Friday, April 6, 2012

Benefits of Microsoft Word 2007

By Jozo Ujhely


MS Word 2007 is an application produced by Microsoft that is designed to create word documents and do text formatting. Word 2007 has been an exceedingly successful version of Microsoft Word selling millions of copies world-wide. It was part of Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite and was released at the very same time as Windows Vista in January 2007. It introduced many great new features, for example new design and user interface.

The new design was called Fluent Control Panel and it's biggest change was replacement of classic Microsoft Word menus and toolbars with new tabbed toolbar called Ribbon. This new user interface is designed to make functions of Word more discoverable and accessible with as little clics as practical. The main idea is that you need to only see those buttons, toolbars and menus that you need, the rest should be hidden and menus and buttons should appear dependent on the task you are doing right now. To put it to paraphrase the control interface should be always changing to reflect the activity you are performing and to closely fit your wants.

The new control interface was first welcomed with a lot of resistance, as it was such a radical departure from the prior design and control panel style. Folk were just lost in the new interface, they were used to the old design and suddenly it was all gone. The critical advantage of Microsoft Word over it's competitors is that everybody already knows the right way to use it. Users don't switch to alternatives, because they do not want to spend time learning a totally new interface.

Nevertheless over time people usingWord got used to the brand interface and found it much simpler and useful than the previous one. Actually you can simply download free Microsoft Office and try it for yourself.

In conclusion, Word 2007 is a good application and it enables Microsoft to remain the #1 player in word-processing market.




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