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 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £449.99
Buy New: £159.99
You Save: £290.00 (64%)
New (11) Used (1) from £150.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 137
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, No Operating System
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.6
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: 1272656
Model: 45850G
UPC: 882224153751
EAN: 0882224153751
ASIN: B000HEV6ES
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Another incompatible piece of software September 17, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I recently bought a student version of this package for my son who needed to use Microsoft publisher for his school work. I already had Office 97 professional and for me this has been adequate.
This product adds nothing of value that I can see, but totally changes the appearance of the user interface making it that more difficult to use as you do not know where to find things.
Worse than this there are two serious flaws which are going to influence me to uninstall this software.
1. If you download some word files, written in an older version of Word (97-2003) some of the symbols are not interpreted properly. This happended to me when I downloaded some maths exam papers. Symbols such as square roots are substituted for other characters.
2. If you have two versions of Office installed, every time you click on an office document, the software will take at least a minute initializing, before it can load both itself and the document in question. There have also been many instances where the software has crashed and a report is sent off to microsoft. This happens alot when you open office documents online. So most of the time I download and save the document first before reading.
I am thinking of removing this software from my computer, now that my son has his own laptop. If there are any further problems, that will be his problem.
For those of you thinking of buying this software, my advice to you would be don't. You would be much better off downloading OpenOffice from the Internet and using this instead. It is, as far as I can tell compatible with Microsoft Office, is free, and easier to use. It also includes useful features such as the ability to convert Word documents to pdf format etc.
Absolutely awful September 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I obtained office 2007 through work a month ago and have just uninstalled it to reinstall office professional 2003 after giving it a good trial. There is no need for half the screen to be taken up with tool bars nor have I the time to waste trying to set up the links I require. This appears to be an update for first time users and has nothing to offer me that 2003 doesn't do better. Very disappointed!
Terrible August 20, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Microsoft are getting cocky again - this has possibly the worst user interface I have ever encountered complete with terrible visual style, appears to have been designed to be deliberately counterintuitive with the loss/change of many shortcuts as well as the loss of menus, and I did not notice a single new feature.
Get OpenOffice or stick with office 2003.
 View on compability problems August 14, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just a quick note for all those fearing they won't be able to use files created with the new Office in previous versions. You can download compatibility pack from MS website which will let you open the .docx .xlsx etc files in previous versions of MS Office. As with most software upgrades there will be some issues with compatibility and some files (especially the ones using some advanced formatting etc. not available in Office 2003) will not look identical but that's perfectly normal.
Overall great piece of software! Will take some time to get used to the new layout but once you know where things are it's definetly easier to use and more productive.
Just one more thing - for those of you who are using or planning on using databases: the new Access is so much easier to use and so much more user friendly you'll be amazed!
One To Avoid. June 30, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Well, I can't say I wasn't warned. I read the Amazon reviews regarding this product, but wondered if some of it wasn't just a few people suffering from that well known disease Hate-Microsoft-itis. So I wasted my hard-earned money and bought this. Big mistake. My computer (which is state-of-the-art) now takes at least twice as long to start up and Outlook 2007 has crashed at least once a day since it was installed, though it's usually a lot more often. I don't have a problem with the interface, I think it was due for an overhaul and whilst it does take some getting used to, most of it is pretty intuitive. But this software is very unstable. Word has crashed on me twice and Outlook, as mentioned before, is practically unusable. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, might I recommend that you actually test your software properly before offering it for sale.
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