Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes.
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described
A neat little hack to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003. Wictor Wilén has a neat little trick to add the Word 2007 and Excel 2007 icons to Sharepoint 2003 when you upload .docx and .xlsx documents. He provides the two small GIF icons plus
How to get the Office 2007 features to save documents to XPS or Acrobat PDF formats. Harry G writes: “OK – I give up. I’ve got Office 2007 but can’t work out how to save to PDF files or XPS (whatever that is). The link in Word 2007 takes me
Microsoft own site with Office 2007 teaching resources. The 2007 Microsoft Office System – Learning Portal has some interesting free things to try. There’s the PDF version of the ‘First Look’ book, as we noted before in Office Watch. There are also some ‘free for a limited time’ online courses
From: Digital River / Microsoft Includes upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. to build, host and manage e-commerce stores to support the direct and indirect online sale, marketing and delivery of popular
From: Epicor Epicor Information Worker Boosts Productivity and Collaboration by Delivering Improved Access to Business Data through the 2007 Microsoft Office System LAS VEGAS and REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2006 — Epicor Software Corporation today announced the introduction of Epicor Information Worker (IW), a new desktop productivity solution that
A quick reader poll – “to Office 2007 or not Office 2007” With Office 2007 about to be released the time has come to decide whether to switch to the new version of Office. Some ‘early adopters’ are probably already using the beta and will switch over as soon as
From: KeyStone Learning KeyStone Learning Systems, LLC (KeyStone) announced their latest instructor-based video courseware titled “Microsoft Office 2007 Essentials.” Scheduled for public release Q4 2006, this set will assist users in making the transition into the new features and navigation of “Microsoft Office 2007.” Frederick, MD (PRWEB) October 17, 2006
From: SandRibbon SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. SandRibbon is a user interface suite designed to mimic the advanced controls seen in Microsoft Office 2007. Its features revolve around a Ribbon control, which presents a well-organised list of available
Microsoft announces end of Office 2007 – ‘RTM’ is nigh. Microsoft has sent an email announcing the end of the Office 2007 beta. That means the ‘Release to Manufacturing’ (RTM) will be in the next few weeks. There won’t be a ‘Release Candidate’ put out for wider testing – the
Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition seems better value than the Office 2007 equivalent. There’s an interesting case for buying the Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition now, instead of waiting for the equivalent version for Office 2007 (due out in retail boxes early 2007). You would think that waiting
Office 2007 hasn’t been released yet but already Microsoft are posting add-ins for it. Office 2007 hasn’t been released yet but already Microsoft are posting add-ins for it. That might seem strange but it makes some sense in the complex world of inter-company rivalry. The current Office 2007 beta release
Amazon has published prices and release dates for both Office 2007 and Windows Vista software, revealing those details before Microsoft’s official announcement. Amazon has published prices and release dates for both Office 2007 and Windows Vista software, revealing those details before Microsoft’s official announcement. Whether this was deliberate or accidental
In the near future you’re going to hear about a ‘Technical Refresh’ of the Office 2007 beta software. In the near future you’re going to hear about a ‘Technical Refresh’ of the Office 2007 beta software. For some reason Microsoft believes that it’s bad to say that Office is having
From now you have to pay to get the Office 2007 beta. I hope all of you who wanted to get the Office 2007 beta saw our ” Get your Office 2007 beta now” issue last weekend and managed to get it before the charging system has begun. We were
Microsoft Australia has decided to suddenly close down the Australian download access for Office 2007 beta 2. We explain how to bypass this curious decision. That’s right, from 11am Sydney time on Thursday, Microsoft Australia has decided to suddenly close down the Australian download access for Office 2007 beta 2.
Microsoft has announced some new bundle options for the sale of Office 2007 (due early next year). Microsoft has announced some new bundle options for the sale of Office 2007 (due early next year). These announcements affect OEM sales of Office, in other words when you buy Office with a
‘Ultimate Office’ isn’t the title of a new game or movie, it’s the name of a new package of Office 2007 programs. ULTIMATE OFFICE ‘Ultimate Office’ isn’t the title of a new game or movie, it’s the name of a new package of Office 2007 programs.Office 2007 Ultimate Edition will
The next version of Office will now officially be called ‘Office 2007’ OFFICE 12 BECOMES OFFICE 2007 It’s nice to get the naming ceremony out of the way early – we can stop talking about the code-name ‘Office 12’ safe in the knowledge that the next Office will be called
Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability to work with multiple calendars in a single installation of Outlook since at least Outlook 97. However, in Outlook 2003, new functionality was added that makes this feature far more practical and easy to use. By Kara Monroe Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability
A list of all the new file extensions used in Office 2007 Like most people we talk about the ‘.docx’ format as a shorthand way of referring to the new Office 2007 document formats. There are really many new document extensions. An innovation are document extensions that indicate if the
We continue our series on the Office 12 document format with a look at how open the new format will really be. Some good news about the password and encryption integrity of the new format plus our opinion of the whole shebang. We continue our series on the Office 12
We explain more about Office and XML documents, which exist now for Word 2003 and Excel 2003 but will be improved upon and made the default file format for Office 12. Over in our other newsletter Office for Mere Mortals (our companion newsletter for beginners) last week we talked about
