What's your fancy? It's Oriel for me...

The new PowerPoint 2007 is just wonderful! It really makes the task of creating a presentation easy and fun. Pity you can't say that for the task of sitting through most of them!

If you don't like the Office Theme which is the default, you can easily make any theme your own. Open the Theme gallery on the Design tab and right click the theme of your choice, choose Save As Default Theme and every time you start PowerPoint that's what you'll see. Neat huh?

Excel 2007 goes total color!

It's always been confusing to me and my readers why you have an unlimited number of colors to choose from in Word but only a handful of really ugly colors to use in Excel. It doesn't make sense - do Word users have better design skills than Excel uses - do they think that those of us who create worksheets somehow won't be blindsided by how ugly the color combinations we're being served up are?

Well, if you've been hankering after a rich color palette for your worksheets, you need do so no more. Excel 2007 gives you access to a full range of 16 million colors from the colors dialog so that you can use these colors, for example, for formatting text, charts or drawn objects. You can also select a Theme which gives you instant access to colors that are selected from the same monochromatic group and guaranteed to look great together. The new and very colorful options in Excel 2007 are guaranteed to wow you!