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Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Edition (PC) |  | From: Microsoft
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 62
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.6
MPN: 269-10342
Model: 45850G
UPC: 882224153751
EAN: 0882224153751
ASIN: B000HEV6ES
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 51
 Microsoft Office Professional 2007/10 July 13, 2010
townee
I bought this package pre the release of Office 2010 with the promise of a free upgrade upon release of Office 2010, it may be relatively expensive but the upgrade in combination with Windows 7 is so easy and reliable to use it is worth every penny.
Office 2007 is faster, and I'm a regular user May 25, 2010
Hugo Minney (Durham, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a simple rule - can I get more done in a day using this software (or any other software)? If yes, then I'll weigh up the costs, if no, then I won't bother.
Office 2007 changed the interface. This meant that it has to be much faster at writing documents, working in spreadsheets, preparing presentations, to allow for my time spent understanding the new interface if it was going to pass my test.
It passed with flying colours! Word 2007 just gets on with the job, with Styles much easier to get to (and you can still set up shortcut keys so Normal is on ALT-0, Heading 1 on ALT-1 etc) so my documents have a consistent look and feel. It's much easier to realise what is possible because the ribbon bars give you an idea of what you will get. A few things confused me at first, like having to press the round button to open/save/print, but everything else is much better. Drawing certainly is. And EndNote (my citation manager) works absolutely fine. I've also had no problem saving in Word 97-2003 .doc format
Access works (well, that's a start), though don't ever think you can export to Access 2003 format.
The real productivity improvements come in Excel. Pivot tables are much faster (I don't mean in microseconds to do the calculations, I mean in minutes to put the right fields in the right place, filter, format, drill down (not even supported in earlier versions or rival products, but available in high-end mainframe products like Business Objects) and so on) Yes you will find out how useful these things are once you have them. Conditional formatting was next-to impossible in 2003 (no you can't even start doing conditional formatting in Open Office), and Conditional formatting allows me to highlight a column of numbers and have Excel colour them according to how big they are, within the range of numbers selected. I use this for my own analysis - spot the big and small ones without having to sort into order; get an idea of the shape of the data. Graphs are better and easier. Excel 2007 keeps on telling me that this or that function isn't compatible with Excel 97-2003 format (because they are completely new) but when I export files in the earlier version I get no problems.
All in all an excellent product. I even saw a magazine review of OpenOffice (Which is free) which concluded that it is worth paying for the Microsoft product because you simply get more done!
I've also had a chance to look at the previews of Office 2010. It isn't earth shattering, but it makes preparing standard business documents/ analysis / reports that little bit easier even than Office 2007 with features such as automatic outlining of documents (you don't know how useful this is until you use it!). Well worth buying Office 2007 with the free upgrade available right now
Let me know if you found this useful, and comment too!
 Disappointed Purchase May 15, 2010
S. Hayes (Chelmsford, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased Microsoft Office 2007 in good faith knowing that it was secondhand. On receipt of it I tried to install it but experienced problems when trying to activate the key number and received an online request to ring Microsoft. It would appear that the item I purchased is a pirate copy. I am upset and angry at the loss of my money and have now had to purchase a bona fide copy elsewehere. On checking Amazon website I see that this items is still being advertised. My advice is not to purchase anything from this seller.
 Very frustrating for heavy users April 30, 2010
AK (London)
I work in management consulting and installing Office 2007 seems to have brought us a big step back compared to 2003 - all the operations seem to tkae much longer and time saving mechanisms such as placing all the commonly used buttons on the toolbar have been severely restricted.
Some specific pet peeves are:
- you are limited in the number of shortcut buttons you can place on the ribbon - where I used approximately 60-70 before, one can only hae around 10 or so now. This might not make much difference to the casual user but if you rely on the software for work and need to produce lots of slides every day, even an additional 3-4 second delay per operation (to click yourself through the menus) adds up and is very annoying.
- things are decidedly not where you expect them to be. Finding common operations that have it seems been in the same menus from the first time I used Office 95 till 2003 often takes loads of time and is highly frustrating. Again, if this is the first time you encounter Office, fine but for all the millions of seasoned users it imposes an unnecessary new learning curve, making people contemplate a switch out of the franchise for the first time - if you need to learn it afresh, might as well look around.
