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27.3.2008

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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5.6.2009

I upgraded to the above after many years of using Wordperfect Office, though I have also used earlier versions of MS Office. I was, therefore, expecting a learning curve, though not as great as the one presented. My main focus is on writing so it is Word 2007 in which I spend most of my time. The interface is so very different that at first I was struggling to find my way around.The interface, though, grew on me very quickly. The Ribbon, which takes up a lot of space when open, is easily dismissed. The Quick Access Toolbar - which only has a few commands on it when installed - is very easy to customise; if there is a "buried" command to which you need easy access, then adding it to the QAT is only a click or two away.The end result - in my eyes - is a clean working environment, something which I value as I spend a lot of time in it. I see it as an improvement over the earlier versions which I have used.That said, I see from other reviews that there is a lot of unhappiness at the new look of MS Word 2007. It is a pity that MS did not see fit to include a Word 2003, or some such, display option for people who otherwise have to re-learn simple tasks when time is pressing. To that end, I would recommend dowloading a demo from the Microsoft web site in case it is not a change which you wish to make.The only other item in the pack which I use daily is OneNote 2007, which I regard very highly indeed. It is very useful to collate, store and organise information, whether that be from the web or your own head, in one place. I use it for everything, from the research which I am doing, to keeping track of the usual boring household stuff. Instead of having folders of saved web pages, etc, it all goes into a OneNote notebook.Also in the pack are Excel, which I only use occasionally, and Powerpoint, which I haven't used (or installed).
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31.12.2009

At just over £60 this item works out at around £20 per user for what are probably the three most used Microsoft applications by most students and home users (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) in their latest 2007 versions. Not a bad deal overall when compared with Apple's comparable i-Work suite of programmes and ultimately your choice will be driven by what is your computer and operating system of choice. I have always found the Home and Student editions from Microsoft great value across the years and this one is no exception in giving cheap access to these three much used and well tested Office programmes.Most of the other adverse comments by reviewers have been around One Note instead of Outlook being offered in this suite.While accepting there is no comparison between thsee two alternatives, this does not prevent you unleashing overall value by using One Note as you see fit and instead simply replace the lack of Outlook's email and calendar with a wholly free alternative, if having a Personal Information Manager (PIM) software tool is that important to you!That alternative (as covered in a recent issue (January 2010) of "What Laptop" magazine) is to install the Mozilla Thunderbird free email on your computer and set this up to synchronise with your preferred email accounts. Then because Thunderbird has no calendar or organiser installed as standard, download and install the Sunbird Calendar via "Lightning" into Thunderbird for the creating and sharing of calendar events. That is followed by installing "GooSync" which allows synchronisation of the Thunderbird installed calendar with Google Calendar and other chosen external devices. The overall end result is to create a free PIM alternative if required to work alongside your Microsoft 2007 Home and Student Edition and overcome its absence of offering Outlook.
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11.4.2009

I've been using Microsoft Word since the late 1980's when it ran from a command line interface as Word 4/5 i.e. word.exe from the C:\ prompt and was effectively a markup language written in C. It was by far the best of the batch then and still is as Word 2007. Back then I used Lotus 123, a very fine product that allowed itself to become eclipsed by Excel which, as I recall, was very late to this market. However, Excel has no real competition today.I've never really understood the rancour occasioned by Microsoft? They're a successful software company that has made a lot of money; isn't that the point of business? Office 2007 is a superb product while Word and Excel or simply the finest (to date)word-processor and spreadsheet combo. The background support of VB Basic for Office simply can't be equalled.Personally, the Student & Home bundle is thwarted a little by the lack of Microsoft Outlook. Outlook was a simply ghastly product when first introduced, largely because of it's close reliance on Exchange Server to be anything more than a simple email client. It was only when I started to deal with Exchange that I fully appreciated Outlook and the odd approach to database design contained within it.OpenOffice is a great 'free' product too. Roughly equivalent to Office XP I guess. I have no argument with 'open source' software except 'integration' - I simply don't want to learn to use products that don't offer easy integration with existing systems.All in all it's a simple equation of time and energy. Any new software has a potentially steep learning curve and, personally, I'd rather not bother - as time is money!
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12.10.2009

