Written by The New Paperclip on January 7, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Thats right… 23 Sleeps, thats 552 hours, or 33120 minutes until Office 2007, and Windows Vista will be available in the shops. January 30 is not that far away!
You can pre-order your copy of Windows Vista or Office 2007 now on Amazon.com! They can even gift wrap it for you!
Over the next three weeks I will [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on November 28, 2006 – 8:20 pm
Do you love creating documents that are full of pictures? Are you sick and tired of the same old Clip Art that comes included with Word? Do you need more Clip Art for Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, or any of the Microsoft Office 2007 programs?
You are in luck!
Microsoft have a website [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on November 28, 2006 – 7:49 pm
Are you a teacher, student, or home user of Office, and want to upgrade or buy a full version of Office 2007? Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is probably the best version for you. Why? Well it is cheaper than most of the other office suites, but includes all the programs you are most [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on November 22, 2006 – 11:26 pm
I am sure as soon as you thought about upgrading to Office 2007 and looked at the options available, you thought - “dang it, this is going to be hard work deciphering exactly what version (or SKU) of Office I should buy.“
Well let me save you the hassle and let you know exactly what you [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on November 7, 2006 – 8:51 pm
Exciting news!!! My sources at Microsoft have all been spruiking that Microsoft Office 2007 has now reached the magic milestone that is RTM.
If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can expect the gold code to be available in the next few days.
If you are a consumer, we still need to wait until early next year [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on October 29, 2006 – 2:53 pm
Apart from the new Ribbon User Interface, there are a few more ‘menu concepts’ that new users of Word 2007 (and Office 2007 in general) need to get their heads around. The one that is most obvious is the “Prepare Menu”. You will find the prepare menu when you click on the Office 2007 orb, [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on October 24, 2006 – 8:38 pm
Need to break up you document to make it more… presentable? Breaks have been a part of Word for a long time, but where are they and what do they do in Word 2007?
“Page Layout” -> “Page Setup” Group -> “Breaks”. Still can’t find them, the screenshot below will help.
What is a Page Break?
A [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on October 24, 2006 – 8:16 pm
Don’t worry! Printing in Word 2007 is just as easy as in Word 2003… in fact it is even easier.
Where do I find the button to Print in Word 2007?
First - click on the Office Orb (the circle with the office logo in the top left hand corner of the screen… where you would [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on October 24, 2006 – 8:04 pm
The new Ribbon user interface makes it easy to do things like superscript text in Word 2007. You no longer need to go searching through the Font dialog box to find the checkbox to do it.
On the ‘Home’ tab of the Ribbon, in the ‘Font’ group, you will find an ‘x’ with a ‘2′ in [...]
Written by The New Paperclip on October 24, 2006 – 7:49 pm
There are a few screencasts starting to appear on the Microsoft Office 2007 Developer Center.
For those of you who don’t know what screencasts are, they are basically videos showing you exactly how to do something in an application.
This screencast details exactly how to extend the Office 2007 UI by building a custom ribbon! Great if you want [...]