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Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 Logo
The Microsoft Office Core Applications
Microsoft Office 2007 applications (clockwise from top-left: Excel, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint; these 4 programs make up the Home and Student Edition)
Developed by Microsoft
Latest release 12.0.6215.1000 (Service Pack 1) / December 11, 2007 (2007-12-11), 98 days ago
OS Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista
Platform Microsoft Windows
Genre Office suite
License Proprietary EULA
Website Microsoft Office Online Home Page

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's productivity suite for Windows. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006[1] and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface[2] (initially referred to as the Ribbon UI), replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, or Windows Vista.[3]

Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page.

Microsoft FrontPage has been removed from the Office suite entirely. It has been replaced by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals. Its designer-oriented counterpart Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for general web development. However, neither application is included in any of the Office suites. Also, since speech recognition and handwriting recognition are now part of Windows Vista, speech and ink components have been removed from Office 2007.[4][5] Handwriting and speech recognition work with Office 2007 only on Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

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[edit] Development

The first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as Beta-1 in emails sent to a limited number of testers, was released on November 16, 2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13, 2006. The Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308. Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site. However, because of an unprecedented number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2, 2006. The beta was updated on September 14, 2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Beta2TR). It included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality. The beta versions continued to function in a reduced functionality mode after February 1, 2007. If users downloaded the Technical Refresh to update Beta 2, then users could use its full functionality until March 31, 2007 for client products and May 15, 2007 for server products. The Beta program ended on November 8, 2006, when Microsoft declared the product "Released to Manufacturing" (RTM) and started manufacturing the final product. After RTM, the availability of the beta download ended. Office 2007 was released to volume licensing customers on November 30, 2006, and to the general public on January 30, 2007.

[edit] Service Pack 1

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 was released on December 11, 2007. Microsoft published a list of changes.[6] Official documentation has shown that SP1 is not simply a rollup of publicly released patches, but it also contains fixes for 455 total issues throughout the entire Office suite.[7]

[edit] Editions

The 2007 Microsoft Office system is distributed in eight editions (Feature comparison):

Microsoft Office 2007 System Editions
Edition Availability
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Retail / Limited edition student license [8]
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Volume license only
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Volume license only
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Retail / OEM
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 Retail / OEM / Volume license
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Retail / OEM / Volume license
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Retail / OEM
Microsoft Office Basic 2007 OEM only
Basic Home and Student Standard Small Business Professional Ultimate Professional Plus Enterprise
No box shot available No box shot available No box shot available
Word Word Word Word Word Word Word Word
Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel Excel
PowerPoint PowerPoint PowerPoint PowerPoint PowerPoint PowerPoint PowerPoint
Outlook Outlook Outlook Outlook Outlook Outlook Outlook
Accounting Express Accounting Express Accounting Express
Publisher Publisher Publisher Publisher Publisher
Access Access Access Access
InfoPath InfoPath InfoPath
Groove Groove
OneNote OneNote OneNote
Communicator Communicator

Notes:

  1. Additional tools include enterprise content management, electronic forms, and Information Rights Management capabilities
  2. As noted on the packaging, below the comparison grid on the back, the OEM and Retail Home and Student 2007 edition is not licensed for commercial, non-profit, or any revenue-generating use. This is displayed in the actual programs themselves with a line of text after the program name.


Non-commercial banner in Microsoft Word 2007
Non-commercial banner in Microsoft Word 2007

[edit] New features

[edit] User interface

The new result-oriented user interface (UI), officially known as Microsoft Office Fluent,[9][10] is featured in the core Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and the item inspector used to create or edit individual items in Outlook. These applications have been selected for the UI overhaul because they center around document authoring[11] and present a multitude of options to the same regard. The rest of the applications in the suite will also be upgraded to the new UI in subsequent versions.[12] According to Microsoft, the new UI centers on the principle of helping people focus on what they want to do, rather than bothering with the details of how to do it. The default font used in this edition is Calibri. Original prototypes of the new user interface were revealed at MIX 2008 in Las Vegas.[13]

[edit] Office button

Office Button in Microsoft Word
Office Button in Microsoft Word

The Office 2007 button, located on the top-left of the window, replaces the File menu and provides access to functionality common across all Office applications, including but not limited to opening, saving, printing, and sharing a file. It can also close the application. Users can also choose color schemes for the interface.

[edit] Ribbon

The Ribbon, a panel that houses the command buttons and icons, organizes commands as a set of Tabs, each grouping relevant commands. Each application has a different set of tabs which expose the functionality that application offers. For example, while Excel has a tab for the Graphing capabilities, Word does not feature the same; instead it has tabs to control the formatting of a text document. Within each tab, various related options may be grouped together. The Ribbon is designed to make the features of the application more discoverable and accessible with fewer mouse clicks[14] as compared to the menu-based UI used until Office 2007. It is not possible to remove the Ribbon or replace it with menus with the normal Office 2007 functions. However, the Ribbon can be hidden.[15]There are third party add-ons that can bring menus to Office 2007.

