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Manufacturer: Microsoft Part number: CNETMSOFFICE2007PRERTM
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- Overall, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade if you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations to share with others, and Outlook is better than ever, but you can stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
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CNET editors' review
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 - complete package (79G-00871) price range: $69.99 - $190.95
- Reviewed by: Elsa Wenzel
- Edited by: Robert Vamosi
- Reviewed on: 01/29/2007
- Released on: 01/30/2007
The good: Previously hard-to-find features now easier to explore; Word embraces basic desktop publishing tools; Excel formulas are easier to reference; PowerPoint presentations are more attractive; Outlook improves task and time management; improved integration throughout the applications; smaller application and file sizes; new file formats are easier to salvage if corrupted; document security is more straightforward.
The bad: Drastic design changes demand a steep learning curve if you're upgrading; new interface isn't always intuitive; contextual tabs and style galleries can be distracting; users of Office 2000 through 2003 must install converters to open Office 2007 files; no easy way to save work to the Web.
The bottom line: Overall, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade if you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations to share with others, and Outlook is better than ever, but you can stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
User reviews
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Probably OK for newbies, but a big step backwards for experienced users
by richlane on March 8, 2007
Pros: Prettier graphics, sometimes easier to navigate
Cons: Loss of menus and customizations made me uninstall and go back to Office 2003
Summary: I've always kept up with the latest Microsoft Office releases, but this one is an exception, as it slows down my work significantly. I spend 4-8 hours a day ...
Summary: I've always kept up with the latest Microsoft Office releases, but this one is an exception, as it slows down my work significantly. I spend 4-8 hours a day crunching numbers in Excel, and tnere are certain procedures and commands that I use constantly. I have customized the toolbars of Excel 2003 to the point where 90% of the operations I do are launched by a single click on an icon. In Office 2007, it is not possible to create toolbars specific to my tasks and my way of working; instead I am forced to use the ever-changing ribbon. The result is horrible--many things that took one click before now take 5 or 6, as I go through the relevant parts of the ribbon structure. Even when I know where to look, I spend much more time getting things done in this new version. After a few days, I uninstalled the whole thing and went back to Office 2003.
A new user that doesn't really know just what to do might find the new interface easier to use, as most of the features are eventually accessible through the ribbon, and there is some guidance provided. However, for me, I know what I want to do, and Excel 2007 slows me down enormously.
Possibly some clever soul will come up with an add-in that will allow me to regain my customization in the future, and then I will probably try again, for for the moment, no thanks!25 out of 25 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Really lost the plot with this 'upgrade'
by Kilo 6 1 on June 15, 2007
Pros: Attractive and fresh layout. Made some good graphical improvements.
Cons: Everything has moved, Drop down menus have vanished, Seems to run much slower that older versions. Some suppossed upgrades in Powerpoint are a major step back.
Summary: Bought it, hate it. It's like i've purchased a totally different product. The entire interface mechanism has changed, no more drop down menus, now everything is lost in ...
Summary: Bought it, hate it. It's like i've purchased a totally different product. The entire interface mechanism has changed, no more drop down menus, now everything is lost in a collection of tabs literally put you back to square 1. Unlike the 2003 upgrade where good improvements where made, this is a real step backwards in terms of ease of use, speed of access, simplicity, and sheer ease of upgrade usability. In short, had i know how different and unpleasant this would be to use i would never have purchased it.
The bundling is also very odd. You can get multiple version (combinations) but trying to get one with outlook in at a basic level is just not an option. I can see no legitimate reason why anyone would want to go through the additional expense of upgrading to this, nor having to face feeling like a total 'Office' beginner because you cannot find a darn thing, which means it takes more than twice as long to do basic tasks. In short, for the few graphical enhancements this offers the cost of having to learn all the new icons and try to fathom the new tab structure means Office 2007 is a complete waste of time - sorry Mr Gates, but you really got it wrong this time. Office 2007 is a major mistake.14 out of 14 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Love Office 2007, but...
by m-r3111 on October 11, 2007
Pros: the ribbon
Cons: serious corruption problems
Summary: Word 2007 just went mad: clicking on the 'references' tab in the ribbon menu (wanting to continue adding footnotes to an on-going document) suddenly started to open Windows Installer and ...
Summary: Word 2007 just went mad: clicking on the 'references' tab in the ribbon menu (wanting to continue adding footnotes to an on-going document) suddenly started to open Windows Installer and then require crashing out of the program! And now I find that I CANNOT UNINSTALL the program because of the corruption. I bought a Uni student version (full) of Office 2007, which I used very happily for six months. Now it's corrupted itself and there's nothing I can do (and I'm not alone with this problem, either)! Microsoft are truly vile when things like this happen, and expect you to PAY to have them solve their own problem.
