http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...px?showIntro=n

Download and try it for yourself The new interface is much much much better, IMO. Outlook is also vastly improved!

thanks for the link. I have been using 2007 now for a while.. it's a big improvments, and the best thing is that you can produce amazing documents, presentations, databases, at very high and professional quality just by pressing a button... it's really impressive, if anybody wants any screenshots then let me know as i'll be more than happy to post some

I wouldn't mind a couple of screenshots posting. Like to see what it looks like before I try.

Anyone having any problems with it?

http://winsupersite.com/reviews/office2007_beta2.asp

Paul Thurrott has got a review with screenshots. Well, there are screetshots everywhere online

looks nice.. but right now i just can not be bothered to download and install this on my home PC (am pretty happy with office xp) and am not allowed to on my work PC

Originally Posted by Chroder

http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...px?showIntro=n

Download and try it for yourself The new interface is much much much better, IMO. Outlook is also vastly improved!

sometimes you get a lot of microsoft errors... as i found out now recently.., lmao

reinstall it and it works like a pro

Originally Posted by Chroder

http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...px?showIntro=n

Download and try it for yourself The new interface is much much much better, IMO. Outlook is also vastly improved!

Hay you are promoting a **** Microsoft products. What good of them? I do not have much experience with them, Bit I know, they will only trap you like a frog. Microsoft users are people who have no lives. Just like ghosts living inside small bottles.

Originally Posted by nvidura

Hay you are promoting a **** Microsoft products. What good of them? I do not have much experience with them, Bit I know, they will only trap you like a frog. Microsoft users are people who have no lives. Just like ghosts living inside small bottles.

If you don't like a product, then don't use it. Simple as that

I find it amusing that you're spouting all this anti-MS garbage and you're useragent says you are using Microsoft Windows. A bit hypocritical, don't you think?

I think I might try the beta. I've been using 2003 for quite some time because Microsoft gave it to me free when I attended a MS Partners seminar. I've read about 2007 and seen the screen shots. I've been using Office since the '95 version so I have to play with it to see if I'm going to like the drastic changes I've seen coming in this one. I have thought that some of the changes they have made to improve previous versions to make it easier and more intuitive were actually annoying, but maybe thses will be better.

Originally Posted by KML9870

I think I might try the beta. I've been using 2003 for quite some time. I've read about 2007 and seen the screen shots.

it's worth it

Okay, I've downloaded the beta and I have to say it is quite a change.

As a certified expert user of Word, Excel & Outlook 2003 it will take some practice before I would be able to pass the exams for 2007. Yeah, I know I have time since it's not a full release yet. But I think a lot of people who use Office on a daily basis and are familiar with the menu layout are going to be unhappy with the drastic changes MS has made with this version.

One thing I was concerned about as I have been reading previews/reviews and gazing at screen shots was if they were going to change the keyboard shortcuts because I type close to 100 words/minute and if they change the shortcuts it would drastically effect my productivity. I am extremely thrilled to discover that all of the shortcuts still work, although now a box pops up that tells you to continue typing your 2003 shortcut to execute it (i.e. alt e, s is "paste special" in 2007 as soon as you type alt e the box pops up).

I will have to play with it some more to get used to the changes.

It took me a while to work out where everything is, well i know where the basic stuff is but some of the other options have just like disapeared,

i can't seem to open up a powerpoint 2003 file in office 12, can anybody else?

will this be a vista only thing or so??

Nope, I'm running it on XP

I'm running XP also. I'm not having a problem opening any PowerPoint files, I was having a problem with Outlook crashing everytime I tried to open a new email. It seems that this version doesn't play well with Adobe Acrobat professional. The MS white sheet said to update Acrobat. When that didn't work I un-installed Acrobat pro leaving only Acrobat reader 7 and now it seems fine.

Edit: Nope, Outlook doesn't like Reader anymore than it did Acrobat Pro. I may have to rollback Outlook because every time I try to open an email it crashes. I'm going to try uninstalling & reinstalling reader before I resort to that though.

Well, I've given it 7 weeks to grow on me, but it hasn't. I like the changes in Outlook, but I find the ribbons in Word & Excel extremely annoying. They regrouped commands and completely buried some. If you try to use a keyboard shorcut (like alt i, r for inserting a row in excel) that stupid box comes up telling you to keep typing to use the shortcut.

I think I will be rolling back to Office 2003 this weekend and staying with it.

I really like the new ribbons. Then again, I never used any of those programs extensively so it wasn't much of a chore to "re-learn" how to use them. I can understand your frustrations when they change the way you've been doing something for years.

thanks for the link i think i will give this a try