| Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) | 
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Category: Software
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (114 reviews)
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Format: Cd-rom
Language: English (Unknown)
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
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MPN: 79g-00007
Model: 79G-00007
UPC: 882224165242
EAN: 0882224165242
ASIN: B000HCZ8EO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ribbon... eww... May 31, 2008
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
The ribbon "feature" is what had me request to go back to 2003 at work.
I don't need 5 gazillion styles in my menu, I never use them. Nor does anyone else I know. It's especially bad in Word.
If this "Ribbon" were customizable, great. But it isn't. You're stuck with what Microsoft deems essential -- not you.
MS, believe me, Styles are not what I deem essential to have up at all times in rather wide buttons for each one. They are better served in a dropdown list as they used to be.
This isn't so much a case of not wanting to learn a new menu, it's a case of being unable to customize a large amount (LARGE amount!) of screen space. That doesn't exactly enhance productivity.
Frankly, the only thing worth having seems to be OneNote, but if that's truly the only thing you consider it for... www.evernote.com has an alternative.
There is a reason so many people move from Word / Excel to Open Office, and 2007 is one of them.
Powerusers will most likely not enjoy the new version.
pointless May 17, 2008
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
This version is no better or worse than microsofts other dross. It is a pity I have to have it for the kids school work.
I agree... May 16, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have being using office and its components since the dawn of time, and
I started using 2007 because the older versions are so diffiult to find now.
I wanted to test it before distributing it across our business, but having submitted myself to it, I refuse point blank to inflict this misery on my users (which is why I am on Amazon looking for an older version!).
All the comments below are valid, backwards compatibilty is rubbish, finding anything takes an age.
I *am* getting used to the stupid telly tubby ribbon thing, but .....
Don't try using anything but the simplest of headers and footers (remember the good old days, when every section could have a different header/footer, if that's what you wanted?). After 4 hours I gave up and used open office instead.
The same goes for watermarks - I wanted page 1 (my cover page) to have no watermark, and the suceeding pages with a watermark. There is a wonderful article on the MS website on how to acheive this - unfotunately it doesn't seem to work. I resorted to 2 documents, one with wm and one without!
Please release me from this torture! If I can find a copy of Office 2000 for sale I will die happy.
Too awful for words May 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Why oh why oh why do they have to mess around with things (Ok you don't need to answer that it was a rhetorical question - it's the only way Microsoft can sell the same thing over and over again).
I have never written a review on here before but this new version of office is so utterly galling i felt i had to warn other people away from it.
Gone are the menus that we have all been learning to use for the last 10+ years, as are the shortcut keys that drive them. I used to use shortcuts for speed all the time (hardly ever use a mouse) and now these have all changed - it's like starting again. I spend more time on the online help thingy that tells you where the old commands can be found on the new version than i do using the products, and i am (was) pretty fast on all MS office applications.
They may say that i am being a dyed-in-the wool old fuddy duddy, but there was nothing wrong with the old version and the new version has absolutely nothing better to offer. Imagine if someone suggested rearranging the alphabet - they would get laughed at cos it would be pointless and would make everyone's lives hell.
(furthermore They haven't fixed any of the bugs left over from the old versions!).
Worst of all they have been so arrogant as to not even provide an option to roll back to the old interface. If anyone from microsoft is listening then PLEASE add this feature on a patch at least before you annoy too many more people.
I could go on. .. and on.. and on but i think you get the picture. NOT Happy!
much slower than Office 2003 May 10, 2008
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
A typical Excel/VBA program of mine takes just over 8 min to run under Office 2003 on an Athlon 64 1.79Hz pc with 1GB RAM. The identical program takes 5 min LONGER under Office 2007 on a faster Intel duo-core T8100 with 3 GB RAM. One can get used to the new toolbar layout etc, but this slower performance is there to stay.
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