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Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £359.99
Buy New: £210.00
You Save: £149.99 (42%)
New (14) Used (2) from £159.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: 1272660
Model: 021-07746
UPC: 882224154512
EAN: 0882224154512
ASIN: B000HCVR3A
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is the essential software suite forhomes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easilycreate great-looking documents spreadsheets and presentationsand manage e-mail. The latest release features a new stre
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 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
I agree... May 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have being using office and its components since the dawn of time, and
I started using 2007 because the older versions are so diffiult to find now.
I wanted to test it before distributing it across our business, but having submitted myself to it, I refuse point blank to inflict this misery on my users (which is why I am on Amazon looking for an older version!).
All the comments below are valid, backwards compatibilty is rubbish, finding anything takes an age.
I *am* getting used to the stupid telly tubby ribbon thing, but .....
Don't try using anything but the simplest of headers and footers (remember the good old days, when every section could have a different header/footer, if that's what you wanted?). After 4 hours I gave up and used open office instead.
The same goes for watermarks - I wanted page 1 (my cover page) to have no watermark, and the suceeding pages with a watermark. There is a wonderful article on the MS website on how to acheive this - unfotunately it doesn't seem to work. I resorted to 2 documents, one with wm and one without!
Please release me from this torture! If I can find a copy of Office 2000 for sale I will die happy.
Too awful for words May 14, 2008
3 out of 3 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!
Do not uninstall Office 2003! April 3, 2008
10 out of 10 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!
Fantastically confusing interface April 2, 2008
5 out of 5 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.
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