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Office 2007 SP2 ships, adds Open Document and PDF support
by Lee Mathews Apr 28th 2009 at 3:00PM
The 290Mb download includes more than 600 fixes and improvements. Two key additions include support for the Open Document formats in Word (.odt), Excel (.ods), and Powerpoint (.odp) and the option to save as PDF in all applications. In my limited testing, PDF output was very true to the Word and Excel originals.
Excel's charting mechanism has been been retooled, as has chart integration with other Office applications. Digital Inspiration notes several improvements to Outlook, including better IMAP and RSS support and faster startup, searching, and synchronization. Microsoft also touts general performance gains and better quality print output across the entire suite.
For a detailed look at what Office 2007 SP2 is all about, check the Office Sustained Engineering blog post. There's also a good roundup on Microsoft Support.
[via PC World]
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Tair said 3:24PM on 4-28-2009
Hasn't the 'Publish To PDF/XPS' been around for ages?
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shamowfski said 3:40PM on 4-28-2009
Yes. I've been using it for at least a year.
master811 said 9:34PM on 4-28-2009
Yeah there has been a PDF addin for ages, they have only just now included it in the SP though (and I think its been improved a lot as well).
Quikboy said 4:01PM on 4-28-2009
So has Adobe allowed Microsoft to have PDF support built-in? I thought Adobe didn't want Microsoft to do that.
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master811 said 9:36PM on 4-28-2009
They didn't want it built in from the start, but there as always been an addin available for ages, I assume something has changed though since then.
mxxcon said 1:39AM on 4-29-2009
saving to odf is not that big of a deal.
actually one of the real HUGE improvements is in Outlook working with large mailboxes
here's preview of that fix
http://bink.nu/news/finally-outlook-2007-performance-update.aspx
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/03/24/450881.aspx
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ojfl said 11:11AM on 4-30-2009
If MS Office now works with Open Documents why would the average person not opt for OpenOffice? What are your thoughts?
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mxxcon said 1:04AM on 5-01-2009
lack of outlook.
Gusmackey said 8:50PM on 6-05-2009
Thunderbird works fine for email and the really nice part is that it's not tied to the operating system or IE
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