If you’ve never used RSS or if you just don’t always remember to check your RSS reader, Outlook 2007 has a built-in RSS reader.   It’s easy to get started and best of all, it’s all right there with your email!

Here’s a short video** on how to get started (1 minute, seriously).

If you want to explore more options, here’s the Microsoft help page, with more detailed instructions.

**If the video link above won’t work for you, click here and choose the format you want to view.

This great info from Chris Wieman on Office 2007:

The Guide presents an interactive mockup of the Word 2003 interface; when you perform a command it starts an animation that shows how to find the same command in Word 2007. Click Interactive Guide to  try it now …and when the page loads, click Start the guide and then Start once the second window/tab opens. Then try something familiar like File> Save As and see an animation demonstrating how to run the command in Word 2007.

If you like, you can access The Guide directly through Word 2007. You’ll need to install a new tab in the “Office ribbon” which will include a direct link to the Interactive Guide. They make these “Get Started” tabs for PowerPoint and Excel, too. Here is the download page for the Word tab installer. Once you run the installer, you’ll see a new tab in Word called “Get Started”. Within that tab on the far left is a button labeled “Interactive Guide” which links you directly to the Word Interactive Guide.

If you want to install the rest of the tabs, this page links to all the installers …and they are also on our server here. Guides are available for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only.

For those of us who are migrating to Office 2007, one of the biggest “problems” I’ve found is that files in Microsoft Word are automatically saved in an “docx” format, instead of the standard .doc format we’re all used to.  The issue with this is that only people using Office 2007 can successfully open things saved in this format.

There is a way to change the default file format to .doc instead of .docx.  To do this, click on the Office icon in the upper left corner:

Then, choose “Word Options” at the bottom of the menu.  You’ll get a list of options on the left side, with a display panel next to it. Choose “Save” from the left-side list.  In the display panel, the first option is “Save files in this format, where you can choose “Word 97-2003 Document (.doc)” from the drop-down list.

This will help you avoid messages from non-Office 2007 users asking you to reformat your Word files.