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| ASIN: | B000HCZ8EO |
| Binding: | CD-ROM |
| Brand: | Microsoft |
| CPU Manufacturer: | Intel |
| CPU Speed: | 1 GHz |
| CPU Type: | AMD Athlon |
| Display Size: | 669.2913385826772 inches |
| EAN: | 0882224781213 |
| Edition: | Home and Student |
| Feature: |
- Essential software suite for home computer users makes it a pleasure to complete schoolwork and other tasks
- Includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote
- Intuitive user interface that exposes commonly used commands; updated graphics and formatting galleries help you to easily produce high-quality documents
- Work with confidence and security thanks to the improved automatic Document Recovery tool and the Document Inspector tool, which removes personally identifiable information from your document
- Enhanced Help system includes online tutorials with step-by-step instructions; includes OneNote, a digital notebook that helps you gather, organize, and search many types of information in one place
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| Format: | CD-ROM |
| Graphics Memory Size: | 256 MB |
| Hard Disk Size: | 1 GB |
| Item Dimensions: |
- Weight: 0.6 pounds
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| Label: | Microsoft Software |
| Legal Disclaimer: | Shipping is 3-5 days FedEx or UPS with tracking number. Brand New. Continental USA street address ONLY, we do not ship to P/O box, APO, AE, or international addresses |
| Manufacturer: | Microsoft Software |
| Model: | 79G-00007 |
| Native Resolution: | 640x480 |
| No. Of Items: | 3865 |
| Package Dimensions: |
- Height: 1.5 inches
- Length: 7.4 inches
- Width: 5.4 inches
- Weight: 0.4 pounds
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| Platform: |
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows XP
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| Processor Count: | 1 |
| Product Group: | Software |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Software |
| Release Date: | Jan 30, 2007 |
| Sales Rank: | 3 |
| Studio: | Microsoft Software |
| System Memory: | 128000 MB |
| UPC: | 008222416524 |
Product Description
Item #: 62916D. Office Home and Student 2007 is the software suite
that helps people easily create great-looking documents, worksheets
and presentations, as well as manage notes and information at home.
It offers improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and
formatting capabilities, new time management tools, and greater
reliability and security.
Product Description
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 - complete package
Category: Office applications
Subcategory: Office applications - office suite
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 3 PC in one household
License Pricing: Non-commercial
Language(s): English
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 SP1 or later
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Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software
suite for home computer users and includes 2007 versions of Excel,
PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote. This system enables you to quickly
and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and
presentations, and organize your notes and information in one
place, making it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things
done.
This updated version features a new streamlined user interface that
exposes commonly used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting
capabilities that let you create high-quality documents, plus a
powerful note and information organization tool, and more
reliability and security with the document inspector tool and
improved automatic document recovery. With these enhancements, Home
and Student 2007 makes it a pleasure to complete schoolwork and
other tasks at home.
User-Friendly Operation
Packed with innovative features and improvements, Home and Student 2007 has a streamlined interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your questions. In addition, command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus. The Help system also offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative ScreenTips provide help concerning commands, and the command tabs themselves are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete, so you won't waste time figuring out the appropriate command. When you need more guidance, online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
 The new streamlined workspace and easy-to-browse tabs make program features easier to find and use. View larger. |
 Insert graphics and charts such as these into your documents to make them more appealing. View larger. |
 Use the new diagram and improved charting tools to create rich and stunning visuals and charts. View larger. |
 Quick and easy-to-use table styles help your tables look great and consistent across Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. View larger. |
 The Document Inspector helps find and remove potentially sensitive "hidden" information from your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. View larger. |
 Office OneNote 2007 enables you to gather, organize, and search almost any type of information. The powerful search tool is shown here, with results highlighted in yellow. View larger. |
Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions.
