New Word 2007 Stuff
There is a lot of stuff that's new in 2007. This page is about the stuff you won't find by clicking Help and What's New. This page is for the little stuff that is not well covered, or maybe even mentioned, by Microsoft. Some of it is stuff that is new and cool, some is stuff I miss :-(, and some is the stuff new users find confusing.
AutoText, where art thou? :-(
Building Blocks replace the AutoText feature found in previous versions of Word. There is a way to convert those old AutoText entries to Building Blocks, certainly, but you have to 'organize' them one at a time. If you have hundreds of AutoText entries that you have created and come to rely on for speed and efficiency, this could become extremely tedious. For many offices this is the deal breaker that sends them back to 2003.
Header & Footer :-(
This is really just a personal problem, but I have spent the last upteen however many years explaining to people why the Header and Footer option was on the View Menu instead of the Insert Menu. Anybody want to take a wild guess where it is now? View Tab? Nope... Page Layout Tab? Nope... You guessed it! It is now on the Insert Tab. It should only take me a couple of years to quit telling people to go to View first.
Print Preview Zoom Confusion :-(
We have this great new Zoom control at the right end of the Status Bar. Way cooler and easier to use than that old drop down list. It even works great in Print Preview for zooming in and out to view various numbers of multiple pages. So why did they give us a Zoom Group on the Print Preview Tab and not include the multiple pages button? The only button there that is not available in the status bar zoom control is the Two Pages Button and the only button I wish was there is the newly renamed Many Pages button. Click the percentage of the current zoom to open the Zoom Dialog Box (since they did not include a dialog box launcher for this group) and access the Many Pages button. The number of rows and columns available to you will depend on your screen resolution. On a 1280 by 1024 monitor that would be 6 X 13.
WordArt :-(
OK, seriously... it's called Word Art and Word is the only program that didn't get the new and improved version? Really? That's just totally not fair! :-) Honestly, I do not understand why Word still has the old stuff, but PowerPoint and Excel(?!) have the new and improved versions. Maybe someday.
Still Looking :-)
I was looking really hard for at least one good thing to list here. Most of the stuff that is new and cool is well covered already by Microsoft's What's New topics. I have not found any little hidden gems that they have not already bragged about. At least not yet. I will keep looking.
