Monthly Archives: January 2007

Microsoft Word 2008

Word 2008, for Macintosh, isn’t out yet but will be later this year: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx Like Word 2007 for Windows, it will feature the Ribbon interface, with all of the drawbacks I discussed in the previous newsletter: http://lists.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1720752173 But there’s one more drawback that will be utterly devastating: No more recording, programming, or even running of […]

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Microsoft Word 2007

Here it is, 2007 already. So it seems appropriate to look at Word 2007 and see if it’s something editors and other publishing professionals might find useful. You’ll find Microsoft’s sales pitch here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/FX100487981033.aspx You should know ahead of time that I’m jaded, biased, and curmudgeonly when it comes to Microsoft’s upgrades to Word. My […]

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