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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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I think there`ll always be a broadly characterized "split" between people who use a computer for heavy production work, and those who use it more for light operations like email, a few letters, and maybe a quick list. Microsoft has tended to focus their sales on enterprise-level buyers, which brings up an interesting irony: Presumably, corporate workers need a heavy-duty, high-speed, very functional application suite. So how come the annual improvements are toward prettier, slowed down...

I`m still with CraigL. I`ve grown up with Excel, and have always supported Microsoft products.  I LOVE Excel.... at least, I did.  Before 2007.    I now have 2003 and 2007 both loaded on my laptop.  2003 to do 95% of my work, and 2007 because one client got a new laptop with Office 07, and we could no longer transfer our files between the two systems during development and testing.    Even the macro references have moved, so you have to r...

:-) Yes: among which is the Open Office solution.

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