Create High-Quality Documents
Home and Student 2007 gives you access to updated graphics,
formatting galleries, and an intuitive user interface that exposes
commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce
high-quality documents that will make you proud. Improved picture,
charting, and graphics tools help you produce better-looking
documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly, while a
large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and
SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals
and charts. The results-oriented user interface makes it easier for
you to find and use product features so you can enhance your
documents according to your specifications. More stable bullets and
numbers, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries
provide you with a wealth of other formatting choices. Meanwhile,
document themes help ensure a consistent appearance among the
documents you create in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, to make
working across the programs you use most more convenient.
PowerPoint also features context-sensitive tabs and easy-to-use
galleries that make it simple for you to include tables and other
graphics in your documents.
Enhanced Reliability and Security Features
With an improved automatic Document Recovery tool and the new
Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable
information from your documents, Home and Student 2007 helps you
work with more confidence and security. Thanks to these two
features, you'll never have to worry about losing documents after a
system failure or exposing your personal identification information
or unwanted comments to others before sharing your documents.
 Formatting galleries make it easier to find and apply formatting changes. View larger. |
Packed with innovative features and improvements, Home and Student 2007 has a streamlined interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your questions. In addition, command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus. The Help system also offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative ScreenTips provide help concerning commands, and the command tabs themselves are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete, so you won't waste time figuring out the appropriate command. When you need more guidance, online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
Organize Notes and Information
Home and Student 2007 includes OneNote, a digital notebook that
helps you gather, organize, and search many types of information in
one place. This means you can consolidate typed text, images, audio
and video recordings, digital handwritten notes, Web clippings, and
more on the same page. OneNote also provides flexible note-taking
tools to help you organize information the way you want. Categorize
important projects or information in a way that makes sense to you,
using an easy-to-use layout of notebooks, sections, and pages. Type
or organize content anywhere on the page and track important items
with customizable note tags. To help keep you on track, the
powerful Instant Search feature helps you to find information you
are looking for quickly. With it you can even search handwritten
notes, the text in images and scanned documents, and spoken words
in audio recordings.
Preview Changes and Spot Trends
Home and Student 2007 saves you time by making it easier to format
your Office documents with Live Preview. This tool lets you quickly
preview proposed changes to your document while you're working on
it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus.
Taking a look at your proposed formatting before committing to it
lets you experiment without risk and can help minimize future
edits. Excel features highly visual conditional formatting with new
data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons that you can use to
format data based on specific rules, so you can more easily
identify key data trends, which can help you study and prepare
written papers or reports.
Create and Save Custom Slide Layouts
PowerPoint lets you create presentations with ease using prebuilt
and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the custom layout
feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision
without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts.
You can then save your custom layout for use in future
presentations.
Broader Distribution of Your Documents
Home and Student 2007's features aren't limited to the work you do
at home; they extend to broader distribution of your documents and
presentations. New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and
XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure increased
distribution and sharing of your documents with users on any
platform. This is particularly ideal for either sharing documents
with friends and families, or for presenting information and
assignments in a computer-integrated class.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Customer Reviews
Major upgrade for Office777 people found this review helpful.
While Office 2003 offered a refreshed look and some improvements in
functionality, the basic structure remained the same. While veteran
users were able to easily navigate the familiar menus, it had
become increasingly difficult to locate some features (for
instance, in Word, would you find "insert new rows" to a table in
the "insert" or "table" menu?).
With Office 2007, Microsoft offers the "ribbon", a new and more intuitive way to access features that we used to find in the menus. While the features are basically the same, they are now grouped together according to when and how you would normally use them. These groupings are accessed by clicking on tabs, which are organized in the order you'd use them. The best way to get a better understanding of this change is to check out the screenshots, or download a free trial version of Office from Microsoft. While Office 2007 was released at the same time as Vista, you do not need Vista in order to run it. The program ran fine on my Windows XP laptop, which only had 512 MB of RAM, and it runs even better on my Vista laptop with 2 GB of RAM.
As for which version of Office to buy, this is the third time I've opted for the Home and Student version (which has had other names in previous releases, but is still being sold for $149). I need Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and this is the most cost-effective way to get those programs. I was disappointed that Microsoft dropped Outlook from the Home and Student version. In order to continue to use Outlook, I installed Outlook 2003 and haven't had any problems.
Instead of Outlook, you get OneNote, a program that uses notebooks and tabs to save and organize all sorts of files and documents. I haven't had much time to play with OneNote yet, but the more I use it, the more impressed I am with it. It looks like one of those programs that you can personalize to meet your own needs and not have to fight with it to get it to do what you want.
This is a significant upgrade and should allow all users, new and experienced, to work more efficiently and quickly.
With Office 2007, Microsoft offers the "ribbon", a new and more intuitive way to access features that we used to find in the menus. While the features are basically the same, they are now grouped together according to when and how you would normally use them. These groupings are accessed by clicking on tabs, which are organized in the order you'd use them. The best way to get a better understanding of this change is to check out the screenshots, or download a free trial version of Office from Microsoft. While Office 2007 was released at the same time as Vista, you do not need Vista in order to run it. The program ran fine on my Windows XP laptop, which only had 512 MB of RAM, and it runs even better on my Vista laptop with 2 GB of RAM.
As for which version of Office to buy, this is the third time I've opted for the Home and Student version (which has had other names in previous releases, but is still being sold for $149). I need Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and this is the most cost-effective way to get those programs. I was disappointed that Microsoft dropped Outlook from the Home and Student version. In order to continue to use Outlook, I installed Outlook 2003 and haven't had any problems.
Instead of Outlook, you get OneNote, a program that uses notebooks and tabs to save and organize all sorts of files and documents. I haven't had much time to play with OneNote yet, but the more I use it, the more impressed I am with it. It looks like one of those programs that you can personalize to meet your own needs and not have to fight with it to get it to do what you want.
This is a significant upgrade and should allow all users, new and experienced, to work more efficiently and quickly.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Let's reconcile all those good and bad reviews...116 people found this review helpful.
Well, it's been a week now, and while I still have Office 2002
(virtually identical to 2003) and Office 2007 on my laptop, I've
pretty much stopped using 2002. I give '07 a thumbs up.
I have used Office since 1994 for just simple letters and spreadsheets until the last year, where I started becoming a heavy user of some really odd features, like non-standard line spacing, different headers within the same document, embedded Excel sheets in a Word doc, embedding images in headers and footers, charting, tables, etc. I was worried if all these newly discovered features that I just learned would suddenly disappear in the changing ribbon that everyone was talking about.
Despite using weird features, or maybe because of it, I am a little more tolerant of looking up how to do things. But I didn't want to relearn everything, and I haven't had to. The default blank document has tabs for Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, etc, which really are not much different than the categories in the classic drop-down menus. Once clicking on these tabs, you are offered the same choices as before...charts, insert picture, bookmarks, wordart, etc., and a few new ones, like references, balloons and highlighting, footnotes, and more. It IS a different layout, but to this point, I don't think it ever took me more than 10 seconds to find something.
I'm surprised no one is talking about the ability to save documents in .pdf (what was once exclusive to Adobe). I know other software has allowed this for sometime, but the ability to make a document that will launch in Adobe Reader with all the functionality of Word or Excel is something I've been waiting for. In 2 years, we'll all wonder how we did without it. This is important to me because once in .pdf, the formatting is locked in, and won't change depending on how it's previewed or printed.
Another thing that is important is the new, modern looking charts and tables. This isn't just the 'pretty' factor, but more effective to understanding lots of data more easily. Office 2000/2002/2003 just looked old and unimpressive. It's true that Microsoft is just catching up to Apple, Adobe and others, but they've at least done it. Equally important is the ability to instantly see changes to formatting before you've committed it to the whole document. I've probably wasted a month's time over the course of the last year reformatting documents to do it a better way. If only I authored them in 2007, which was available a year ago, I would have saved so much time.
One reviewer said his Home/Student version "did not have all the features as the full version". I've tried to investigate this, and as far as I can tell, Home/Student's versions of Word/Excel/Powerpoint are no different than any other version.
