Project Publisher connects Microsoft Office Project and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) to make working together on projects easier. By publishing Microsoft Office Project .mpp files to SharePoint, all team members can access and update their own tasks and key project information. Finally, ...

An Office 2007 theme is a new, standalone file type (.thmx) that defines colors, fonts, and effects to create a distinctive, visually cohesive look for all Office 2007 documents. Default themes include Office, Urban, and Opulent. You can find them in the themes gallery in each application: on the Design tab in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and ...

Your users are definitely in for an adjustment as they experience the new UI. Be proactive in training and preparing them. In my experience with clients, organizations that have introduced users to the new UI, with as little as a 30-minute introduction, have found the transition to be significantly smoother than those that haven't prepared end ...

Will Microsoft Office 2007 System updates be easier to deploy to users?  Yes. In previous Office versions, you kept local installations current by updating the source files in the administrative installation point and triggering a reinstallation of Office on each user's computer. Or you configured Office 2000 Setup to chain software updates ...

Quick Styles are collections of formatting that you can apply to a document, worksheet, or presentation. For example, if you create a document by using the Modern Quick Style set, then change to the Distinctive Quick Style set, all the styles in the document (such as Heading1 and Normal) change to conform to the new styles. If you're familiar with ...

What's new in the Ribbon UI, other than just appearance?   Commands are arranged in groups on tabs—that's the Ribbon—and although the arrangement is intuitive, it's quite different than the traditional menu scheme that users are familiar with. There's no Tools menu, for example, and all menu functions have been redistributed to various ...

Microsoft provides a free add-in for Office 2007 that lets you print to a PDF or XML Paper Specification (XPS) file. XPS is an open-format document standard introduced by Microsoft as a competitor to Adobe Systems' PDF. You can learn more about XPS and download the add-in at http://www.microsoft.com/xps.

To save files in the older (binary) file formats, you can use the Save As option in Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. To open files from Office 2003 (and earlier) applications in Office 2007 applications, you can use the Compatibility Mode option. If you want to open, edit, or save Office 2007 files in Office 2003 (and earlier) ...

What should I know about the Open XML file formats? Microsoft Office Word 2003 and earlier versions have always used two file types: one for documents (.doc) and another for templates (.dot). Word 2007 will use four different file types: .docx, .dotx, .docm, and .dotm (the x stands for XML and the m for macro). Word documents and templates no ...

Microsoft has switched from using binary file formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt) to using the Open XML formats (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx). Each Office application that uses the new file format— Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007—by default stores most of the document content in the Open XML ...