| Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) | 
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Category: Software
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
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Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
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MPN: 79g-00007
Model: 79G-00007
UPC: 882224263627
EAN: 0882224263627
ASIN: B000HCZ8EO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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 The truth : Insulting to the seasoned Excel - Word user January 2, 2008
34 out of 37 found this review helpful
If you are familiar with Excel 1997 or 2003, and are not a user Clicking on menus but use mostly shortcuts and menu undescores to surf through menus and submenus, Office 2007 will be a true nightmare: you will have to learn it all back again. To me, consultant, learning the new Word is such a enormous waste of time, that I unistalled it right away. For Excel, well, confronted with the limits of memory management in the previous version of Excel, I had no choice than to switch to Office 2007. The price is dear : what Excel does is basically unchanged, however, the way to do it, is completely modified. Microsoft has been so disregarding for its users' needs, that it quietly informs them, that all classic menus are gone, irrevocably : you will use their "Ribbon"!
Add to that, that Excel2007 clearly is unfinished : many disfunctionnalities when using complex formulas, seeing different informations in the ActiveCell and the related information in the formula bar. You can wonder whether it has ever been beta tested. An explanantion : I was offered the beta test to the program 6 months ago, but confronted with the unacceptable user interface, I ignored the offer.
Add also that the colorful Ribbon distracts your eye into low efficiency. And add further, that the Ribbon takes 4 times more screen space than previous menus, so that Excel shows even less of the spreadsheet.
When you sum this all up, you realise that from the very first use, your efficiency is penalised by everything that is new (menus and screen). And for what is behind the user interface? Well, unchanged.
Microsofts' programmers do not seem to understand that Excel is not a fashion object, but an efficiency tool. I want my Menus back!
Office 2007 Not quick enough December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I upgraded from Office 2003 which I use full time at work. Office 2007 programmes have grouped all the same type of functions together which you might ask why has it taken so long to do something so logical. The problems arise when you don't know which group to search in. i.e. to to set the print area in Excel. This makes for a guessing game which can get long winded and frustrating when you're trying to do something quickly and efficiently. Given time of course one will remember where these are hidden but if you don't use Office very much at home this could take a long time. When one wants to send Office 2007 documents and spreadsheets to the office one has to remember to save them in the format that can be read by the programmes at work. In my case that's Offce 2003 so 'Saving As' in Office 2003 format is an extra burden, - more so if you forget! I have removed Office 2007 from my PC and reinstalled Office 2003. I can work faster in Office 2003 and don't miss Office 2007's extras at all. I'm now 'in sync' with how I work at the office and much happier for it. I would be happy to install Office 2007 if/when we use it at work.
 If It Ain't Broke.... December 27, 2007
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Luckily (?!) I only paid 17 through Microsoft's HUP (home user program) in conjunction with my employer. To be honest, I still feel like I've lost out after only paying that relatively small amount.
There was nothing wrong with Office 2003; it looked great, the features were brilliant and if you'd used previous versions of Office in the past then you could install and use straight away.
However, Office 2007 is a different kettle of fish entirely. After installation it took me about half an hour to find out how to open a document!
The worst thing, however, is the new docx format. What was the point of that, Microsoft?!
Horrific, why fix something that wasn't broken? December 21, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Office 2007 is a disaster. The old offices were easy to use, intuitive and did exactly what you wanted them to.
2007, like Vista has tried and failed to do something that is already being done well.
The new interface is confusing and cluttered, and whilst it looks pretty, it will dumbfound you and leave you lost even for simple tasks such as printing. In my office, a colleague has left his desk because he's new PC has Office 2007 on it, and opted for an older slower PC at a different desk purely on the basis that it has the old office on it.
Do not upgrade, it is not worth it, and will make your life a lot harder!
Very frustrating for existing users December 17, 2007
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
If you've never used Office before and are looking at Home and Student; this is a good price for the package. But if you are upgrading; don't do it.
The pictogram menu system is TOTALLY different to previous versions and immensely frustrating to use. Using Office Home and Student has become a like using Works, as some of the functions (charts in Excel) don't work the same at all and information and properties boxes are very difficult to find. It has bugs ('features') like it defaults to spellchecking in Welsh when you install it for English (UK), and it will wipe out your Outlook Express spellchecker(Microsoft's helpful 'fix' is to tell you to go buy one from someone else).
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