I've often met situation where my friends complained to me that the Microsoft Office 2007 automatically "upgraded" their Microsoft Office 2003 without seeking their permission. It's not a bad thing to have something new and nice to play with. Afterall Microsoft Office 2003 has been around for "ages", it's boring to keep looking at it. I personally preferred something new and fresh. As for some, they preferred things that "just work".
Anyway, the biggest reason why people wanted to continue to stick to their Microsoft Office 2003 is because of the recent makeover of the Office File Format. They called it, OpenXML. If you happen to be using the new Office, all the Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files ends with an extra "x" to their extension, i.e. (*.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx). So it's frustrating that you have to always remembered to Save As (*.doc, *.xls, *.ppt) because the rest of the world aren't using Office 2007 yet.
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written by mangoorange
Ever wish that your Microsoft Word's table cell is as powerful as your Microsoft Excel's spreadsheet cell? Here's I'm going to show you how you can leverage on Excel's cell and place it into Word as a table which is very useful when you are working on statistical data that require your cells to contain formula.
So let's take a look step-by-step on how Office 2007 will handle it...
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written by mangoorange
It just irritates me when I see others creating their Table of Contents the wrong way or when I remembered that I used to be one of them. We often filled the dots manually and this usually makes the numbers appear not align together due to the uneven width in the fonts.
Not only that, by doing manually, you often face the problem of keep reordering the content title when you reorder the page or change the page number. Such work can result in you overlooking some errors.
Sample of it below:
In fact, there is a much better way which is efficient yet easy to use...
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written by mangoorange
