Microsoft Office Suite 2007 Service Pack 2 released
Microsoft released its second service pack for the Office 2007 suite several days ago. Sp2 includes several major changes, in brief there’s a new feature to save as PDF/ODF formats, performance increases to Outlook and bug fixes for the office suite programs. Also it includes the security updates and hot fixes that were previously released.
Overview of Service Pack 2 (SP2) improvements
Description of some big areas of improvement that are included in SP2.
Microsoft Office Access
- Lets you export reports to Microsoft Office Excel.
- Supports memo fields in the mailing label wizard for addresses.
- Fixes issues that occur in the import data wizards, in report printing and previewing, in macros, in Excel integration, and in date filters.
- Includes updates to Access Developer Extensions.
Microsoft Office Excel
- Improves the charting mechanism in Excel 2007. This includes better parity with Office 2003, improved robustness, and targeted performance improvements.
- Adds a chart object model to Word and to PowerPoint.
- Improves shapes that are surfaced in Excel. This includes better parity with Office 2003 and targeted performance improvements.
- Improves the method by which Excel prints graphical content, especially when it prints to PCL printers.
- Adds conversion rates to the Excel Euro Currency Tools add-in for the Maltese lira and for the Cypriot pound.
Installing Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) KB948465
Well the latest build of the vista SP2 (build number 6002.16497) is out, I know that a lot of you will be wanting to upgrade and some of you might be scared that it may ruin system stability (and with the history of Microsoft Betas, your fears are justifiable) but do not worry as I have tried it and it installs fine. SO I decided to make a small guide on how to install it without getting into a trouble spot.
Before even thinking of adding the registry patch using our script (see below), backup your System Drive (in most cases the C: drive) first.
