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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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| Customer Reviews:
 microsoft professional August 23, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
it is very nice and informational,and has very useful links and let you manage your e-mail very easily.
 Comprehensive - But Maybe Too Much So August 14, 2007
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
I needed to get a copies of Access and Publisher for my new laptop which was running 2003 Office Standard. After Googling around a bit I determined that Office Professional would give me these plus the upgraded to 2007 Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook applications with a host of other features including Business Contact Manager for about the same cost. The install was reasonably painless and the software activated and registered without any problems - not always the case with Microsoft but this time they seemed to get it right. After using the applications for a couple of weeks I am still trying to get used to the "Ribbon Bar" which is markedly different, somewhat intuitive and decidedly more comprehensive. The applications take longer to initialize and Outlook has become painfully slower but works. I am running it on a Sony SZ230P with Intel Centrino Duo T2400 1.83 GHz running XP Pro with 2 gigs of RAM so maybe it is underpowered. I did uninstall the desktop search agent which seemed to make the system more sluggish and have now improved performance a bit. I am reasonably proficient in the Office applications but probably only use 5-10% of the functionality embedded - but I carry the overhead on the system which, I believe, bogs the system down overall. Would be nice if MS would allow the configuration of various levels of sophistication during the install process depending on the needs of the user. In summary, I will continue to use the Suite and become more proficient in using the "Ribbon Bars" and hoping that MS will issue some upgrades that speed up the system overall until I can afford to upgrade the laptop to a faster processor.
Few new features for the price of the upgrade July 29, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Product By Product
Outlook - rehashed 2003 version cleaner looking some features are better for power users - day to day - I don't see the benifit. I continue to get better results searching Outlokk emails with Google Desktop than with the built in search in Outlook - why does MS have such a hard time with this? There is still the quirky seperate email adress book seperate from contacts. MS needs to integrate them in such a way the email adresses are gleened from the contact list and added to inline complete without the need for sending an initial email to the contact, at which point Outlook adds the email address (not the contact) to some mystery location that shows it sell when you are using auto complete.
Excell - Very nice upgrade especially for conditional formatting - updating data from the internet is much smoother and easier to maintain than in 2003. Better. If you are a power user - this is essential.
Access - same old program different face - since 2000 I might add.
Powerpoint - pretty much the same - but I must admit I rarely use this program
Word - I enjoy a lot of the new features - getting used to the ribbon was a hard concept - I was very used to the menu system. - Once you are used to it the ribbon IS intuitive and makes using word more like a graphics program.
Publisher - I have always used publisher (although I have the feeling that Adobe has more than one program that can do a better job than this one) There are just a handfull of upgrades such as reformatting an entiredocuments theme smoothly that I like - once again I do not use this program often enough to tell you to base a decision on my review of publisher alone.
Accounting Express - ugggg - Quickbooks is the only way to go for me - this looks like a lame attemt for MS to piggyback (way too late I might add) on the sucess of this program...If you are using Quicken or Quickbooks at this time - stick with it - if you are a pioneer and want to trudge through the learning curve with Microsoft - well good luck.
 Dumbed-down, slower, and harder to use July 29, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
The new ribbon design is supposed to make it easier to learn and use. It may be for some new users but for experienced users, it isn't. This version takes away some critical nuts & bolts customization features and many tasks now take longer to perform. This is not due to the learning curve, it is the inherent nature of the way the ribbon works. Once you are familiar with the program, nothing is faster than the old menu structure. If Microsoft added an option to allow users to choose between menus and ribbons, it would be the best of both worlds, satisfying the needs of both new and experienced users. The new version does not run macros as fast however. My recommedation for existing users: keep Office 2003 for as long as you can and consider going to Open Office when Microsoft no longer supports 2003 (unless they restore the functionality in a newer release of 2007).
Experiences with Office 2007 July 26, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am finding the learning curve from previous versions of Office to Office 2007 to be very difficult. I should mention that I have not been a heavy user of the individual pieces over the years,just as needed for business support. However, with previous versions I had become accustommed to where to find needed functions from the menus. With the change to ribbons I cannot seem to find much of anything with any consistency. I find that the fucntionalities that I normally use seem harder to find, and from one session to another, I can't seem to remember what I had to do to get there the last time. At this point I feel I would gladly trade 2007 for the previous version if I knew it would run without problems on Vista (and be supported for as long as 2007). I find View and Insert to be particularly annoying. I do a lot of work where I make a copy of a document and change the header/footer to refelect a new period. The only way I have found I can do this is go to the Insert ribbon, choose Header/Footer (which in Excel tells me I have to lose my freeze panes). Then, after I make my changes I have to go to View and select Normal to get out of the Header/Footer view.
I don't personally as yet see the great advantage to ribbons vs. menus. It just seems to add another layer tothe things I use. Hopefully I will learn to use before they change it again.
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