Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE | 
| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $329.95 Buy New: $249.00 You Save: $80.95 (25%)
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Rating: 93 reviews Sales Rank: 52
Format: Dvd-video Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista Media: CD-ROM Edition: Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Batteries Included: No Operating System: Windows XP Shipping Weight (lbs): 3 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: 26911093 Model: 269-11093 UPC: 882224263603 EAN: 0882224263603 ASIN: B000HCXKJY
Release Date: January 30, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Upgrade version designed for those computers with Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later | | • | Includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word | | • | Edit and analyze a financial spreadsheet, create an important presentation, or build a customer database; find and use the features you need faster and more easily | | • | Create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information | | • | Intuitive look and feel, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using; work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office |
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Product Description Upgrade only; previous version of Office Professional required. Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is the tool that office professionals need if they crave a simplified business life. With the tools in this software set, they'll quickly accomplish routine tasks, manage customer information, produce high-quality marketing materials and simplify database and report creation. Business Contact Manager integrates contact management directly with Outlook, for better control over your customer & prospect information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments and more. With Office Professional 2007 you can save time, produce professional-quality marketing materials in-house and simplify your analysis and reporting of crucial business information. Forecast sales and prioritize tasks with flexible reports and a customizable dashboard Enhance your brand identity with colors, fonts, logos and business information New Publisher Tasks offers tips for key marketing processes - Preparing e-mail lists, tracking effectiveness, writing marketing copy and publishing & distributing materials Save time by reusing content - The new content store keeps text and graphics ready for use in other publications & formats Business Contact Manager helps you manage and track marketing activities - Create recipient lists, personalize communications and more 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
Amazon.com Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Version Upgrade is a complete suite of productivity and database software that includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word. Powerful contact management features help you consolidate all customer and prospect information in one place, while improved menus present the right tools exactly when you need them. 
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. | 
With Access tracking templates, you can create databases and generate reports quickly. View larger. | Professional 2007 also lets you develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. In addition, you can create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff. This update version of Professional 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. Fast and Efficient Operation Whether you're working on a financial spreadsheet, creating an important presentation, or building a customer database, Professional 2007 helps you find and use the features you need faster and more easily. The intuitive look and feel of this software, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using, improves your productivity. With Publisher 2007, you can create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information. Or take advantage of hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types. This software also lets you reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another. You can also combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources, including the 2007 versions of Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access, to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets. Save Time and Stay Organized Because it contains so many efficient software options in one package, Professional 2007 gives you access to a multitude of options that save you time and keep you organized. For example, Outlook with Business Contact Manager lets you create, manage, and track marketing campaigns, while PowerPoint gives you the ability to craft more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts. When it's time to create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, you can quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and save yourself time-consuming future edits. 
Office Excel 2007 makes it easy to analyze data. View larger. | Locate and Prioritize E-mail Because so much important communication is now done via e-mail, Professional 2007 includes several features that help you manage key correspondence. Instant Search capabilities in Outlook with Business Contact Manager let you quickly find critical information while the Color Category feature helps you to easily sort and manage e-mail messages. And because nothing is more inefficient than troubleshooting problems that compromise the security of your computer, this software package includes improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters to filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the remaining messages. Keep Track of Tasks and Deadlines Keeping track of appointments and deadlines can be stressful, but Professional 2007 streamlines the process so you're ready for whatever the day brings. For instance, the To-Do Bar in Outlook with Business Contact Manager consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Additionally, tasks scheduled in Outlook appear on your calendar, or you can drag them directly onto your calendar to help you stay organized. Manage Customer Information in One Place Outlook with Business Contact Manager also provides a complete customer and contact management solution by centralizing all contact, prospect, and customer information--including communications history, projected sales value, and probability of closing, and tasks. This makes it easier to manage prospects and respond to customers. You also can store all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mails messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents. 
