| 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:  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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 Fantastically confusing interface April 2, 2008
9 out of 9 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!
 move on March 15, 2008
14 out of 21 found this review helpful
If you wish to stick in the past where you know how everything works then use 03, but if you actually want to progress into the pressent then start using 07. Yeah you'll have to re-learn commands, but the fact is that it is a much better program than the 03. Personally i used word a lot and due to the fact that im studying maths at uni the equation function, quite frankly, is a god send in the new 07 version. In the earlier 03 you were required to actually re-install word manually to choose to install that actual aspect. The userface is easier to use.
People seem to just rate it one star for a simple reason..it doesnt look like 03. Isn't that the point? Learn.
Another point people are saying is it crashes easier or that it's hard to install, trying using a pc with higher specifications. It works seamlessly on my laptop.
 Why not just download OpenOffice for free? March 15, 2008
17 out of 31 found this review helpful
Most buyers of this will not need all its features. OpenOffice can save in .doc format and can even produce Acrobat .pdf for free so why not give it a chance?
My wife produced a poster in OpenOffice that was impossible to produce in Word2003, and a lot more simply too.
Buy this if you enjoy paying your taxes to Microsoft!
Nice pack March 12, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I like this pack, it is simple to use very accesible and good for work. I use it to type up, make graphs etc. Have no problems with it as it works perfectly.
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