MS Office 2007 = Our nightmare

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: PG
Selective cut and paste doesn't tell the whole story. You missed one important sentence:

"Microsoft will be the main software developer making use of the Office Open XML format. "

LOL, take your own advice:

Corel has already indicated its Wordperfect Office suite will also support Open XML [7]

The OSS Gnumeric spreadsheet is the first program to have (limited) Open XML support in a final software version.[8]

It's a new MS created format which is different from other open formats that have been used for years.

Open or not it is still different and everyone else now has to come up with ways to decipher and import the MS files.

So? New open formats are created by other developers every day. But if MS does it...OH NO!

 

[cavingjan]

But Corel has always supported Office's formats. I usually work with our .doc files in WP. If only Word would get a real Reveal Codes feature.

 

[BD2003]

Umm...you can very easily save to the older format, without losing a single thing.

 

[Eeezee]

Vi FTW

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
The big problem will be when you have different clients that use different formats/versions.

Unless MS makes the ability for automatic conversion and/or a save as capability, they could cause worse problems thant when the did the original Word .doc format shift.

Another problem I see is that some companies could be using an Open Source office solution that, as we all know, can sometimes have quirks when working with MS Office. I forsee formatting issues when swapping files between them.

They are working on a compatibility update for previous Office versions. link

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean
It's like that it beta, and it always saves in .docx...I always forget to save it in the 2003 format when I send it to someone...

you can set it so it'll save in the 97-2003 format always. thats what i do, but apparently the technical refresh of office 2007 now has support for 97-2007 or something...

 

[WildHorse]

Have been using it (MS Office 2007 Beta 2) for a few months.

At first I liked the novelty of the eye-candy. Now I dislike having the nuisance of altered menus, that slow me down...I already struggle enough with keyboard stuff.

When OpenOffice is stealing market share, it seems a marketing blunder for Microsoft to change menus which require customers to re-learn, since that kills more of MS' advantage.

The new docx format is xml, and makes a smaller file size than the doc format.

I just now did an experiment, & opened a 1-page .doc file, size 33 kb.
When I saved it as a .docx, it's 20 kb, or 39% smaller.

An Excel file is 1,399 kb in .xls, but is 798 kb in xlsx, or 43% smaller.

 

[drum]

yeah it may suck but that's just the nature of this industry unfortunately