new features in office 2007
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New Features in Office 2007
College of Southern Maryland
Changes to Office 2007
New Interface
Office Button
Ribbon
Quick Access
Toolbar
Contextual Tabs
Galleries
Live Preview
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New Interface Office Button: Microsoft Office button allows you to open, save (save in another format) and print and file management tasks. Quick Access Toolbar: You will always see this no matter where you are. Necessary buttons, Save, Undo, and Repeat button. Customizable. Tab Bar: contains tabs that display tools and commands in the ribbon. Click the tab to undertake a task. Ribbon: Replaces menus and toolbars. The ribbon contains command buttons grouped by task. When you start a new task you click on a tab on the Ribbon. Knowing which tabs takes awhile, but the names of tabs – Home, Insert, View and so on – hint to which commands you find when you visit a tab. Contextual Tabs: Only appear in context – they only appear when you insert or click something. For example; Insert a table. The idea of contextual tabs is to direct you to the commands you need and exclude all other commands. Galleries: Build into contextual tabs. A gallery presents you with visual options for changing an item. Live Preview: With live previewing you can see the results of a menu or gallery choice before actually making the choice. Mini Toolbars: Ghost-like menus that appear when you select text and then move the pointer over selected text.
Microsoft Office Button – contains common file and system commandsQuick Access Toolbar- contains shortcuts for the most commonly used tools
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New Interface Office Button: Microsoft Office button allows you to open, save (save in another format) and print and file management tasks. Quick Access Toolbar: You will always see this no matter where you are. Necessary buttons, Save, Undo, and Repeat button. Customizable Tab Bar: contains tabs that display tools and commands in the ribbon. Click the tab to undertake a task. Ribbon: Replaces menus and toolbars. The ribbon contains command buttons grouped by task. When you start a new task you click on a tab on the Ribbon. Knowing which tabs takes awhile, but the names of tabs – Home, Insert, View and so on – hint to which commands you find when you visit a tab. Contextual Tabs: Only appear in context – they only appear when you insert or click something. For example; Insert a table. The idea of contextual tabs is to direct you to the commands you need and exclude all other commands. Galleries: Build into contextual tabs. A gallery presents you with visual options for changing an item. Live Preview: With live previewing you can see the results of a menu or gallery choice before actually making the choice.
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Mini Toolbars: Ghost-like menus that appear when you select text and then move the pointer over selected text.
Changes to Office 2007New Features
Building Blocks
Document Themes
Quick Styles
SmartArt Graphics
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Building Blocks – (Word) Preformatted elements such as cover pages, headers, footers, text boxes and other items you can insert into a document. Building blocks are stored in galleries. Click on Insert – Under the Text Group – Quick Parts Document Themes – Change the overall look of the document including color, fonts and animation. Quick Styles- Quick ways to format text using a gallery with a preview SmartArt Graphics- Visually communicate information. Lists, graphics, diagrams and charts.
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Building Blocks – (Word) Preformatted elements such as cover pages, headers, footers, text boxes and other items you can insert into a document. Building blocks are stored in galleries. Click on Insert – Under the Text Group – Quick Parts Document Themes – Change the overall look of the document including color, fonts and animation. Quick Styles- Quick ways to format text using a gallery with a preview SmartArt Graphics- Visually communicate information. Lists, graphics, diagrams and charts.
New File Format
Default is MS “Open XML” format
New functions lost if opened in older versions
Can import older files to new format
Reduced file sizes and file corruption
.DOCX
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New File Format Default is MS “Open XML” format .docx New functions lost if opened in older versions Can import older files to new format Some functionality lost Reduced file sizes and file corruption