12 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Wow MS another product I won't recommend my clients buy!
by Venture on December 4, 2006
Pros: Total lack of worthwhile updates
Cons: Didn't bother fixing any issues with previous office
Summary: MS is really bombing out as of late. I make my living installing servers, and workstations. Along with new installations I spend a great deal of time maintaining and updating ...
Summary: MS is really bombing out as of late. I make my living installing servers, and workstations. Along with new installations I spend a great deal of time maintaining and updating systems. I have to say I can't in good conscience recommend Office 2007 to any of my clients.
My clients already know how to use Word, Excel and Outlook. Learning the new interface will only set them back in productivity.
Access doesn't have any new way of handling pictures for their catalogues as far as I could tell - should be much easier to link to a picture or import a picture.
Many of my clients want more than one outlook profile for their exchange server - e.g. resumes@widgets.com or sales@widgets.com and want them completely seperate from their normal outlook mailbox. Being able to open two SEPERATE profiles, (not just two accounts in the same profile) should have been a feature in the new version. PS Outlook still doesn't close any more reliably than it did in any previous version making switching between profiles a pain.
As another post stated - why the heck isn't BCM more integrated with Exchange. If you can't remote access BCM through OWA or WM5 it really has very little value.
An utter waste of 3 years. The time would have been much better spent releasing Office 2003 REV 2 "the missing features version"
I typically make my money when a good upgrade comes out, looks like earnings will be slim for both of us. Thanks MS my clients will be stuck with Office 2003 because your developers seem to be more of FLASH web page designers than programmers. Who the heck is in charge of MS these days - where is the accountability?12 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Maybe I'm just not cool enough...
by Joe M on April 29, 2007
Pros: Cheaper home edition no longer has academic requirement.
Cons: high overhead, slow, new user interface is a train wreck
Summary: I guess I'm old fashioned, but the new user interface is awful. Context menus, awkward placement of toolbars and icons... mostly a mess. I know they say it is ...
Summary: I guess I'm old fashioned, but the new user interface is awful. Context menus, awkward placement of toolbars and icons... mostly a mess. I know they say it is the product of a lot of research and testing, but so was "New Coke"...
My PC is admittedly not the latest or greatest, but Office 2003 Pro loads and runs quickly on it. By contrast, Office 2007 is sluggish and slow. Conversion between the new OOXML and legacy binary formats is slow too, and not always completely accurate. Some Word 2003 were converted with their graphics and footnotes altered. Not good.
Worse is that, even after a two month trial, I was never able to find anything new in actual functionality. Not anything that I want or need, anyway. Everything I need to do, I can do with Office 2003, and do it faster and easier.
I'm not one of those anything-but-Microsoft types. I've used Office at work for a dozen years or more. At home, I've owned Office 97, 2000, and 2003. I will not, however, be buying Office 2007.11 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Microsoft knows what you want, even if you don't want it.
by skipsul on November 5, 2007
Pros: Move to more open file standards, XML
Cons: Thinks it knows better than me what I really want
Summary: I am a power user of Office - have been for about 13 years. This upgrade slows me down. The enforced blue menus, combined with the mismatched icon sizes of ...
Summary: I am a power user of Office - have been for about 13 years. This upgrade slows me down. The enforced blue menus, combined with the mismatched icon sizes of the ribbon, are hard on my eyes and very distracting, and I'm not allowed to customize anything. Sure most of the features of previous editions were buried under menus, but you could create a custom toolbar for the ones you wanted up front - can't do it this time.
Outlook, even after several fixes, is still unbearably slow checking mail - and again I can't customize anything - for instance I don't need it taking up space for RSS content as I use other readers. Many emails now come in strangely reformatted and will not display correctly.
Excel won't even open certain file types, and as I said earlier, the low-contrast blue colors and jumbled ribbon clutter has slowed me down. If I could re-order the functions for the way I use them perhaps I could cope, but as I can't even read data that 2003 could read there is no point. I've wasted too much money.5 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Take a valium first...
by sarmiste on September 13, 2007
Pros: There are a few minor convenience improvements.
Cons: Total GUI makeover
Summary: In summary, it truly appears that MS worked overtime on the forest but forgot about the trees! They focused on the overall Office Suite, tying it together into a 'common' ...
Summary: In summary, it truly appears that MS worked overtime on the forest but forgot about the trees! They focused on the overall Office Suite, tying it together into a 'common' interface, etc. but didn't do much with the individual apps within it to improve them!
