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Word 2007 Tackles Academics, Forms

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Rob Helm

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

The latest version of Microsoft’s word processor, Word 2007, delivers many of the same UI and formatting improvements coming in Excel and PowerPoint. However, Word 2007 also has specific improvements to its document proofing and analysis, and it adds specialized features for academic writing, blogging, and software development. While Word 2007 won’t make or break upgrade decisions to Office 2007, organizations that do upgrade might want to take advantage of some new Word features.

All of Word 2007’s improvements will also show up while editing messages in Outlook 2007, which will use Word 2007 as its only editor. Microsoft says it has improved the performance and reliability of Word when used within Outlook to make this feasible.

User Interface, Graphics Improvements

Like Excel and PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007 will deliver a new UI to help users find commands more easily and a new XML file format to reduce file sizes and simplify access to data from applications other than Office. Notable improvements that Word 2007 shares with Excel and PowerPoint 2007 include the following:

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