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Hello Everyone,

I know it is slightly irrelevant, but I felt this to be rather important. Microsoft office 2007 is out now, and I have just got my copy of it. Firstly, I’ll start with a nice, wow.

This is probably the first office you should upgrade to after 2000. 2003, XP, and all those random ones in between were just time fillers, for the big one, 2007. This is truly a wondrous piece of software, and when I first used it, I was convinced this is something Apple designed, it is that beautiful.

Word. That is what I use most out of the office suite, with Excel following not far behind, and I must say that Word, is completely different, and not so much that old-time users will get lost, but in enough of a way to really show you how horrific the older versions looked. First of all, your ‘desk’ (ie. the background below the paper), is no longer depressing grey, nor solid grey, it is now a lovely blue, with a small wisp in the corner for interesting, and there is a really elegant, ‘OSX-esque‘ shadow around the piece of paper. Looks, very nice. Furthermore, the new features, I mean, it’s awesome, Mathematics is finally possible with Microsoft Word, there is a whole section on equations offering everything you could imagine, and trust me, as Steve Jobs would say, ‘it just works’.

I don’t have time to rattle through everything, as this is just a brief note really, to say how great it is. Excel, isn’t to be honest that different, it’s just a lot prettier, with some nice features thrown in. The graphs are much nicer to look at, and I prefer all, that’s all the icons associated with office now.

And that’s another note to make, is the new default font, I want to use it on this blog! It’s so nice, (btw, I’m not using it on this blog), it is called ‘Calibri‘ and it looks truly awesome, and there is a Calibri for the body of text and the headers, and it looks really nice.

Anyway, I don’t really, wait! Sorry, before I forget, the new Publisher is really great, everything is so much easier to find and do, and everything is animated in an oh, so beautiful way. Trust me, if you’ve been waiting to get out of Office 97 or 2000, now is the time, this is finally an upgrade worth bothering to get. Trust me.

Anyway, sorry for the short, slightly meaningless post, but I’ll get a much more detailed one in here at some time!

Hope you’re well,

Charlie - New Office ‘07 Fanboy