Photo gallery: Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1

Excel or fall behind?
While we liked the look of the Excel 2007 beta 1, finding basic functions at first bewildered us. How do we delete a pair of rows? Selecting two rows and hitting the Delete key didn't do the trick. Should we look in the Sheet, Page Layout, or Formulas tab of the Ribbon? Answer, found in a minute via the Help menu: use the Sheet tab. We expect many users to feel frustrated initially by the steep learning curve demanded by Microsoft's ambitious upgrade.

Read our preview of Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1.

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I hope the images do not reflect Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1 Anonymous -- 21/03/06 (in reply to #120131327)

Would be nice to view (only see the dreaded 'x')!!

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Page 16 is excellent! Anonymous -- 24/03/06

I a pretty sure thats adobe 5.1.

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Proud of Full Sujon Roy -- 28/05/06

I am really proud of full. I have Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise (pre released) 12 (2007). It's very very prestigious looking. Very good interface.

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