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Foundation Computing >> Curriculum Revision >> Office 2007

This space is for us to record our observations regarding differences in functionality of Office 2003 and 2007
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Write what?? When you hit a snag in Office 2007 and work out how to resolve it, make a note of what the problem was and what you discovered. This will help all of us to come to terms with Office 2007 and cover the necessary points as we create materials for our students.

Home tab / paragraph group / show-hide ||
 * **With Office 2003 we used to ...** || **Now, in Office 2007, we have to** ||
 * Save files from a File pulldown menu || click on the logo, and pay attention to backward compatibility ||
 * In excel, alt-E / I would insert new rows || Now, it's not Insert, but HOME and you have to find and pull down the insert arrow and select from the menu. However, you can insert multiple rows at once (could you do that in 2003?) ||
 * Help was easy to invoke but not necessarily helpful || When you click on the help arrow two choices appear but DISappear when you move the mouse off the arrow to select one. Once you finally understand to click on the arrow, the help menus show themselves to be better organized ||
 * Headers and footers were under view and page setup, odd places like that || Now they are under Insert (where they belonged all along) - Once you add a header or footer, if you want to remove the click here box, how? ||
 * Tools / Options / formatting marks || No tools, so how do you see the hidden markup?
 * Edit / Paragraph / classic Word dialog box for line spacing etc || Home / Paragraph / click diagonally down arrow to get classic Word dialog box for line spacing etc ||
 * To shade text as opposed to paragraph, choose to apply shading to one or the other || According to help, select the word or paragraph you want to shade and pull down the arrow next to the shading icon under HOME / Paragraph. This always applies to whole paragraph. Can anyone see how to make it apply to only the word selected?? ||
 * Table / Properties / classic dialog box || Select the table and then choose Layout / Properties to get the classic dialog box ||
 * Had very clear Edit/paste etc operations by ever-present icon, control key combo, or File/pulldown || Icons are available only if you are in Home ribbon and paste is a two click operation (by icon). Control key combos work but are not given in the menus, so if you don't already know them, tuff. ||
 * edit / find || Home ribbon, editing on the far right, pull down arrow, select find/replace ||