Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 UPGRADE | 
| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $279.95
Buy New: $189.00
You Save: $90.95 (32%)
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 246
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Small Business - Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 9 x 3
MPN: W8702379
Model: W87-02379
UPC: 882224263580
EAN: 0882224263580
ASIN: B000HCTY1W
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New, still in sealed box!!
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| Features:
| • | Upgrade version designed for those computers with Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later | | • | Includes the 2007 versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook with Business Contact Manager | | • | Create professional looking documents and presentations, build powerful spreadsheets, and manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts | | • | Intuitive look and feel, and improved tools; task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use | | • | Instant Search function saves you time; junk mail and anti-phishing filters protect the security of your computer; new graphics capabilities help you produce publication-ready documents |
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Product Description
Upgrade only; previous version of Office required Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 is the complete suite of productivity and contact management tools for accomplishing your business tasks. Manage customer and contact information in one place, while producing professional-quality communications and manage marketing campaigns in-house with a full suite of powerful tools. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integrates contact management directly with Outlook, for better control over your customer & prospect information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments and more. With Office Small Business 2007 you can save time, stay organized and spend more time with customers. Business Contact Manager in Outlook 2007 helps you manage and track your marketing activities Use Powerpoint 2007 to create more dynamic business presentations - It features an extensive library of slide layouts; new tools for charts, diagrams and tables; quick preview changes and more Distribute marketing materials in PDF format -- convert easily from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access files
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Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 Version Upgrade is a powerful and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software with new tools to help you save time, stay organized, and deliver better customer service. Comprised of the 2007 versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook with Business Contact Manager, this software package empowers you to create professional looking documents and presentations, build powerful spreadsheets, and manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts. 
The new look and feel of the 2007 Microsoft Office system automatically displays the menus and toolbars you need when you need them. View larger. | 
Tasks are easy to follow up on because they are included on the new To-Do Bar and within Outlook reminders. You can also drag tasks onto your calendar. View larger. | 
You can customize the new information dashboard in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to display your sales pipeline. View larger. | 
Business Contact Manager also combines contact, customer, and project information in one place. View larger. | 
Create, preview, and send personalized e-mail publications with Office Publisher 2007 using new E-Mail Merge. View larger. | In addition, Outlook with Business Contact Manager integrates powerful contact management features into Outlook that allow you to access and track all customer information and communications in a central location. With improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time and communication management tools, and more reliability and security, the Small Business 2007 package makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or at work. This update version of Small Business 2007 is designed for use by those computers with the following operating systems: Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later. Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions. Work More Efficiently and Effectively
The more intuitive look and feel, coupled with the improved tools, make Small Business 2007 the ideal software system to help you work faster to complete routine tasks and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use, making it faster and easier to find the software features you need. Thanks to the Instant Search function to save you time, junk mail and anti-phishing filters to protect the security of your computer, and new graphics capabilities to help you produce publication-ready documents, (complete with logo, colors, fonts, and business information), this software can increase both your productivity and efficiency, while giving you more time to spend with your customers. And to help minimize time-wasting future edits, the Live Preview feature makes it easy to sample your changes before you apply them. 
Office Excel 2007 makes it easy to analyze data. View larger. | Improved Time Management
When work is busy, it's sometimes difficult to stay on-top of appointments and tasks. This is why Small Business 2007 lets you schedule tasks in Outlook that will appear on your calendar, while the To-Do bar presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. To help effectively manage your time, take advantage of the templates and tools in Word, all of which make it easier to reuse content, so you don't have to start from scratch whenever you create a new document. And keeping track of important information is a snap thanks to new Excel tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you find and analyze business data more effectively. Manage Contact and Customer Information in One Place
To help you manage contact and customer information, Outlook with Business Contact Manager includes a complete contact management solution for small businesses that helps you deliver better customer service. This software enables you to organize all of your contact, prospect, and customer information, so it's easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales process in one place. Enhanced reporting features include over 50 reports that you can easily modify for your unique business needs, and new filtering capabilities help you forecast and close sales. You can also record all types of communications with a customer in one place-- including all e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents-- and view a consolidated view of your sales pipeline by using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify for your unique business needs. You also can track and manage project tasks and even transfer tasks to coworkers. For added flexibility, you can work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC, and then synchronize data when you return to the office. 
Including charts in Office PowerPoint 2007 is easy. View larger. | Produce Professional-Looking Marketing Materials and Campaigns In-House
Small Business 2007 makes it a snap to manage the entire marketing process so you save the time and expense of hiring an outside service. Create and distribute professional-looking marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web by using Publisher. Then use Outlook with Business Contact Manager and Publisher together to track and manage marketing campaign activities, including compiling mailing lists, distributing materials, and tracking your results. You also can access the library of customizable templates in PowerPoint to create professional-looking presentations that enhance your business identity. If you need to merge information from multiple sources, combine and filter mailing lists and data from Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access to create personalized print and e-mail materials and build customized collateral such as catalogs and datasheets. Dynamic Presentations
One of the most effective ways to inspire both employees and customers is to impress them with a dynamic presentation. With its extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts, PowerPoint helps you to create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables, while giving you the time-saving option of quickly previewing formatting changes so your final result is ready to go. You can also use the PDF file format for easier document distribution and high-quality printing. No matter what you need to help your business thrive, Small Business 2007 can make it possible.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Orifice 2007 November 28, 2007
Diego Banducci (San Francisco, CA United States)
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
After all these years, the trolls in Redmond still have not learned how to produce user-friendly software. There was no reason to make the changes to Office that they've made; it was simply a way to justify an unnecessary upgrade that has turned out to be a downgrade. Users with a moderate understanding of how Office operated will find themselves flummoxed when attempting to do things they had finally learned how to do in the old version.