On the whole a good product, with much better templates etc. A bit annoying that everything is accessed through the menu sections at the top, as accessing everything takes longer (select, click, slect, click... as opposed to just 'click'), it seems more kid friendly - but that's not much help if all you want to do is finish what you're writing as quickly as possible. Unless you hide them they also take up a good two inches of the top of the screen, and if you do hide them it's yet another click to do what you want. These menus take a bit of getting used to after the older versions and to be honest, if I wasn't getting .dox files I couldn't open I probably wouldn't have bothered.You can stick bits that you use at the top of the screen perminantly, but then I've got so many now it may as well be the older version of Word. Whereas Word particularly was an inovative and fantastic product, this feels a bit forced on you and, if there was any alternative, as a writer you'd probably choose something else (I certainly find Final Draft has easier and better specific functions now).The other thing that's annoyoing about the student edition is the three PC rule, as everyone has at least two computers these days and, if you're trying to earn your living writing then possibly more (Office, Laptop, notebook etc...) but that's just me being too poor to upgrade, having spent all my money on computers I guess.So, on the whole good, but not much more use than the version it superceeds unless you like to spend more time fiddling about with buttons than you do actually doing the work you're supposed to be doing.
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10.6.2007

Its easy to hate everything Microsoft (I too hate crossing Bill's palm with Amex as much as the next person) and its also true that Open Office 2 is a supberb piece of software - particularly given as its free. In fact I have been using Open Office exclusively - until now.There's one thing that gives Office 2007 the edge over Open Office and that's the new ribbon interface. It really is brilliant and it really does increase productivity. Afterall, if it wasn't for the ribbon it would be just another office suite and I would stick with Open Office.It seems though, that Microsoft really have sat with end users and really have taken notice of how people use their software and I think that the newuser interface is a huge step forward in software interaction.As a home user as well I don't think the £85ish that Amazon is asking for 3 licenses is particularly expensive. About £27.50 each which if you think back to the cost of the full proper office suite a couple of years ago is pretty good value.Just bear in mind that the standard Home & Student pack doesn't come with Outlook which I suppose most home users won't miss (although I can't live without it so bought it separately from MS for £40 odd) but it does come with OneNote which is proving useful.All in all if you're not sure whether you're ready for the jump to Office 07 then download the 60 trial version from Micrsoft's website. Just be warned if you do you may find yourself reaching for your credit card - I did!! (and a word of warning, its much cheaper to by the software from Amazon than to acitivate your demo version via Microsoft).
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12.10.2008

I was basically forced to change from Office 2003 into 2007 when my computer crashed taking with it all installed programs (Microsoft actually had something to do with it ;) which I took as a sign from above (Bill Gates?) that I should bring my software a little up to date.After several weeks with the new software I am still undecided whether this was the right move. Frankly, I have yet to find a single function which would really make a difference.The new layout is fancier but this is not what I expect - I need quick access to rather basic functions instead of dozens of functions the purpose of which I will never discover. Let's face it, I need my computer for writing.I can create an odd table every now and then but that is the limit to my computer skills. Within this fairly limited set of needs I found the new Office too big to handle.Obviously, I am to blame to some extent, I got used to doing things "my way" over the years and now "my ways" are no longer accessible or I have to trailblaze across allegedly "intuitive" software. My basic problem is that the new Office knows too well what I want when I don't want it at all (still haven't mastered the tricky art of numbering within a single Word document starting from 1. several times).I couldn't avoid the upgrade forever as my students started sending me essays in the new Word format which I could not open any longer but if I could I would probably be happier with the old one. And this is my conclusion - if you already have an older version of Office and it works, don't change it. It just isn't worth the money and the bother.
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24.1.2009

