Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft Corporation that has won several awards. It was initially released in early 2007, simultaneously with the retail availability of the Windows Vista operating system, and it immediately managed to attract a large amount of attention from users of Windows operating systems all over the world who desired a unified method of creating, managing, and collaborating with their digital productivity apps. Office 2007, with its updated versions of well-known apps including as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, has managed to keep its place as the most popular suite in the world for the management of documents in either the home or the business.
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This version of Microsoft Office made available to the general public a brand-new graphical design that was referred to as the Fluent User Interface. This design was centered on switching the tool showcase away from the straightforward menu bars and toward the more aesthetically pleasing “ribbons.” These changes were made possible by utilizing the most recent document processing techniques.

By the time that the Office 2007 suite had reached the end of its lifecycle, it could be downloaded in a total of eight different configurations, ranging from the entry-level Basic tier, which consisted of a viewer-only version of PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, to the fully-featured Enterprise and Ultimate tiers, both of which included all of the components of the other tiers.

This productivity suite has been able to provide users with an incredible leap in both performance and usability, as evidenced by the fact that many businesses around the world have chosen not to upgrade their day-to-day operations from older versions of Office to more recent ones, as indicated by the findings of several surveys.

 

New Functions Available in Microsoft Office 2007

Following the huge success of Microsoft Office 2003, the visual design team at Microsoft Corp. made the decision to make significant improvements to the look of all of their Office applications. The end result was not only the implementation of the Fluent User Interface design, but also a number of other changes. These changes included the adoption of the standardized Office button (which is used for the majority of common file management and printing tools), contextual tabs (which appeared only when office apps detected selection of certain document elements), Live Preview of selected formatting styles, new mini toolbar, quick access toolbar, and a number of other changes.

The functionality of the updated versions of core and extended Office 2007 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, Communicator, Groove, OneNote, Project, and SharePoint Designer) with the adoption of the new file formats (Office Open XML), PDF, and XPS, as well as support for the OpenOffice document file format (ODF).

Microsoft Word, the program that is used the most frequently, has seen significant improvements made to it in Office. Its default font was changed from “Times New Roman” to “Calibri,” and many other features gave users more control over the papers they were working on. This includes the adoption of simpler style sheet management, an integrated word counter in a status bar, a new contextual spell checker, translation tooltips (only for select languages), an automated citation generator, redesigned mathematical equations, a better document comparison tool, new document viewer options, and a lot of other improvements.

Additionally, there were significant upgrades made to Microsoft Excel, including support for extended document size (1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns in a single worksheet, with 32,767 characters in a single cell). The application was also updated to include support for conditional formatting, multithreaded calculations, the importation of data from external sources, new page layout tools, new filters, a new charts engine, as well as features such as User Defined Functions (UDF), CUBE functions, Formula Autocomplete, and a number of other features.

 

Updated capabilities

User interface

Microsoft Office’s major apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as the item inspector that may be used to create or modify individual items in Outlook, all use the new result-oriented User Interface (UI), which is formally known as Microsoft Office Fluent. Because these programs focus on document creation and provide a variety of options related to the same topic, these applications have been chosen to have their user interfaces updated. The user interface (UI) of the remaining programs in the suite will, in following editions, also be updated to reflect the new design. According to Microsoft, the new user interface is predicated on the idea that users should be assisted in concentrating on the tasks that they wish to perform rather than having to concern themselves with the specifics of performing those tasks. Additionally, the Calibri font family is utilized as the default option throughout this edition.

 

The button for the office

Office Button

The File menu has been replaced with the Office 2007 button, which can be found on the top-left corner of the window. This button gives access to functionality that is shared by all Office apps, such as the ability to open, save, print, and share a file, among other things. Users also have the ability to select their preferred color schemes for the UI.

 

Ribbon

The commands are arranged in a collection of tabs within the Ribbon, which is a panel that contains the command buttons and icons. Each tab groups related commands together. Each program has its own unique collection of tabs, each of which displays the features and capabilities that the application provides. Word, on the other hand, does not provide a tab for graphing capabilities, in contrast to Excel, which does include such a tab. Instead of buttons, it makes use of tabs to control how the page is formatted. Within each tab, a number of choices that are relevant to one another may be grouped together. In comparison to the menu-based user interface that was used before to Office 2007, the Ribbon is intended to make the application’s capabilities easier to find and more accessible with a reduced number of clicks of the mouse.

Since the 23rd of January, Microsoft has been using the term “Microsoft Office Fluent” to characterize the Ribbon interface, in addition to other interface changes, that are included in Microsoft Office 2007.

 

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 features a ribbon interface.

 

Contextual Tabs

Contextual Tabs are the name given to those tabs that only appear when the appropriate items are chosen. Tabs that are contextual reveal functionality that is unique exclusively to the item that currently has attention. When you choose an image, for instance, the Pictures tab will appear. This tab will provide you with several options for managing the picture. In a same manner, centering your attention on a table will provide choices in a separate tab that are associated with that table. When the item that the context tab acts on is not chosen, the context tabs stay hidden.

Live Demonstration

Additionally, Microsoft Office 2007 includes a new function that is referred to as “Live Preview.” This feature momentarily applies formatting to the text or object that is now being focused on whenever any formatting button is moused over. When the cursor of the mouse is moved away from the button, the formatting that was just temporary is deleted. Users are able to get an idea of how the choice might change the appearance of the object before actually putting it into effect thanks to this functionality.

Mini Toolbar

When text is chosen, the new “Mini Toolbar” will display, functioning as a form of context menu that does so on its own accord (by default). It was essential in earlier versions of the program to click the right mouse button in order to access the most common formatting instructions; however, this new feature eliminates the need to do so, making it much simpler to access those commands. In order to provide a nearly unhindered view of the content that lies underneath the Mini Toolbar while ensuring that it is visible even when the mouse cursor is not over it, the Mini Toolbar appears automatically and then stays semi-transparent until the pointer is placed over the control. When a user right-clicks on a selection of words, it also displays above the menu that comes after the right-click.

Other user interface elements

The vast majority of buttons have thorough explanations of their functions provided by super-tooltips. These tooltips may store not just structured text but also pictures.

No matter whatever program is being used, the Quick Access toolbar, which is located in the title bar, acts as a repository for the functions that are utilized the most frequently, such as saving, undoing or redoing, and printing.

A slider for zooming in and out may be found in the lower-right corner of the screen. This enables dynamic and speedy magnification of a document.

 

System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP SP2 or later; Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later.
• CPU: 500 MHz processor or higher.
• RAM: 256 MB or higher. 512 MB or higher is recommended for Outlook Instant Search. Grammar and contextual spelling in Office Word does not turn on unless the computer has 1 GB of memory.
• Storage:5 GB.
• Display: 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor.