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| Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $329.95
Buy New: $199.95
You Save: $130.00 (39%)
New (47) Used (4) from $199.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  99 reviews
Sales Rank: 54
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Professional - Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 26911093
Model: 269-11093
UPC: 882224263603
EAN: 0882224263603
ASIN: B000HCXKJY
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 A huge improvement April 13, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Office 2007 was a very nice improvement over previous versions. The program was stable, for me at least, and the new interface was very nice. It may take a few minutes to find where some commands have been moved to but the result was a much cleaner interface. One thing that keeps in mind is that it uses a different file format from previous versions by default. There is the option of changing the format to the previous version but the default option isn't compatible with earlier programs.
 Office 2007 - big mistake April 11, 2007
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I excitedly upgraded to Office 2007....'07 Outlook is FAR slower - ties my reasonably powerful machine up in knots (110% of resources) for minutes at a time inexplicably; spell ck doesn't work consistently; HTML emails have lost functionality I used to use often with 2003 ver; Excel opens MUCH more slowly; no real gains in Excel fuctionality; various add-ins essential to my biz no longer work in Excel 2007; Access 2007 was billed as much easier to use - FALSE; Word has a couple of improvements but messes up spell ck with Outlook if you keep both Word 2003 & 2007 on yr machine; the highly touted "Ribbon" is mainly cosmetic; I believe 2007's indexing is at the heart of some of sluggisness which might be ok if it worked..but it retruns strange results....NET, NET, I am uninstalling Office 2007 and going back to 2003 with all its stupid faults....it's too bad no one at MSFT actually uses thier products to realize how defective they are.
2007 Office Rocks!!!!! April 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wow! I must say that the new office 2007 is way better than the 2003. It did take some time to get the hang of it because Microsoft changed around the icons and buttons. However, I do like it because now in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint 2007 you can creat charts and you can also preview how backgrounds look before appling to the slide. In the end, I think the 2007 is much more user-friendly than 2003. I recomend to anyone to buy this product if they wish to upgrade to the NEW 2007 Microsoft Office!
 New is better? April 6, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
As with any upgrade or new program, things do not always get better. Biggest problem, trying to find features you were used to for many years with previous programs. I find two issues disturbing. When closing a document in Word, the whole program stops, whereas you do the same in Excel, yo get an empty screen and can open a new file, while being in the program. In Word, every time you close a document you have to start up the Word program if you want to look for another file. Time consuming! Also, in Excel you are able to save a document in previous versions. In Word it does not have that option, if you want to save a file from i.e. Outlook in another folder than available in Outlook. In the new version you get all files twice in a directory (folder), because it also keeps all the Word features for each document in a separate folder. Too much! Since I use Outlook and Word more than any other programs, I find the above issues a handicap. This besides trying to learn where all the new features are, which are supposedly easier to find. Might be true once you get used to it.
Worthwhile upgrade April 5, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you use Office for basic word processing, an upgrade might not be worthwhile for you (although real-time word count and contextual spell check are pretty nifty). On the other hand, if you use Office for more than typing documents, this product is definitely a must.
Pros:
-- more user friendly
-- Ribbon interface provides quicker and more efficient access to icons that were previously difficult to find (if you don't like the ribbon, F1 will make it disappear)
-- Excel offers millions of colors now (instead of just 53); transparency in bars and lines for charts/graphs; WAY more rows and columns.
-- Numerous new collaboration features. Seemless integration with Sharepoint and improved document-sharing capabilities.
-- improved search features in Outlook.
Cons:
-- steep learning curve. The ribbon interface is cool and a major improvement, but it is very different from the old menu interface.
--You probalby would not be researching a Microsoft product if you prefer open-source or less expensive alternatives like StarOffice or OpenOffice. Cost, openness, and potential security flaws (probably just a matter of time) could be potential drawbacks.
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