Office 2007 Quick Launch Toolbar

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The sweeping design changes in Office 2007 can be unsettling. Instead of depending on myriad cascading text menus and skinny taskbars, most of the action in Office now takes place in a fat band or ribbon. It appears where the taskbars used to be and displays features that change as you click the different menu bar tabs.

You may have to scramble at first to find the new locations of familiar options. But the ribbon will also introduce you to tools and commands you never knew existed. In addition it supports a useful new feature called live preview. Select all or a portion of your document, hover your mouse over a formatting option, and you'll see how it changes the document's appearance. If you like how it looks, simply click to apply the change of Microsoft Office 2007.

In case you miss having a few commands at hand, the Quick Launch toolbar gives you a place to pin commands from any of the ribbons. It's not perfect: we miss being able to add boilerplate text with a single mouse ...
... click on one of the AutoText toolbar buttons we created. But by default, the Quick Launch toolbar includes some useful commands, including Undo and Save buttons.

Microsoft's decision to use its Open XML file formats (distinguishable from the old formats by the addition of the letter x to the file extension - .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx) as the defaults in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will irritate people who don't have the 2007 versions of these apps and receive documents from people who do.

If you use an older version of Office, you need the free 27MB MS Office 2007 Compatibility Pack download. With the Compatibility Pack installed, Office XP and 2003 users will be able to open, edit, and save Open XML files.

There are also three versions not for retail sale: Basic 2007 (with just Word, Excel and Outlook) will ship on new PCs; Professional Plus and Office 2007 will be available only to big businesses. If you currently use practically any recent Office program or Works suite there are substantial upgrade discounts available.Get more information about Office,visit http://softbidding.com.