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| Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $69.00
You Save: $80.95 (54%)
New (84) Used (9) from $69.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  907 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home and Student
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: 79g-00007
Model: 79G-00007
UPC: 882224165242
EAN: 0882224165242
ASIN: B000HCZ8EO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Destroys hours of work instantly and regulary! December 11, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you create rich spreadsheets with lots of formatting, VBA etc, avoid Excel 2007 like the plague. Excel 2007 simply and effectively destroys spreadsheets with clinical precision. Sharing violation errors, corrupt files and countless hours of lost work lie ahead of you. And none of these problems are fixed with the newly released Service Pack 1!
In summary
- Converting old spreadsheets to 2007 formats - DOES NOT WORK
- Re-writing old spreadsheets from scratch in 2007 formats - DOES NOT WORK
- Working in compatability mode - DOES NOT WORK
It's worse than the blue screen of death because you can continue to work without realizing there is a problem until you hit the save button. Then everything goes horribly, horribly wrong. If you think autosave has saved you, think again. You can work for hours thinking you have automatically saved work every couple of minutes only to discover that nothing has been saved and everything you have done is gone, gone, gone!
How on earth any company with any commitment to quality could bring out a product like this is beyond me. Excel 2007 ... Subprime meltdown ... Co-incidence?
 why change now? December 11, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just find it incredibly rude of Microsoft to totally change where all the familiar commands are in these programs, especially in Word. I still haven't figured out how to "save as" instead of "save," and don't really want to waste the time to figure it out. Maybe it is "new and improved," but if you don't want to put time into learning an entirely new system, stick with an older version.
Solid Re-design of an essential software package! December 11, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Microsoft Office is essential software for your home or office. This version is a great upgrade for the Office Suite. It features some great updates to the interface of the Suite, as well as new capabilities and even one new program. One of the major changes to Office is the new "Ribbon." The old menus have given way to a new feature called the ribbon, which arranges tasks around how you use them, rather than the function-based menus in previous versions of Office. The menus offer the interface to be customized further.
This version of Office also offers the ability to create visually stunning documents with ease. I love how I can create a professional looking document in minutes with all of the new backgrounds and templates. The interface now looks clean and very stylish. There are even new fonts to choose from. The new version of Office saves documents as a .docx file, but you can easily convert to and from older versions of Office with ease. If a format you choose is won't convert, the software will alert you and allow you to save it in a compatible version.
I need Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for my uses, but in this version of Office, Outlook is replaced with a new program called One Note. One Note is a great alternative software to Word for producing informal documents, such as taking notes, or making to do lists. I use one note in my classes to write down notes from lectures. It even has a built in voice recorder for audio notes right on the spot. The notes can be written anywhere on the page and can be moved around on the fly. One Note is like a virtual notebook. The more I use it, the more I wondered how I lived without it!
Overall, I enjoy the changes that have been made to Office in the 2007 version. The retail version comes with three licenses, which means that it can be installed on three different computers at one time. I wish they had given a little more warning to the differences between the new file types and the old, but overall, this is a good upgrade.
Takes some getting used to December 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As with most new Microsoft software, the layout of formatting options takes some getting used to. It appears as though (at least in Excel) that Microsoft has tried to make more formatting options available without using the menu options...will probably be a good thing once I learn where all the new icons are.
Useful but not as good as the professional December 10, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am used to the professional edition. I bought this for my home laptop so it's easier to open and edit documents from work. It works fine but for Professional Users out there, it's quite a downgrade.
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