Microsoft Office 2007 SP3

Microsoft heeft het derde servicepack voor Office 2007 uitgebracht. Service Pack 3 kan in een groot aantal verschillende talen gedownload worden, waaronder in het Nederlands en Engels, maar kan ook gewoon via Windows Update binnengehaald worden. SP3 bevat alle eerder uitgebrachte patches en kritieke updates en kan over SP1 of SP2 heen geïnstalleerd worden. Microsoft Office is een van de meest gebruikte officesuites op zowel de zakelijke als consumentenmarkt. Het pakket bevat onder meer Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook en Access, evenals een groot aantal wizards en tools om het verwerken van teksten, afbeeldingen en geluiden gemakkelijker te maken. Hieronder staan de release notes van Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3:

Overview of the 2007 Office suite SP3 improvements

• Documents that require custom security trimming are not returned from alert search queries, even if the user who created the alert could see and query for these documents.
• Non-Unicode characters in certain error message strings now display correctly.
• Four new bibliography styles are now available in the "Word Citations & Bibliography" feature: Harvard Anglia, IEEE, APA Sixth Edition, and MLA Seventh Edition.
• Chinese New Year holiday is now included in the Outlook calendar for Singapore.
• Fixes an issue in which Excel 2007 sometimes crashes when you open an Excel workbook previously saved in a newer version of Excel. This occurs if the file uses a new feature that is not available in the 2007 Office system.
• Fixes issues with the Pre and Post Reform rules in the French Thesaurus.
• Fixes an issue in which encryption settings are not configurable when they are used with a file format compatibility pack converter and Office 2003 or an earlier version of Office.
• Fixes an issue in which a crash sometimes occurs when an Excel workbook is opened in Excel and then previewed by using the Windows Explorer preview pane feature.
• Fixes an issue in which Excel Slicers and Ribbon customizations are lost when an XLSX file is first saved as an ODS file, and then saved as an XLSX file in Excel 2007.