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| Thread ID: 100032 | 2009-05-23 21:00:00 | 1997 vs 2007 MS Office | zxcvar (14934) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 776271 | 2009-05-23 21:00:00 | Greetings! Are there any differences between 1997 Office and 2007 Office specially in MS Word and Excel? With thanks. | zxcvar (14934) | ||
| 776272 | 2009-05-23 21:15:00 | Probably just a fancier interface / screen. And with Office 97 SP2, it now lets you save whatever as PDF / XPS / Open Office document as well | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 776273 | 2009-05-23 21:37:00 | Bloat. And a different interface. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 776274 | 2009-05-23 21:42:00 | And with Office 97 SP2, it now lets you save whatever as PDF / XPS / Open Office document as well You mean Office 2007 SP2 :p |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 776275 | 2009-05-23 21:43:00 | Oops slight typo :p I cant remember what 97 has in it, I've got the cd, but havent used it for yonks | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 776276 | 2009-05-23 22:20:00 | I still use my Office '97 Pro as my primary office suite, despite having OOo and Office 2003. Key issues I find are: Word - gets worse regarding handling of inserted images, lines, text boxes. MS Access creates a host of incompatibilities which need to be re-worked (only an issue if you use automation - macros and modules) The Help system in Access goes completely to the dogs and is all but useless. (mental note - must check if I failed to install it all) Functions across all apps get renamed and relocated so that initially you struggle to find them. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 776277 | 2009-05-23 22:45:00 | The main differences are: File size. I have an Access db created in Access 2003 was 750MB after compaction and the same db after saving as the 2007 format and compacting was 140MB Interface. Considerable difference here. I do not like the new interface, mainly because I am a long time user from 1997 onwards but also MS continued theme of "dumbing down" their interfaces, supposedly for people who have never used their applications and annoying everyone else who has. Excel Rows/Columns. 1997 to 2003 had 65536 rows and 255 columns. In 2007 its effectively only limited by the amount of available memory. Not a huge benefit in my opinion because if you need to use more than 60k rows a db would be a more appropriate application. VBA Object Model. For those people who can program in VBA, 1997 is well know for being very flakey and so I find versions 2003 and 2007 far more stable. There are a number of other differences - have a search for 2007 specification. regards, Graham |
Parry (5696) | ||
| 776278 | 2009-05-23 23:14:00 | File Size is definetly quite a good point, Microsoft has been working on making Office files much smaller, which is why they have the new extensions(doc vs docx) | Blam (54) | ||
| 776279 | 2009-05-24 03:55:00 | Lots new but it depends what you use and like . There's heaps of little changes you won't notice until you've used a new version for a bit, but some of the big ones are . . . . . Office 2000 - Unicode, web & multilingual support . Office XP - Better automation control, smart tabs and document mark-up . Office 2003 - Security, reliability . Works better in company networks . Office 2007 - New user interface, nicer looking charts and effects, new file format . Also save as PDF, ODF, XPS with SP2 . Self-healing diagnostics tool that has saved me several headaches . Good file encryption for the first time in Office, if that's something you care about . The new file format is quite neat, it's a zip file with XML inside it, which means documents can be created and edited outside Office ( . msdn . com/ericwhite/archive/2008/10/20/eric-white-s-blog-s-table-of-contents . aspx" target="_blank">blogs . msdn . com) and are often lots smaller and less likely to get corrupted . You can get support for the new . docx . pptx . xlsx formats back to Office 2000 ( . microsoft . com/downloads/details . aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com) with a free download so that's not so much a feature specific to Office 2007 . With the newer versions there is security patching support, not sure which of the older versions still have that . Office 2007 performs better than OpenOffice ( . zdnet . com/Ou/?p=480&tag=rbxccnbzd1" target="_blank">blogs . zdnet . com) despite claims about bloat, and unless the newest version of OpenOffice has significantly improved performance more than Office 2007's SP2 it's probably still much the same . I'd consider myself a power user of Office and in hindsight each upgrade has been worth it even though the changes are somtimes subtle at first . Moving back is what makes me really feel the differences . For you moving from 97 to 2007 will be a huge improvement just give time to get used to it . I know not everyone's a fan of the ribbon in Office 2007 but I really like it now and really it only took a few weeks to get used to . At home I use Home & Student which has Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, it comes with 3 licences . Windows Live Mail works great for home email, don't need Outlook for that . |
Saucy (14844) | ||
| 776280 | 2009-05-24 05:10:00 | A LOT. It is 10 years difference... I don't like 2007, 2003 is my favourite |
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