Microsoft Office 2007, Office 2007

Excel contains a great number of functions that can help you with your calculations. Using Excel, the day to day mathematics that you normally find daunting and difficult, will quickly become a breeze to deal with.

To make use of functions within Excel, first you will need to click in the cell that you want the results of the function to be displayed. Once you have done this, click the insert function button.

When you have clicked on the insert function button, a dialog box should appear. Within this dialog box, type the name of the function or a description of the action that you want the function to do, and then press enter.

A list should now appear containing a number of different functions to choose between. You will need to select a function from the list. If the function that you are after does not show, select another category and select the function from the next list. If you wish to use a function that you have recently used already, then you can use the recently used button within the formulas tab and choose the function from the drop down menu.

When you have chosen the function, make sure that the function is going to do what you want it to do, this will save later confusion if it does not do what you were expecting. When you are finished, click on OK and that function will be created.

Through the assistance of functions, it is possible to make calculations and general mathematics easier and quicker for you to work out. This will allow you to get on with more important things and spend less time doing maths.

With the new release of Office 2007, Microsoft has completely revamped the user-interface and the way we use the application. At first blush, it is very confusing, and may even make you frustrated. In all honesty, it took me some time to get used the new concepts and usability. You no longer have to be a power-user to get the most out of Office, as the design has become very intuitive and friendly.

The first thing that will hit you is that menu bars are gone. They have been replaced by a new term called “Ribbons”. The ribbons are tabs categorized by the features you prominently use. When you start Excel, the ribbons you will see are: Home, Insert, Page Layout, Formulas, Data, Review, View, Developer and Add-Ins.

Contextual-tabs will appear when the functionality is available. Once it is no longer applicable, it disappears. An example of this is would be if you where to insert a picture into your document, a new tab will appear in the ribbon called “Picture Tools”. As you guessed it, the picture tools tab will contain picture related functionality. Once I click or move away from the picture, the picture tools contextual-tab will disappear.

Prior to Office 2007, format modification would be a pain-staking and time-consuming process. First, you would make the change only to undo and try a different option. This process would continue until you found one you liked or just gave up. With the new galleries, this ordeal can finally be put to rest. Galleries are visual representations of the change. This real-time preview enables you to see what the outcome will be before you actually commit the modification.

Tool-tips have been enhanced to not only name the feature, but describe it as well.

The “Office Button”, located to the top left of every window, enables you to quickly see other functionality that you can do with your document. The most common features are Open, Save, Print, Sharing, etc.

To the right of the office button the “Quick Access Toolbar”. This customizable toolbar contains frequently used commands. You can customize it by right clicking on the toolbar and selecting the appropriate command.

A “Mini-Toolbar” becomes visible when you highlight text for formatting. The Mini toolbar helps you work with fonts, font styles, font sizing, alignment, text color, indent levels, and bullet features.

At the bottom right-hand corner of every window will be the various views you’ve come to expect. One nice feature is the zoom level slider. You can easily zoom or zoom out simply by dragging the slider. You can just as easily go back to 100% by clicking on the center point.

If you need to send your 2007 documents to people that use prior versions of Office, make sure you save the document as a 97 – 2003 format, because the new format is saved as .???X (Excel example: XLSX) format.

As you can see, Microsoft has really done a nice job with Office 2007. It is not just a version upgrade, but rather a whole new way of creating compelling documents with total ease. Give it a try. You’ll be glad you did.

It is sometimes necessary to change the product installation and registration key used by Microsoft Office 2007. This may be due to having installed the wrong key in the first place, the PC was imaged from another PC with the same product installation key, or you are installing a legally purchased license key on a PC where Microsoft Office was previously installed illegally using a pirated license code. The advantage to this procedure is that it allows you to quickly change the key without having to remove and reinstall your software.

Please note that installing Microsoft Office, or any software, using an illegally obtained license or installation code, or installing more copies than you are legally entitled to is punishable by law. This article is intended for use only in situations where you are enabling a legally obtained installation key.

The following procedure outlines how to edit the Microsoft Windows registry to remove the existing product key, which will then enable the new key to be activated online with Microsoft. Improper editing of the Windows registry can result in a variety of problems ranging from inoperable applications to a complete failure of Windows to boot. This article assumes that you are familiar with editing the registry. A qualified computer support technician should be consulted if this is not something that the reader is comfortable doing themselves.

1. Start the registry editor.
2. Browse to the following key: HKLMSOFTWAREMICROSOFTOFFICE12.0REGISTRATION.
3. Export this key for use in the event that you have a problem and need to roll back to the pre-existing configuration.
4. Within the Registration container, locate and delete the DigitalProductID and ProductID registry keys.

The next time you start any Microsoft Office application you will be prompted to register your activation key. Simply follow the prompts to complete registration. To check the status of your Microsoft Office product registration in Office 2007, click on the Office button in the upper left hand corner of Microsoft Word, go to Word Options, choose Resources, and then click on the “Activate” button in the section titled “Activate Microsoft Office”. This button will also allow you to manually register your software.