- The ribbon takes up to much screen real estate - sure it looks much more up to date and will probably work well for casual use but an option to revert back to the old control interface would have been useful.
- When making charts in Excel and then subsequently importing them as pictures in Powerpoint - a standard practice in consulting - ungrouping of those charts can no longer be done completely - one can ungroup some but not all of the elements and this just makes format changes or having several people edit successive versions of the same document much more troublesome, as they need to be given the Excel files as well as the Powerpoint ones.
- As already mentioned, the .docx format is not accepted for scientific publications and the conversion undertaken by Word 2007 makes too many changes to the document for one to be able to use it for that purpose.
- Many of the 2003 Macros will no longer work correctly when opened in 2007. It often does not take very long to diagnose and troubleshoot things but it is highly annoying as clients are often not able to do it themselves, requiring extra work to rework all the workfiles.
As we trialed 2007 on a separate machine first and found it wanting, we used a double installation. This offers the advantage of doing stuff that needs to be done quickly in 2003 and allowing people to learn to use 2007 in parallel. In practice this introduced all sorts of additional problems in 2007 resetting many of the preferences and settings in 2003, basically messing up any 2003 document opened and modified in 2003 after the 2007 parallel installation. Some very annoying quirks were that all the boxes get transformed into text boxes, which wrap around the (non-existent) text and just shrink to nothing as soon as one tries to change anything - the real issue is thato ne cannot undo this - so in effect the files need to stay as is, or all the boxes need to have the autowrap option unclicked - a massive undertaking in 200 - 2000 page decks.
The only reason I do not give it 1 star only is that in some ways Excel seems to have taken a step in the right direction. While using up the capability to now have more than 256 columns (65k) and 65k rows (1 million) will slow it down somewhat, a reasonably fast machine should be able to handle it OK. The benefits are quite significant - a lot of data import from different softwares, where the output is not completely customiseable has been made easier in not requiring a step via Access and one can fit everything logically belonging together in the same tab as opposed to splitting it, where space would have previously prevented it.
The colour schemes on offer for graphs work a bit better as well, there are more predefined colours to choose from and the ability to fix themes as presets is useful but labelling is definitely clunkier.
In principle MS is just using their market power in forcing users to adapt to the new structure (as for most there is little choice but to do so) but I find it very counterproductive for the heavy, professional users. Hopefully 2010 will re-introduce some of the features lost and one dare hardly hope add the option of returning to the old control interface.
What a load of ..... March 30, 2010
Dick Pearson (Newark, UK)
Surely one of the overriding rules of product developments is "if it ain't broke don't fix it!": why didn't somebody tell Microsoft? There are so many things changed that didn't need changing such as the ribbon in place of a perfectly understood and workable menu system, a nightmare 'intelligent' search facility, and an increasingly opaque mail merge, that any good bits are lost.
Given the history of problems with alternate versions of Office being fixed in the next - eg, 97 was 95 as it should have been and 2003 was 2000 as it should have been - we can only hope that the next version will do the usual and rectify the problems of the 2007 abomination but I suspect that this time MS have built up too much of a monster to fix.
There are no obvious reasons for everyday users why any of the new document formats are necessary - I'm sure they provide wonderful new facilities but why did I need them?
Office's great strength was that despite its size and power, it presented itself simply and you used what you needed. With 2007 everything in the basic interface is cluttered, and simple facilities are hidden 3, 4 or 5 clicks away.
The only conclusion I can draw from the progressive emasculation and complication of the Access database element of the suite is that MS don't really believe that non developers should create tools, and are trying to get rid of it as part of the suite entirely. The obsession with pushing the overkill of SQL server variants instead of the original native data format, and the feature deficient ADO at the expense of the faster, richer and easier understood DAO is absurd. If you need Enterprise level data tools you won't be using Access anyway.
And it is SLOW!! The whole thing is a bloated monster.
I'm really, really glad I kept my copy of 2003.
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