Ribbon in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Ribbon in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

[edit] Contextual Tabs

Some tabs, called Contextual Tabs, appear only when certain objects are selected. Contextual Tabs expose functionality specific only to the object with focus. For example, selecting a picture brings up the Pictures tab, which presents options for dealing with the picture. Similarly, focusing on a table exposes table-related options in a specific tab. Contextual Tabs remain hidden when the object it works on are not selected.

[edit] Live Preview

Microsoft Office 2007 also introduces a feature called "Live Preview", which temporarily applies formatting on the focused text or object when any formatting button is moused-over. The temporary formatting is removed when the mouse pointer is moved from the button. This allows users to have a preview of how the option would affect the appearance of the object, without actually applying it.

[edit] Mini Toolbar

The new "Mini Toolbar" is a type of context menu that is automatically shown (by default) when text is selected. The purpose of this feature is to provide easy access to the most-used formatting commands without requiring a right-mouse-button click, as was necessary in older versions of the software. Because the Mini Toolbar is automatically displayed, it remains semi-transparent until the mouse pointer is situated on the control in order to allow an almost-unobstructed view of what is beneath it. It also appears above the right-click menu when a user right-clicks on a selection of words. The Mini Toolbar is currently not customizable.

[edit] Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access toolbar, which sits in the title bar, serves as a repository of most used functions, regardless of which application is being used, such as save, undo/redo and print. The Quick Access toolbar is fully customizable similar to toolbars in previous Office versions. Any command available in the entire Office application can be added to the Quick Access toolbar, including commands not available in the Ribbon and macros. Keyboard shortcuts for any of the commands on the toolbar are also fully customizable, similar to previous Office versions.

[edit] Other UI features

[edit] SmartArt

SmartArt, found under the Insert tab in the ribbon in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook, is a new group of easily editable and formatted diagrams. There are 115 preset SmartArt graphics layout templates in categories such as list, process, cycle, and hierarchy. When an instance of a SmartArt is inserted, a Text Pane appears next to it to guide the user through entering text in the hierarchical levels. Each SmartArt graphic, based on its design, maps the text outline, automatically resized for best fit, onto the graphic. There are a number of "quick styles" for each graphic that apply largely different 3D effects to the graphic, and the graphic's shapes and text can be formatted through shape styles and WordArt styles. In addition, SmartArt graphics change their colors, fonts, and effects to match the document's theme.

[edit] File formats

[edit] Office Open XML

Main article: Office Open XML

Microsoft Office uses a new file format, called Office Open XML, as the default file format. Word documents (without macro extensions) are now saved using a .docx extension rather than the traditional .doc extension. Word 2007 can also save documents in the old format which is compatible with previous versions of Word. In addition, Microsoft has made available a free add-on that lets older Office editions open documents created under the new 2007 format.

Office Open XML is based on XML and uses the ZIP file container. According to Microsoft, documents created in this format are up to 75% smaller than the same documents saved with previous Microsoft Office file formats, owing to data compression.[16] Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office PowerPoint also use the new OOXML file formats. Word files containing macros are saved with the extension .docm.

[edit] PDF

Microsoft had initially announced that it will support exporting to Portable Document Format (PDF) in Office 2007. However, due to legal objections from Adobe Systems, Office 2007 does not have PDF support out of the box, but offers it rather as a separate free download.[17][18]

[edit] XPS

Office 2007 documents can also be exported as XPS documents, via another free plug-in that is also a separate download.

[edit] OpenDocument

Microsoft backs an open-source effort to support OpenDocument in Office 2007, as well as earlier versions (up to Office 2000), through a converter add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and also a command-line utility.[19] As of 2008, the project supports conversion between ODF and Office Open XML file formats for all three applications. [20]

[edit] User assistance system

In Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Assistants have been completely removed because of the much-improved help system. One feature of the new help system is the extensive use of Super Tooltips which explains in about one paragraph what each function performs. Some of them also use diagrams or pictures. These appear and disappear like normal tooltips, and replace normal tooltips in many areas. The Help content also directly integrates searching and viewing Office Online articles.

