Microsoft Office 2007: Too Slick for Its Own Good
August 4th, 2007 by Global360ChiefArchitect
After installing Vista this past spring, I had the choice of eight different editions of MS Office 2007. I installed Microsoft Office Standard 2007 to see whether it is worth having it.
What I like about it is the basic desktop publishing tools that comes with Word; Excel formulas are easier to reference; PowerPoint presentations are more attractive; Outlook improves task and time management; improved integration throughout the applications; smaller application and file sizes; new file formats are easier to salvage if corrupted; document security is more straightforward.
The negatives about it was that I had to relearned the user interface. Believes that the drastic design changes took a great deal my time to relearn the intricate specifics behind the user interface. The new gui isn’t always intuitive. The contextual tabs and style galleries was slightly distracting to me. As a user of Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003, I had to install converters to open Office 2007 files.
What I also found to be a pain is that there is no easy way to save work to the Web.
Reflection Time: I felt Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade if the user needs to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations to share with others. Other than that I do not see the reason why I should upgrade to this new version of MS Office 2007.
In a future article, I will comment on the new version of Outlook.
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