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 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £119.99
Buy New: £58.49
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New (22) from £58.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
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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 Isolates existing users July 23, 2008
Microsofts latest office offering is truly a strange peice of software! The interface, location for tools and manner in which the programmes are used is completely different from any version which came before it.
I downloaded the trial and was immediately struck by just how obtuse this software is to use, nothing was where I expected it to be, menus have gone, there is no toolbar to speak of - this has been replaced with a ribbon. I have been using the trial for over a month now and I still have to hunt to find even the most basic commands. You have to question the product development strategy of Microsoft when the new version is designed to isolate existing users.
Rather than spend the cash on the full version, I for one will be using Openoffice or perhaps Ability office, both of which look and feel like the sort of 'Office' I am used to. DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE
Dumbed-down version of Office 2003 - hate it! July 15, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very painful to use if you're familiar with Office 2003, or indeed just about any other program package! I consider myself highly computer literate; I work with computers all day every day, yet it is taking me a LONG time to learn how to do everything in Office 2007 that I could do with ease in 2003. The drop-down menus are gone, which not only means you have to learn what a load of new pictoral symbols mean, but is also quite slow and cumbersome to operate. The new version of Excel is particularly awful - extremely inflexible. It's fine if you just want a simple graph but if you want any level of sophistication - stick with excel 2003 because 2007 does not let you manipulate the data. I felt like 2007 was an "Excel for dummies" program.
And the Office Assistant is no more - sob! - bring back the cat!!
My overall feeling about Office 2007 is that Microsoft have changed things for the sake of changing things without any consideration of efficiency or flexibility for the user. I can not think of one single advantage of this new version over Office 2003.
 Takes getting used to June 23, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you've been used to using previous versions, i'd say stick to them. Office 07 has a very different layout to its older versions. It can take some getting used to depending on how good you are at using computers. It took me a while to find some of the features i wanted, but i suppose thats because of the new additional features which make it easy to manipulate the text and have more control.
If you just want to get things done quickly with no fuss i don't think this would be for you. But i really like it!
 Office 2007 Home & Student Edition (3 User licence) June 20, 2008
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
I brought this office package because is said Home/Student on it thinking i would get full versions of word, excel and powerpoint but was disappointed that i didn't have the full version of powerpoint. Be warned! Its only got powerpoint viewer, which is of no use if you need to create a powerpoint presentation. The description on amazon is misleading. If i had not have damaged the packaging trying to open the box i would have returned it. Also, if you're used to other versions of word you're probably not going to like the look of MS Word. Why Microsoft need to change the look of software like word is beyond me. Be careful when you buy.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 June 16, 2008
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
I purchased this because I like to be running up-to-date software, and to have the best possible software. I'd been a very satisfied user of Microsoft Office Standard 2003, and used it thoroughly through a degree and into a professional qualification to great effect.
Microsoft Office 2007 is a disaster.
I installed it onto my brand new Sony VAIO laptop (top of the range, with a Blu-ray drive and all possible extras, in case a sceptical reader is questionning the power available to me) only to find that of the four programs contained, Excel worked fine for viewing files, but for some reason ceased to work every time I tried to copy and paste something; PowerPoint and Word displayed the messages "this program has stopped working and must close" as soon as I tried to open them - before they'd fully opened! The only program that worked as it was meant to was OneNote, but for the life of me I haven't a clue what this program alone does to justify the price.
I thought that perhaps the problem was I needed to download some upgrades to get it up to speed with the many patches and upgrades I'd downloaded for Windows Vista (with which I'd assumed it would work perfectly) but after several hours of downloading all the essential updates from Windows Update and restarting my PC several times to make sure that said updates were correctly installed, I was having the same problems.
I fully admit that perhaps I'm doing something wrong. But I've never had a problem installing and operating software before, and if there is some complex piece of code that's crippling this supposedly sophisticated program, frankly I've no interest in owning it. I don't buy software to challenge my abilities to solve complex computational problems. I buy software to be installed quickly, to be straightforward to use and to be useful in my day-to-day computing needs.
This will be returned promptly and the excellent Office 2003 will be reinstalled. Next time, I won't be so eager to get the latest upgrade. I'll give a little more attention to the negative feedback given by others.
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