Product Description

Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student Edition Retail Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users that 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. PLEASE NOTE :- Licensed for noncommercial use.

Product Details

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

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.

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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.	Insert graphics and charts such as these into your documents to make them more appealing. View larger.
	Use the new diagram and improved charting tools to create rich and stunning visuals and charts. View larger.
	Quick and easy-to-use table styles help your tables look great and consistent across Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. View larger.
	The Document Inspector helps find and remove potentially sensitive "hidden" information from your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. View larger.
	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

Stick with Office XP or 2003
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HEADACHE, CONFUSED!!!!
HOW MUCH DID I PAY TO GET THIS HEADACHE??????????????????
£80!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I might be exdurating a little. If you have Office XP or Office 2003 STICK WITH IT. PLEASE, both of those versions are simiar and don't give you a headache.
What is good about it? Why are there good reviews? Why are Microsoft putting it on shelves for innocent people to buy? And for PC shops to sell this to them? I don't get it.

One of the most annoying pieces of software I've ever come across.
You might've expected, as did I, that Microsoft Office 2007 would be a large improvement over 2003. Easier to use, clearer, stylish, new tools which allow you to create a great website/presentation/word document, but 2007 is terrible. The main thing that annoys me is the format of word documents has been changed to docx. I'm forced to use Microsoft Office 2007 in school as every computer has been upgraded, (thankfully they still run on XP).
I for some reason cannot download any type of "file converter" as it just simply doesn't work. Microsoft Office 2003 has done me perfectly fine for years, except for the annoying "create your drawing here" box. And the fact it crashes. I assumed Microsoft would have taken into consideration all the point their customers made and done something about it.
No.
MO2007 crashes a lot more than 2003, it's slow to run on less modern computers, you can never find any of the tools you need, you can't select an ordinary text box without altering it's properties which really is annoying, it's too expensive for what it actually is, the toolbar at the top looks disgusting, and it would be very difficult to use if you were new to using computers or not very experienced.
Microsoft really do need to go back to basics with this. Office 2007 is meant to look like Vista, but Vista looks horrid anyway so why bother?
It's slow, annoying, crashes too often, it probably takes up too much HDD space, way too expensive for what it is and I wouldn't recommend it.
Stick to Office 2003.
Or buy a different word processing package.

intuitive
probably like most people who have used microsoft office from inception, the new visuals and file menus of the 2007 version initially jarred with me.

however, after a long period of use, they all make sense. menu items likely to be used first are to the left, most are in the middle, and the finishing off ones are to the right, in logical, intuitive fashion. once this is grasped the whole system is easy to pick up.

i also like the ease of use too. some have complained that we now are forced to use more mouse clicks. i don't find this to be true. indeed, on many occasions the options are laid out so obviously that two clicks do instead of five or six. e.g., especially in formatting tables.

one of the best things about word 2007 is its ability (with a tiny downloadable add-on) to save documents in .pdf format. previously i had had to have the entire open office suite on my computer just to do this one simple task. now i don't have to.

office 2007, in particular word 2007, KNOWS how to layout the menu commands. in previous versions, command buttons would frequently be lost off the right-hand side of the screen. word 2007 keeps the important buttons and, if your screen size is smaller (say, you have a 15" monitor) the "sacrificed" buttons will be the style buttons, which are still easily accessible via a drop-down menu.

a useful new feature: selecting text with similar formatting. just put cursor on, say, a word already italicised. then select all text with similar formatting. now you can change all text in italics to bold. a simple and easy way to do something that previously was time consuming and awkward.

another thing: creating and editing charts just got a whole lot easier. the process is so intuitive (or perhaps previous versions of word were counter-intuitive) that it's difficult to make a mistake.

oh, and a last thing, why would you actually pay MORE for word 2007 alone when the office 2007 package is CHEAPER?

would i buy it again? absolutely!