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| Microsoft Office Standard 2007 UPGRADE | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $190.49
You Save: $49.46 (21%)
New (17) Used (3) from $145.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 123
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard - Upgrade
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.6
MPN: 1272661
Model: 021-07668
UPC: 882224147989
EAN: 0882224147989
ASIN: B000HCVR3K
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 YUCK! November 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
UPgrade was certainly the wrong term. Microsoft has taken a relatively reasonable set of applications and made them nearly unusable. The menu changes are flat out awful. It is not even clear how to simply save a file. In addition the completely gratuitous change in file formats, making them incompatible with previous versions and other platforms, is inexcusable. I'm looking for other options, because I won't be saddled with this malfunctioning mess.
 Microsoft Office Standard 2007 November 5, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very pleased with the program; however, it takes time to get used to all the new menus, etc. With the help of books on the subjects, i.e. Word 2007 plain&simple it is a breeze to learn. I also recommend the others, as Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
 Not exactly an upgrade November 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't buy Microsoft Vista unless you have too. It is not an upgrade. I had compatibility problems early on, though most are finally sorted.
Office 2007 works well enough and includes some nice features, but none that are worth the upgrade price. And, in an attempt to give the user more creative options, e.g., various formats for page numbers in Word, it is now unnecessarily difficult (and sometimes impossible) to perform tasks that were easy before, e.g., insert a page number in a manner that is not pre-formatted by Word. There are similar difficulties with style formatting, bullets and numbering, cover pages, tables of contents, works cited pages, et cetera.
I have not used PowerPoint as extensively, but it appears to work well. The more creative themes make it easier to glam up a presentation.
I also have not used Excel as extensively, but have not had any difficulties in my limited use.
The biggest problem with 2007 is compatibility with older version due to the change of format from .doc to .docx, et cetera. There are similar changes for Excel and PowerPoint. It is now very difficult for someone running Office 2003 to view/edit Office 2007 documents. This will be a significant issue for individuals who share documents or are required to submit them to users of older version (e.g, e-mailing an assignment to a professor). They will most likely have to save the files in the older version before sharing, which eliminates many of the features and benefits of upgrading.
Overall, avoid "upgrading" until absolutely necessary.
Do NOT upgrade to Office 2007, you WILL REGRET IT October 30, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sorry Microsoft, but your "ribbon" user interface is the most retarded upgrade feature ever. It renders all your Office applications useless. I have no interest spending hours to learn a completely different UI and to recustomize the toolbar all over again (I'm not even sure if it's even possible to customize the "ribbon"). The ribbon is ugly and WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY too big.
My advice: try to avoid upgrading for as long as possible.
 Much worse than flawed ---de-evolution----unfriendly October 28, 2007
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Current experience
It is possible to avoid some problems by loading an Office 2007 product (Excel, Word, etc.) before starting other programs.
February 2008
It is still slow. Office2007 seems to have problems getting along with some software, namely evidence eliminator. After intervening several times, it has become a ritual of closing office to run EE. EE is my data scrambling program. I have loaded the recent updates and Office seems to be a little easier to operate, though it is frightfully slow to start. One nasty trick is that closing a document by using the 'X' in the corner results in office terminating; the only safe way to close a file is from the file bar, or what passes for the file bar. One nice feature is that you now can access more than 5 past files from the file bar. I would give them 3 stars now.
12/07 experience
At first, I thought my vast experience with programming could overcome some of the flaws. I was wrong. This software is defective in a number of ways. First, customizing does not work. Second, autoformating is a failure. I retract my 3 stars and give them 2. If this continues, make it one.
Early experience
In it's 2003 form, Microsoft Office had reached it's pinnacle. Like most people, I created an array of personalized buttons that began to resemble the clutter of keys on a church organ; add together the footpedals, knobs, levers and controls and small wonder musicians take pride at mastering it! With a series of touch buttons at the corner of boxes for less used controls, and the organization of these buttons into categories, some of the clutter is gone.
The small size of all these buttons is a shock, especially for those of us with reading glasses and laptops. It would be nice if the sliding zoom control in the right corner could also magnify the buttons as well as the text. All of this takes time to adjust.
One of the properties I like least is how long it takes to load a file. I counted over 60 seconds. With the upgrade, I was hoping that this would improve from Office XP. Perhaps future downloads from Microsoft will reduce start-up time.
Another feature that I do not like in Word is the listing of "Normal", "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Title", etc. These buttons are huge compared to others and used least of all. It would be a far better approach to have put them under their own category in the master headings on top: Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.
I have noticed that once I ran Excel a few times it loads very fast. This is an improvement over Excel 2003. I will update this review as I gain more experience with Excel and Powerpoint.
This gets back to the reason for buying Office 2007. Working with XP will expose your computer to unnecessary risk to bugs. Before loading this upgrade, I erased my old Office XP files to get rid of a bug. The longer a software has been out there, the easier it is to invade and the slower it will run as countermeasures are installed. So, here's your choice, buy a used version of Office 2003 for $150 or Office 2007 for $200. You decide, but remember that Office 2003 will need to be replaced by 2008 and Office 2007 may get you to 2012.
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