MS Office 2010

[cisamcgu]

[mods - can someone move this to Electric Cafe please? Didn't mean to put it in the main cafe. Too early in the morning... Ta!]

Moved

 

[beanzontoast]

Ta x2!

 

[HJ]

I am using Office 2010 beta, it works fine, but come October when they want me to pay for it I will probably go back to Open Office. MS Office is only better when the price is the same...

 

[Yellow Fang]

I spent quite a long time yesterday working out how to get header numbering work. Boy, was it hard! When I had done it, I saved it as a template document. Then I discovered there were zillions of templates available off a microsoft website. Presumably, some of these have proper header numbering too.

 

[beanzontoast]

I spent quite a long time yesterday working out how to get header numbering work. Boy, was it hard! When I had done it, I saved it as a template document. Then I discovered there were zillions of templates available off a microsoft website. Presumably, some of these have proper header numbering too.

Linky?

 

[CorsairC]

I've had 2007 for over a year. I don't use office much Now but have in the past. Env after a year Im still hunting for stuff in the menus. It's much slower I find on XP. Much quicker on Windows 7. Unless there's something it has that 2003 doesn't I don't see the point of upgrading just to get a new interface that you have to relearn.

There's nothing extra I need in 2007 anyway.

Open office is much faster but you have to relearn it. I don't think macros are as easy either. But definately a good alternative.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Linky?

No linky as such. With Word 2007, if you click on the Office button (the round button on the top left), then New, you can select from a varity of templates, many of them online. Annoyingly though, I haven't been able to find one with numbered headers, which seems crazy to me. In my last job, all our documents had numbered headings. It can't be that unusual a requirement.

 

[CorsairC]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/office_2010_2007_2003_upgrades/

“CPU and RAM requirements approximately doubled between Office 2003 and Office 2007,” noted Microsoft’s Alex Dubec.

“We haven’t changed the CPU or RAM requirements from Office 2007, but the footprint of most Office applications have gotten larger. These changes force us to increase the system requirements - most standalone application disk-space requirements have gone up by 0.5 GB and the suites have increased by 1.0 or 1.5 GB.”

Double the requirements. To do what exactly. Have a pretty menu? No wonder open office feels so much quicker.

 

[swee'pea99]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/office_2010_2007_2003_upgrades/



Double the requirements. To do what exactly. Have a pretty menu? No wonder open office feels so much quicker.

As with so many IT things, Moore's law has ended up as an ever-increasing capability to do things you would never want to in a hundred/thousand/milion years. I used to use Paint Shop Pro - all 300Mb of it - to crop pics, make 'em smaller, adjust the brightness and contrast. Never did know what all the other stuff was. The PC it was on died and I found the new version was over £100, so I found a freeware prog called PhotoFiltre. Does exactly the same, as far as I'm concerned, and it's about 1.6Mb if I remember rightly.

 

[HJ]

Microsoft, Bloat? Who would have thought it...

 

[CorsairC]

LOL - HJ

Another freeware alternative to PSP is XNView.

I still have a copy of PSP 6 I got free with some CDR's. works fine. I'll try PhotoFiltre though.

 

[Carwash]

Microsoft, Bloat? Who would have thought it...

Well *somebody* has to drive hardware sales, I suppose.

 

[HJ]

Ach well, at least it is cheap hardware