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Rating:  158 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Professional
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Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
nv:Software Type: Office Productivity
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MPN: 26911094
Model: 269-11094
UPC: 882224263610
EAN: 0882224263610
ASIN: B000HCVR30
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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 Experienced users - Do NOT buy this product.... March 17, 2008
Atlantic (Boston)
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I reluctantly have to say that Office 2007 is one of the worst products I've used. I'm forced to provide at least one star, but I wish I could give it ZERO stars, so how about it Amazon. Isn't it time we can give zeros??
I've been using Word for over 20 years and have used Excel, Access, and Powerpoint heavily for the past 10-15 years. I'm an advanced user of the tools and MS Office suites (including Project, Visio, Outlook,, et. al). If you have experience with any previous Office suite, run away now. If you've never used any previous versions of Office, you won't realize how bad this is so try it at your own risk, but I'd still say skip it.
MS's "ribbon" has got to be one of the worst ideas any company has ever forced on its customers. It is not a productivity feature, instead it's an untenable waste of real productivity and time. It is however, a testament to MS's ignorance and that of their "test users" and researchers. While that may sound rough, read the other reviews here; the same negative theme gets repeated and there's a good reason. The tools we've all used for so long are simply gone, the ability to accomplish simple tasks are gone, and the worst thing is there's no quick way to get them back. This product is not evolutionary, it's a genetic dead end and simply unrelated to anything meaningful...
I'm not going to go into every problem as I'm sure there's a limit on how much I can type here and how much you may want to read, but I will tell you that after spending more time than it's worth to accomplish simple tasks like opening templates (or even seeing them), I've decided to uninstall this application and go back to Office 2003 on all our PCs. I tried this software for several months and I can't stand it. MS should find a new product manager for the Office suite because the current one either deliberately wanted to alienate existing customers or didn't consider them. Either reason is cause for dismissal...
The negative reviews here should warn you; there's are serious and fatal problems with Office 2007. If you have any doubt as to what to do, I'll say it clearly; DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! NOT RECOMMENDED!!!!
 Tons of functionality improvements June 22, 2007
BassMan (Seattle, WA United States)
32 out of 49 found this review helpful
Office 2007 offers fundamental functionality improvements over previous versions. This is not simply new window dressing on an old Microsoft product. Some of the minor changes in Excel alone are worth the cost of upgrading to me.
For example, how many times have people you work withy highlighted all kinds of things in different colors in spreadsheets like that was supposed to be helpful for you? Now you can filter and sort by the formating of the cells. This turns out to be hugely useful.
Pivot Tables in Excel are so much easier to work with than in any previous version. The interface is simple and intuitive, and sorting, filtering and analyzing tools are more powerful.
Here's an example of an email feature I like. If you flag an email in Outlook as something you want to follow up with later, it becomes a task. Tasks you make don't cloud our your calendar, they have their own pane, and you can prioritize flags and tasks as you set them.
These are just a couple examples of changes I like. there's some many updates in this version of office that if these don't sound that meaningful to you, no doubt something else you find will. Past updates to Excel have had very little new in them from functionality and usability standpoint. That is so not the case here. Some reviewers have mentioned slowness with the product. I did find some of that myself initially, but after an update and getting all setup the way I like it, it's working real smoothly for me. One thing I didn't like was that to get search within Outlook, you had to go and install Microsoft's new Desktop search feature, which then takes over space in your Windows Taskbar. That sucks. MS, Please don't force people to take whole new programs just to get basically functionality working in one. also, I had trouble getting my Google desktop search to work after the MS search was installed. I had to go bac into the settings and update my Google version.
I'm not a Microsoft cheerleader, and I don't work for Microsoft. I don't normally find myself compelled to bother writing a review of their products, but I am impressed in this case, and I think that despite some of the flaws, this upgrade was well worth it. I recommend it to my friends and family, and I recommend it to you.
Lost Production = Lousy Product October 17, 2007
J. DEGREY (Centerville, UT United States)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I feel like I really gave this version of office a fair chance. I have tried and tried to adapt to it, but I just can't get over the fact I have lost productivity based on having to relearn software I felt I was pretty good at using. I now do more hunting and clicking for features where I once knew where everything was and now the new interface is one gigantic mess. I feel that Microsoft really blew it this time; I suppose its par for the course with the rest of the lousy products they have released this year. (But that's another review). Clearly we have run out of ideas for evolving a word processor if you have to completely revamp the interface. I read an article once published by Microsoft indicating the reason for the redesign was because there were a lot of features buried in menus and dialog boxes that few people knew about. If people are not using certain features, maybe the majority just don't care and want to use a word processor for something like... oh I don't know, typing a document.
