Thursday, December 10, 2009
Finally Moving Into the 21st Century
We just moved ahead a whole decade in computer software. We have still been using Microsoft Office 97. So finally today we bought Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote). I have installed it on one of our computers so far and have been trying out the programs. It is quite a bit different than Office 97 or even Office 2003 we have at work. But it looks like it has some interesting features.
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I'm sticking with 2003 for now. And XP. Microsoft will support XP until 2014 though with the trouble I am having lately, I may move to Windows 7. I hear it works pretty good. And if Office 2010 fixes some of the negatives in Word 2007 I may move up. Outlook is no longer included in the Home and Student packages. Another incentive not to move up.
I haven't encountered any negatives in Word 2007, and I use it pretty heavily and thoroughly. You can set the default to do .doc files rather than .docx, although I like the functionality of the XML file format, so long as I don't need to share the file with someone who doesn't have Office 2007. If I just need to send a finished document, I'm more likely to convert it to .pdf (which Office 2007 can do, and I like that). (And the ribbon instead of the toolbar works well for me, now that I've gotten used to it.)
It is annoying that they don't have Outlook anymore. I think the problem is that they merged the Home and the Student editions. The old Student edition also didn't have Outlook (just Word, PPT and Excel), and so having the addition of OneNote is helpful for a student, but not necessarily for other home users.
(I mean "that they no longer include Outlook with the Home edition.")
If we had Office 2003 I would have stuck with it, but we were due for a change. Janice said we probably won't upgrade again until Office 2017.
I have never used Outlook so that was not something I was looking for. We just do email with Outlook Express. And I do all my calendar appointments and scheduling through my work Lotus Notes.
I installed a converter pack so I can handle all Office 2007 files that people send me. I like pdf files too but find that all the converters other than Adobe create larger files.
There were a bunch of things that Word 2003 did that they removed for no good reason on Word 2007 that created serious difficulties for a friend of mine until he found ways around most of them.
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