Microsoft Office 2007

I bought Microsoft Office 2007 a couple of days back. I was in dire need of some templates that MSOffice came with (or provided access to). It costed me quite a bit; but it seems worth it. I hope I don’t have to remove MSOffice 2007 and keep it in the showcase like I had to for Vista (which was due to the lack of drivers 🙁 ).

Now that I have bought Office 12, I decided to use it for a couple of HOWTO articles for VTK Designer 2. Word 2007 looks awesome :). I am a big fan of the ribbon, which is why I have tried to create something like it for VTK Designer 2. Having gotten used to the new interface; I find it very continent and sexy. Software applications have to look good these days and Microsoft has left no stone unturned to make their flagship product look fantabulous.

Excel 2007 is pleasure to use. I remember getting frustrated while preparing excel sheets for printing. Some columns always got clipped away from pages where they were supposed to show up. But with Excel 2007; you can edit your spreadsheets like you would edit a word document. The page boundaries are shown within the sheet. This makes creating printable spreadsheets very very simple.

PowerPoint keeps getting better and better. I used to argue that one can do just about everything PowerPoint does using other office packages. That argument still holds, but the ease with which you can do things in PowerPoint 2007 is just amazing. Professional slide backgrounds, font and color schemes, ready made templates for just about anything. All of this makes PowerPoint 2007 a great productivity tool.