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Subject:Re: Moving to Word 2007 From:"Tom Johnson" <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:56:31 -0600
One thing Word 2007 has that is not available in 2003 is "SmartArt." You can
see this from the Insert tab. Very handy for creating quick graphic
diagrams.
Tom
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Victoria Wroblewski <
victoria -dot- wroblewski -at- eagletest -dot- com> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rapport
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:39 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Moving to Word 2007
>
> > I have been happily using Word 2000 for many a year and I now have an
> > itch to move on.
>
> I'd definitely suggest a "try before you go full-on" with Word 2007.
>
> I'm not as angry over the Office 2007 Suite as I once was. For programs
> I don't use often, like PowerPoint, the new interface is actually a
> little easier. My husband has gone on about all the great things that
> are easy to do in the new version of Excel. My mother loves Word 2007.
> I still dislike Word 2007 very strongly.
>
> I still find that I have to spent several minutes hunting down some
> functions (and another few befuddled seconds wondering why they'd group
> it the way they did). My own productivity is much slower in 2007 than
> earlier versions. Luckily, I have a virtual machine that has 2003
> loaded on it, and it can be faster to start the virtual machine and
> re-open the file through Word 2003 than figure out how to do it in 2007
> sometimes. One problem is that it was handled pretty much like any
> other software upgrade around here, and there hasn't been any downtime
> to even self-train on 2007, other than when I have to figure out how the
> heck to do something for a hot project.
>
> Office 2007 is a new software tool, very different from the previous
> versions. Even if you've been using Word, well, since there was Word,
> it may take some time to learn the new version. Something to keep in
> mind.
>
> - V
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