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Its the only book you need because after going through the 1020 pages, I dont think any sane reader will want to read another word of advice on using Office 2007. Read through till p353 and skimmed the last ten or so chapters and already loosing steam to finish up anther 500 important pages dealing with Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
But the book is good. Actually I have no right in saying that because I have never read any other Office book so throughly before. Office 2007 is different because its so different from the other versions previously. Flash based and no more menu bars. Instead it is context driven ribbons, i.e. the menu only comes out when you 'need' it, eg. the edit picture buttons are not there until you click on an inserted clip art or picture in the document. And for most commands, the mouse right-click that normally pops up a drop down selection menu is no more, which gave me much frustration, hence the book.
But once you get a hang of it, and its normally not that long if you have to submit a progress report to the boss 5 days just after you installed the new Office, you'll suddenly realize that the menus and location of the buttons are really intuitive and logical - and how come Microsoft took so long to make this change. Really, the unlearning of 2003 is harder than the learning of 2007. I strongly recommend upgrading Office if you use it daily. It does things better and faster.
5 things I love about the new Office:

1. The instant formatting options where you have this list of pre-saved 'templates' that you can instantly apply on your document. One click to professional looking documents and presentations.
2. Powerpoint templates, backgrounds, and picture enhancements really rock. Plus the size of xml files for all Office documents are smaller than 2003.
3. The one click graph creation button in Excel. Excel intuitively selects data and plots the graph in one click. You then make adjustments from the graph ribbon. So much easier than 2003.
4. Save as... You can now in any Office program save your file as a PDF, not needing Acrobat to load and do it.
5. Its cheap! Office 2007 Professional Plus goes only for S$119 for needy guys like me on campus. Thats alot cheaper than the S$700+ retail price out there.

Then of course there's the flip problem of having to use another pc with Office 2003 in it. Got to learn to dual boot now...


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