Microsoft Press First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System

46 Part II: Preparing and Producing Professional Results
Choose Building Blocks Organizer from the Building Blocks Gallery to view the whole
collection. You can click Edit Properties to change the settings associated with that item, click
Delete to remove it from the list, or click Insert to add it to your document at the cursor
position.
New Format, New Flexibility
Office Word 2007 includes support for the new Open XML format, the new default file
format for Office Word 2007, Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft® Office
PowerPoint® 2007. Open XML format enables you to save a huge amount of file space
(up to 50 percent) and makes the content you create reusable in a potentially unlimited
number of ways. Here’s a little bit about XML in Office Word 2007: 1
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Open XML in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007 is
backward compatible, which means you can use files saved in XML format from
Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003.
The file created by default in Office Word 2007 uses a new extension to reflect the
change (.docx).
Files saved in previous versions of Office Word (non-XML formats) are fully
supported in Office Word 2007.
Tip The new Publish command in the File menu enables you to create a document
workspace for the current document, share the document on a document management
server (such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007), or post the document as an entry
on your blog.
Fast Professional Diagrams with SmartArt Graphics
SmartArt graphics provide a great way for users who are outside their comfort zone creating
drawings or diagrams to illustrate data concepts in their documents. With SmartArt graphics,
you can create sophisticated diagrams that show data processes, hierarchies, cycles, and
relationships.
Choose SmartArt from the Insert tab to start the process; then select one of the four basic
layout styles (Process, Hierarchy, Cycle, and Relationship) to find the diagram type that
is right for your document. Each diagram style offers dozens of style possibilities (see
Figure 4-4).
1. For more information on XML in the Microsoft Ofice system applications, see Microsoft Office system Product
Manager Brian Jones’ blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/.