Product Description

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Win32 English Version Upgrade International Not to US CD 26910294 Software Office

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 45890G
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 5.51" w x 7.48" l, .90 pounds

Features

• Office Professinal 2007. Version Upgrad
• Office Professinal 2007. Version Upgrade

Manufacturer's Description:
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 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. 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.

Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions.

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.

With Access tracking templates, you can create databases and generate reports quickly. View larger.

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, colours, fonts, and business information. Or take advantage of hundreds of professionally designed and customisable 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 catalogues and data sheets.

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 customisable 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.

Locate and Prioritise 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 Colour 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.

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 customisable homepage that helps you forecast sales and prioritise 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 Analyse Information
Excel provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyse 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 data sheet 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 data sheets. 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.

Customer Reviews

Slightly buggy and definitely slow, but easier for novices and files ARE a lot smaller
I'm using now Office 2007 for two years, and it took me some time to get used to it. Now I wouldn't go back, although there are some things which I still don't like.

Whereas Office 03 was only a little different from Office 2000 (really not worth the upgrade), this is a major change.
The main change in look and functionality is the tabbed ribbon. Well, I think that this Ribbon thing is an excellent idea for people who did not know Word inside out, as I did.


WHAT I DON'T LIKE:

It IS slower, as the other reviewer said. No, it's not your impression, I also noticed it. And I have a 2,14 GHerz processor. The reason it is slower is that it sort of "zips" the file. That's why it is so much smaller, and that's why it takes some time to open it, if it has to first unzip it! I suppose you can't have everything, can you?
I find it a bit time-consuming to switch among tabs in the Ribbon, when you had all the info neatly arranged in categories with drop-down menus. Now you have to switch back and forth all the time. But, like I said, for people who didn't know about the subtleties and where to find them, it must be a great relief, because once in the right tab, you have everything in front of your eyes. Tables are so easy now for my co-workers who were timid about tables.
I knew all the hidden places of everything, and I found it in a jiffy, and now for some things I need two or three clicks instead of one. With the result that I had to clog the customizable bar below the ribbon with all my necessary commands - which are quite a few, if you think that before they took three toolbars and now they have to be squeezed into one! For instance, Open New Blank Document. It's quite laborious if you want to do it "their way". Click on the Microsoft icon, click on New, and then you have a dialog box which has you choose whether you want a document or a spreadsheet or a presentation. What's the use of that? 99% of the times you click "New" from Word, you will want a Word document, otherwise you would open Excel, wouldn't you?

There are also some bugs, things not working as they say they will. In the beginning I had quite a lot, now with Service Pack 1 most have gone, but there are still some.

The most annoying for me is text styles. I have asked Word repeatedly to modify normal style according to my wishes. I have a black and white laser printer, so I didn't want the default light blue headings, I wanted them black, and I also didn't want all that space between the lines, I wanted the "no spacing" to be Normal default. So I saved my changes clicking on "not only for this document, but for all documents based on this template". Next document, blue headings. Then, thinking I'm very clever, I went and changed "normal.dot", the template document, saved my changes, and went back to a document. Blue headings. GRRR.
Not only that, but many times, when I select a text and then click on the "Normal" style, it won't change to normal, it remains as it was. Same when I do Shift+Control+N. Nothing. I have to scroll down the zillion fonts I have on my font list to find the one set for normal, put it there manually. Or sometimes it works when I click "delete formatting" and then ask again for Normal.

On a more frivolous side, I don' t like the fact that it only has those boring default colours, which you cannot change: blue, black-grey and light grey. Whereas my classic windows were a gradient between blue and pink, with nice violet hues in between.


WHAT I LIKE:
I like the calibri font.
zoom and unzoom from the toolbar
word count from the toolbar (but if you want the details, and I do, because I'm a translator and I am paid by characters, not words, it's much less easy to find them).
Office Clipboard is not hidden in a menu, but more ready at hand, as you really want it often.
Beautiful new table styles
an important thing. This docx format is much much much smaller than regular docs. It's just a pity that it isn't backwards compatible with them. Now, before saving as docx, you have to think: "do I want this document only for myself, or would I want to send it to some friend who doesn't have Office 2007, and wouldn't be able to read it"? Well, of course, in this case you can always save it again as doc and send it to the friend, but it is a nuisance. I'm saving my docs little by little, and I find I'm making space in my hard drive.

And there are many many other great features. If only they could fix those annoying bugs.
It crashes less than its predecessor. It does crash, even if you're not doing anything wrong (Word 2003 crashed on me often when I used document map, which I always use to navigate between chapters of a book or play which I'm translating). This one crashes more randomly, and the recovery is much better.

I surely recommend it for novices. But for old-timers who were completely satisfied with Office 03, it's not essential. I mean, it's fun, but you really don't need to change, so if it will be a big financial sacrifice, you could easily consider not to make it.

For me - not worth the cost of upgrade
I've just upgraded to MS Office 2007 Pro. Whilst it probably has some rinky dinky new features, for me, I wish had kept my money in my pocket. After a couple of days of usage I've come to the conclusion that I should very definitely not have upgraded. If it ain't broke, then why did they fix it? On the face of it the programs have been given just a new and annoying user interface with a few new frills. Word is driving me nuts at the moment! All those tried and tested tools have been scattered all over the place and I'm spending a disproportinate amount of time searching for the things I know and love. I'm not sure if it is my computer but Office 2007 seems to be running more slowly than the earlier version I had. In the new Outlook I have to wait for the program to catch me up when I'm typing (I've got a dual processor machine with 4 G/Bytes of RAM!).

Maybe I'll get used to this new version of Office but, for the moment, I'm having dark thoughts about Microsoft Office and what I see as the waste of over £200 for the upgrade.

There's a lot of truth in the saying 'caveat emptor' and I really am starting to wonder for how much longer I can continue pouring money into the Microsoft coffers. Time for a change I think. I would advise other customers to try before you buy. I dropped a bit of a clanger on this one!

Old dog new tricks...
Just a very quick review of this product.
I bought the professional edition as I required MS Access but my comments are relevant to the other packages.
Most people are completely familiar with the MS suite of products so my only comment is that as a user of Excel since 1995 I found the new version more difficult at first to use as quickly as I had done before when previously I have upgraded.

The new layout for me was not immediately intuitive and I spent a lot of frustrating time trying to find out where buttons and options were for fairly basic things I used to do very quickly and without any thought.

It is an old dog new tricks problem...

Having now used the new version for a month I have re-orientated myself to the new layout and find the improvements worth the initial frustration of getting used to the new way of working ( same applies to MS Word ).
There are many useful new features ( some of which I used to have to write VBA code for - especially the extra conditional formatting functionality included ).

I bought a new PC and given the expense of that I calculated the extra cost of upgrading my MS Office was worth it to be fully up to date. If I had not bought a new PC I don't think I would have upgraded quite yet.

I still have to save files in old formats when distributing files, losing a lot of the benefits of the 2007 suite, because I don't think there is a critical mass of other users yet using the 2007 versions.

Did MS need to bring out this new office suit ? Probably not. Is it better that the last version ? yes. Worth the money ? Probably only if upgrading your PC and O/S to keep everything with the current versions.