Word 2000's improved Web Page wizard contains a Themes feature we found useful for quickly creating a Web page in Word 2000 complete with background and text formatting. The Web Preview feature has been improved, letting us preview Web pages by accessing our default browser from within Word 2000. For users who want to directly edit the HTML code of a Word 2000 document saved in HTML format, Microsoft has added a script editor, which we found very useful. We could add form elements such as radio buttons and pull-down menus to a Web page by dragging and dropping them directly from the editor's HTML tool palette onto our Web page. E-mail capabilities in Word 2000 have also been given a face lift.
Users can customize e-mail messages with custom font settings and backgrounds.
We could also include threaded messages within an e-mail message to maintain a message trail. Excel-lent pivoting Excel's Pivot Tables feature is not always the easiest feature to use, but Excel 2000 includes new Pivot Table and Pivot Chart AutoFormat selections that were extremely useful for formatting Pivot Tables in tests. The Chart option let us easily create a chart from our Pivot Table data and experiment with different settings. Improved Web capabilities in Excel 2000 include a new Web Query wizard, which made it easy for us to import data from tables on any Web page. The wizard quickly stepped us through the process of selecting a Web page and choosing the type of formatting we wanted for data.