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Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC)

Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC)
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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1 in Software
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • Model: 79G-00007
  • Released on: 2007-01-30
  • Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
  • Format: CD-ROM
  • Dimensions: 19.68" h x 19.68" w x 19.68" l, 3.00 pounds

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  • OFFICE HOME AND STUDENT2007
  • . UK

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description:
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users and includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote. This system enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your notes and information in one place, making it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done. This updated version features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities that let you create high-quality documents, plus a powerful note and information organization tool, and more reliability and security with the document inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery. With these enhancements, Home and Student 2007 makes it a pleasure to complete schoolwork and other tasks at home.

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

Create High-Quality Documents
Home and Student 2007 gives you access to updated graphics, formatting galleries, and an intuitive user interface that exposes commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce high-quality documents that will make you proud. Improved picture, charting, and graphics tools help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly, while a large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts. The results-oriented user interface makes it easier for you to find and use product features so you can enhance your documents according to your specifications. More stable bullets and numbers, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries provide you with a wealth of other formatting choices. Meanwhile, document themes help ensure a consistent appearance among the documents you create in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, to make working across the programs you use most more convenient. PowerPoint also features context-sensitive tabs and easy-to-use galleries that make it simple for you to include tables and other graphics in your documents.

Enhanced Reliability and Security Features
With an improved automatic Document Recovery tool and the new Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Home and Student 2007 helps you work with more confidence and security. Thanks to these two features, you'll never have to worry about losing documents after a system failure or exposing your personal identification information or unwanted comments to others before sharing your documents.

User-Friendly Operation
Packed with innovative features and improvements, Home and Student 2007 has a streamlined interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your questions. In addition, command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus. The Help system also offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative ScreenTips provide help concerning commands, and the command tabs themselves are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete, so you won't waste time figuring out the appropriate command. When you need more guidance, online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize Notes and Information
Home and Student 2007 includes OneNote, a digital notebook that helps you gather, organize, and search many types of information in one place. This means you can consolidate typed text, images, audio and video recordings, digital handwritten notes, Web clippings, and more on the same page. OneNote also provides flexible note-taking tools to help you organize information the way you want. Categorize important projects or information in a way that makes sense to you, using an easy-to-use layout of notebooks, sections, and pages. Type or organize content anywhere on the page and track important items with customisable note tags. To help keep you on track, the powerful Instant Search feature helps you to find information you are looking for quickly. With it you can even search handwritten notes, the text in images and scanned documents, and spoken words in audio recordings.

Preview Changes and Spot Trends
Home and Student 2007 saves you time by making it easier to format your Office documents with Live Preview. This tool lets you quickly preview proposed changes to your document while you're working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. Taking a look at your proposed formatting before committing to it lets you experiment without risk and can help minimize future edits. Excel features highly visual conditional formatting with new data bars, more colourful gradients, and icons that you can use to format data based on specific rules, so you can more easily identify key data trends, which can help you study and prepare written papers or reports.

Create and Save Custom Slide Layouts
PowerPoint lets you create presentations with ease using pre-built and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the custom layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future presentations.

Broader Distribution of Your Documents
Home and Student 2007's features aren't limited to the work you do at home; they extend to broader distribution of your documents and presentations. New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure increased distribution and sharing of your documents with users on any platform. This is particularly ideal for either sharing documents with friends and families, or for presenting information and assignments in a computer-integrated class.

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Insert graphics and charts such as these into your documents to make them more appealing. View larger.
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Use the new diagram and improved charting tools to create rich and stunning visuals and charts. View larger.
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Quick and easy-to-use table styles help your tables look great and consistent across Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. View larger.
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The Document Inspector helps find and remove potentially sensitive "hidden" information from your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. View larger.
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Office OneNote 2007 enables you to gather, organize, and search almost any type of information. The powerful search tool is shown here, with results highlighted in yellow. View larger.




Customer Reviews

Excellent value and it increases productivity4
I read the reviews on MS Office 2007 (Home & Student edition) and was a little concerned that this product would be of an inferior quality to the 2003 version.
At first glance the difference between 2007 and previous versions is significant, however this difference is to the benefit of the product. Excel has a simplicity that ensures greater productivity and Powerpoint provides a clear and concise slide generation process that removes many of the nuances of previous versions (e.g slide animation consistency). 1note improvements will benefit students with the introduction of a clear note book fileing system.
So overall I am pleased with the product and my only gripe is that the Project 2007 version (a stand alone product) lacks the "Ribbon" application.

Dumbed-down version of Office 2003 - hate it!1
Very painful to use if you're familiar with Office 2003, or indeed just about any other program package! I consider myself highly computer literate; I work with computers all day every day, yet it is taking me a LONG time to learn how to do everything in Office 2007 that I could do with ease in 2003. The drop-down menus are gone, which not only means you have to learn what a load of new pictoral symbols mean, but is also quite slow and cumbersome to operate. The new version of Excel is particularly awful - extremely inflexible. It's fine if you just want a simple graph but if you want any level of sophistication - stick with excel 2003 because 2007 does not let you manipulate the data. I felt like 2007 was an "Excel for dummies" program.

And the Office Assistant is no more - sob! - bring back the cat!!

My overall feeling about Office 2007 is that Microsoft have changed things for the sake of changing things without any consideration of efficiency or flexibility for the user. I can not think of one single advantage of this new version over Office 2003.

Takes getting used to4
If you've been used to using previous versions, i'd say stick to them. Office 07 has a very different layout to its older versions. It can take some getting used to depending on how good you are at using computers. It took me a while to find some of the features i wanted, but i suppose thats because of the new additional features which make it easy to manipulate the text and have more control.

If you just want to get things done quickly with no fuss i don't think this would be for you. But i really like it!