Microsoft Updates Office 2007 With Service Pack 2

New York - As time goes by the world of technology is continuing to change as many different changes and updates are constantly taking place to some of the more popular programs. Such is the case when it comes to Microsoft Office 2007, earlier this week the company announced the service pack 2 update. It is designed to fix any glitches, improve performance and has many new applications. Some of the improved added features for service pack 2 include: that is able to read as well as write open document format files and it lets you save a copy of your work in the portable document format. There have been many different comments from critics who have been testing out the service pack 2 update to determine if the update helps make Office 2007 better. As e week writer Jason Brooks commented from his test of the service pack 2, “Most word-processing files looked about right, with only the occasional misaligned graphic or indent. But the Open Office spreadsheets I opened in Excel came out all wrong — formulas vanished from cells, replaced by the last number Open Office had calculated in those spots. That can’t possibly be what Microsoft intended, but I couldn’t find any mention of this issue on the company’s Office Interoperability blog. That site did, however, link to a blog post by an ODF developer explaining that the ODF specification “does not yet specify formulas. That seems a huge omission — certainly something that users should get a clear warning about before they wonder what’s wrong with their spreadsheet.”

What all of this shows is that while Microsoft is making every effort to improve Office 2007 in some cases the changes can cause other problems with the spreadsheet applications. While this could be an isolated incident this is something that Office 2007 users should be aware of when they are using the service pack 2.