Microsoft Office 2007

Publisher's description of Microsoft Office

The 2007 Microsoft Office system has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office system includes programs, servers, services, and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems.

At the core of the Microsoft Office system are the Microsoft Office suites, which deliver the core desktop productivity tools. New features in these programs enhance how employees can work with one another, partners, and customers, and how organizations capture and use information. In addition to the core desktop editions, the 2007 release includes new programs, servers, and services that build on the productivity software skills your employees already possess. Used together, the Microsoft Office system can help you address business needs ranging from personal productivity management to complex project management.

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Editor's review of Microsoft Office

The ambitious, ground-up rebuild of Microsoft Office Standard 2007 presents drastically different interfaces and new file formats. The new Office looks so unlike its predecessors, it's likely to spark intense love-hate responses from users. This upgrade isn't for everyone: If you're patient, eager to try the latest tools, and willing to relearn most of what you already know about Office, then you may relish the challenge.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 can produce more polished documents and presentations, and Outlook's new scheduling abilities make it a handier communications hub. Professionals who want to impress clients and co-workers with attractive reports, charts, and slide shows will find this a worthy upgrade.

It offers complex features that you can't yet find elsewhere, but also falls short in key areas. Inter-application integration isn't as thorough as we'd hoped, and there's no one-click way to collaborate with others on an edit without buying more software. Despite its bevy of Windows Live and Office Live services, Microsoft chose not to build a bridge to the Web for all Office users. A growing number of competing tools are simpler, cost less or are free, and handle the same core features.

We imagine that power users who have mastered the nooks and crannies of the older versions will curse the steep learning curve. But take heed: The new era of Office affects even those who don't upgrade, and a conversion tool is needed to let older Office versions open Office 2007's default, Open XML files.

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  Microsoft Office

  Stuffed with insane mass of features

  by: vmazelis on 04-Sep-2007 05:12:39 PM

  Pros: I like nothing, really, about it. The Office 2007 may have been a good programming exercise for MS programmers, but it's complexity is beyond reason or sense.

  Cons: Let's take MS Word, for example. All I use it for is to write letters, make notes and lists for my own use. Why would I, and most average users, need all that enormous immensity of features, which do no fit onto any size screen anymore. They hit you with some reason-free presets, such a double spacing by default, when you press Enter to go to the next line. This way, your letterheads, addresses, etc., are double-spaced, which is a waste of space and looks non-professional in business and personal writing environment. To avoid this, you need to change the default style to that of Word 2003. So shy, then, bother with buyng the Word 2007 in the first place?

  To learn all the complexities of the Office, one needs to do a lot of reading and learning. But if you are going to use only some 5 percent of all the enormous set of features, why waste all the time and effort on what you will never use? It's like learning the complete Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese), so that you would know a few phrases needed to find your way on your only short trip to China.

  This is true for all parts of the Office 2007. I get a real pain in my neck, having to read sideways, bottom up menus in Outlook. I know, Arabs write and read from right to left, but why we, Americans, need to read from bottom to top, having to bend our necks 90 degrees to the left? Anybody injured their neck doing this? See a good lawyer.

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  Microsoft Office

  very nice

  by: kaivan_doshi on 26-Sep-2007 01:46:55 AM

  Pros: its good

  Cons: nothing

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  Microsoft Office

  Gping back to scholl, to learn to use MS 2007.. This is worst!

  by: Sean_daj on 24-Feb-2008 10:19:04 PM

  Pros: Nothing..

  Cons: I was shocked to note that i couldn't even locate the save button or file button.. This will go down in history as that multi billion dollar flops.. I am very sad that such a product was even released in the market!

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  Microsoft Office

  Intense! Jam Packed with Loads of Intuitive and Rich Feature options.

  by: szachary on 06-May-2008 09:26:29 AM

  Pros: Love it!! A excellent follow up to Office '03. Provides a sleeker interface, more options and easier to use functions. Excellent program.

  Cons: Reduction in price points have made this software a steal. If your a student grab the discounts while you can. All around, unobtrusive and highly effective software.

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  Microsoft Office

  has all the features i need

  by: arafa_91 on 28-Dec-2007 09:32:17 PM

  Pros: like the crystal interface

  Cons: most of it features function like its earlier versions

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