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Office 2007 SP2 ships, adds Open Document and PDF support
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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Subscribe to commentsTairApr 28th 2009 3:24PM
Hasn't the 'Publish To PDF/XPS' been around for ages?
shamowfskiApr 28th 2009 3:40PM
Yes. I've been using it for at least a year.
master811Apr 28th 2009 9:34PM
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).
QuikboyApr 28th 2009 4:01PM
So has Adobe allowed Microsoft to have PDF support built-in? I thought Adobe didn't want Microsoft to do that.
master811Apr 28th 2009 9:36PM
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.
mxxconApr 29th 2009 1:39AM
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
ojflApr 30th 2009 11:11AM
If MS Office now works with Open Documents why would the average person not opt for OpenOffice? What are your thoughts?
mxxconMay 1st 2009 1:04AM
lack of outlook.
GusmackeyJun 5th 2009 8:50PM
Thunderbird works fine for email and the really nice part is that it's not tied to the operating system or IE