16 Facts About Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 is an office suite for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft.

The ninth major release of Office for Windows, Office 2007 was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010.

Eligible employees of companies with volume license agreements for Microsoft Office 2007 receive additional tools, including enterprise content management, electronic forms, Information Rights Management capabilities and copies for use on a home computer.

Microsoft Office 2007 introduces a feature called Live Preview, which temporarily applies formatting on the focused text or object when any formatting button is moused-over.

Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new file format, called Office Open XML, as the default file format.

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However, due to legal objections from Adobe Systems, Office 2007 originally did not offer PDF support out of the box, but rather as a separate free download.

The ODF Alliance has released test results on ODF support of Office 2007 SP2, concluding that Office ODF support, both SP2 and other add-ons, have "serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding".

Peter Amstein and the Microsoft Office 2007 team are reluctant to make liberal use of extension mechanisms, even though provided in ODF 1.

In Office 2007, Microsoft introduced the Document Inspector, an integral metadata removal tool that strips Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents of information such as author name and comments and other "metadata".

Microsoft Office 2007 includes features geared towards collaboration and data sharing.

Microsoft Office 2007 includes Groove, which brings collaborative features to a peer-to-peer paradigm.

Forms Server Office 2007 supports using a database or other data source as the back-end for the form.

Forms Server Office 2007 hosted forms support data validation and conditional formatting, as does their InfoPath counterpart.

Some users with experience using previous versions of Microsoft Office 2007 have complained about having to find features in the ribbon.

New XML-based document file format in Microsoft Office 2007 is incompatible with previous versions of Microsoft Office unless an add-on is installed for the older version.

Microsoft Word 2007 equation editor, which uses a form of MathML called Office MathML, is incompatible with that of Microsoft Word 2003 and previous versions.