I don't want to get too personal here, but all the reviewers who are angry that their saved homework or important business document was saved in .docx and therefore was not readable by anyone else really are just wanting to be victims. Office 2007 makes it abundantly clear that you will be saving in .docx, and if you don't want to, you don't have to. It tells you how and where to save it as a compatible .doc file (or .xls, etc.) and whether you want this as your default setting. I'm sorry, but if you're a student and you ignore all those messages, I think you're going to have more problems in school than using this version of Office.
The Grammar check seems to be improved, catching problems that my Office 2002 did not. Hot keys like Ctrl K for hyperlinks or Ctrl C to copy all still work. I'm not sure if they removed others as some reviewers have said, but so far it has not affected me. The concept of Add-Ins (plugins) is a little bit annoying, as to get certain features like the ability to save .pdf requires you go online and install the add-in. Then again, this gives Microsoft the ability to add features from time to time (hopefully they'll use it that way - I think a big reason for add-ins is to give Microsoft a way of periodically checking your software to ensure it's legal). I also like the always-on word count, something that Amazon probably wishes I would use in my reviews.
I'm at day 7 and counting, and I don't feel much reason to ever open my Office 2002 again.
I have used Office since 1994 for just simple letters and spreadsheets until the last year, where I started becoming a heavy user of some really odd features, like non-standard line spacing, different headers within the same document, embedded Excel sheets in a Word doc, embedding images in headers and footers, charting, tables, etc. I was worried if all these newly discovered features that I just learned would suddenly disappear in the changing ribbon that everyone was talking about.
Despite using weird features, or maybe because of it, I am a little more tolerant of looking up how to do things. But I didn't want to relearn everything, and I haven't had to. The default blank document has tabs for Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, etc, which really are not much different than the categories in the classic drop-down menus. Once clicking on these tabs, you are offered the same choices as before...charts, insert picture, bookmarks, wordart, etc., and a few new ones, like references, balloons and highlighting, footnotes, and more. It IS a different layout, but to this point, I don't think it ever took me more than 10 seconds to find something.
I'm surprised no one is talking about the ability to save documents in .pdf (what was once exclusive to Adobe). I know other software has allowed this for sometime, but the ability to make a document that will launch in Adobe Reader with all the functionality of Word or Excel is something I've been waiting for. In 2 years, we'll all wonder how we did without it. This is important to me because once in .pdf, the formatting is locked in, and won't change depending on how it's previewed or printed.
Another thing that is important is the new, modern looking charts and tables. This isn't just the 'pretty' factor, but more effective to understanding lots of data more easily. Office 2000/2002/2003 just looked old and unimpressive. It's true that Microsoft is just catching up to Apple, Adobe and others, but they've at least done it. Equally important is the ability to instantly see changes to formatting before you've committed it to the whole document. I've probably wasted a month's time over the course of the last year reformatting documents to do it a better way. If only I authored them in 2007, which was available a year ago, I would have saved so much time.
One reviewer said his Home/Student version "did not have all the features as the full version". I've tried to investigate this, and as far as I can tell, Home/Student's versions of Word/Excel/Powerpoint are no different than any other version.
I don't want to get too personal here, but all the reviewers who are angry that their saved homework or important business document was saved in .docx and therefore was not readable by anyone else really are just wanting to be victims. Office 2007 makes it abundantly clear that you will be saving in .docx, and if you don't want to, you don't have to. It tells you how and where to save it as a compatible .doc file (or .xls, etc.) and whether you want this as your default setting. I'm sorry, but if you're a student and you ignore all those messages, I think you're going to have more problems in school than using this version of Office.
The Grammar check seems to be improved, catching problems that my Office 2002 did not. Hot keys like Ctrl K for hyperlinks or Ctrl C to copy all still work. I'm not sure if they removed others as some reviewers have said, but so far it has not affected me. The concept of Add-Ins (plugins) is a little bit annoying, as to get certain features like the ability to save .pdf requires you go online and install the add-in. Then again, this gives Microsoft the ability to add features from time to time (hopefully they'll use it that way - I think a big reason for add-ins is to give Microsoft a way of periodically checking your software to ensure it's legal). I also like the always-on word count, something that Amazon probably wishes I would use in my reviews.
