| Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) | 
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Language: English (Unknown)
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
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Release Date: January 30, 2007
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 Stick with Office XP or 2003 May 7, 2008
17 out of 32 found this review helpful
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I might be exdurating a little. If you have Office XP or Office 2003 STICK WITH IT. PLEASE, both of those versions are simiar and don't give you a headache.
What is good about it? Why are there good reviews? Why are Microsoft putting it on shelves for innocent people to buy? And for PC shops to sell this to them? I don't get it.
Do not uninstall Office 2003! April 3, 2008
46 out of 51 found this review helpful
When I got a copy of this new version of Office I was eager to try it out, but luckily I was cautious enough to select the install option that keeps 2003 live in your computer. The results of using 2007 were atrocious, and the only program I did not have an issue with was Outlook (by the way, you can't keep Outlook 2003 if you are installing 2007), and I did not see any real improvements with it either.
There are three huge issues with the new version of Office. First, performance goes down big time. You will feel like your PC is crawling and even though I doubled my RAM to 2GB I still experienced issues with this. I was also affected by frequent fatal errors that caused the programs to close, especially with Excel. Second, backwards compatibility is a joke, both PowerPoint and Excel files are messed up when saved in the old format and opened with 2003. A clear case was an Excel file that I saved in 2003 and sent to a client, and when discussing over the phone he mentioned that the scale was off. I opened the file from my Sent Items (using 2007) and everything looked OK, but when I did the same with 2003, the chart was all screwed up. Also, if you paste a chart as an image in an email using 2007 and send it to someone that has 2003 they will just see a black rectangle. Finally, your productivity will be cut in half, because Microsoft completely changed the layout of the menus, and to tell you the truth, these are less intuitive than before. They have a more "futuristic" look, but that is just about it.
Bottom line is that after a couple of weeks of trying to make it work, I decided that I was not going to make the effort. I will put it off until I absolutely have to move to the newest version. Microsoft basically made these programs harder to use and limited their performance. Just a horrendous effort on their part!
One of the most annoying pieces of software I've ever come across. April 2, 2008
26 out of 34 found this review helpful
You might've expected, as did I, that Microsoft Office 2007 would be a large improvement over 2003. Easier to use, clearer, stylish, new tools which allow you to create a great website/presentation/word document, but 2007 is terrible. The main thing that annoys me is the format of word documents has been changed to docx. I'm forced to use Microsoft Office 2007 in school as every computer has been upgraded, (thankfully they still run on XP).
I for some reason cannot download any type of "file converter" as it just simply doesn't work. Microsoft Office 2003 has done me perfectly fine for years, except for the annoying "create your drawing here" box. And the fact it crashes. I assumed Microsoft would have taken into consideration all the point their customers made and done something about it.
No.
MO2007 crashes a lot more than 2003, it's slow to run on less modern computers, you can never find any of the tools you need, you can't select an ordinary text box without altering it's properties which really is annoying, it's too expensive for what it actually is, the toolbar at the top looks disgusting, and it would be very difficult to use if you were new to using computers or not very experienced.
Microsoft really do need to go back to basics with this. Office 2007 is meant to look like Vista, but Vista looks horrid anyway so why bother?
It's slow, annoying, crashes too often, it probably takes up too much HDD space, way too expensive for what it is and I wouldn't recommend it.
Stick to Office 2003.
Or buy a different word processing package.
 Fantastically confusing interface April 2, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I use excel all the time at work and at home. When I bought a new vista laptop with this on it I loaded the new excel and I thought I'd pulled up the wrong program.
Now, have a quick ponder at the first thing you want to do when you load excel, or any spreadsheet package? Yep, load the file you want to work on. Can you find the file open icon or any command that might lead to it? Can you 'eckerslike!
I had to load windows explorer just to load an office 2003 file.
After about 15 minutes of searching I finally found how to open a file actually from withing the program. Heres how, follow what I do carefully:
At the top of the screen you will see undo/redo icons; yes, icons you can't use until you have a file open and have worked on it. Now, what you do is you put your face right up against the screen against these icons. If you have eyes like the preverbial hawk you will be able to make out a microscopic little arrow, apparantly designed by the KGB to alert spies working in the West during the cold war. Hover your mouse very carefully over this, if in the unlikely event you manage to "hit" the spot, you will be able to click up a box which will allow you open a file. Not only that, but it will let you put the file open icon on permanent display! Imagine that! The most vital and screamingly obvious icon you will possibly need and you can fiddle about for an age to display it! Revolutionary stuff!
Shambolic!
Two stars only because other reviewers assure us that "once you get used to it" it's fine. Making it nigh-on immposible to track down the most fundamental thing you can do, open a file, is in my eyes quite spectaculaly stupid and inforgivably negligent.
 intuitive March 27, 2008
38 out of 43 found this review helpful
probably like most people who have used microsoft office from inception, the new visuals and file menus of the 2007 version initially jarred with me.
however, after a long period of use, they all make sense. menu items likely to be used first are to the left, most are in the middle, and the finishing off ones are to the right, in logical, intuitive fashion. once this is grasped the whole system is easy to pick up.
i also like the ease of use too. some have complained that we now are forced to use more mouse clicks. i don't find this to be true. indeed, on many occasions the options are laid out so obviously that two clicks do instead of five or six. e.g., especially in formatting tables.
one of the best things about word 2007 is its ability (with a tiny downloadable add-on) to save documents in .pdf format. previously i had had to have the entire open office suite on my computer just to do this one simple task. now i don't have to.
office 2007, in particular word 2007, KNOWS how to layout the menu commands. in previous versions, command buttons would frequently be lost off the right-hand side of the screen. word 2007 keeps the important buttons and, if your screen size is smaller (say, you have a 15" monitor) the "sacrificed" buttons will be the style buttons, which are still easily accessible via a drop-down menu.
a useful new feature: selecting text with similar formatting. just put cursor on, say, a word already italicised. then select all text with similar formatting. now you can change all text in italics to bold. a simple and easy way to do something that previously was time consuming and awkward.
another thing: creating and editing charts just got a whole lot easier. the process is so intuitive (or perhaps previous versions of word were counter-intuitive) that it's difficult to make a mistake.
oh, and a last thing, why would you actually pay MORE for word 2007 alone when the office 2007 package is CHEAPER?
would i buy it again? absolutely!
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