In this latest incarnation of the product, Microsoft attempted to make the ever-expanding functionality of its Office suite more easily accessible to new and less experienced users. And, in replacing all of the drop-down menus with ribbon bars, they have largely succeeded in doing so. But in the process they have also alienated anyone who had got to grips with the old menu system. Experienced users will find it impossible to perform their usual tasks, as the ribbons seem to bear little relation to the old menus. So if you fall into that camp then expect to spend months using the Help and swearing at the computer in frustration (and having been the dominant force in Office suites for so long now,there are surely more experienced users out there than inexperienced ones now!) I simply cannot understand why they didn't include a backwards compatibility mode to help with the transition, since they did so to help out those migrating from WordPerfect all those years ago. But once you get over your annoyance and become used to it, then, as you would expect, it continues to be a great suite of products, though there's few radically new features. It introduces a new, more efficient, set of document formats which aren't compatible with older versions, so watch out for that if you are sharing docs with others. While I wouldn't recommend people upgrade, except perhaps from a significantly older version, it's hard to argue with the price, particularly since you can now legally install it on 3 PCs, which makes it an absolute bargain and gives you no excuse for not having a legit copy.
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5.2.2010

So far I've enjoyed using the tools, been a long time and expert user of Office since early 90's. But ended up stuck with Office 2k for nearly 10years. Only reason to move was it was harder and harder to run 2k on the newer Windows versions, especially Outlook, that said the Home version of 2007 excludes Outlook, which is a real shame as it the one tool I used the most (still do in tandem with 2007). So what's changed, well, as far as I can see so far, not a lot! But the interface has me searching high an low for the features I know are there, slowly though I have tracked down the things I've looked for and I'm now beginning to like the Ribbons, still like the old menu system though - I knew where things were.So if all these changes are, in my opinion, not that great why a 4? Well actually I love the layout, especially the Excel interface, and some of the other new features I've stumbled on (change tracking is a huge improvement). It's like a breath of fresh air and apart from getting frustrated when I can't find what I know is there, it's like being a child in a sweet shop and I'm on a new voyage of discovery. I still think Office is by far the best package around, just wish the home version included Outlook and Access, but can't have it all for just £70, and even at £200+ it's not really such a bad deal every 10 years or so....If like me you still need Access and Outlook, I'm successfully running MS Office 2007 Home & Student Edition alongside Outlook 2k and Access 2k on Windows 7 (64 bit). And it's all working exceptionally well...
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29.11.2009

This is a great fit for people using Windows and haven't got, or don't like the Works suite. Word and Excel are useful for parents creating letters or money budgeting logs etc. whilst at the same time available for the little ones to play with, and learn these same programs they are using at school. Powerpoint is thrown in for good measure as it's the 3rd most used MS Office program (that one is for creating work presentation slideshows the most). Onenote? well... not so useful but nice to have something extra for the money I guess.Make no mistake, the user interface has changed dramatically from the old File & Edit style menus, and takes a good deal to get used to, but this change is for the better.I for one have cursed and despised the new layout at the start, but as I've become more used to where the options/menu items have been placed, it is a lot faster to use now. Luckily the shortcut keystrokes have remained the same also.To get 3 copies of the best office so far for this low price is fantastic & I'm glad I spotted it on here. There's no separate papers to be filled out (Adobe student edition software etc.) & this can be installed as soon as opened. It is still a world away/far more advanced than the open source software packages and well worth the money.Not 5 out of 5 because there's no 64-bit edition (that's coming in the next version), and also there's no real advances for the developer side either (VBA is still on a 6.x version & not changed to .Net code yet).Alex Read
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10.10.2009

Very good product for the price offered.It is the well known Office software we all know but with new graphics to it, it is faster and easy to learn or adapt to (if you are coming from the 2003 version) - I only looked at and used Word in detailPros:More possibilities at the time of inserting things (almost anything) - Nice new renewed graphics and look to it - faster - easier to work with (really good magnifying tool at bottom right) - great overall tool bar at top of page - Great add-ons and new capabilities - huge library of tools and templates - good on line support with videos - Word has great shutdown protection (it will never close down on you and make you loose your work,even when "not responding" sign appears at top, it will recover and let you save)Cons:docx extension can't be opened by 2003 Office and this leaves a lot of people out of the loop sometimes - PDF creator Add-on slows Word down a lot (you have to go in and disable it when you are working with large documents)- Sometimes on line support doesn't help explaining what you need and clips have long intros instead of going to the point (most times there even is an intro clip which doesn't add anything - could just be a line of text...)Overall experience with this software is that it is definitely a good buy. If you've worked with MS Office all your life, it is something you have to really consider investing in. (even if it is only because you need to open a docx file someone sent you...(control freaks!))
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12.1.2010