[edit] Collaboration features

[edit] SharePoint

Microsoft Office 2007 includes features geared towards collaboration and data sharing. As such, Microsoft Office 2007 features server components for applications such as Excel, which work in conjunction with SharePoint Services, to provide a collaboration platform. SharePoint works with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which is used to host a SharePoint site, and uses IIS and ASP.NET 2.0. Excel server exposes Excel Services, which allows any worksheet to be created, edited and maintained via web browsers. It features Excel Web Access, the client-side component which is used to render the worksheet on a browser, Excel Calculation Service which is the server side component which populates the worksheet with data and perform calculations, and Excel Web Service that exposes Excel functionalities as individual web services. SharePoint can also be used to host Word documents for collaborative editing, by sharing a document. SharePoint can also be used to hold PowerPoint slides in a Slide Library, from which the slides can be used as a formatting template. It will also notify users of a slide automatically in case the source slide is modified. Also by using SharePoint, PowerPoint can manage shared review of presentations. Any SharePoint hosted document can be accessed from the application which created the document or from other applications such as a browser or Microsoft Office Outlook.

[edit] Groove

Microsoft Office Groove 2007
Microsoft Office Groove 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 also includes Groove, which brings collaborative features to a peer-to-peer paradigm. Groove can host documents, including presentations, workbooks and others, created in Microsoft Office 2007 application in a shared workspace, which can then be used in collaborative editing of documents. Groove can also be used in managing workspace sessions, including access control of the workspace. To collaborate on one or more documents, a Workspace has to be created, and then those who are to work on it have to be invited. Any file shared on the workspace are automatically shared among all participants. The application also provides real-time messaging, including one-to-one as well as group messaging, and presence features, as well as monitoring workspace activities with alerts, which are raised when pre-defined set of activities are detected. Groove also provides features for conflict resolution for conflicting edits. Schedules for a collaboration can also be decided by using a built-in shared calendar, which can also be used to keep track of the progress of a project. However, the calendar is not compatible with Microsoft Outlook.

[edit] Themes and Quick Styles

Microsoft Office 2007 places more emphasis on Document Themes and Quick Styles. The Document Theme defines the colors, fonts and graphic effects for a document. Almost everything that can be inserted into a document is automatically styled to match the overall document theme creating a consistent document design. The new Office Theme file format (.THMX) is shared between Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook email messages. Similar themes are also available for data reports in Access and Project or shapes in Visio.

Quick Styles are galleries with a range of styles based on the current theme. There are quick styles galleries for text, tables, charts, SmartArt, WordArt and more. The style range goes from simple/light to more graphical/darker.

[edit] Application-specific changes

[edit] Microsoft Office Word

Main article: Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007

[edit] Microsoft Office Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Main article: Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook can also include an optional Business Contact Manager which allows management of business contacts and their sales and marketing activities. Phone calls, e-mails, appointments, notes and other business metrics can be managed for each contact. It can also keep a track of billable time for each contact on the Outlook Calendar. Based on these data, a consolidated report view can be generated by Microsoft Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager. The data can be further analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel. This data can also be shared using SharePoint Services.

[edit] Microsoft Office Excel

Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Color Scales and Data Bars in Excel 2007
Color Scales and Data Bars in Excel 2007
Main article: Microsoft Excel

[edit] Microsoft Office PowerPoint

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Main article: Microsoft PowerPoint

[edit] Microsoft Office OneNote

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Main article: Microsoft OneNote

[edit] Microsoft Office Access

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Access 2007
Main article: Microsoft Access

[edit] Microsoft Office Publisher

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Main article: Microsoft Publisher

[edit] Microsoft Office InfoPath

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Main article: Microsoft InfoPath

[edit] Microsoft Office Visio

Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Main article: Microsoft Visio

[edit] Microsoft Office Project

Microsoft Office Project 2007
Microsoft Office Project 2007
Main article: Microsoft Project

[edit] Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Main article: Microsoft SharePoint Designer

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is new addition to the Office suite replacing discontinued FrontPage for users of SharePoint. People who don't use SharePoint can use Microsoft Expression Web.

[edit] Server components

[edit] SharePoint Server 2007

Main article: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows sharing and collaborative editing of Office 2007 documents. It allows central storage of documents and management of Office documents, throughout the enterprise. These documents can be accessed either by the applications which created them, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, or a web browser. Documents can also be managed through pre-defined policies that let users create and publish shared content, through a SharePoint site.

SharePoint Server allows searching of all Office documents which are being managed by it, centrally, thereby making data more accessible. It also provides access control for documents. Specialized server components can plug into the SharePoint Server to extend the functionality of the server, such as Excel Services exposing data analysis services for Excel services. Data from other data sources can also be merged with Office data.

SharePoint also lets users personalize the SharePoint sites, filtering content they are interested in. SharePoint documents can also be locally cached by clients for offline editing; the changes are later merged.

[edit] Forms Server 2007

Main article: Microsoft Office Forms Server

Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 allows InfoPath forms to be accessed and filled out using any browser, including mobile phone browsers. Forms Server 2007 also supports using a database or other data source as the back-end for the form. Additionally, it allows centralized deployment and management of forms. Forms Server 2007 hosted forms also support data validation and conditional formatting, as does their InfoPath counterpart. It also supports advanced controls like Repeating section and Repeating table. However, some InfoPath controls cannot be used if it has to be hosted on a Forms server.