Hopefully, they have some long range plan (maybe they're taking the 'trilogy' approach like Hollywood---it'll be two more releases before they can conclude the story).
Get ready. Open up one of these apps and you'll be 'lost in space'. Interface TOTALLY different. But you'll have plenty of time to learn because response time is noticably slower. (These are both things that the valium will help with).
Oh, and keyboard strokes/sequences that you used? Never mind, those are gone. I hope that you're a mouser, cause that is what this is oriented around. (The valium will also help with your impending onset of carpal tunnel).
I am an Excel and Access poweruser, and I program both of those in VBA. I use Outlook and Visio proficiently. Word and Powerpoint, I only know enough to be dangerous. So I do know the old package. I've now used this new Office for long enough to be past the 'annoying unfamiliarity' phase that comes with any new release.
Conclusion? All I get is a redesigned (albeit common) interface that offers very few advantages, takes away some features, is very mousy, very slow, and no appreciable improvements to the individual packages.
Do I 'hate' it? No. I can use the package. I'm getting by. I'm adjusting. Was it worth it? NO.
PS. Outlook is probably a notable exception. It retains the essentials of the old style interface. Enough so that I actually went into the Help>About menu to verify that Outlook 2007 had actually installed successfully! Oh, did you want to try that in Excel 2007? Good luck! "Office" 'button', 'Exel options' button, 'Resources' button, 'About' button (just to give you a flavor....)4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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stupid stupid stupid
by David Stamps on May 30, 2007
Pros: Nothing significant for professionsals
Cons: what don't they get about productivity
Summary: The average user spends years mastering a piece of software like Word and now in one fell swoop they are set back.
As a professional Access developer there is basically ...Summary: The average user spends years mastering a piece of software like Word and now in one fell swoop they are set back.
As a professional Access developer there is basically nothing new in visual basic. The only thing new is what is needed to make the Office Crapware work.4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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See Why Bill Wants Out
by Perley on November 27, 2006
Pros: Few and far between
Cons: Does not support eembedding Visio in Word documents. New User Interface to make you think your getting something new.
Summary: Yet another failure by Microsoft to have quality in thier new releases. After installing Office 2007, OneNote 2007, and Visio 2007 I went to edit a Word document. I wanted ...
Summary: Yet another failure by Microsoft to have quality in thier new releases. After installing Office 2007, OneNote 2007, and Visio 2007 I went to edit a Word document. I wanted to update a Visio diagram embedded in the document but got the error message that Visio was not installed. Thinking that the diagram had been inserted with a previous Visio format I went and created a new Visio diagram with Visio 2007 and tried to insert it into the document. Suprise the error message that Visio was not installed came up again. Bill I can see why you have decided to get away from this.
7 out of 12 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Avoid unless you have NO choice
by amolk on March 2, 2008
Pros: Office Button is useful
Cons: The "Ribbon" is a productivity killer
Summary: I've been using Office apps for a very long time. This is the first time that the UI change has been an utter disaster, IMO. The new Ribbon is ...
Summary: I've been using Office apps for a very long time. This is the first time that the UI change has been an utter disaster, IMO. The new Ribbon is confusing, illogical and hence counter productive. It presents a steep learning curve. If you choose to learn it, be prepared for a significant loss of productivity for the duration of the learning process.
I've personally found that it takes more key/mouse clicks to perform the same tasks. Ergo, it is definitely less efficient.
So, if your current Office suite meets your needs, I see little sense in spending the $$$s M$ wants and then spending more time and resources learning how to use it.3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Microsoft
- Part number: CNETMSOFFICE2007PRERTM
- Description: Office Home and Student 2007 is the software suite that helps people easily create great-looking documents, worksheets and presentations, as well as manage notes and information at home. It offers improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time management tools, and greater reliability and security.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Category Office applications
- Subcategory Office applications - office suite
- Language(s) English
- License pricing Non-commercial
- Localization English
Software
- License Type Complete package
- Software Suite Components Microsoft OneNote,
Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Powerpoint,
Microsoft Word - License Qty 3 PC in one household
- License Pricing Non-commercial
- Platform Windows
- Distribution Media CD-ROM
- Package Type Retail
System Requirements
- OS Required Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later,
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later - Software Requirements Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- Min Processor Type 500 MHz,
500 MHz - Peripheral / Interface Devices CD-ROM,
XGA monitor - System Requirements Details Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later - RAM 256 MB - HD 1.5 GB,
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later - RAM 256 MB - HD 1.5 GB
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