Office 2007 - whohoo!

Posted by Mike Snyder on June 30, 2006  |  Comments (0)

I was finally able to spend some time playing with Office 2007 Beta 2. I only tooled around for 10 or 15 minutes, but it is AWESOME. This is definitely not your regular 'ole upgrade! Within literally the first 3 minutes I found 3 great new features in Word 2007:

• Live previews - hovering over buttons in the "ribbon" will update the document on the fly so you can preview what it would look like if you applied the formatting.

• Save to HTML improved - anyone who has tried to work with the HTML that Word 2003 generates knows the meaning the pain. I tried the Word 2007 save to HTML (filtered) and it was clean looking HTML code...ah nice.

• Blogging in Word - Write your posts in Word and then publish to your provider. Love it.

My only complaint is that I am too chicken to start using the Beta 2 for my system, out of fear for bugs and incompatibility. Alas, I'll wait a few more months for the real deal.

UPDATE: Microsoft announced that Office 2007 will not be released in October, but it will be released some time in 2006.