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Since office suite is no longer a rapidly evolving application, you might be wondering what new features Microsoft would add to Office 2008. For Office 2004 user, we know that our major complaints about it were related to the GUI and not the feature set. As for Office Word 2008, it turns out it has the biggest addition out of the three core Office application. Of all the Office 2008 apps, Word is probably the biggie.
Before we look into Word 2008 itself, let’s start with Word’s biggest competitor on the Mac; Apple’s Page Application. Pages is a combination of a word processor and a page layout application, with the earliest versions of Pages focusing more on the page layout functionality and the word processor functionality getting rounded out later on. On the other hand, Word is primarily a word processor with very little in the way of page layout functionality until now. If Pages is going to be a page layout application that doubles as a word processor, then starting with Office 2008 Microsoft has decided that Word is going to be a word processor that doubles as a page layout application, and this is where the bulk of Word’s new features lie.
Perhaps the biggest selling point for the new Word is the ease with which it can make documents easy on the eyes. But let’s take a closer look.
In Office 2008, Microsoft banish many little floating palettes that were a bad compromise between Apple and Microsoft’s user interface ideas. The formatting palette has been updated to look like it belongs with all the other windows that you get in Leopard. Rounded corners have been sharpened up and icons polished.
In Word’s Elements Gallery is the new Document Elements feature, the core of its new page layout features. Document Elements’ building blocks make swift work of adding cover pages, tables of contents, and the like. Document Elements function as templeted insertable elements, allowing users to insert cover pages, table of contents, headers, footers, and bibliographies. Document elements come in a variety of different styles and most elements can be changed on the fly for another element.
With the addition of Document Elements, how Word handles embedded elements has been greatly revised to fit the needs of a page layout application. Word now does a far better job wrapping text around elements, including irregular-shaped and rounded elements. For anyone who has had to struggle with placing an image or chart in to a Word document and getting it to align with the rest of the document correctly, Word 2008 seems to have neatly resolved the issue.
Also finding its way in to the new Elements Gallery to augment the page layout features are the new Quick Tables, a new chart wizard, SmartArt, and WordArt. Quick Tables are pre-built tables featuring different visual styles. The new chart wizard now inserts charts directly as elements and features a slew of brand new styles. SmartArt is a new style of informational art based around various artworks to showcase the relationship between information (think pre-built diagrams). And WordArt is as always, WordArt.
Those in academia should appreciate new reference tools, which ease the process of switching between citation styles. Word 2008 now has the ability to create bibliographies. Sadly, the bibliographic options are limited, with only four different citation styles and no way to import or create any more.
Finally, Word 2008 introduces two new layout modes. The first mode, Publishing Layout, wraps up the changes to Word to facilitate its emergence as a page layout application. In this mode Word functions more like a true page layout application than a word processor with the focus on creating non-document works (brochures, postcards, etc) through a number of templates and insertable art elements. This layout mode is best described as what would happen if PowerPoint was inserted in to Word, and the end product was something other than a slide. Serious business users will likely ignore this feature along with most of the rest of the new page layout features of Word, but it might become popular with home users and students.
If you work in any sort of office that’s cross-platform, you’ll almost certainly need to use Word and its tools. And if you work collaboratively, using Word 2008 is for the best.
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