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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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you can download 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 from here
Beta file sizes range from 75 MB to 1 GB, depending on the products you choose.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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not available?
ermm you mean now...?
had this agesssss ago.
RAM RAM RAM hungry.
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lamont
Joined: Mar 27, 2005
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From: Manchester, UK
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iv had this for ages to, went straight back to 2003.
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Uncle Bob
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@fatreg
By ages ago, I suppose you mean Thursday 11/05/06 as that was the date MS released it internally?
...second last sentence in distribution email: "In the meantime though, please remember to keep this news on Beta 2 confidential and internal only."
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masseur
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isn't it beta 1 that you have tried as beta 2 has only been available for a couple of weeks that I have seen?
I have a desktop I like to try this stuff on, I'd never mess up my well setup and problem free vaio!
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lamont
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ye mine was beta 1 wen it was still called office 12, iv had it about 4 months now.
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masseur
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I'm sure many of us have, but thats not what this is about.
You'd have to hope they have improved it vastly to make it beta 2 and publicly downloadable
I'm going to give this a bash first chance I get but thought others might be interested
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Uncle Bob
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Well, I'll tell you, at this stage its not working too well on Server 2003 Enterprise R2... 
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lamont
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il give it a go this weekend, didnt realise at 1st it was diiferent to the 1 i had. thanks masseur
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Jim
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Ah nuts, you have to pay to get it shipped. Got my Office 03 and XP beta for free last time.
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mrao
Joined: Nov 11, 2004
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From: Mumbai, India
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for those of you who have tried it.. Are there any significant improvements visible over office 03?
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masseur
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when you're next online, take a look at this initial review of the beta 2 (for example)
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coo1k3n
Joined: May 04, 2003
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From: Northamptonshire, UK
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I think it's way better...
The toolbars have been completely re-organised into different sections using tabs. The 'File' drop down menu is the only conventional menu that was in Office 2003 that exists in 2007. To access all the other features you click the tabs.
E.g: Click the 'Page Layout' tab to bring up options in the toolbar such as Page Setup, Page Background and Paragraphing or click the 'Insert' tab to bring up options in the toolbar to do with Pictures, Word Art, Shapes, Text Boxes etc.
It looks alot more simpler and is more user friendly IMO.
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ASN
Joined: Mar 26, 2003
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I can say that there are many visual improvements over office 2003. Or perhaps I should say differences rather than improvements. The whole concept of menus has been abolished, and there are now these tabs at the top, supposedly making it easier to find the feature you want, but not that easy is you have spend over 9 years with menus, and know exactly where everything is.
In terms of features, from my perspective there are a few tweaks. Formulas can be worked upon slightly easier in Excel etc. However the main improvement (in my eyes) is the creation of the new document format based upon xml (I think), which greatly reduceds file sizes.
This is a very brief summary of the differences, so I would encourage you to find out more by wisiting the Office site (though that does tend to make the whole product look super-duper new and amazing). |
mrao
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thanks for the heads up.. Certainly sounds like its worth giving a shot this weekend..the excel is what i use most and am interested in and your feedback surely sounds encouraging.
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