Using Microsoft Office 2007
Posted by nathan on 12 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: New Hope stuff., Tech Stuff., random.
Last week, i finally upgrades our Microsoft Office suite to the newest version. Microsoft Office Small Business 2007. Prior to that, we were still using Office 2000 on all our clients. (although we did have Office 2003 on our projector computer).
But about four years ago, i personally stopped using Word to construct any projects. I found InDesign to be much better suited, as it didn’t try to ‘fix’ things for me that didn’t need any fixing to begin with (like the crazy Outlines! I also was using OpenOffice.org as my office suite for a while.
So today, i thought I would give the new Word 2007 a shot. Remember–i haven’t done much with this program in about FOUR years!
It was all going really good, and i found a lot of features very helpful…until i tried to edit an outline! yikes! Word does it’s own thing again, trying to ‘fix’ what doesn’t need fixing! errrr!!!! agrivating, to say the least.
But it’s good for me, so now i can better answer any support questions if/when they come up.
But i don’t think i’ll be making any switches back to Word any time soon! i’m glad i’m not pinned down to it for sure!
Have you had any experiences with Microsoft Office? Is anyone using OpenOffice.org?
3 Comments »
on 12 Apr 2007 at 10:09 am 1.
Adam said …
I tried openoffice… but I decided to stick with Microsoft - there’s just cool features. Once you get your hands around the craziness of microsoft programs it really isn’t that bad. You just got to tell it to stop doing things automatically.
on 12 Apr 2007 at 10:11 am 2.
Adam said …
Now windows on the other hand . . .
on 12 Apr 2007 at 4:51 pm 3.
Marc said …
For some reason, open office always managed to go wrong. I had to resort to using Firefox/Google as a spell checker because OpenOffice would randomly turn its own spell checker off! The bug was linked to the text, so I’d actually have to create a new document, and paste the text with no formatting to get it to work.
On the other hand, I have found Word 2007 to be worth the upgrade (unlike 2002 and 2003, which were essentially 2000 with shiny new icons). The bibliography feature is so handy!