Support for Microsoft Office 2007 products ends this year and it will no longer be supported according to what I read on Microsoft's website yesterday. There are a few updates offered, but after that there will be no more security updates. This could mean security issues especially when using macros. I don't know the exact date for Office 2007's End of Life as they call it.
If you prefer to purchase Word 2010, beware of websites that offer it cheap because many of them are selling bootleg product keys. I was scammed last year when I purchased Office 2010 from a company that I had purchased from before without any problems. They are now being investigated and I was left with a bad product key. Anything selling for under $100 is most likely bootleg. The product key I purchased checked out okay on Microsoft's website, but it would not activate after installing the software. There is a place on their website for checking product keys and obviously it isn't working. I just thought I would mention this even though it is off topic. Bill Boswell From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:46 PM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book Microsoft Word is certainly capable. Reminder: it is 2017. I would hope most people use Office 2010 or later, or Office 365. As I recall my experiences with it, Microsoft Word 2007 had some frustrating bugs that affected production of well-formatted documents (I did many, for scientific / geological publication). The suggestion to watch the available webinars is in my view the first step. Also, for the benefit of others (not just the original post), "for ever" Microsoft Word has supported using linked pictures (and other objects) that can stay on your computer disk in a single location (not copied multiple times elsewhere), and of course the pictures themselves can be resized (and the text arranged accordingly - this definitely requires experience to work as you need it). Caveat: having a capable computer - adequate RAM (memory), disk space, perhaps bought less than 5 years ago? - certainly helps for linked pictures, and also for linked separate documents. For technical publications, and even now for casual documents and even emails (in Outlook), I use tables in Microsoft Word to accurately guide my layout. It is very much easier than getting to grips with other very capable features of Word, even styles. In my opinion, getting up to speed with word processing styles is not the satisfying way for a person relatively new to producing a good-looking document or publication. But this is an email list more about the Legacy FT software, so I will leave it at that. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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