Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition) (PC)
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Microsoft Office 2007 Win32 English CD 02107746 Software Office
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #50 in Software
- Brand: Microsoft
- Model: 021-07746
- Released on: 2007-01-30
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: CD
- Dimensions: 19.20" h x 63.60" w x 88.80" l, .61 pounds
Features
- Produkt Version: 2007
- Sprache: E
- Format: CD
Editorial Reviews
Computer Shopper
This is an excellent office suite, and in terms of features and ease of use, it's also the best
Manufacturer's Description:
Microsoft Office 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users and includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. This system enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your emails 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 email and calendar package, and more reliability and security with the document inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery.
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Create High-Quality Documents Enhanced Reliability and Security Features User-Friendly Operation Manage Your Mails and More Preview Changes and Spot Trends Create and Save Custom Slide Layouts | ![]() Insert graphics and charts such as these into your documents to make them more appealing. View larger. |
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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.
Customer Reviews
Best Office Yet
Its easy to hate everything Microsoft (I too hate crossing Bill's palm with Amex as much as the next person) and its also true that Open Office 2 is a supberb piece of software - particularly given as its free. In fact I have been using Open Office exclusively - until now.
There's one thing that gives Office 2007 the edge over Open Office and that's the new ribbon interface. It really is brilliant and it really does increase productivity. Afterall, if it wasn't for the ribbon it would be just another office suite and I would stick with Open Office.
It seems though, that Microsoft really have sat with end users and really have taken notice of how people use their software and I think that the new user interface is a huge step forward in software interaction.
As a home user as well I don't think the £85ish that Amazon is asking for 3 licenses is particularly expensive. About £27.50 each which if you think back to the cost of the full proper office suite a couple of years ago is pretty good value.
Just bear in mind that the standard Home & Student pack doesn't come with Outlook which I suppose most home users won't miss (although I can't live without it so bought it separately from MS for £40 odd) but it does come with OneNote which is proving useful.
All in all if you're not sure whether you're ready for the jump to Office 07 then download the 60 trial version from Micrsoft's website. Just be warned if you do you may find yourself reaching for your credit card - I did!! (and a word of warning, its much cheaper to by the software from Amazon than to acitivate your demo version via Microsoft).
Value ......... or is it ?
Quite good value for software from Microsoft, and a must 'add on' for any student off to university, especially as it can legitimately be loaded onto three laptops or pc's at any one time - a bonus for families with more than one child or student whom may each have their own pc or laptop.
Others, not students, tempted to buy it for their basic office needs such as Word and Excel and Powerpoint, may perhaps first like to check and see if their employer is signed up to Microsofts 'Home User Program'. This allows employees to register with Microsoft and get a more fully loaded Office package for the price of the disk plus postage and packing, currently about £18.
What's there is great
This finally gives home users a cheap and legal way to get the 'basics' - Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Puzzling though is that Outlook (used by many home users and students to manage appointments and address books) is ommitted in favour of the utterly useless OneNote. Of course this encourages people to downgrade to Vista and get the improved Windows Mail, but nobody is going to spend hundreds on a new operating system just to get an email program - use Thunderbird instead.
To summarise, the three useful programs are VERY good - I am not one of those who hates the new interface - just make sure that you have an alternative email program available (Thunderbird, or a webmail service like Gmail or Yahoo) because you won't get Outlook with this.










