Re: Office 2007?? Why?

That's a great reason to download it but I still maintain that there are
many people out there downloading it willy-nilly for no reason other than
the thought of free software.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"ANONYMOUS" <ANONYMOUS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some of us have to prepare course notes for new users and so we start as
early as posible using beta products and the course notes also states
beta version!!! We haven't put Office 2007 docs online yet.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/docs.html

Most documents are now for students and staff because we need to limit
the traffic on our website. We don't have unlimited resources!


"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

THANK YOU!!!! I thought I was the only person who felt that way. You know
they aren't really "beta testing" it. They see it as free Office.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

"Rob Giordano (Crash)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I usually don't upgrade for quite a while and only after following the
ngs
for problems.
It amazes me when reading posts by obvious noobies (not meaning this
OP)
that so many are downloading beta software. Scary.


"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" <jl_paules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| If you have no need for all of the fancy bells and whistles, use
Works
or
| Works Suite. No one is being forced to upgrade. Even I won't upgrade
until
I
| want to - and that's not going to be after it's been out for a little
while.
| My computer is too important to me to risk its stability and I really
don't
| want to reformat it.
|
| --
|
| JoAnn Paules
| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
|
|
|
| "Alex" <samalex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:1148996871.472335.132790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Hello,
| >
| > One huge question... why move to Office 2007? It's so different
from
| > the versions of the last 15 years of Office, and I'd think such a
| > change would be a training nightmare. Also why has MS Word and
Excel
| > become such standards? When I was in high school and college such
| > programs were called simply Word Processors or Spreadsheets, and
most
| > Desktop Publishing appliations could open competitors formats, so
| > anyone could use any app they wanted with no problem.
| >
| > The verbage that 95% of the users of MS Office use 5% of what it
offers
| > is still true, or I'd venture to say 99% use 3% now'days with so
much
| > new in Office XP and 2007, so I say again, why upgrade? To simply
have
| > the latest and greatest isn't always a good answer, and paying $679
is
| > outragous?
| >
| > Just would like to hear the thoughts of others on this topic --
| >
| > Alex
| >
|
|




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