Office '07

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2008-01-02 06:20pm

My employer struck a deal with Microsoft to allow us to purchase Office '07 for 20$. Right now I've been making use of open office and a copy of office '03 that I've had for a bit.

Is there any substantial change that would warrant an upgrade?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-01-02 06:22pm

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!!?!

Yes. Buy it. There's a huge UI revamp that makes it not a piece of 80s shit.

Fuck, buy ME one!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-01-02 06:23pm

Every major useful feature is implemented as a button along the ribbon instead of having to memorize a shitload of formulas or dig through endless menus and makes things vastly easier. It is well worth the upgrade.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-01-02 06:26pm

I use O2K7 frequently - but the one annoying issue is that if you have complex Excel charts, they take forever to render.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-01-02 06:28pm

phongn wrote:I use O2K7 frequently - but the one annoying issue is that if you have complex Excel charts, they take forever to render.

How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-01-02 06:30pm

Stark wrote:How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.

Try generating an X-Y line graph with hundreds or thousands of data points, and feel the pain.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-01-02 06:35pm

Wow - that sounds like a serious problem. A are they going to fix it?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-01-02 09:51pm

Stark wrote:Wow - that sounds like a serious problem. A are they going to fix it?

I'm not sure, really - and it might be an issue related to Vista (GDI isn't accelerated), but it's really, really annoying.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-01-02 09:59pm

phongn wrote:
Stark wrote:How complex do you mean? I don't think anyone I work with does much beyond simple arithmetic, but I don't actually know how crazy-go-nuts you can get with Excel.
Try generating an X-Y line graph with hundreds or thousands of data points, and feel the pain.

I've only noticed lag when spreadsheets get upwards of 50-100mb+ for sheets with thousands of lines of data and macros galore. Most of the sheets I've dealt with rarely go above 50mb though, so it's normally not an issue.

Xisiqomelir · Post by **Xisiqomelir** » 2008-01-03 03:10pm

Zed Snardbody wrote:My employer struck a deal with Microsoft to allow us to purchase Office '07 for 20$. Right now I've been making use of open office and a copy of office '03 that I've had for a bit.

Is there any substantial change that would warrant an upgrade?

We have it at the office. I have Lotus Symphony installed on the PC I don't use so I can avoid it as much as possible.

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