The new interface for Word and Excel I can deal with, I don't like, but if I had to keep it, I could deal with it. Access on the other hand is a complete disaster. I hate it. It appears to me that somebody got really board and went crazy with the outlook style collapsible sidebars. The interface is so convoluted; it used to be so easy to switch between forms, queries, and table with the tabbed window. I do like the new ability to save to previous versions of Access (finally).
So with that said, I must admit, I really like the new Outlook 2007. It is the only application in the suite that Microsoft actually improved the product and didn't butcher. I like the new side bars with the calendar events and to do lists. One option I wish Microsoft would implement is a way to configure all outlook folders to be the same settings when I change the settings for one folder. For example, I do not like the reading pane or the group by setting, which is the default setting for a new folder. It's a pain to have to go through each folder and set it up like my other folders.
Luckily we can have multiple versions of office installed on the same PC. I have removed Office 2007 and reinstalled Office 2003. BTW, a lesson learned: If you want both Office suites installed, install 2003 first then 2007. If you install 2007 first then 2003, bad things happen. So remove 2007 and install 2003 then 2007. I reinstalled Office 2003 on my PC and installed just Outlook 2007 and Word 2007. I wanted to keep Outlook 2007, but you will need Word as well for the spell checker (shared components) and Outlook also uses word as the email editor.
All in all, if you like Office 2003 or earlier and you want to remain productive without relearning software that you already know then I would recommend to stay away from this version. Other than Outlook, it really has nothing substantial to offer to make me want to stay with it, only misery, wasted time and headaches.
1 star for the Office Suite Applications (Word, Excel, Access) , 5 stars for Outlook 2007
 A huge disappointment July 7, 2007
PKH (West Virginia, U.S.)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
While I personally use WordPerfect Suite 8, the best office suite ever programmed, for reports and writing projects, I keep a version of Microsoft Office to be compatible with my clients, and for Outlook and PowerPoint (both of which are decent programs). I decided with my new computers to move up from Office 2000 to the current version. I wish now I had bought Office 2003. Each component of Office 2007 is slow to load, slow to respond, just plain slow to do anything. The interface in not intuitive and I have to search for the old familiar functions. I am using XP Pro, so that may be an issue regarding startup speed, and yes, the computer hardware in a few years will improve to the point even this dog will appear fast.
Being a user of WordPerfect since 1985 and WordPerfect Office since its beginning I have encountered "improved" suites for both Word and WordPerfect office that actually were less functional and more buggy than the predecessor. The new programmers, using the latest and greatest programming language and methods, think that they have produced the be all and end all version, with latest jazzy snazzy interface. (This applies to WordPerfect office as well, which is why I use the Win95 era Version 8 rather than the latest.) But often they produce abominations, such as Office 2007.
So buyer beware, it is indeed a dog, at least when using XP Pro, and an ugly dog at that (considering the interface). If I hadn't already spent the money, I would give OpenOffice another try. The "user experience" surely cannot be worse, and may even be better ... and it is certainly not overpriced.
Last, I really have to wonder ... do the people that develop and oversee these software projects actually use their own product ... I mean rigorously use the software. If so, how could they let such products ship? Or does Microsoft simply not care, since they virtually own the market.
If this is useful to anyone I will be surprised, but at least I feel better. Now to a cup of coffee while I wait for Excel to load.
BUYER BEWARE THIS SOFTWARE IS SLOW! July 29, 2007
Michael P. Cahoon (Bluffton, SC)
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
I have used Microsoft dating back to first DOS program. I own two companies with about 50 plus computers between them. So I am the guinea pig on all new software.
I have an extremely fast computer, with 4 gig of ram, terabyte of 4 fast hard drives on XP pro. I have built many computers. I only share this with you so you will see I am no novice.
I cannot stress enough how slow my system is now when Outlook is on. Do a Google search with "Outlook 2007 slow" and you will see what I mean. I also agree with others about the so called ribbon approach. This all reminds me of when BMW introduce their infamous idrive. Al their tech people thought it was revolutionary.
What really happened was catastrophic to BMW. I was present when a customer came in the show room demanded their old BMW back or they would sue.
You need to wait until they get this fixed and I recommend you make sure it is fixed. I cannot believe they released such a dog program.
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