I'm at day 7 and counting, and I don't feel much reason to ever open my Office 2002 again.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Once you get used to it, you'll love Microsoft Office 0791 people found this review helpful.
This student edition of Microsoft Office 07 comes with four
programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Unless you
specifically have a need for another Microsoft Office program, this
will be more than enough for the average Office user. You've got
all the essentials: a word processor (Word), a spreadsheet (Excel),
a slide show creator (PowerPoint), and even a nice program to put
all your notes (OneNote). Home and Student Office 07 version gives
you the basic programs at a cheaper price than the other versions
of Office.
The main difference you'll find between this 07 version and the Microsoft Office 03 is that all the programs now have the "ribbon" instead of being menu-driven. The ribbon is a much more visual representation of all the features you can use. All the different tasks are grouped into ribbons; which are divided up into different tabs you can click on. For example, if you clicked on the "Insert" tab in Word you would find tasks such as "inserting" a header or "inserting" a table. What this means is that instead of being hidden in menus and submenus, most features now can be found simply by being in the right tab. This allows you to find some useful features that you might otherwise not have known existed.
Everything from Microsoft 03 is there, it just might take awhile to get used to the new layout of things. There are also a lot of cool new features added in this version, such as easily being able to write complex math equations in Word (it was such a pain in Word 03) and being provided with an easy format to create a bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago style etc.
Perhaps the only drawback of Office 07 is that it's such a drastic change from Office 03 that it will take awhile to get used to. After years of knowing all the complex menus you'll have to learn where everything is all over again, which can be frustrating for vetrans of Office 03. However, if you just give it some time, you'll fall in love with just how well everything is set up and appreciate the new visual style this version implements.
Pros:
* The new visual style allows easy access to all the various features
* You can still save files in Office 97-03 format (Example .doc)
Cons:
* You must relearn where everything is because of the Ribbon
* Not all websites/ programs recognize the new 07 files
Final Recommendation: Buy it, get used to it, and love it!
The main difference you'll find between this 07 version and the Microsoft Office 03 is that all the programs now have the "ribbon" instead of being menu-driven. The ribbon is a much more visual representation of all the features you can use. All the different tasks are grouped into ribbons; which are divided up into different tabs you can click on. For example, if you clicked on the "Insert" tab in Word you would find tasks such as "inserting" a header or "inserting" a table. What this means is that instead of being hidden in menus and submenus, most features now can be found simply by being in the right tab. This allows you to find some useful features that you might otherwise not have known existed.
Everything from Microsoft 03 is there, it just might take awhile to get used to the new layout of things. There are also a lot of cool new features added in this version, such as easily being able to write complex math equations in Word (it was such a pain in Word 03) and being provided with an easy format to create a bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago style etc.
Perhaps the only drawback of Office 07 is that it's such a drastic change from Office 03 that it will take awhile to get used to. After years of knowing all the complex menus you'll have to learn where everything is all over again, which can be frustrating for vetrans of Office 03. However, if you just give it some time, you'll fall in love with just how well everything is set up and appreciate the new visual style this version implements.
Pros:
* The new visual style allows easy access to all the various features
* You can still save files in Office 97-03 format (Example .doc)
Cons:
* You must relearn where everything is because of the Ribbon
* Not all websites/ programs recognize the new 07 files
Final Recommendation: Buy it, get used to it, and love it!
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Stay Away as long as you can!279 people found this review helpful.
They changed everything! In an effort to make it more user
friendly, they've rearranged most of the controls. Menus are
replaced by headings. It is difficult to accomplish what were easy
changes before. Some of this will likely improve with use.
WORD 2007 is constantly trying to think for you, auto formatting as you type. However, it often isn't thinking what you are, and making it obey your commands is frustrated by the new headings. Particularly frustrating, when I "right-click" on a list to restart numbering at "A" (ie. after roman numeral II on an outline), WORD 2007 flatly refuses. My research paper is now formated:
I. Heading
A. subpoint
B. subpoint
C. subpoin
II. Heading
D. subpoint
E. subpoint
F. subpoint
III. Heading
G. subpoint etc....etc...
This is ridiculous and inexcusable! I also had to individually superscript 130+ footnotes. Somehow, in changing the font from the Widows default "Calibri" back to "Time New Roman," the footnote setting was altered and I have yet to determine how to restore it. However, if I open a new document it is fine, but I really don't want to retype a 30+ page research paper.
