| Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) | 
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Category: Software
List Price: £119.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
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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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| Customer Reviews:
 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.
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
47 out of 53 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.
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