The much-vaunted ribbons are confusing and counter-intuitive. Microsoft addresses this problem by offering free self-paced trainng courses, apparently oblivious to the fact that time iS money, unless of course, it's Microsoft's time.
At the very least, one expects backward compatibility, that is unless you're dealing with Mr. Bill's minions. I loaded Word files created with Office XP, only to find the Office 2007 converted them with serious defects, like inserting tabs in all paragraphs whenever you inserted one in a single paragraph. And, of course, if you delete a tab stop from one paragraph, you delete it from all of them.
Useless.
 Give it time and it will grow on you July 3, 2007
Robert D. Gordon (Atlanta GA)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
My response to Office 2007 is similar to how I feel about Vista. We all grow accustomed over time to using software and operating systems a certain way and when a really significant new version comes along that changes things, it creates some initial discomfort and even frustration. But if you give the new version a real chance, even to the point of actually doing some reading on how to use it, and then apply what you have learned, there is the eventual realization that someone did put a lot of thought into this and it actually does work better. I am coming to this point now with both Vista and Office 2007. Both are worth the upgrade, but only if you are willing to devote the time and energy it takes to really take advantage of what they offer. Office 2007 may seem more difficult at first, but with familiarity you will come to appreciate the advance it actually represents. There is less need for the degree of personal customization of the interface that most of us required for previous versions of Office because of the much more effective system of ribbons, tabs, groups, and galleries developed for Office 2007.
Just say no. February 8, 2007
B. Reisinger (Carlisle, PA)
19 out of 43 found this review helpful
I bought it, installed it, tried it, uninstalled it and returned it (of course I had to reformat my computer to get things back to the way I like them). Reviews say it was a big improvement. Maybe so, but I have no desire to learn a whole new way of doing things again. I spent years learning keyboard short cuts and putting up with a product I thought was inferior to WordPerfect (how I would love to have the reveal codes option for formatting).
Be prepared for a steep learning curve. If you use word a lot and are proficient, you will find it very frustrating. Menus are different, key combinations are not all the same. You can customize it, but to be honest, I don't care.
Between Vista and Office 2007, I think Microsoft has finally screwed the pooch. I'll stick with the old versions (XP and Office 2003) for now. My next computer will be a Mac running OS X and some sort of open office application. I have had enough.
A waste of money April 26, 2007
Pattipeg S. Harjo (Oklahoma)
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
I looked forward to updating my software for my new laptop, but I hate this upgrade. The ribbons make it MORE difficult for me, as I'm used to customizing my toolbar exactly as I want it. Several parts don't work well--when writing a test, the program wouldn't renumber, and I had to do it by hand, so it took twice as long as usual to create the test. I emailed it to school, which has 2003--couldn't open it. Came home, saved the document as a 2003 document, and I still couldn't open it at school. I reinstalled my 2002 software, cut and pasted the test, saved it in 2002, and was able to open it at school (much to the dismay of my students).
The Spanish and German spellchecks work fine, but I still can't figure out how to get it to write Chinese characters, which 2002 can do. The only good thing about the program is that I can finally write Ladino (using the Hebrew alefbet) in 2002, which I could never do before.
The PowerPoint program offers slide-design selections that are about as appealing as rotting road kill--lousy for student shows, boring for professional presentations. Again, the frustrating ribbon situation, which I really dislike.
I find the software so cumbersome and irritating that I've stopped using it, and have gone back to 2002. I strongly recommend avoiding this upgrade as long as humanly possible.
 Not sure I like the way Office 2007 works - read on July 3, 2007
Unsolicited Male (Anytown, USA)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
My old computer died last week, so I was forced to buy a new one. I got a VERY good computer - HP tower, with QUAD (not dual) processor, and 3 Gigs of RAM. I have 2 internal drives at 1 terabyte, and 2 externals at 1 TB total. No drive has more than 20% space used, and no other software has been installed.
The biggest problem is IT'S SLOW! When typing an email in Outlook, or a Word document (or Publisher), there is a lag between the time you hit the key and before the character prints. It's like trying to talk with your own echo - I find myself typing MUCH more slowly than I am actually able. I HATE THIS, and I'm not the only one with the problem. Anyone who types for a living has the same complaint. I've turned off all the Outlook and Word 'add-ins' as many sites recommend trying, to no avail. A brand new QUAD Pentium with 3 GB of RAM should be able to run this turd of a program. But no - it's so bloated with new code that the simple act that it was designed for - getting words on the screen - suffers because of it. Just absurd, Microsoft.
The 'Ribbon' interface and new file 'Save as' tree structure are WAY more cumbersome that the old toolbar. I just want to get things done - why did they feel the need for such a massive change? What was wrong with the old system? I take twice as long now browsing to the folder I want. Yes, learning new things 'takes time' - but again, EVERYONE was familiar with the standard toolbar and 'browse to file' techniques. Why change a core skill? Why expect a business (me) to have to spend time learning this new system? What exactly was the point, anyway?
So now I am going to have to UNINSTALL this new $279 package (what a waste) and reinstall Office 2003 just to regain my old performance. And since my last 2003 license died with the old computer (and now cannot be uninstalled to free it up), I'll get the pleasure of dealing with Microsoft to try to recover what I HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR.
The software LOOKS pretty, and has TONS of new features throughout, and that part I like. But if I can't type without looking every second to see if I got it right, and have to type at 1/3 my normal speed, how productive is that?
Beware - if you type a lot with Office, you should NOT BUY THIS VERSION.
I give it two stars for 'pretty' and ZERO for performance in a typing environment.
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