| Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £119.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
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MPN: 79g-00007
Model: 79G-00007
UPC: 882224263627
EAN: 0882224165242
ASIN: B000HCZ8EO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 If you are an experienced user - don't "upgrade" February 29, 2008
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Just don't upgrade is all I can say.
Yes you can make PDF's easily. But there are 000's of websites that will do it for you for free anyway. And this, and this along with better colour schemes are about the only obvious "Pro" for this software.
Everything else, I mean everything is worse than Office 2003. I speak as an advanced user of Powerpoint and Excel. Things like pivot tables in Excel 2007 are far worse, editing charts is a nightmare (though of course you can choose far more colour schemes if you are that way inclined), and doing concise but detailed presentations that do not involve animations is very difficult.
And of course there is the whole challenge of a new menu structure, which takes weeks to relearn (and takes up more room on the screen, so worse for laptop users...)
The whole emphasis has been to make a suite of software that is great for High School students doing a project (e.g. fancy graphics etc), but for anyone with a more serious purpose in mind just don't make the transition. It is not worth it.
What fresh hell is this? February 26, 2008
41 out of 45 found this review helpful
Microsoft takes a lot of stick, not all of it deserved. I for one quite liked windows 95 and 98 and indeed xp. I've also happily used the office range of programs for about 12 years and as a result I find them extremely simple to use. Vista annoyed me though, it's cumbersome, slow and has many utterly pointless additions and interface changes. Still, it happily ran office 2003 so I didn't mind too much. Sadly i lost my spare copy of 2003 when my laptop harddrive crashed, so I replaced it with this.
And that brings me here... it's late, I want to get a graph done of some consumption functions and I open excel to do so. But it's not excel as I know it. In order to justify yet another rerelease of what is essentially the same software as 2003 they've changed the interfaces, they've changed the menus, the names of tasks and even the way you tell excel what data to include in a graph. That goes for all the other office programs. For some reason they felt that it was a great idea to strip out the menu system which is common to every other major software program I can think of and replaced it with a 'ribbon' which has more pretty graphics. Maybe if you're an entirely new user this will make it easier, but i doubt it. If you're an existing user with a decent experience base they've just invalidated all that experience. I now know as much about MS office as I did when i was 13. I honestly wouldn't mind if I felt this was a great leap forward in the design of interfaces, but it's not, it's just more pretty icons and it'll probably be gone by the next edition. I think I'll move to open office, which is now more like the office I can use than office itself. And it's free.
Outlook spellcheck February 20, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Adapting to 2007 isn't difficult and many of the new features are exceellent - a few are irritating. Especialy annoying is the bug in Outlook spellchecker which only work in French - so it's either French or French!
 MS Office 2007 February 17, 2008
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
In a world of increasing competition from open source competitors, its refreshing to see Microsoft re-thinking there interface and come out with something better. Yes the layout has changed, but if your willing to adapt you'll find the ribbon easy to handle.
wow February 12, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
this is tyhe real deal.
simpler to use
fabulous upgrade.
dont understand someone rantingb about keyboard menus as they all seem the same , just a more user friendly ribbon.
MS OFFICE still the best by far
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