Office 20,070 Major Features

We know that in Microsoft's Office suite, users are most commonly used in Word, Excel, PowerPoint three components, we take Word 2007 as an example to introduce the ten new features of Office 2007, Maybe you can see the power of the next generation of office software from the Figure 1 window.

"Start" button

If you've already used Windows Vista, then it turns out that this circular button in the upper left corner is very similar to Vista's "Start" button, through which we can access all the document and system-level features in the project, from opening the document, saving the document, to the final output, publishing, All the relevant commands can be found here.

Move on Demand

You will be surprised to find that the traditional menu that has lasted for 10 years has disappeared, and the traditional menu bar, such as file, edit, insert and so on, has been replaced by the function tag, which is the popular software design style now. To switch to a tab, the function buttons associated with the label are listed below for the user to choose from, and the buttons are changed at any time by the different elements that the user is working on in the document, so that users can easily find the commands and tools that are relevant to the current operating content.

What you see is what you receive

By default, Office 2007 automatically enables the live preview and Cieartype features, and when you hover over different options, you can display a preview of the document effect for that feature, such as when you position the font and font size by using the Drop-down list box, and the corresponding effect is immediately reflected in the document. And no longer need to confirm the switch back to the document window to see whether the effect is correct display, in the previous version, the user must select and confirm before will see the corresponding effect, now is more convenient.

Mini Toolbar

Select the object in the document, or the text or other elements, the corresponding toolbar will automatically display, or float, or appear above, its format will be floating in the next, the mouse can be quickly set up, is a very high level of WYSIWYG results, in short, you need to appear in the occasion, Very useful for the user.

Instant hints

Excel 2007 introduces AutoComplete for Windows Live Mail and Gmail, and when you create a formula, when you enter the first letter of the function, Excel 2007 automatically matches and gives you a ScreenTip (Figure 2) so you don't have to worry about a function error.

New and old compatibility

Whether you are in any of the components of Office 2007, click the Start button, you can find a command called Run Compatibility Checker under the Prepare submenu, and running this command guarantees that the current document will not have a compatibility issue when it is saved in office 97-2003 format.

Clear Document Secrets

Click the Start button, and you can find a command called "Check Document" from the "Prepare" submenu, which checks the document for hidden original data or personal information, which can be examined in many ways after execution. The contents of the review include comments, revisions, version, annotation, document properties and personal information, custom XML data, headers, footers, and watermarks, hidden text, and other aspects of the content, the check will pop up a dialog box, click on the right "delete all" to clear the appropriate content, if you re-check, You will find that the red exclamation point has disappeared.

Back in the old days, one-step.

There are many feature buttons that have been ignored by users in the toolbars on the Start tab of Office 2007. For example, subscript in Word, superscript circled characters, clear formatting, word alphanumeric boxes, and so on, these buttons can be added to the toolbar by hand, even in previous versions. But now it's easy to just click and use it. If your current document is resized more than once, if you click the Undo button to return one step at a time, the operation is tedious, and you can now return to the default format by simply clicking the Clear Format button on the toolbar.

Fast Conversion

If you open a document created by Office 97-2003 in Office 2007, and you can open and edit it normally, the word "compatibility Mode" is displayed in the title bar, which in fact makes the annoying compatibility mode information disappear after you perform the conversion operation. By clicking the Start button, you can convert the current document to a new file format by using the Convert command, with all the new features available, and the file size reduced by about half.

Let the status bar display content as you wish

By default, open any Component window, the status bar at the bottom of the window will display rich content, for different components will have a lot of special content. Word 2007 Displays page numbers, word counts, and grammar checks, Exce 2007 displays averages, counts, and totals, and PowerPoint 2007 displays a view indicator of the number of slides, which should be said to be very useful. For example, when you used to display words in Word, you would need to perform the word Count command from the Tools menu, which is now displayed directly.