The newest features of Office XP consist of Task Panes that open up on the right hand side of documents to show additional commands and features relevant to the job being performed. For example in Word, a reveal formatting task pane lets users review and edit formatting for selected text. Anyone who is flustered by inexplicable changes in page formatting, especially when pasting documents together, will find this feature a welcome addition.
Additional new Office features are speech recognition, allowing the user to dictate input instead of typing it, and disaster recovery, which provides the option to automatically save a document, spreadsheet or a presentation at the time an application stops responding with no loss of time. Sonal will also cover new tips and tricks for Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Outlook and Front Page. Please mark your calendar for Tuesday, June 5th at 7 p.m. to take advantage of a very informative presentation. |
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June 5th, 2001, at its general meeting DACS will feature 
Another characteristic
of the new Office is the Smart Tags. These are small menus that
provide fast access to pertinent details and relevant functions,
such as applying formatting, correcting formula mistakes, or
customizing auto-correct features to a user’s personal choices.
Also, when the cursor is hovering over a name or a date, a menu
will ask if you want to add that person to your Outlook contact
list or send them an e-mail or get an address.