When Microsoft rolled out Office 2007, the company made some fundamental changes to its file formats, updating them from binary files to XML-based packages. The default format for Excel 2007 followed ...

Bottom line: Microsoft is all set to ship Office 2007 to big businesses within the next month, and to the general public early next year. Here’s what the radical changes have in store for users.

Small databases of a few rows, to a few thousand rows, can often be created more quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel, than by using a dedicated database system. Excel is available as a stand-alone ...

Three programs tackle Office 2007's locked-down user interface. Two take you back to the menus of Office 2003, while one lets you customize the Ribbon itself. Microsoft Office 2007’s new Ribbon ...

Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that it has completed work on the system code for Office 2007 and released it to manufacturing. Customers in Canada and the U.S. can start downloading Office 2007 on ...