[edit] Groove Server 2007

Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 is for centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 in the enterprise. It enables using Active Directory for Groove user accounts, and create Groove Domains, with individual policy settings. It allows Groove workspaces to be hosted at the server, and the files in the workspaces made available for collaborative editing via the Groove client. It also includes the Groove Server Data Bridge component to allow communication between data stored at both Groove clients and servers and external applications.

[edit] Project Server 2007

Main article: Microsoft Office Project Server

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 allows one to centrally manage and coordinate projects. It allows budget and resource tracking, and activity plan management. The project data and reports can also be further analyzed using Cube Building Service. The project management data can be accessed from a browser as well.

[edit] Project Portfolio Server 2007

Main article: Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally, so that the information is available throughout the enterprise, even from a browser. It also aids in centralized data aggregation regarding the project planning and execution, and in visualizing and analyzing the data to optimize the project plan. It can also support multiple portfolios per project, to track different aspects of it. It also includes reporting tools to create consolidated reports out of the project data.

[edit] PerformancePoint Server 2007

Main article: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server

Microsoft PerformancePoint Server allows users to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization. It includes features for scorecards, dashboards, reporting, analytics, budgeting and forecasting, among others.

[edit] Criticism

PC World wrote that the new "ribbon" interface crowds the Office work area, especially for notebook users.[33] Others have called its large icons distracting.[34] PC World has stated that upgrading to Office 2007 presents dangers to certain data, such as templates, macros, and mail messages.[35]

The new XML-based .docx file format for Word is incompatible with previous versions unless a plugin is installed in the older version. Academic publishers have noted that the rendering of equations as graphics when converting DOCX files to DOC files severely impairs its usability for scholarly publishing.[36]

[edit] Other products

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Hill, Brandon (December 1, 2006). Vista, Office 2007 Now Available for Volume Licensing. DailyTech. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
  2. ^ The Microsoft Office Fluent user interface overview
  3. ^ 2007 Microsoft Office release system requirements.
  4. ^ No speech recognition in Office 2007?
  5. ^ Handwriting Recognition in Office 2007
  6. ^ Microsoft (2007). Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Changes. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
  7. ^ Office 2007 Fix List (2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
  8. ^ Microsoft's 'The Ultimate Steal' Promotion. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
  9. ^ See Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface (DOC). Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
  10. ^ How 'Fluent' Are You in Office 2007?.
  11. ^ What programs get the new Office UI?. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  12. ^ Office 2007 Beta 2 UI Review. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  13. ^ http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080308/office-2007-interface-prototypes/
  14. ^ The New Microsoft Office User Interface Overview. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  15. ^ Microsoft: Use the Ribbon. Retrieved on 2008-03-04.
  16. ^ File formats. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  17. ^ Legal issues around PDF support. Retrieved on 2006-06-03.
  18. ^ Follow-up on PDF legal issues. Retrieved on 2006-06-03.
  19. ^ OpenDocument to Office Open XML conversion. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
  20. ^ OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office Downloads
  21. ^ Blogging from Word 2007. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  22. ^ See Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (PDF). Unicode, Inc. (April 4, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
  23. ^ What happened to versioning?. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  24. ^ Computer World Review. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  25. ^ Preview the Enhanced Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Business Intelligence Capabilities. Microsoft.com (2006-05-22). Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
  26. ^ Introducing: New PowerPoint Tables!. Retrieved on 2006-07-26.
  27. ^ Re-Presenting PowerPoint’s Presenter View. Retrieved on 2006-07-26.
  28. ^ Take a Walk on the Wide Slide. Retrieved on 2006-07-26.
  29. ^ A brief detour from data: AutoConnect. Retrieved on 2006-07-27.
  30. ^ Data Link: getting data into your shapes. Retrieved on 2006-07-27.
  31. ^ Data Graphics: visualizing data on your diagram. Retrieved on 2006-07-27.
  32. ^ Themes: Great Results in a few clicks. Retrieved on 2006-07-27.
  33. ^ Lasky, Michael. "Office Beta: Good Looks, Tricky Formats" PC World (August 2006), p. 24
  34. ^ Mendelson, Edward. "MS Office Edges Closer", PC Magazine, Vol. 25, Issue 12 (July, 2006) p. 48
  35. ^ Luhn, Robert. "Get Ready to Work With Office 2007's New Formats" PC World, Vol. 25, Issue 4 (April 2007) p. 132.
  36. ^ Inera Inc. - Word 2007 DOCX File Format

[edit] External links

[edit] Microsoft

[edit] Internal bloggers and Evangelists

[edit] Channel 9 videos

[edit] Other resources

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