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December 8th, 2006 | Posted in Technical Writing 3 Comments »
Word 2007 is available. It looks quite interesting — definitely different. Here’s a post from the Microsoft Team blog about it, with a demo video. Be sure to watch the video. I haven’t experimented with it yet, but hope to soon.
I almost hate to admit it, but I’m kind of excited to see the new version of Word. I still haven’t gotten over my resentment that Word supplanted my beloved WordPerfect, but I’m heading over to the Microsoft team blog right now to find out what goodies are in Word 2007!
(I love the new look of the blog, btw. Clean and very easy on the eyes!)
Beth, I’m also eager to check it out. I actually just downloaded the trial. First impressions? The style sets are by far the coolest feature. I’m not sure why they weren’t in there before. But everything is also hard to find. For example, I couldn’t find the macro stuff in under 10 seconds.
Thanks for the comments on the look of the blog. I switched to the semiologic theme. This is actually the same theme that I’m using for the Suncoast chapter site (http://stc-suncoast.org). It has quite a few layout options.
You know, I noticed that IE7, while it has the advantage of tabbed browsing similar to Firefox’s, has rearranged the UI so that every time I need to use IE now, I have to spend a few seconds to figure out how to refresh the page, change page options, etc. I’m sure someone had a fantastic rationale for completely restructuring the buttons and menus, but I’m appalled by the results! If it ain’t broke…