Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Microsoft Office 2007: Service Pack 2 available

Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 of Office Suite in 2007 as planned to 28 April 2009. Eagerly awaited the famous SP2 improves stability, performance of the office suite and make corrections on product safety. It includes all updates cumulative proposed public until February 2009.

Major step towards interoperability, we will mainly native support for OpenDocument Format formats: ODF in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Opening, editing, but also saving documents in OpenDocument Text (*. odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*. ods) and OpenDocument Presentations (*. odp) are now possible. In the same vein, Word files, Excel and PowerPoint files can be exported into PDF / XPS without having to download additional extension.



In addition, exports of data between Excel and Access will be allowed to ensure better cohesion between the various applications in the suite. Regarding Outlook, we can see an acceleration of the speed of opening and closing even if operations are running. Another important novelty, you can completely uninstall it.

This service requires the latest updates of the following operating systems: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008. This update applies to all Packs Office Basic, Business, Family, students, professionals, SMEs, SME Management, Standard and Full. Available now on the Microsoft site.

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