Microsoft Word 2007

Summary: Over the years most people use MSWord because it came with MS Office. Now may be a time to look for something different. MS has totally changed the toolbar in ...

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Summary: Over the years most people use MSWord because it came with MS Office. Now may be a time to look for something different. MS has totally changed the toolbar in MSWord 2007 & to be honest, most likely you will get frustrasted, upset, even mad trying to find some of the command you are so use to using.
So before you spend $200 to $400 on the new MS OFFICE 2007 PROGRAMS. I HIGHLY suggest you look at other word processors. Unless you have time everyday, trying to learn the new MSWord, which to me has been a pain.
That's why I quit using the Word 2007 & went back to MS WORD 2003.
Good Luck.
Buyer Beware ---- Maybe MS will doing something if they lose a lot of sales.

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Summary: I have been a computer user for 26 years, and have used MSOffice for over 12 years. While Office was not always visually attractive or perfectly easy to use, it ...

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Summary: I have been a computer user for 26 years, and have used MSOffice for over 12 years. While Office was not always visually attractive or perfectly easy to use, it was always great at getting the job done. In OfficeXP and Office 2003, Microsoft greatly improved functionality and ease-of-use, and Office's tools became pretty easily accessible to both novices and power users.

And that's why I'm so angry about Office 2007's "Ribbon" upgrade. I am an expert computer user, and I am constantly frustrated by the difficulty of making the "easy" interface show me the tools I want. I also like using the keyboard to access menus and tools rather than the mouse, and the Ribbon makes this impossible. Worst of all, there's no View option that allows the legacy interface to be used--everyone is stuck with the Ribbon. Even when WinXP had its new interface, an option was provided for "Windows Classic" interfaces--no such flexibility in Office 2007.

I am having this much difficulty and I am, in all modesty, an expert. My mother-in-law and other non-experts have found Office 2007 to be completely useless. A teacher of one of her graduate classes handed out an assignment using Excel for statistics, and was shocked to learn that her instructions could not be followed at all in Office 2007--the functionalty for correlation and Data Analysis wasn't even installed by default! Even more telling, my organization recently decided not to upgrade to 2007, because the IT staff felt that most people wouldn't be able to re-learn how to use Word 2007 soon enough to offset the loss in productivty from dealing with the new interface.

I'm sticking with my old copy of OfficeXP, thanks. I truly hope that Microsoft makes a patch allowing Word 2007 to use the old interface.

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Summary: Up until recently there were no document macro viruses, only Microsoft Office document macro viruses. Like many technologies only Microsoft products put consumers at risk. There was only _one_ other ...

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Summary: Up until recently there were no document macro viruses, only Microsoft Office document macro viruses. Like many technologies only Microsoft products put consumers at risk. There was only _one_ other macro virus in Open Office last year. One. There are thousands of Microsoft viruses and security issues with Microsoft's office. The bottom line; if security of your PC or network matters at all, Microsoft Office is a non-starter. Look to other commercial alternatives such as Corel Office, and be sure to evaluate free alternatives such as Open Office. They all do what 99.99% of office users need. Write a letter, work a spreadsheet, create a presentation, all with formatting features, spell checking and thesaurus. Any product other than MS Office will save you money, run faster with less code bloat, as well as create compatible files with other products.

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