POWERPOINT 2007 works well enough, compared to the older version. They have added a few bell and whistles, but nothing that gets in the way.
If you have to buy a new computer you're likely stuck with the new MS Office 2007. But don't buy it until you have to. It is NOT an upgrade from the previous two versions.
WORD 2007 is constantly trying to think for you, auto formatting as you type. However, it often isn't thinking what you are, and making it obey your commands is frustrated by the new headings. Particularly frustrating, when I "right-click" on a list to restart numbering at "A" (ie. after roman numeral II on an outline), WORD 2007 flatly refuses. My research paper is now formated:
I. Heading
A. subpoint
B. subpoint
C. subpoin
II. Heading
D. subpoint
E. subpoint
F. subpoint
III. Heading
G. subpoint etc....etc...
This is ridiculous and inexcusable! I also had to individually superscript 130+ footnotes. Somehow, in changing the font from the Widows default "Calibri" back to "Time New Roman," the footnote setting was altered and I have yet to determine how to restore it. However, if I open a new document it is fine, but I really don't want to retype a 30+ page research paper.
POWERPOINT 2007 works well enough, compared to the older version. They have added a few bell and whistles, but nothing that gets in the way.
If you have to buy a new computer you're likely stuck with the new MS Office 2007. But don't buy it until you have to. It is NOT an upgrade from the previous two versions.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Avoid it if you can151 people found this review helpful.
I will make this as short as I can. I am a long time user (~10yrs)
of MS Office, many versions of both Word and Excel. When I started
having some compatibility issues with my old version, I decided to
upgrade. My advice to you is, at all costs, avoid upgrading if you
can. If you can choose a different product (non-Office), do it.
In Word especially, all the old interfaces have been completely redone, from the menus available right to the way help is (dis)organized. Many of the old usability features, such as templates (for letters), how you interact with colors/fonts/etc., and how you print, preview, and perform simple functions, are gone or changed.
Microsoft apparently believes that manuals are a thing of the past, so finding out where my old options are, if they still exist, has been a chore of figuring out which of the dozens of help topics are actually relevant, and if they will help me (which they typically haven't).
Even in Excel there have been interface and usability changes that have made it difficult for me to work with it, given my long history with previous versions.
My only caveat is that brand new users may find it easier to work with than old ones, but again, the poor help system would hinder even that, I would think.
Best of luck.
In Word especially, all the old interfaces have been completely redone, from the menus available right to the way help is (dis)organized. Many of the old usability features, such as templates (for letters), how you interact with colors/fonts/etc., and how you print, preview, and perform simple functions, are gone or changed.
Microsoft apparently believes that manuals are a thing of the past, so finding out where my old options are, if they still exist, has been a chore of figuring out which of the dozens of help topics are actually relevant, and if they will help me (which they typically haven't).
Even in Excel there have been interface and usability changes that have made it difficult for me to work with it, given my long history with previous versions.
My only caveat is that brand new users may find it easier to work with than old ones, but again, the poor help system would hinder even that, I would think.
Best of luck.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Finding really hard to relearn184 people found this review helpful.
