Office 2007
Posted by Shady Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:07:21 GMT
Office 2007 has been out for a while now, and while it's not out for the mac (yet) I still have had a few occasions to play with it while doing some work on the windows side. A few quick observations:
The new "ribbon" UI sucks. Big time. It's basically impossible for me to find anything at all. I much prefer the mac style formatting palettes.
Powerpoint presentations are much improved by the ribbon UI. It's not a total waste. The new UI made it substantially easier for me to get into presenter mode (something that in my opinion was much difficult to do in previous versions) and select the different screens/projectors for giving presentations.
Excel no longer saves in DBF format. This is pretty much a deal breaker for me. To my knowledge, ArcMAP can only import data tables in DBF format. Since I pretty much always use excel to tabulate the data I'm working on, and then export to DBF for importing into ArcMAP, this makes Excel 2007 useless for me.