Including charts in Office PowerPoint 2007 is easy. View larger. | Capitalize on Key Opportunities The success of your business depends upon taking advantage of key opportunities that come your way, and Professional 2007 offers several features to help prevent any lost or missed connections. Outlook with Business Contact Manager provides a customizable homepage that helps you forecast sales and prioritize tasks. Enhanced reporting features provide a consolidated view of your sales pipeline using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify to suit your unique business needs. Visualize and Analyze Information Excel provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily and make more informed decisions. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create. Manage business information using efficient tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Access helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required, and also includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes. And thanks to the task-based user interface and the datasheet view, (which is similar to Excel), it's more intuitive than ever before. When you're ready to consolidate your data, easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data. More Efficient Marketing Campaigns Outlook with Business Contact Manager has exciting features that help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns while Publisher can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources--including Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access--to create personalized print and e-mail materials. This feature also enables you to build custom materials such as catalogs and datasheets. You can then use Outlook with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. Versatile, Flexible Operation Because the future of your business may depend on your ability to work on-the-fly or from various locales, Professional 2007 lets you work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office. Whatever the size of your business, Professional 2007 is versatile and flexible enough to help you manage everyday tasks, while ensuring that you're ready for whatever the future brings.
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Wait for this upgrade -- Important Things to Know March 28, 2007 Bruce D. Namerow (Washington, DC) 171 out of 179 found this review helpful
Normally I might wait to install a new software upgrade, but I just got a new laptop and thought it would be best to use Office 2007 with the new Vista operating system. I was wrong. You would expect that a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft could put out a powerful and bug-free piece of software. But after a month of using Office 2007, you get the distinct impression that this software is not ready for public release. Microsoft should be ashamed. I don't know the root cause of my problems, but I have to stress that I am running a clean install of Office 2007 on Vista, so there shouldn't be any software conflicts or issues. So what are my issues? The list is long: -- My biggest concern is that MS Word constantly hangs and stalls. It can making editing a document very painful. I suspect the problem is when I put images or Visio diagrams into a document. But that is something the old MS Word was able to do without an issue. Oddly, if I have a colleague open the document and save it out in Word 2003, the problem goes away! What?! It's killing my productivity. -- When ever I cut and paste from an old document, Word hangs for 15 to 20 seconds. And often the formatting and margins in my new document go haywire. I keep having to spend a ton of time fixing things. This never happened in the old Word. This is another time killer. -- Every few days, Outlook 2007 starts telling me that it cannot display my email folders. Uh oh! I have to completely restart my computer to see my email again. -- Outlook 2007 breaks many graphic emails that people send -- they look like a mess. It is because Outlook 2007 does NOT render HTML correctly since it uses the Word engine, not Internet Explorer to display email. I have no idea why Microsoft did this, but they have got to fix it. -- Many of the issues in the old Word 2003 still haven't been fixed. If you place an image, it can often be hard to get it to appear correctly. Why can't they solve this one? -- While most Office programs have the new ribbon interface (which I like), some programs like Visio 2007 do not. So you have to remember how to use two interfaces. Couldn't Microsoft find the time and money to update ALL its programs? Give me a break. -- On a few occassions in Visio 2007, my files have failed to save correctly. At first I thought this must have been my fault, but it's happened to me a few times and can't be a coincidence. A few times I've gotten an error message and lost my work. Ug. -- Word and Excel 2007 use a completely new file format. So anyone you send a document to has to have 2007 installed (which isn't likely the case). To get around this, you can save it down to a 2003 file format, but then you end up with two files on your hard drive -- one in the new format and one in the old format. What a pain! Also, there definitely seems to be an issue with Office 2007 opening older Office 2003 files. Could be the cause of many of my problems, but there is no way I can avoid using old files. They should have worked harder on compatibility. There are good things about the new 2007. I do like the new interface design and the new features in Outlook 2007 are amazing for organizing tasks and sharing your calendar. But I don't think it's fair that Microsoft released a product so full of serious, serious bugs that have cost me hours and hours of extra work. I didn't spend hundreds of dollars on a beta product and don't think the public should have to suffer. Surely they can afford to do better! NEW ADDITION TO MY REVIEW: Today I discovered that I can no longer paste Excel charts into Word like I used to. When I try, the chart goes in, but any bars/lines disappear.