Depending on which flavor of Office you are registering, and which version, if any, is pre-installed on the PC, you may receive trial notices for unlicensed Office components when you launch Office. If this occurs, restart Microsoft Office the required number of times until the trial expires and you will no longer receive the annoying notice!

This procedure was tested using the Office 2007 Small Business Edition MPK version of Office that was pre-installed on a new PC. Although not tested, it should work on Windows XP and later versions of Microsoft Windows. It should work with all Microsoft Office 2007 editions, but may not work on prior versions.

Ted Miller, President
AVIK Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Office 2007 allows you to change the numbering format of the numbered page through the Page Number feature. The numbering format is the format of the page numbering in a document.

To change the numbering format, you should click on the Insert button and select Page Number. From the Numbered pages drop down menu, you should click on the Format Page Numbers. When the Page Number Format dialog box appears, you can choose a numbering format from the Number Format drop down menu. You can choose from several options including 1, 2, 3; I, II. III; i, ii, iii; a,b,c; and A, B, C.

If you want to use heading in the chapters, you can select a style from the Chapter starts with style drop down menu. You can also separate each chapter with separators. To do this, you can select a separator from the use separator drop down menu. You can choose from five types of separators including hyphen, period, colon, emdash and endash. If you want to include chapter numbers, you should check the Include chapter number box.

The Start at text box allows you to assign a numbered page that is not derived from the previous document. You can use the up and down arrow to enter a numerical value of the page number. Before you use this feature, you should put the insert point at the page where you want to have a different page number that does not follow the sequence of the document pages. For example, if you place the insertion point in page 10 and enter a numerical value of 1 in the Start at text box, the page 10 will have a number 1 displayed. If you don’t want the number to be displayed on a cover page, you can enter the numerical value 0 in the Start at box.

When you go to uninstall Microsoft Office 2007, your first inclination may be to head to Add or Remove Programs or over to Programs and Features if you use Vista/Win7. Well, while these tools can uninstall Microsoft Office 2007 from your computer, the truth of the matter is that they aren’t perfect. And, sometimes, things go wrong. So what can you do then (or, what can you do to head off this possibility in the first place)?

Well, there’s this cool little program called Remove Office 2007 that was made for ripping Office 2007 right out of your computer. It isn’t nice, it isn’t pretty, but it gets the job done. So today we’re going to go over how to use this program to remove a Microsoft Office 2007 installation (or remove a Microsoft Office 2007 trial installation) from your computer.

1. Go ahead and download the Remove Office 2007 program and save it to your computer.

2. Double-click the file to extract the ZIP file and you’ll end up with a little EXE file.

3. Make sure all other programs on your computer are closed before you continue with the next step.

4. Double-click the EXE file and a small window appears with a single button: Go.

5. Click Go to remove Office 2007 from your computer, utterly and completely, without any fooling around. If you decide that you don’t want to remove it, press ALT+F4 to close out the removal program before it runs.

Alright, there you go! You’ve now got the tool and the information you need to go out and remove Office 2007 from your computer, regardless of whether or not it was giving you uninstall trouble in the first place.

Every time you go over to someone else’s house or even go to work you always seem to come across Microsoft Office 2003 and if you are like me you probably wonder why they don’t make the upgrade to 2007. It’s possible that they are afraid of the differences or even more likely the price!

Some of the featured changes in Office 2007 are the User Interface Ribbon, the menu bar, and the quick access tool bar. In office 2007 they did away with the standard drop down boxes click and click functionality. At the top there are seven categories; click on these to access the most used functions in previous versions of the software. They placed all of these functions in a user friendly graphical interface.

Most people are also used to the menu bar at the top containing all of the functions in the software that can also be found in the old GUI, they did away with this outdated feature and added an Office logo in the top left corner which contains most of the functions found in the file menu. Just to the right of this menu are the a few of the most commonly used functions, like save and print. One of my personal favorite features is the quick access tool bar that appears when you right click, for example in Word 2007 it contains the most used functions right at your mouse tip for easy access like Bold, Italics, and Underline.

If the new easy to use features are not enough to get you to switch or upgrade to Office 2007, then what is holding you back?

Office 2007 is not a huge system hog, the minimum system requirements are normal Pentium III PC with Windows XP SP 2, Server 2003 SP1, or Vista; at least 256 MB RAM and 2 GB hard drive space can be use to install Office 2007. If you already purchased Office 2003 then it’s obvious you’re already used to playing way too much for an Office suite software package. Office 2007 also offers eight different packages for you to choose from, these included Microsoft Office Enterprise, Professional Plus, Ultimate, Professional, Small Business, Standard, Home & Student and Basic 2007.

However, if you just are not a believer that $675.95 is worth it for a few office programs then visit my blog to find out more about the specific changes to Office 2007, what the packages include and how to get yourself a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 completely free, thats right obtain a working copy at absolutely no cost to you.