The new look of the software is really confusing. I'm not a
computer expert by any means, but I am knowledgeable enough that my
family and friends call me to help them fix their computers and
software problems, so I'm not a newbie either. I understand the
basic idea that some things are on the screen for you to see, the
things they consider to be the most important; but the things I use
the most, like frame or underlining are now several click away and
you can't customize the menus to what you like. They've put up what
they think is important and that's it. If you use other features,
you're out of luck... it's hunt and peck every time. You also have
to learn to think the way they think. If you want to find a
feature, it might not be in the menu set of screens you think. They
may consider it a different type of feature than you think of it
being, so you have start searching all the different sets of menus
to find the feature you're looking for. Also, I like to copy and
paste from boxes like this, when writing on the internet, for spell
checking... well you can't do that anymore because when you paste
back your text it appears in HTML format with all the weird stuff
that goes along with it. It might be that I'm just too set in my
ways and don't feel I have the time to learn a completely new
software to do a simple letter. Maybe if I had the time to relearn
everything I might find it easier, but I just don't have the weeks
it would take to devote to the study of each product (Word, Excel
mainly). I got the software and tried it for several months and
went back to my old Word and Excel.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007product
Could Be Better, Could Be Worse...24 people found this review helpful.
As one who was a newbie to Word I must say the 2007 version has to
be much easier to navigate with the new ribbon concept. The biggest
trouble for the inexperienced is finding a way to understand all
the features. This thing is really complicated to use because it
can do so many things. It seems the best way to learn Word would be
to take a course in a classroom setting, but for most of us that is
not to be. Try to learn from the tutorials and you have to navigate
a maze to find them all. I can't see a neophyte learning all the
ins and outs of this program without a third-party teaching
tool.
I have no doubt that if you opt for the full version it is worth the money, as long as you know how to use the program and all its features. I couldn't afford the whole boat, and didn't think I needed it anyway, so I opted for this version. That's when I discovered a disappointment. Not only do you not get the full complement of Office products, you don't even get a full version of the components per se. For the life of me I can't remember ever being told in the sales pitch that this would be a pared-down version of Word and wouldn't even contain all the fonts offered in the full version.
I had been using the 2007 Beta version and then the Trial version when that expired, and had done some work using the Broadway font, only to find out later that that particular font isn't even offered in this stripped-down version. Now if I want to match the font I started with I need to go buy it separately for about 20 bucks. Dirty trick.
Another problem was that I needed tech support to get it to work properly since I had previous versions installed on the puter and they left a couple of files that the developers should have thought to remove when installing the new version but didn't.
In short it's a pretty nifty program all in all, but it's still Microsoft, and has its foibles and bugs. Be aware that there is a learning curve to get through, but it can be satisfying once you get the hang of it.
I have no doubt that if you opt for the full version it is worth the money, as long as you know how to use the program and all its features. I couldn't afford the whole boat, and didn't think I needed it anyway, so I opted for this version. That's when I discovered a disappointment. Not only do you not get the full complement of Office products, you don't even get a full version of the components per se. For the life of me I can't remember ever being told in the sales pitch that this would be a pared-down version of Word and wouldn't even contain all the fonts offered in the full version.
I had been using the 2007 Beta version and then the Trial version when that expired, and had done some work using the Broadway font, only to find out later that that particular font isn't even offered in this stripped-down version. Now if I want to match the font I started with I need to go buy it separately for about 20 bucks. Dirty trick.
Another problem was that I needed tech support to get it to work properly since I had previous versions installed on the puter and they left a couple of files that the developers should have thought to remove when installing the new version but didn't.
In short it's a pretty nifty program all in all, but it's still Microsoft, and has its foibles and bugs. Be aware that there is a learning curve to get through, but it can be satisfying once you get the hang of it.
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DO NOT BUY> Excel crashes, Word interface is a horrible mess61 people found this review helpful.
Where to start....???? SO many things are messed up in Office
2007.
Here are my top 3:
#1: Word/Excel/PPt: The ribbon interface changes things around so drastically that doing what was once simple things in Office XP/2003 is now a frustrating exercise in lost time and productivity.
#2: Excel: First, MS has a hotfix (a 32 MB download) for a math error (yes a math error). Very few users will ever be likely to hit that value range on a calculated result, but still unacceptable for a mainstream number crunching program. But if you are one of those unfortunates, and the error ocurrs in a very large, complex spreadsheet, then the error could cost a business a fortune if it's not caught.
