Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2007

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Office 2007

In this chapter

What’s New in Office 2007 10

An Overview of Office 2007 Applications 13

Installation, Activation, and Validation 21

Online Help and Other Support Options 23

Diagnosing Problems 25

What’s New in Office 2007

Microsoft Office has been in existence for more than a decade. Some of the individual programs that are part of the Office family date back to the 1980s. So it’s tempting to think of Office as a doddering old relic, frozen in time.

You’ll change your thinking the first time you start up Office 2007.

You don’t need to dig deep into dialog boxes to discover what’s new in this massive upgrade. If you’ve used any previous Office version, many of the changes are immediately obvious, and ...