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Office 2007: What's in it for Me, Inc.?

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As StartupNation’s chief startupologist, Rich Sloan is the first to admit that we’re all creatures of habit. Once we learn something, it becomes difficult to learn a new way of doing the same thing. EXCEPT, that is, when doing it the new way is much faster and more efficient.

Yes, such is the case with the new suite of software included in Microsoft Office 2007. The features and quick, at-a-glance access to oft-used functionality are major improvements over the 2003 and prior Office solutions.

Brian Kane, a small business solutions advisor with Microsoft, gives us a great tour of this product, including the most requested feature enhancement for 2007.  You’ll also learn about all sorts of tools they’ve simplified in Powerpoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook – the most popular and addictive offering within Office.

Rich Sloan’s become a user, and now that he’s gotten past the adjustment to using something new, he’s beaming about Office 2007.

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Excel 2007 has added on average 2 mouse clicks to EVERYTHING I do. How is that increasing my productivity?   I find Excel 2007 to be a great hindrance to my business.  I create custom applications in Excel using VBA, and the "new & improved" Excel is anything but.   I will be holding onto Excel 2003 until MS comes up with the next version, which hopefully regains the ability to customize the program which has been lost in `07.   For example, from ...

I saw the initial Office 2007 descriptions and immediately decided to avoid it totally. I use keyboard shortcuts, customized toolbars, and all sorts of things that are legacy leftovers from early versions of MS Office. From what I see, instead of improving efficiency and functionality, Microsoft has gone with the "lowest common denominator" mentality. Their business case rests on the massive amount of tech support questions they get, most of which involve being unable to find some fe...

Craig,   first let me say that i have no commercial interest in advocating MS Office 2007. that division of MS has nothing to do with us.   now let me differ with you. Office 2007 is an amazing efficiency tool. i`m much faster and more effective than i was using the previous version.   like you said, you like doing things the way you`ve always done them. that, for you, works. why change it?!   for me, i was looking for a lot of the enhancements and...

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