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Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

By Bill Detwiler October 13, 2006, 4:50 AM PDT on Twitter billdetwiler

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Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Word 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Word 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

The latest Office 2007 Beta update offers performance improvements, an updated user interface and ribbon design, and better accessibility support. The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) also provides better image support for blogs in Word 2007 and a new Excel 2007 Trust Center. This gallery’s 45-plus screenshots show you what the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh includes.

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Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Word 2007 Home Ribbon tab

Word 2007 Home Ribbon tab

Office 2007 will feature the most significant user interface change in recent years – the Ribbon.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Turn of Panning Hand

Turn of Panning Hand

Using this red button, you can toggle the Panning Hand on and off.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Save as PDF

Save as PDF

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh doesn’t natively support PDF files, but Microsoft does provide a free add-in that allows Office 2007 to export and save PDF and XPS files.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Open a new blog post

Open a new blog post

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh added increased support for images when blogging. To create a new blog post, click the Office button, click New, select Blank and recent from the templates list, and click New blog post.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Register a Blog Account

Register a Blog Account

If you haven’t done so, Word will ask you to register a blog account.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Choose your blog provider

Choose your blog provider

The Word 2007 blog registration wizard includes settings for Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint blogs, a Community Server, and other blog clients that use the MetaWebLog or Atom API.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Blog account information

Blog account information

Here you enter your blog account information, including the appropriate API.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Blog picture options

Blog picture options

Improved blog picture support was one of the updates in the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh. During the blog account registration, you can specify were you blog images will be stored.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

New blog post: Blog Post tab

New blog post: Blog Post tab

A new, blank blog post shown under the Blog Post tab.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

New blog post: Insert tab

New blog post: Insert tab

Using the Insert tab, you can add a variety of objects (pictures, clip art, shapes, tables, and more) to the blog post.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Blog post image

Blog post image

A blog post containing and image

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Excel 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Excel 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh contains an updated Excel Trust Center.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Excel 2007 Home Ribbon tab

Excel 2007 Home Ribbon tab

As with other Office applications, Excel’s Home tab is the default view.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Excel 2007 Options

Excel 2007 Options

To open the Trust Center, click the Office Button, click Excel Options, select Trust Center, and click Trust Center Settings.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Excel 2007 Trust Center

Excel 2007 Trust Center

From the Trust Center, you can manage Excel 2007 security settings.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trusted Locations

Trusted Locations

The locations listed in the Trusted Locations lists are trested as trusted sources for opening files.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Add a new trusted location

Add a new trusted location

To add a new location, click Add new location, enter the location’s path, choose to trust the location’s subfolders, and add a description (if necessary). Click OK.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Add-ins

Trust Center: Add-ins

Here you can configure the security setting for the Excel 2007 add-ins.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: ActiveX Settings

Trust Center: ActiveX Settings

You can configure the ActiveX setting for all Office applications from the Trust Center.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Macro Settings

Trust Center: Macro Settings

You can configure the macro security settings from the Trust Center.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Message Bar

Trust Center: Message Bar

You can choose to show or not show a Message Bar notification when Office 2007 blocks content.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: External Content

Trust Center: External Content

From the Trust Center’s External Content pane, you can configure security settings from Data Connections and Workbook Links.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Privacy Options

Trust Center: Privacy Options

From the Trust Center’s Privacy Options page, you and configure a variety of privacy settings. Personally, I rarely, if ever, enable a setting that sends information back to Microsoft, or anyone else for that matter.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Document Inspector

Trust Center: Document Inspector

The Trust Center’s Document Inspector feature allows you to detect personal information from individual documents, such as, comments, custom XML data, hidden worksheets, and more. You can then configure the Trust Center to remove the personal information when the document is saved.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Translation Options

Trust Center: Translation Options

You can choose the appropriate dictionary to use.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Trust Center: Research Options

Trust Center: Research Options

You can select which research sources/services Office 2007 will use.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Access 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Access 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Although Access 2007 won’t change the database file structure, Access users will still need to master Office 2007’s new Ribbon-based user interface.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Getting Started with Microsoft Access

Getting Started with Microsoft Access

As with previous releases, Access 2007 prompts you to create a new database or open and existing database. Access 2007’s Getting Started wizard is just more colorful.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Datasheet View

Datasheet View

A new, blank table shown in Access 2007’s Datasheet View.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

PowerPoint 2007 will use Office 2007’s new XML file structure.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

PowerPoint 2007 Home Ribbon tab

PowerPoint 2007 Home Ribbon tab

PowerPoint 2007’s Home Ribbon tab provides much the same view as the PowerPoint 2003 default view.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Installed presentation templates

Installed presentation templates

PowerPoint 2007 includes several new presentation templates.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

OfficeOnline PowerPoint presentation templates

OfficeOnline PowerPoint presentation templates

You can also access more PowerPoint presentation templates through OfficeOnline.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Outlook 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Outlook 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

The interface is new, but Outlook 2007 offers few significant changes from Outlook 2003.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Outlook Today

Outlook Today

Outlook 2007’s Outlook Today view provides an overview of the day’s appointments, tasks, and current mailbox stats–much like Outlook 2003’s Today view.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Daily calendar view

Daily calendar view

Tasks will now appear on the Outlook calendar.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Contacts - Business Card view

Contacts - Business Card view

Outlook 2007 offers a variety of Contact views. This is the Business Card view.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Contact - Detailed Address Card view

Contact - Detailed Address Card view

The more-compact Detailed Address Card contact view

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Add a contact

Add a contact

The contact information window

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