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Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition Upgrade) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £216.99
Buy New: £167.00
You Save: £49.99 (23%)
New (8) from £167.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 468
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.6
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MPN: 1272661
Model: 021-07668
UPC: 882224147989
EAN: 0882224147989
ASIN: B000HCVR3K
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Brand New - Full UK Retail Boxed - Exactly the same as amazons - Price includes VAT and invoice supplied.
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confusing layout March 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
i bought this software thinking it would be an improvement on windows 2003 - how wrong i was. the options at the top of the screen are very confusing, and although you can save in previous formats you still get confusing messages saying that certain functions are not supported.
i will persevere and try and make sense of it all - but i thought that these programs were supposed to make life easier, not more difficult.
 Office 2007 reviewed from a business point of view February 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Just don't upgrade is all I can say.
Yes you can make PDF's easily. But there are 000's of websites that will do it for you for free anyway. And this, and this along with better colour schemes are about the only obvious "Pro" for this software.
Everything else, I mean everything is worse than Office 2003. I speak as an advanced user of Powerpoint and Excel. Things like pivot tables in Excel 2007 are far worse, editing charts is a nightmare (though of course you can choose far more colour schemes if you are that way inclined), and doing concise but detailed presentations that do not involve animations is very difficult.
And of course there is the whole challenge of a new menu structure, which takes weeks to relearn (and takes up more room on the screen, so worse for laptop users...)
The whole emphasis has been to make a suite of software that is great for High School students doing a project (e.g. fancy graphics etc), but for anyone with a more serious purpose in mind just don't make the transition. It is not worth it.
 Office 2007 Not quick enough December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I upgraded from Office 2003 which I use full time at work. Office 2007 programmes have grouped all the same type of functions together which you might ask why has it taken so long to do something so logical. The problems arise when you don't know which group to search in. i.e. to to set the print area in Excel. This makes for a guessing game which can get long winded and frustrating when you're trying to do something quickly and efficiently. Given time of course one will remember where these are hidden but if you don't use Office very much at home this could take a long time. When one wants to send Office 2007 documents and spreadsheets to the office one has to remember to save them in the format that can be read by the programmes at work. In my case that's Offce 2003 so 'Saving As' in Office 2003 format is an extra burden, - more so if you forget! I have removed Office 2007 from my PC and reinstalled Office 2003. I can work faster in Office 2003 and don't miss Office 2007's extras at all. I'm now 'in sync' with how I work at the office and much happier for it. I would be happy to install Office 2007 if/when we use it at work.
Horrific, why fix something that wasn't broken? December 21, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Office 2007 is a disaster. The old offices were easy to use, intuitive and did exactly what you wanted them to.
2007, like Vista has tried and failed to do something that is already being done well.
The new interface is confusing and cluttered, and whilst it looks pretty, it will dumbfound you and leave you lost even for simple tasks such as printing. In my office, a colleague has left his desk because he's new PC has Office 2007 on it, and opted for an older slower PC at a different desk purely on the basis that it has the old office on it.
Do not upgrade, it is not worth it, and will make your life a lot harder!
A Waste of Money October 7, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this to upgrade from Office 2000. This upgrade is a waste of money. It is extremely frustrating for the experienced user. The familiar menus have all but disappeared. The Ribbon, which has replaced the menus is impossible to modify. Old macros, styles and auto text that were created in previous versions, are no longer supported. You have to re-create them. I cannot find or make anything a default. The outline numbers lists cannot be changed, even when I try to make a new style - the numbers are all over the place. you cannot change the date default format - when you do, you end up with your own date and another date format following it i.e. 23rd September 2007-09-23. In summary, this is an abomination! I now have to use the space bar after the date before I press RETURN. Stupid, or what?
I have written to Microsoft Head Office, in London, to ask for a refund, so I can purchase Office 2003 instead.
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