Worth the upgrade February 13, 2007 R. J. Walters (Indiana) 47 out of 55 found this review helpful
I have been using the Professional version of this software for about 6 months now. The beta version had some bugs but that is why it was a beta. I became fluent in MS Access while I was working in the corporate world and took that knowledge with me when i started my own business. I wish I had had 2007 when I developed all my software tools around MS Access. It would have greatly reduced my development time. The new interface takes a little while to get used to but now it seems second nature to me. I can even confidently do mail merges between apps. That is something I have always had trouble remembering how to do since i don't do it everyday. The only reason it doesn't get a 5 star rating is that I think the upgrade price is a little steep.
Is this the end of Microsoft Bloatware? January 31, 2007 Michael W. Perry (Seattle, WA United States) 39 out of 67 found this review helpful
I hate this new version! For years I've been able feel smug and superior by criticizing just how bloated and clumsy to use Office became in the late 1990s. For me, it was a textbook case in how not to make a user interface, particularly the many steps it took to change a style. "Heck," I'd tell people, "even InDesign with its incredible 26 palettes and dozens of pull-down menus is easier to use." Now I can gloat no more. By all accounts, Microsoft has cleaned up the interface wonderfully, with PC Magazine reporting, "Once you get past the few minutes needed to navigate the new Ribbon interface, you'll wonder why Microsoft waited so long to get so many things right." Now my only gripe is that I have to wait until fall for the Mac version. --Mike Perry, author of Untangling Tolkien
Comprehensive - But Maybe Too Much So August 14, 2007 Electronic Gadgetphile (St. Paul, MN) 23 out of 26 found this review helpful
I needed to get a copies of Access and Publisher for my new laptop which was running 2003 Office Standard. After Googling around a bit I determined that Office Professional would give me these plus the upgraded to 2007 Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook applications with a host of other features including Business Contact Manager for about the same cost. The install was reasonably painless and the software activated and registered without any problems - not always the case with Microsoft but this time they seemed to get it right. After using the applications for a couple of weeks I am still trying to get used to the "Ribbon Bar" which is markedly different, somewhat intuitive and decidedly more comprehensive. The applications take longer to initialize and Outlook has become painfully slower but works. I am running it on a Sony SZ230P with Intel Centrino Duo T2400 1.83 GHz running XP Pro with 2 gigs of RAM so maybe it is underpowered. I did uninstall the desktop search agent which seemed to make the system more sluggish and have now improved performance a bit. I am reasonably proficient in the Office applications but probably only use 5-10% of the functionality embedded - but I carry the overhead on the system which, I believe, bogs the system down overall. Would be nice if MS would allow the configuration of various levels of sophistication during the install process depending on the needs of the user. In summary, I will continue to use the Suite and become more proficient in using the "Ribbon Bars" and hoping that MS will issue some upgrades that speed up the system overall until I can afford to upgrade the laptop to a faster processor.
Office 2007 - big mistake April 11, 2007 D. Putnam (Washington, DC) 20 out of 21 found this review helpful
I excitedly upgraded to Office 2007....'07 Outlook is FAR slower - ties my reasonably powerful machine up in knots (110% of resources) for minutes at a time inexplicably; spell ck doesn't work consistently; HTML emails have lost functionality I used to use often with 2003 ver; Excel opens MUCH more slowly; no real gains in Excel fuctionality; various add-ins essential to my biz no longer work in Excel 2007; Access 2007 was billed as much easier to use - FALSE; Word has a couple of improvements but messes up spell ck with Outlook if you keep both Word 2003 & 2007 on yr machine; the highly touted "Ribbon" is mainly cosmetic; I believe 2007's indexing is at the heart of some of sluggisness which might be ok if it worked..but it retruns strange results....NET, NET, I am uninstalling Office 2007 and going back to 2003 with all its stupid faults....it's too bad no one at MSFT actually uses thier products to realize how defective they are.
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