Microsoft Office 2007 is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers.
Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page.
The Ribbon, a panel that houses a fixed arrangement of command buttons and icons, organizes commands as a set of tabs, each grouping relevant commands. The Ribbon is present in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Access 2007 and some Outlook 2007 windows. The Ribbon is not user customizable in Office 2007. Each application has a different set of tabs which expose the functionality that application offers. For example, while Excel has a tab for the graphing capabilities, Word does not; instead it has tabs to control the formatting of a text document. Within each tab, various related options may be grouped together.
The following pictures displayed below are the most basic menu bar or ribbon for the MS Word 2007 version.
The Home menu or Ribbon bar contains the basic formatting options from the font styles, color, and size. It also have the paragraph formatting like left, right, center and justify alignment.
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| Home Menu or Ribbon Bar |
Next we have the Insert menu, the function of the this menu is to allow object such as picture to be inserted into the document via several method.This menu can be used to add picture, link, data sheet, graphs and many more into your document.
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| Insert Menu |
The page layout menu is where we fix how the page size, orientation, margin or paper type of a document. By specifying those setting we can concentrate on creating the documents itself without worrying on its appearances.
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| Page Layout Menu |
The reference menu or ribbon is used to create table of contents and insert reference point on the documents. Just as aptly name this is where all the needed reference for each document is inserted or created.
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| Reference Menu |
The mailing menu or ribbon is where the document for mass mailing is being setup. Mass mailing is a lot easy if these feature is used and properly setup.
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| Mailing Menu |
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the default Word document format (.DOC) became a de facto standard of document file formats for Microsoft Office users. Though usually just referred to as "Word Document Format", this term refers primarily to the range of formats used by default in Word version 97-2003.
Word document files by using the Word 97-2003 Binary File Format implement OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) structured storage to manage the structure of their file format. OLE behaves rather like a conventional hard drive file system and is made up of several key components. Each Word document is composed of so-called "big blocks" which are almost always 512-byte chunks; hence a Word document's file size will in most cases be a multiple of 512.
"Storages" are analogues of the directory on a disk drive, and point to other storages or "streams" which are similar to files on a disk. The text in a Word document is always contained in the "WordDocument" stream. The first big block in a Word document, known as the "header" block, provides important information as to the location of the major data structures in the document. "Property storages" provide metadata about the storages and streams in a doc file, such as where it begins and its name and so forth. The "File information block" contains information about where the text in a Word document starts, ends, what version of Word created the document and other attributes.
