Office 2007 – is there anything it can’t do?

I was an early adopter of the Microsoft Office 2007 product. I was lucky enough to be involved in the Beta testing of the product and since its launch, I've quickly moved from Office 2003 to the latest reincarnation.

The "Ribbon" is an awesome feat of intelligent design, which changes to show you only the buttons you would want when performing certain tasks – which sure beats searching through the menus for the buttons you want. It was based upon vast research into user behaviour into what the user wanted and which features are most used. For example, the most used features in Microsoft Office Word are "cut" and "paste", which is why if you open up a Word 2007 document, you'll find those buttons predominantly placed at the top left of the screen, nice and big so you can find them easily.

Outlook 2007 adds in an extra few windows on the main screen to show you your email, calendar, to-do and task items all on the same screen. Excel remains as functional as ever, with the same intelligent "Ribbon" feature as Word. Despite the few hiccups along the way with some of the Excel calculations, it really is a flawless product that I prefer using any day over any other Office package (including the 'free' Google "Documents and Spreadsheets" online products).

The feature of Office 2007 that I've recently found (which is of no surprise), is the built-in blogging templates that not only provide you with the space to compile blog posts, but also integrate directly into your online blog and publish your posts directly onto your page. It really does make it easy.

There are no doubt a million other 'hidden' features and talents of the Microsoft Office 2007 product and I can't wait to stumble upon them and take advantage of them. Office 2007 – is there anything it can't do?