On 07/10/2011 11:44 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Seriously. Name /one thing/ that Word 2010 has that Word 2 for
> Workgroups didn't have. Sometime around Word 97 or so that added
> antialiased text. Word has had styles for ages, but in Word 2007 and
> later they're /most obvious/ in the GUI, and you can change the styling
> of the whole document at the flick of a button. (And there are default
> styles supplied.) That's about all I can think of. With 20 years of
> development, that's a pretty unimpressive list.
>

They have added the ability to embed another document inside word 
instead of just linking to it. Very handy if you want to create a 
document locally and upload it to a secure server.

> How about Excel 2010? Well, Excel 2 had charts. They looked horrid, but
> they were there. Each new release of Excel adds a few more chart types.
> In Excel 2007, they changed charts to look nice. (They have antialias at
> last! And decent colour schemes. And so forth.) If that's all they've
> managed to do in 20 years of development, again that's pretty thin.
>

Talking about charts, the ability to get trend lines from your data and 
display the equation, is useful. Before you had to use Power Point for that.

> I don't even use Access or PowerPoint heavily enough to comment
> meaningfully. PowerPoint seems to get a few new slide transition effects
> and slide templates with each release, but that's about it. Access
> doesn't appear to have changed /in any way/ since V2.
>

I've not used Access for yonks and Power Point makes me fall asl... 
zzzzz ;-)

> And then there's Outlook. (Not Outlook Express, because that's an
> unrelated product.) The oldest version I've seen is Outlook 2000. The
> only difference I'm aware of with Outlook 2010 is that they /finally/
> made it so it automatically knows where the email server is, without me
> having to manually configure that for every user on every PC on the
> entire network one at a time. Thanks for that.

If you have ever used Lotus Notes you would not be complaining. ;-)

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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