Why I need Office 2007
I am back to running XP because Vista 5456 just didn’t like my wireless device in my laptop and kept toggling to connection on and off. But, I can’t seem to live without Office 2007.
I like the ribbon, and quickly adjusted to it. I really like the contextual stuff like when you have highlighted text and want to change the font or size, it “previews” it by actually changing the text as you hover above the font or size buttons. But there are 2 killer features for me.
1) RSS Aggregator in Outlook 2007. Most of you are reading this through some type of aggregator such as SharpReader or Windows Live. Outlook has an aggregator that behaves just like reading email, it does read/unread and preview pane. It also lets you import and export your feeds via OPML. About the only thing I seem to be missing with the built in aggregator is a way to force it to go out and grab my feeds, it seems to have a mysterious timer that can’t be forced into submission. Below is a picture of feeds in Outlook 2007
2) Publish to Blog (also document management server, SharePoint) in Word 2007. I can write this post in Word with nice spell checkers and all it’s glory, and then click Publish to Blog and presto.
Like I said before, I am way more excited about Office than I am about Vista. Sure there are great features in Vista, but so far they haven’t helped me be nearly as productive as the changes in Office.
