Office 2007 observations and tips.

Hi,

Thought I would share a few thoughts re Office 2007.

Being used to Office 2002 and 2000 I initially thought what a load of carp however one I had changed the blue theme to silver and started to use it I realised that the "ribbon" menu approach is very effective and quick, also I have found some nice little features in Outlook, Word and Excel.

As with 2003, 2007 has no shortcut bar however it is so easy to make a Windows tool bar, save a bunch of shorcuts in a folder, right click the start bar, select toolbars>new tool bar and point it at the folder containing the short cuts, the drag the new toolbar off the start bar and anchor it where the Office shortcut bar would have been, right clicking allow all sorts of customisation and the icons can be dragged and dropped to change the order, works a treat.

However Office 2007 also brings Windows Desktop Search, get rid of it, as a search function it does not find everything howver it indexes, seemingly constantly, and once it had stopped indexing my F-Secure IS kicked off real time scanning, triggered by the fact that a programme had indexing, I initially thought it was an F-Secure problem (perhaps it is in that they need to be compatible with MS systems) though getting rid of Windows Desktop Search settled it all down nicely.


Regards.