Microsoft Office 2007

Iiro Rassi

Contents Overview

History Versions Programs

Evolution of the Graphic User Interface Word 5.1 Word 97 Word 2003 Word 2007

Office 2007 New Features Suites General Updates Word Excel Powerpoint Other Programs

Testing Methods Word Excel Powerpoint

Conclusion Evaluation Resources

Overview

History Versions

Programs

History Introduced in 1990 A suite of applications that initially

consisted of Word, Excel and Powerpoint

First version released for Apple Macintosh Operating System

The standard for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations

For the 2007 version, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface to be clearer and easier to use

Office 1, 1990 Office 2, 1992 Office 3.0, 1992, first Office for Windows, contained Word 2.0, Excel 4.0,

Powerpoint 3.0 Office 3, 1993 Office 4.0, 1994 Office 4.2, 1994 Office for NT 4.2, 1994, 32-bit software included Office 4.3, 1994, last 16-bit version Office 95 (7.0) Office 97 (8.0) Office 98 Office 2000 (9.0) Office XP (10.0), 2001 Office 2001 Office v. X, (10.1.8), 2001 Office 2003 (11.0) Office 2004 (11.3.0) Office 2007 (12.0)

Versions

Green: for Mac OS

Blue: for Windows

Programs

Current FormerWordExcelOutlook/EntouragePowerpointPublisherAccessOneNoteInfoPathCommunicatorGrooveSharePoint Designer

FrontPageBinderSchedule PlusMailOutlook ExpressVizact 2000PhotoDrawPicture It!Office Assistant (Clippy)

Evolution of the Graphic User Interface

Word 5.1 Word 97

Word 2003 Word 2007

Word 5.1

Word 97

Word 2003

Word 2007

Office 2007 New Features

Suites General Updates

Word Excel

Powerpoint Other Programs

Suites

General Updates The Ribbon – depending on the current

task, the most relevant commands are presented in tabs

The Office Button – central location for all document-related tasks

Galleries – replaces dialog boxes Live Preview – see the results of

editing and formatting changes when highlighting a selection

File Formats – new compressed OpenXML default file format, PDF exporting available as a plug-in

General Updates

The Office Button Galleries

Word 2007 Blog authoring New professional style sheets Dynamic word count listed by

default in the status bar Contextual spell checker catches

incorrect usage of correctly spelled words

Translation tool

Word 2007 highlights 1

Translation tool

Dynamic word count

Word 2007 cont

Rearchitected mathematic equations

Cover page gallery, follows the theme of the document

Document comparison engine Document Inspector strips

documents of metadata Building Blocks

Word 2007 highlights 2

Cover page gallery

Document comparison engine

Excel 2007 Supports up to 1,048,576 rows and

16,384 columns in a single worksheet Conditional Formatting – Color Scales,

Icon Sets and Data Bars Multithreaded calculation of formulas User Defined Functions Formula Auto Complete New charting engine, supports 3D

rendering, transparency and shadows

Excel 2007 highlights

Conditional formatting 3D chart engine

Powerpoint 2007

Improved text rendering 3D rendering Slide Library – reuse any slide or

presentation as a template Digital signatures Improved Presenter View Support for Widescreen Slides

Powerpoint 2007 highlights

Improved rendering

Other Programs Outlook: indexing, SMS support,

RSS feeds, To Do Bar with calendar, appointments and task items, Attachment Preview

Access: Improved support for data types, automatic update of reports when tables updated

Groove – new collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses

Testing

Methods Word Excel

Powerpoint

Methods

Comparison of Office 2007 and Office 2003

Word, Excel and Powerpoint tested Created a sample document with

both versions and measured the time and compared the difficulty of the task with both versions

Word I copied 200 words from ”A Guide to

the Final Year Project” by Taru Sotavalta according to the specifications stated in the guide

Word 2003 (1st)

Word 2007

Time 10:04 09:07

Difficulty 3/5 2/5

Excel I created a graph with both versions

based on a table manually created from measurements done in a physics lab

Excel 2003 Excel 2007 (1st)

Time 05:04 03:28

Difficulty

3/5 2/5

Powerpoint I combined parts of the two

previous tests into a slideshow (text, the Excel graph, a simple diagram)

Powerpoint 2003 (1st)

Powerpoint 2007

Time 07:46 05:54

Difficulty

2/5 1/5

Conclusion

Evaluation Resources

Evaluation Task to make Office more usable is

definitely succesful Even with next to no preparation I

could get more out of 2007 than the earlier, more familiar version

A somewhat surpising but now unevitable, and in my opinion very welcome, upgrade to one of your main tools of studying

Resources Microsoft Office Website

http://office.microsoft.com Online test drive version Office 2007 training

”A History Of The Personal Computer – The People and the Technology” by Roy A. Allan, 2001, eBook

”Microsoft Office 2003 Super Bible” by Wiley Publishing, 2003, eBook

http://www.retrocomputing.net http://www.winsupersite.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_office

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