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 Office 2007 February 12, 2007
April Franzini (Philadelphia, PA USA)
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
At first glance, I had rated it five stars. I had the beta version of Office 2007 that Microsoft had given to me to test. I really loved that version. When I bought it (because it expires after 3 months) everything went down hill. They did not fix all of the glitches. In Word, I cannot make my Headers and Footers work properly. They have a really cool Headers and Footer (window) where you can make any document look really beautiful. Well it doesn't work. I am really upset with this considering they had enough time to fix the glitches. I mean it worked for me when it was a Beta, and you would really expect the problem to be with the Beta and not the finished product. It stinks! When I asked them what they were going to do about it, they gave me a song and a dance about fixing it myself. They gave me all of these instructions to "Do It Myself". I followed these instructions, and it (headers and footers)still does not work. So now what, purchase another copy? I think not! Microsoft are a bunch of crooks! Their customer reps know nothing about their products.
Don't buy this version! Wait until they fix the glitches! Never purchase a product when it is first released (software) it always comes with problems and brings misery and frustration.
 DO NOT DO IT!! June 11, 2007
Clay Brown (Selah, WA USA)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
I am far from an expert, and I have spent many hours trying to get things to work, but this - and VISTA - are the worst! for the neophyte, it is very difficult. MS seems to be trying to be "cute" and fancy, but they do not have much for the ordinary user. My advice is STAY WITH XP & 2003 as long as you can. Maybe when the USERS get things straightened out, it will be better.
It Creates Problems June 27, 2007
Eugene L. Fleeman
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 because Microsoft no longer provides technical support for Office 2003.
In my opinion the new Office 2007 is full of bugs. As an I example I had previously developed a large (23 meg) PowerPoint presentation using Office 2003 that had worked fine under PowerPoint 2003. However, Microsoft Office 2007 has now corrupted the presentation. Special graphics such as custom bullets do not display under PowerPoint 2007. Under PowerPoint 2007 the text in text boxes, such as title boxes, falls outside the box.
It will probably take me more than 200 hours to clean up the mess in this presentation that was caused by upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007.
In summary, beware of switching to Microsoft Office 2007 if you have previously developed large files under Office 2003.
 Much worse than flawed ---de-evolution----unfriendly October 28, 2007
Dirk J. Willard (Chicago, IL)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Current experience
It is possible to avoid some problems by loading an Office 2007 product (Excel, Word, etc.) before starting other programs.
February 2008
It is still slow. Office2007 seems to have problems getting along with some software, namely evidence eliminator. After intervening several times, it has become a ritual of closing office to run EE. EE is my data scrambling program. I have loaded the recent updates and Office seems to be a little easier to operate, though it is frightfully slow to start. One nasty trick is that closing a document by using the 'X' in the corner results in office terminating; the only safe way to close a file is from the file bar, or what passes for the file bar. One nice feature is that you now can access more than 5 past files from the file bar. I would give them 3 stars now.
12/07 experience
At first, I thought my vast experience with programming could overcome some of the flaws. I was wrong. This software is defective in a number of ways. First, customizing does not work. Second, autoformating is a failure. I retract my 3 stars and give them 2. If this continues, make it one.
Early experience
In it's 2003 form, Microsoft Office had reached it's pinnacle. Like most people, I created an array of personalized buttons that began to resemble the clutter of keys on a church organ; add together the footpedals, knobs, levers and controls and small wonder musicians take pride at mastering it! With a series of touch buttons at the corner of boxes for less used controls, and the organization of these buttons into categories, some of the clutter is gone.
The small size of all these buttons is a shock, especially for those of us with reading glasses and laptops. It would be nice if the sliding zoom control in the right corner could also magnify the buttons as well as the text. All of this takes time to adjust.
One of the properties I like least is how long it takes to load a file. I counted over 60 seconds. With the upgrade, I was hoping that this would improve from Office XP. Perhaps future downloads from Microsoft will reduce start-up time.
Another feature that I do not like in Word is the listing of "Normal", "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Title", etc. These buttons are huge compared to others and used least of all. It would be a far better approach to have put them under their own category in the master headings on top: Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.
I have noticed that once I ran Excel a few times it loads very fast. This is an improvement over Excel 2003. I will update this review as I gain more experience with Excel and Powerpoint.
This gets back to the reason for buying Office 2007. Working with XP will expose your computer to unnecessary risk to bugs. Before loading this upgrade, I erased my old Office XP files to get rid of a bug. The longer a software has been out there, the easier it is to invade and the slower it will run as countermeasures are installed. So, here's your choice, buy a used version of Office 2003 for $150 or Office 2007 for $200. You decide, but remember that Office 2003 will need to be replaced by 2008 and Office 2007 may get you to 2012.
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 Awesome new UI February 5, 2007
David Garner Jr. (Boulder, CO)
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
Pros:
I love the new ribbon UI. For the first time in many years, I can find features I assumed Word or PowerPoint had but could never find in the maze of menus and toolbars. I only wish Outlook's core UI had adopted the ribbons too. The new smaller app footprint and XML file formats are much better too. Live previews are also much appreciated.
Cons:
Outlook is still a RAM hog and I kind of expected to get Publisher included in the Standard upgrade, especially now that FrontPage is no longer part of Office.
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