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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: 61
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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 MS Office Professional 2007 flawed and deceptive December 2, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The MS Office Professional 2007 that came with my new Toshiba laptop locked up after a couple of months with no immediate warning. It was a "trial" version. I preferred my 2003 version of Word, and I much preferred the Lotus WordPro that I had previously until it became incompatible with everything else. When Microsoft locked up my trial version it required me to convert to a full version, not an upgrade, at a very high price. But the conversion wasn't working the day I was excluded from the papers that I was writing. In desperation I ordered the upgrade from Amazon with overnight delivery. It arrived in good time and installed easily.
Word 2007 continues to exhibit the bugs that it has had for years: the spaces that appear in one's documents that cannot be removed (at least not by Microsoft's experts) and the difficulty of installing tabs and of putting in page numbers and references (end-notes). Opening one's earlier work is a nightmare - it seems to find strange places to store one's work, or loses it entirely.
In addition, I am very annoyed by what I consider dirty tricks. One was disabling my Word without a day or so's warning. Another is the taking over of my email system. I use Eudora, but now the default system is Microsoft's mail system, and it has prevented my updating the system registry to restore the previous defaults, even when I've used the Vista default-selection procedure. Other strange behavior followed the installation of MS Office, such as the finger-print password system not working. It may be a coincidence that it ceased to function at that time, but other strangenesses occurred. The "search" function no longer works.
 A lot of grief for a million rows November 27, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was excited when I heard Office 2007 was coming out. I was going to upgrade to 2003 at work, but chose to wait for 2007. I even got the beta and started using it at work. I assumed the bugs in the beta would be fixed before the real version came out. I was wrong.
To get over the 65,000 rows in the old Excel, which is valuable to me, I put up with a lot of garbage:
1. Charting is terrible. It basically doesn't work. I have spreadsheets of hundreds of data points, and I used to adjust what showed on the chart by adjusting the date range on the chart. That is not an option now, since the new charts CRAWL, so I have to use transitional sheets to feed the charts. MS has also made editing the charts painful--no more double-clicking to adjust a feature on a chart. The color palettes are terrible--dull, muted, uncontrasted colors. I always have to change the colors by going to the wheel of color behind the palette.
2. Response times are slow throughout Office 2007. Click the mouse and wait. Calculate and wait. If I'm going to have more than 65,000 rows, I ought to be able to sort or subtotal or run a formula down a column without waiting all day.
3. Access will not properly import dates from a text file. No matter what I do, the date column gets trashed. I have resorted to using a copy of Access 2000 to import data into databases, then I work on them in 2007.
4. I don't particularly like the ribbon, but I have gotten used to it. I'm happy to see that other experienced users also dislike the ribbon. However, since I have a large monitor and I can customize the quick access toolbar, I can live with it, but if MS asks, I will say bring back the menus.
5. Macros are different. Macros do not work with charts. I used to be able to change the headings on a series of 40 charts, for example, by recording a macro, adding a DO and a PAGE DOWN and a LOOP command, and have the macro do it to all the charts. That does not work now.
6. I found a problem where I made a macro for somebody with an old version. I had to heavily edit the macro in Excel 2000 so it would work with Excel 2000. THEN I found that the mere presence of Excel 2007 on my computer caused the macro in the Excel 2000 file to crash Excel whenever it ran on the other person's computer. I finally had to get on a computer that only had Excel 2000, and re-edit the macro, and then e-mail it from that computer to the final user. The version made on the other computer worked as long as it never even touched my computer. However, if I put the file on the network and e-mailed it from my computer (without even opening Excel 2007), the file got corrupted. Very strange, very annoying, and very expensive--two days of my salary wasted.
In summary, if you can get by with 2003, stick with it until MS fixes this thing. I'm stuck now, since I've converted so many macros and charts to work on 2007, and having the 1,000,000 rows is a real benefit to me.
I look forward to the day when MS finally makes this program do what it is supposed to do.
 Worst upgrade in software history October 30, 2007
2 out of 3 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.
 Great Product October 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The new Microsoft Office 2007 is the best product yet. The new navagation buttons are easier to access formatting. The product give more accessability to newer modules in the set.
 Microsoft Office Professional 2007 - Upgrade October 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great product and price - Easy to install and even though it has more detailed icons, they are easy to learn and use them.
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