Some bad defaults are gone, some new bad defaults are back. The two most hateful defaults in the old version of Office were fonts (Times New Roman and Helvetica) and the hideous gray backgrounds on new charts. The new version of office is, for the most part, better. They’ve switched in their new set of Vista fonts (Cambria and Calibri for Serif/Sans defaults respectively), but they’ve added in a hideous new default behavior.

The Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles are now blue text. I mean, it’s a nice blue, don’t get me wrong. And it fits with the color scheme for Word. But colored text? Is this 5th grade? Not only does it look childish, but it’ll print like crap on B&W printers. Guess there’s always next version.