February 4, 2007

There was a lot of hype surrounding the recent release of Microsoft’s two new offerings: the Vista OS family and Office 2007 family.

As a beta tester for Vista, I didn’t feel it was ready to be released yet but, hey - what do I know. I’m merely an end user. Of course, the fact that it was released to the public along with a SP lessens my great expectations that all the bugs are truly resolved. I believe the amount of pressure coming from computing manufacturers had something to do with pushing Vista on out to the public.

As a beta tester for Office, I was anxiously awaiting its release, and am happy to say I am using the Office 2007 Professional version. There is going to be a learning curve associated with the new version, but it is packed with many enhancements and features enabling powerful document generation and work environments.

This blog entry is being created using Word 2007. In this post, I want to accentuate some of the cooler things you can do as it relates to blogging.

From within Word, you can create a blog entry with extensive formatting and imaging, and easily upload to your blog - whether hosted by a company such as Blogger, or hosted on your own website through installed software, such as Wordpress.

You set up your blogging account information, including URLs, usernames, and passcodes. It’s all really quite simple, and painless. You can set up multiple blogging accounts, and select the one you want to post to.

I was amazed how easy it was to use. The additional features within this version of Word make publishing any type of content for any purpose a breeze. You get live previews for text styles, images, paging, etc.

Along with text effects, are a wide variety of image effects, including:

• Shadows
• Orientation
• Borders
• Shapes

Dropping in tables with specific formatting is also a breeze. Additionally, there are a number of ready-made templates and stylings to jazz up information:

You can also create SmartArt diagrams and charts:

In summary, Word 2007 is simplifying blogging, so it’s not just straight and boring text anymore. Give it a Test Run and see what it can do for you.

Happy blogging!

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