Is anyone else using the beta of office 2007?

If so what do you think?

Ive been using it at work for a couple of days, after the inital learning curve with word (its VERY different) i think its really really good. it makes good use of floating type menus eg, select some text and the font/text formatting tools will fade-in next to the cursor.

Also Outlook has made big advances.. its still similar to outlook 2003, but my favorite addition so far is the To-Do bar, that sits on the right hand side of the window, with a mini calender, and a list of your to-dos, tasks and flagged emails (i use flagged and coloured emails alot to differentiate emails that are sent to email groups or things i need to action)

It also adds support for RSS feeds which is handy

We've got a Vista box running Office 12 at work - it seems pretty good but is sluggish running on a p4 3GHz with 2GB!!! We also had to buy a new graphics card for Vista :eek:

As far as office goes - loving the realtime previews when you change font etc, and Powerpoint 12 is pretty cool to play with (I'm sure the marketing dept will love it). I'm not sure as to it's real world usefulness over Office 2003 TBH. I haven't looked at Outlook or Access yet though so I've no opinion to give there.

If you put it on a Vista box you do get the transitions between windows and shadowed dialogue boxes etc which does look fantastic but there is a big overhead as mentioned. Definetly one to watch.

OTOH, can't help but wonder if it's just sugar coating for a product that already does more than 99% of people can cope with - I'd be surprised if 90% of users have even heard of VBA for instance.

Downloaded it but it won't install cos i've not got XP SP2 on my machine and have no intention of installing it either!!!!! Even though the minimum requirements said SP1 or above.

Oooooh well i suppose i'll have to keep with Office 2003 instead.

Cheers

Dave.