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| Microsoft Office Professional 2007 FULL VERSION | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $499.95
Buy New: $319.95
You Save: $180.00 (36%)
New (45) Used (2) from $319.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 29
Format: Dvd-video
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Office Ultimate 2007 UPGRADE
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.2
nv:Software Type: Office Productivity
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 26911094
Model: 269-11094
UPC: 882224263610
EAN: 0882224263610
ASIN: B000HCVR30
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Microsoft Office Professional item never received May 12, 2008
Item was ordered, paid for, and never received. I emailed the seller about the item that I paid for, and no response. Will never do business with Happy Joy again.
Supper bad seller! May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Never received item. Contacted seller by email. Seller did not reply.
Shipping for the intem was Aprio 11 - 14, 2008. Then change to April 17 - May 2, 2008. I would not buy from this seller.
Get ready to Google everything you ever knew before... May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is simply the worst software upgrade I have ever encountered.
I make my living from using computers every day. I've used MS Office since it's earliest forms and this simply doesn't make sense.
From the menu structure changes to the file compatibility issues. This is simply a MAJOR failure.
I've received more support calls from users, asking the most BASIC questions about this software, than I can count. (how to undo and print preview) The software borders on COUNTER-Intuitive. Where were the usability studies on this conducted and with whom?
Even the splash screens upon loading each different program have been homogenized to look the same.
(instead of a nice unique program logo like they used to have)
I've never been a Microsoft basher but this software is flat out a shameful slap in the face to existing users who've invested many years in learning and understanding the earlier versions.
My recommendation to users would be to keep your old version as LONG as POSSIBLE, and then take a serious look at web based solutions.
A word processing application should not leave users in tears. May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From Microsoft's site: "Commands are organized within each tab. This change greatly improves the user's ability to use and find features in the 2007 Office release."
This is a blatant lie. The ribbon is a cluttered eyesore which makes finding things quickly difficult for experienced Office users and relative neophytes alike. It's absolutely AWFUL dealing with students in a college computer lab with this poorly conceived setup. It's surprisingly unintuitive.
Likewise, the default template in Word is terrible. Students get so frustrated when their papers are supposed to be single-spaced, and they manage to find the option to set it to single-spaced from 1.15, they then get upset because it's not truly singlespaced! So we have to show them that they need to change both the linespacing, AND the 10pt spacing added after each line...on every single document they make (user settings are not saved across the network, a fact I'd think Microsoft might realize about many networks and consider when setting such defaults).
Same EXACT problem if their assignment requires doublespacing, it's still adding 10pt spacing after lines, getting them into trouble with instructors for padding their papers!! Why does that not default to 0!?? From their site, apparently it's prettier to have a bunch of wasteful, unecessary whitespace. It's written English, not programming!! When we need the whitespace, we'll be informed of this requirement or guideline for whatever we're working on, be it school or work. We'll find how to add it, no matter how hard Microsoft tries to hide it from us.
Microsoft should likewise realize that hitting enter after something doesn't always mean a new paragraph! For some purposes, paragraphs aren't even meant to have spacing before them, that's what the indent is often used for in many printed documents. Please let us hit the enter key one extra time like we have forever, I promise we know how to make a paragraph when we need to. That's one of the few things just about every user knows how to do, that Microsoft actually managed to complicate and make frustrating in an attempt to dumb it down. Awesome.
Yes, there's a (sadly non-default) classic template to fix it. But to find it a user should apparently go to Fonts; because that's the very first thing a user will think of when seeing a ton of extra spacing or wanting a format template, then Built-in (which wasn't even THERE when I looked for it on our school computers). This is the easier and more intuitive "menu" setup?? Same garbage, different look.
As a student who used to work in the computer lab, it just isn't worth dealing with the problems with this program and trying to console busy students who are either in tears out of frustration and needing time to get other work done, or furious. This problem is not going away with time (to be fair, largely due to our network setup). We could certainly show students how to set up a quick- access tool bar, but the network combined with the defaults makes that likewise unfeasable. I'm just very glad that any help I give anymore is voluntary.
It takes 2x as long to do anything in Office 2007 as it did in 2003. Especially because, as with every new version of Office before it, it has been given more and more ways to decide that it's smarter than the user and knows what the user needs or intends to do. No, 90% of the time it absolutely does not, and users end up having to spend as much time either searching through the awful "menu" system to disable all those very "helpful" features and format changes, or cleaning up after a word processing application, as they do writing the document in the first place. When a user wants to format text a certain way? They'll do that. It's so much less frustrating to look for how to do something (like turn on the ruler to access tab stops) than to have to search for how to UNDO something that wasn't expected (smart quotes, the ridiculous spacing, unintuitive automatic formatting changes that occur constantly, etc).
Microsoft's own articles on the subject of such complaints and problems are condescending and ridiculously unhelpful to frustrated users. It all amounts to "It's better, trust us" and "Get over it".
There is no reason for this, nor for their condescending articles about why their users are idiots and children who can't deal with change. It's not change that's the problem, it's unecessary and deliberately inconvenient change that upsets people.
At any rate, I know exactly how I got along without this "novel" ribbon feature, and the insulting default template. Just fine!! Even now that I'm accustomed to it and know where most things are (making helping others much easier), I still loathe it.
When this program is updated, I sincerely hope that at the very least, they include a classic menu mode...and reconsider the "helpful" defaults for 2009 or whatever the next version is.
I do not recommend this product to anybody who is not for some reason required to use it.
 Excellent Upgrade May 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cant understand why so many users see the new interface negatively. Why, because it's new? Once you are used to it it makes things SO much easier. There are no "missing commands" some are just located differently. Take a few moments to find them and add them to the bar or commnad button.
One user wrote about "the arrogance of MS." How about the "arrogance" of users that expect software to stay forever the same? We have more capable hardware, several new operating systems, and more tasks to do since the orignal Office. Should we stay in 1991 forever, with the "File...edit..." menus, or finally update the interface to the 21st century. You know, different computers are coming, too....I guess a lot of you will be very upset and threatened when you can work without a keyboard or mouse.
Anway now that I've ranted, on to the review: Office 2007 was simple to setup: it removes your Office 2003 programs (and that 290mb of install files, if you left them on your disk) and installs the programs you choose (I go with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Acess, and Outlook). Starting Word, at first seeing the "ribbon" I did say, Huh? But then, I was able to figure out (without books or anything)instead of those old menus, there are sections of the ribbon, when you click the next section, say "view" the choices change to what used to be under the "view" menu. Once I got used to this I found Word easier to use.
Outlook does not have the "ribbon" for its main interface, but does have the "ribbon" on messages (what's up with that) ALl my mailboxes and contacts and folders were there, and it handled my mail fine.
This is a great package-if you have a recent computer with XP or Vista, dont let the fuddy duddys scare you away.
DOS is dead. Windows 98 is gone. XP is on the way out, and Vista will be replaced within 18 months. I don't want to stay stuck in today, I want the computer of tomorrow.
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