Office 2007

[DimPrawn]

Might not be every day but I use this stuff at least on a weekly basis when documenting for clients

Saving to PDF

Numbered headers and sub headers out of the box (rather than having to mess around with styles for a full day like in the old versions, or trying to find a document with numbered headers in it already and modding that and then hoping that things don't break)

Auto preview when hovering over a different font/paragraph styles in the menu (sounds like a small thing but its actually very handy)

Much better arranged menus (sorry )

Handling of embedded images and other objects seems to be a lot less painful than previous versions

It opens the new docx format of word docs which office 2007 uses. Sounds stupid, but if clients send me a word doc in that format I would like to be able to just open it and edit it if necessary rather than asking for a different format.

Saving to PDF can be achieved in any office application with a free PDF print driver. Cost £0, effort involved, none.

http://www.primopdf.com/

The new ribbon means you spend hours, days trying to do what you could do in minutes and at the end of the day, once you have learned it all, adds no value over the old menu system (used by all other Windows apps).

[Moscow Mule]

You'll have to back that statement up. Examples?

I can't find a list (I'm sure I've seen one) but a quick wiki suggests these two for starters;

Error bars on graphs
Polynomial regression analysis

[DiscoStu]

Dot matrix printers used to go on and on too didn't they? And they were cheap to run. I don't recall what fate befell my last dot matrix printer, but my ink jets printers usually only last a couple of years.

I still have a Star LC10. It must be 20 years old and if I had a computer with a parallel port I'm sure it'd still work...

[Spacecadet]

The new ribbon means you spend hours, days trying to do what you could do in minutes and at the end of the day, once you have learned it all, adds no value over the old menu system (used by all other Windows apps).

an extra minute or so at most

[DimPrawn]

an extra minute or so at most

How do you do Set Print Area? Used to be under File on that useless menu thing that all other software has.

[Spacecadet]

How do you do Set Print Area? Used to be under File on that useless menu thing that all other software has.

Not used that before so not sure what you mean, but if you mean page setup then its under page layout

[DimPrawn]

Not used that before so not sure what you mean, but if you mean page setup then its under page layout

http://exceltips.vitalnews.com/Pages...rint_Area.html

Summary: When you print a worksheet, normally Excel prints everything on the worksheet. If you want to limit what is actually printed, you can set a print area that encompasses the cells you want on the printout. This tip explains two ways you can easily define a print area. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and Excel 2003.)

You must have used this or do you always print the whole worksheet?

[Spacecadet]

http://exceltips.vitalnews.com/Pages...rint_Area.html



You must have used this or do you always print the whole worksheet?

I never print from Excel

However - a quick look and its in
Page layout -> Print Area -> Set Print Area

[realityhack]

Version 5.0 of Microsoft's flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in 1993. It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive space. In those days we could still remember our first 20MB PC hard drives (around 1985) and so 15MB sure seemed like a lot.

By the time Excel 2000 came out, it required a whopping 146MB ... almost a tenfold increase! Dang those sloppy Microsoft programmers, right?

Wrong.

I'll bet you think I'm going to write one of those boring articles you see all over the net bemoaning "bloatware". Whine whine whine, this stuff is so bloated, oh woe is me, edlin and vi are so much better than Word and Emacs because they are svelte, etc.

Ha ha! I tricked you! I'm not going to write that article again, because it's not true.

In 1993, given the cost of hard drives in those days, Microsoft Excel 5.0 took up about $36 worth of hard drive space.

In 2000, given the cost of hard drives in 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000 takes up about $1.03 in hard drive space.

(These figures are adjusted for inflation and based on hard drive price data from here.)

In real terms, it's almost like Excel is actually getting smaller!

Hmm...

[ace00]

I can do things in latex you couldn't even dream of, honey

Best. Post. Ever

I need a lie down.