• Additional Functions – 51 to be exact, with two new categories of Engineering and Cube added. Many of the engineering ones use to be part of the Analysis tool pack and the Cube ones are for fetching data from OLAP cubes.
• Data Connection Library – allows you to import external data into a spreadsheet from external sources. You also are not required to know the server or database names of corporate data sources. By using Quicklaunch, you can select from available data sources made available by your organization.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
• Themes and Quick Styles – are new layouts that offer you a wider range of options when formatting your presentations. Themes simplify the process across all of your slides. Quick Styles to adapt it to a particular theme.
• Custom Layouts – can be defined and saved, which will save you time and energy from cutting and pasting layouts to new slides or deleting content on a slide. The PowerPoint Slide Libraries makes it easy to share these custom slides with others for a consistent look and feel.
• PowerPoint Open XML Interface – allows you to programmatically replace slide images, retrieve lists of images, as well as adding custom galleries to the Office Fluent UI.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Enhanced Searches – using Instant Search allows you to find items faster, color categories that give you a better method of visually distinguishing items, and has a much more results-oriented user interface.
• Management of Priorities – by using a To-Do bar that integrates your tasks, emails and calendar information for easy access. It also integrates into OneNote 2007, Project 2007 and Windows SharePoint 3.0 websites.
• Connect across boundaries – by using Windows SharePoint 3.0, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, and Internet Calendar Subscriptions.
• Outlook Email Postmark – is a new technology that helps you stop junk email. By creating an email postmark, it makes it more difficult for spammers to send mass email messages.
Article comments
1 - Edwin Bartow
Just wanted to mention one other option for anybody struggling with the new Ribbon interface. Office 20007 is a great product! ToolbarToggle is an inexpensive add-in utility which brings back the Office 2003 Toolbars and Menus into Office 2007. ToolbarToggle can be used with the Ribbon or replace the Ribbon - as well as they support full customization with Macros. Would love to get your feedback when you have a chance.