Thursday, February 22, 2007

Office 2007 - What's New?

Here is the video from the Thursday, February 15th presentation of "Office 2007 - What's New".

http://mediasite.stcloudstate.edu/mediasite/viewer/?peid=69e02be3-7fef-438f-806a-2dae6986153f

Unfortunately the video started a couple of minutes late and the quality (sound, video) isn't the greatest.

Office 2007 save as pdf or xps add-in

Save from the following applications to pdf or xps. Probably don't want to install this immediately, but just be aware it is out there. We are looking at a way to automate this so it would be part of the initial deployment chain.

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en

Friday, February 2, 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 Learning Portal

Microsoft Learning has the resources that you need to take full advantage of the new set of powerful tools found in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. For a limited time, you can take free E-Learning courses, find special offers for classroom training, and download free E-Reference books from Microsoft Press.  Access it here.

New Office 2007 user interface discussed

From Microsoft site, this article has an overview of the new interface.

Where did this menu go in Office 2007?

The interface for Office 2007’s ribbon could be confusing for some users.  Many will say, where did this menu or command go?  Microsoft has a couple of guides that show the previous command in Office 2003 and then where to find it in Office 2007.  One is a nice flash interactive and the other is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet (Ribbon mapping workbook).

Microsoft Word flash interactive - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx?pid=CH100487431033

Microsoft Word Ribbon mapping workbook (all the way on the bottom)  - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100625841033.aspx?pid=CH100487431033

Microsoft Excel flash interactive - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx?pid=CH100648241033

Microsoft Excel Ribbon mapping workbook (all the way on the bottom) - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA100860481033.aspx?pid=CH101030621033

Microsoft PowerPoint flash interactive - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101490761033.aspx?pid=CH100668131033

Microsoft PowerPoint Ribbon mapping workbook (all the way on the bottom) - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA100666231033.aspx?pid=CH100668131033

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.  Download here.

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007

Receive a 2007 file and have an earlier version of Office?  Download the PowerPoint Viewer 2007.

Microsoft Visio Viewer 2007

Receive a 2007 file and have an earlier version of Office? Download the Visio Viewer 2007.