#3: Excel crashes if you try to specify a custom value range for chart error bars by selecting the appropriate row/columns from the worksheet (like you can in previous versions)... you have to enter them manually by typing the arcane "=Sheet1!$A$1:$Z$1". Even if you try to click over to the worksheet while the entry box is open Excel will crash and you lose everything since the last Save. This bug is probably lurking in other areas as many functions make the same calls to a common software modules where the bug really is located.
There are many other bugs in this product too numerous to list here (goto the MS Discussion Groups on Office 2007 for more).
Do not buy MS Office 2007 unless you like PAIN!!
Here are my top 3:
#1: Word/Excel/PPt: The ribbon interface changes things around so drastically that doing what was once simple things in Office XP/2003 is now a frustrating exercise in lost time and productivity.
#2: Excel: First, MS has a hotfix (a 32 MB download) for a math error (yes a math error). Very few users will ever be likely to hit that value range on a calculated result, but still unacceptable for a mainstream number crunching program. But if you are one of those unfortunates, and the error ocurrs in a very large, complex spreadsheet, then the error could cost a business a fortune if it's not caught.
#3: Excel crashes if you try to specify a custom value range for chart error bars by selecting the appropriate row/columns from the worksheet (like you can in previous versions)... you have to enter them manually by typing the arcane "=Sheet1!$A$1:$Z$1". Even if you try to click over to the worksheet while the entry box is open Excel will crash and you lose everything since the last Save. This bug is probably lurking in other areas as many functions make the same calls to a common software modules where the bug really is located.
There are many other bugs in this product too numerous to list here (goto the MS Discussion Groups on Office 2007 for more).
Do not buy MS Office 2007 unless you like PAIN!!
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You can make the change22 people found this review helpful.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Word, appears to be
confusing initially, especially for the experienced user like
myself who is expecting to find the toolbar and tabs in the usual
place as Word 2003. The new ribbon helps you to quickly find
commands that are used to complete a task. Some tabs are shown only
when needed, which helps to prevent clutter. The tabs are related
to specific activity, for example, when you click on the page
layout tab, everything you want to do on the page is shown;
margins, indent, spacing etc. Initially I wished I had kept my Word
2003, however, the more I work with Word 2007, I began to like it.
With patience you will find your most used tools and be pleased
with your new purchase. I find the case for the software too
clunky, although the case has nothing to do with the use of the
software. if you don't mind change, and you don't mind spending
some extra time learning the new interface of the program, it's
worth it.
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Power users: don't buy this software!92 people found this review helpful.
Sure, this release has lots of "improvements". I'll focus on Excel.
The biggest potential improvement is that the row and column
maximums have been opened up.
Beyond that, I've encountered nothing but problems.
* Once a document is saved in the new .xlsx format, Excel would not save back to the older .xls format. Instead, it just hung.
* The software refused to change the limits on a date x-axis of my charts. Instead it blithly reset the values back to the original values.
* It is SLOW. Clicking on a curve in a chart could take 10-20 seconds to respond.
* Occasionally, Excel would just crash for no obvious reason. The up side is that it would restart with opening the same workbooks.
Also, as usual, I have been unable to find a place on the Microsoft web site to report such troubles. All I've been able to find are FAQs that answer queries unrelated to the problems I've had.
Maybe you can work with that. I gave up and am just hoping that my new laptop is still functioning by the time that Microsoft gets around to noticing such glitches and releasing a service pack. Maybe next year?
Beyond that, I've encountered nothing but problems.
* Once a document is saved in the new .xlsx format, Excel would not save back to the older .xls format. Instead, it just hung.
* The software refused to change the limits on a date x-axis of my charts. Instead it blithly reset the values back to the original values.
* It is SLOW. Clicking on a curve in a chart could take 10-20 seconds to respond.
* Occasionally, Excel would just crash for no obvious reason. The up side is that it would restart with opening the same workbooks.
Also, as usual, I have been unable to find a place on the Microsoft web site to report such troubles. All I've been able to find are FAQs that answer queries unrelated to the problems I've had.
Maybe you can work with that. I gave up and am just hoping that my new laptop is still functioning by the time that Microsoft gets around to noticing such glitches and releasing a service pack. Maybe next year?
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