Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2

'Iσως κάποιοι να μην το έχουν πάρει ακόμη χαμπάρι, αλλά η Μicrosoft πρόσφατα ξεκίνησε τη διάθεση του Office 2007 Service Pack 2. Το νέο SP2 περιλαμβάνει ένα πλήθος από βελτιώσεις τόσο στην Microsoft Access, Μicrosoft Word και Excel, ενώ ιδιαίτερη έμφαση δίνεται στο Microsoft Outlook.

Οι βελτιώσεις αυτές σύμφωνα με την εταιρεία καλύπτουν το μεγαλύτερο μέρος των απαιτήσεων που  έχουν θέσει οι ίδιοι οι χρήστες.

Πιο συγκεκριμένα οι βελτιώσεις που έχουν γίνει περιλαμβάνουν:

Microsoft Access

• Lets you export reports to Microsoft Office Excel.
• Supports memo fields in the mailing label wizard for addresses.
• Fixes issues that occur in the import data wizards, in report printing and previewing, in macros, in Excel integration, and in date filters.
• Includes updates to Access Developer Extensions.

Microsoft Office Excel

• Improves the charting mechanism in Excel 2007. This includes better parity with Office 2003, improved robustness, and targeted performance improvements.
• Adds a chart object model to Word and to PowerPoint.
• Improves shapes that are surfaced in Excel. This includes better parity with Office 2003 and targeted performance improvements.
• Improves the method by which Excel prints graphical content, especially when it prints to PCL printers.
• Adds conversion rates to the Excel Euro Currency Tools add-in for the Maltese lira and for the Cypriot pound.

Microsoft Office Word

• Improves the fidelity of .pdf and .xps output.
• Improves Outlook performance.
• Provides fuller integration of the Office Excel Chart Object Model.

Microsoft Office Outlook

• Performance improvements that apply to the following general responsiveness areas:
• Removes lengthy operations from initial startup.
• Makes Outlook exit predictably despite pending activities.
• Improves view rendering and folder switching.

Calendar improvements

• Improves underlying data structures and the general reliability of calendar updates.

Data file checks

• Greatly reduces the number of scenarios in which you receive the following error message when you start Outlook: The data file 'file name' was not closed properly. This file is being checked for problems.

Search reliability

• Improves search reliability when you use SP2 with Windows Desktop Search 4

Improvements to Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

• There are now fewer duplicated items.

Object Model improvements

• Now contains many customer-driven fixes.

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