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Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition Upgrade) (PC)

Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition Upgrade) (PC)
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Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #477 in Software
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • Model: 021-07668
  • Released on: 2007-01-30
  • Platform: Windows XP
  • Format: CD-ROM
  • Dimensions: 6.00 pounds

Editorial Reviews

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.

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

Create High-Quality Documents
Office 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 pr! ograms 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, Office 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, Office 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.

Manage Your Mails and More
Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a comprehensive time and information manager for your busy digital life. You'll never have problems with personal information again. Take control of the tools you need to prioritise, organize and search. Schedule and block off time to follow up on items, manage your daily priorities and use Windows SharePoint Services technology to manage every aspect of your digital life more effectively. Manage your shared information and content in one interface, through SharePoint Services -- documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information are easier than ever to handle Stay safe from junk mail and phishing Web sites - The improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn you about threatening content within an e-mail message Colour-code your information for easier organization -- it's a simple, visual way to distinguish items from one another Manage all your blogs to RSS feeds directly through Outlook ! 2007 New Attachment Preview helps you see your Office Outlook 2007 attachments with one click directly in the reading pane, saving you time and effort

Preview Changes and Spot Trends
Office 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.

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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.

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

confusing layout2
i bought this software thinking it would be an improvement on windows 2003 - how wrong i was. the options at the top of the screen are very confusing, and although you can save in previous formats you still get confusing messages saying that certain functions are not supported.

i will persevere and try and make sense of it all - but i thought that these programs were supposed to make life easier, not more difficult.

Office 2007 reviewed from a business point of view1
Just don't upgrade is all I can say.

Yes you can make PDF's easily. But there are 000's of websites that will do it for you for free anyway. And this, and this along with better colour schemes are about the only obvious "Pro" for this software.

Everything else, I mean everything is worse than Office 2003. I speak as an advanced user of Powerpoint and Excel. Things like pivot tables in Excel 2007 are far worse, editing charts is a nightmare (though of course you can choose far more colour schemes if you are that way inclined), and doing concise but detailed presentations that do not involve animations is very difficult.

And of course there is the whole challenge of a new menu structure, which takes weeks to relearn (and takes up more room on the screen, so worse for laptop users...)

The whole emphasis has been to make a suite of software that is great for High School students doing a project (e.g. fancy graphics etc), but for anyone with a more serious purpose in mind just don't make the transition. It is not worth it.

Office 2007 Not quick enough3
I upgraded from Office 2003 which I use full time at work. Office 2007 programmes have grouped all the same type of functions together which you might ask why has it taken so long to do something so logical. The problems arise when you don't know which group to search in. i.e. to to set the print area in Excel. This makes for a guessing game which can get long winded and frustrating when you're trying to do something quickly and efficiently. Given time of course one will remember where these are hidden but if you don't use Office very much at home this could take a long time. When one wants to send Office 2007 documents and spreadsheets to the office one has to remember to save them in the format that can be read by the programmes at work. In my case that's Offce 2003 so 'Saving As' in Office 2003 format is an extra burden, - more so if you forget! I have removed Office 2007 from my PC and reinstalled Office 2003. I can work faster in Office 2003 and don't miss Office 2007's extras at all. I'm now 'in sync' with how I work at the office and much happier for it. I would be happy to install Office 2007 if/when we use it at work.