 2007, Microsoft has modified and integrated some features for this office software package to maximize the performance of users.

On January 30, Office 2007 was introduced with Windows Vista operating system. This new application package is not much different from the Office XP or Office 2003 versions that only have one feature that makes Office 2007 different from previous versions of Office, which is "Ribbon" - a horizontal toolbar set of tabs and function icons, simplifying in-app operations.

Want to add clip art to Word documents? You just need to click on the " Insert " tab and select the " Clip Art " icon is done !. What if you want to create a complex formula in Excel? Just click on the " Formulas " function and select the format that suits you in the drop down menu bar.

The ribbon is very versatile: for example, when processing images in Word, this function will display the appropriate tools for the task. You do not need to click on the " View " menu, select " Toolbars " and then select the tiny icons that are hard to look like before.

Ribbon is one of the important improvements for Office. This feature has "broken" the monotony in arranging the " File ", " Edit " and " View " tools as before.

Office 2007 allows saving data in a new, safer format. This is a separate format so users of old Office versions must use a conversion program to open the file. In addition, with Office 2007, users can also save files in older formats - this is important because the conversion function does not work on Apple's Macintosh.

Office 2007 also created a new way of adding graphics to documents. The " SmartArt " function allows you to easily insert graphics into documents, and easily edit or change positions. If the size of text typed in these graphics does not fit, Office 2007 automatically adjusts the font size accordingly.

Like previous Office versions, Microsoft offers discounts for students and teachers - $ 149 for Office 2007 versions with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and oneNote. The Office 2007 standard (plus the Outlook e-mail client) is $ 399, and the upgrade version is 239USD.

The Office 2007 Professional version costs $ 499 ($ ​​329 upgrade), includes both an Access database program, a Publisher design program, and an accounting program.

Create shadows directly in Office 2007

Here are some improvements and changes to applications in Office 2007:

* Word : You can insert background color "themes" into your document to make it more interesting. Word also has a new tool to delete any remaining meta data (hidden data).

* Excel : This spreadsheet can now process data in the space of 1,048,576 lines and 16,384 columns. Excel's chart function supports 3D, transparency and ghosting.

* Outlook : In previous versions of Outlook, the search feature was very slow. Now, Outlook 2007 has added the "Instant Search" feature, which helps search e-mails within 1 second.

* PowerPoint : The "design" of PowerPoint speeches is no longer complicated with the help of SmartArt function and a series of other beautiful "themes".

* Access : The interface is more user-friendly than previous versions. Right in the first display interface, Access has provided many functions that allow users to create different jobs.