Fantastic value for money with the 3 User Licence and delivered to Spain in only a few days.All information was provided before purchase, so there weren't any ugly surprises, like the absence of Outlook. This said, I wasn't able to get used to using Windows Live Mail in place of Outlook. It is by no means a replacement, but is sufficient for those only wanting to email and keeping a basic Calendar with little abiltiy to customise tabs etc.I used the Office 2007 suite for a period and even ventured into the realm of OneNote, of which I am now an avid fan. I had never bothered to look at it before, but now appreciate that it's a really valuable resourse for both home and small office.I will definitley be recommending OneNote to everyone.However, back to Outlook - I missed it too much, but didn't want to have to pay another £70 for the Product Key, so downloaded the BETA version of MSOffice 2010 instead. This has quite a different feel to 2007, so takes a bit of getting used to, but with a bit of patience and time, you soon discover its brilliance. This will be available for sale from mid to late 2010, so if you're not in any hurry to buy 2007 now, it might be worth waiting. Prices should fall within a few months.If you can't wait for the Office Suite, you could do as I did and install Office 2010 for free!
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30.10.2009

Having read a number of negative reviews I was a little apprehensive about switching from Office 2003 to Office 2007 (which came installed as a demo on a new lap-top) and particularly the new ribbon interface. Yes it is different and yes it does take a little time to find some of the functions but, after using it for a number of weeks, overall I prefer the new format. I would agree that using up the right hand side of the ribbon on the home page of Word 2007 seems something of a waste of space but on the other hand being able to preview the effect of changing font, colour format etc. on the actual text in situ is so much better than relying on a small example of standard text.There also have been small improvements throughout Excel compared with earlier versions although I have yet to be convinced that the "new" conditional formatting is easier to use than the earlier version; perhaps it depends on why you want to use it. Home and Student doesn't come with Outlook but this isn't really a problem as the free Mozilla Thunderbird is a very good alternative for many people. Like others, I have used the free and cheap alternative programmes to Microsoft Word and Excel and they do offer great value but if I'm honest they don't have the polish and all the functionality of Office 2007. At less than £60 it's good value.
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12.8.2010

Office 2007 is something I use every day at work and like because of its ease of use and reliability, so I decided to buy for my laptop at home.Delivery came sooner than expected and it came in a very nice hard plastic case. However what should have been an easy operation, that of opening the said case, took both my husband and myself far longer than the installation itself. The tabs refused to release and one of them snapped off before I finally managed to prize it open! Then it sprung shut again and I had to wrestle with it again!! Needless to say the disk is now stored in a different case where I keep all my other software.The installation itself was easy, just following the various screen prompts as is the norm.It took a while to install but once installed and registered it worked flawlessly and has done so ever since.For stability and ease of use I cannot fault it and as it has 3 user licences my husband has been able to put it on the main system so we can share documents, and I felt the price was very reasonable for what I am getting out of it.Well worth the money and highly recommended for home and office work.
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31.8.2007

I not so long ago purchased a Notebook to help with my University work and found that i had no copy of Office to actually do my work on so i browsed online stores for the latest version of office which was "Office 2007" which was the Home and Student Edition, perfect for me as it had:- Microsoft Word- Microsoft PowerPoint- Microsoft Excel- Microsoft OneNoteAmazon had the best price at the time and so i ended up purchasing it, and i must say that i like it very much. This is a definate improvment from using Office 2003, but it only get's 4 stars as i find the Tool Bar options (File, Edit, View etc) rather annoying to navigate,but that is just my personal opinion.Very much improved and with the Compatability function allowing you to open and save documents from previous versions (from 97 to 2003) makes things easier.Highly recommended for sudents and those who just want the basics out of Office with a touch more style and a better look.
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