[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That last feature is one I just read about today, and it sounds quite
helpful.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Aeneas" wrote in message
news
You might regret uninstalling Word 2007 if you value any of the following:

LIVE PREVIEWS AND GALLERIES
*The potential results of many formatting changes can now be viewed in the
active document in a Live Preview without actually changing the document
by
hovering the pointer over a thumbnail in many of Word 2007's galleries
*Numerous galleries that include predefined sets of formatting and layout
that can be applied with a single click are available

DOCUMENT - PACKAGE OF ZIPPED XML FILES
*The file format is no longer binary but rather a zipped package
consisting
of multiple XML files in text format and folders for each document
*Helps make your documents safer by separating files that contain scripts
or
macros, making it easier to identify and block unwanted code or macros
*Helps make your document file sizes far smaller by using ZIP and other
compression technologies to reduce file size by as much as 75 percent
compared to the binary formats that are used in earlier versions of Word
*Helps make your documents less susceptible to damage and more readily
recoverable
*The XML format supports other new features, such as document themes,
Quick
Style sets, SmartArt, building blocks and content controls
*Allows you to incorporate data from various sources more easily

SAVE AS PDF FORMAT
You can save files in PDF format (or XPS format) by installing a free
add-in
program provided by Microsoft

BUILDING BLOCKS
Building Blocks are available that provide you with built-in
professionally-designed, pre-formatted cover pages, headers, footers, text
boxes, boilerplate text, etc. (building blocks) with a single click;
custom
building blocks can also be created

DOCUMENT THEMES
*Document themes allow you to Live Preview and then change the design
(fonts, colors, graphics effects) throughout the entire document with
several
clicks in conjunction with the active Quick Style set
Applying a different document theme applies the same colors, fonts and
effects to your documents for a consistent, aesthetically-appealing look
*A single document theme generates a variety of Quick Styles for each type
of graphics (picture, shape, SmartArt, chart, text box or WordArt) and for
CONTAINERS for text other than sections and the document
*The actual number of Quick Styles for each type of graphics is 30 or more
and for text other than lists, sections and the document is 25 in total
in
each Quick Style set
*The 30+ Quick Styles for each type of graphics update their colors, fonts
(if applicable) and effects whenever a different document theme is
applied,
effectively creating a brand new set of 30+ styles
*The 25 text Quick Styles in each set update their colors and fonts
whenever
a different document theme is applied
* When changing color settings such as the font color, border color (text,
table, picture), outline color (shape, SmartArt, text box), fill color
(shape, SmartArt, text box) and shading color (text, table, picture),
making
the selection from the "theme colors" in the color picker harmonize
automatically with the active document theme

PROPAGATING FONT PAIRS
*A new font pair concept (+Body and +Headings) is incorporated in document
themes that changes the font of nearly all body text and all headings with
just 2 clicks
*The default font pair for the default document theme, "Office," is
Calibri
(+Body) and Cambria (+Headings)

(DEFAULT) AND NORMAL STYLE
*It is now possible to change default font formatting and paragraph
formatting settings (Set Defaults tab of the Manage Styles dialog box)
that
ripple from the Normal style into nearly all other paragraph styles and
linked styles
*Moreover, default paragraph formatting settings can also be set from both
tabs of the Paragraph dialog box (new in Word 2007)
*The Normal style - the paragraph style that word automatically applies to
all text you enter and the style upon which nearly all paragraph styles
and
linked styles are based - helps make text far more readable; with the
default
"Office" document theme and the default "Word 2007" Quick Style set

NEW TYPEFACES
*Typographic capabilities that include new typefaces provide you with a
clean, fresh look to your documents and make them far easier to read,
especially electronically
*Word 2007 also includes improved ClearType support for better on-screen
rendering

GRAPHICS QUICK STYLES
*Graphics Quick Styles can be applied to pictures, clip art, shapes,
SmartArt, charts, text boxes and WordArt
*They automatically harmonize with document themes to create
aesthetically-appealing results; see also Table styles and Table Quick
Styles

QUICK STYLE SETS FOR TEXT
Quick Style sets allow you to Live Preview and then change all the heading
styles, body styles, etc. with just a few clicks; there are 11 sets of 25
named styles each that are attractively designed to harmonize with other
members of the set and with the active document theme

SMARTART
SmartArt presents a visual representation of information that you can
quickly and easily create, choosing from among several different TYPES
such
as List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy and Relationship, each of which has
numerous different LAYOUTS and coordinates automatically with the active
document theme

ENHANCED CHARTING
Powerful charting capabilities allow you to prepare professional-looking
charts using the enhanced charting features in Excel 2007, which are also
available in PowerPoint; they coordinate automatically with the active
document theme

CONTENT CONTROLS
*Content controls allow you to add text and graphics to a document or a
template in predesigned pieces such as rich text, plain text, combo lists,
drop-down lists, pictures, date pickers and building blocks
*This feature is especially useful for creating templates and can be used
to
update documents automatically with information from other sources

CONTEXTUAL SPELL CHECKING
Contextual spell checking verifies that you are using the word in the
right
context

DOCUMENT INSPECTOR (REMOVE METADATA)
The Document Inspector lets you easily remove before distributing a
document
private metadata and hidden data that you don't want others to access

TRI-PANE REVIEW PANEL
*The tri-pane review panel allows you to find out the changes made to a
document easily
*You see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved
text
clearly marked


"Phil" wrote:

I've just upgraded to 2007 from 2003 and am wondering why I did it! I
see no extra functionality and, as a WORD expert user, am now totally
lost and can't find any of the features i regularly used. And some
are missing - e.g. AutoText.

Does anyone know any good reason why I might regret uninstalling it
and reverting to 2003?

Phil