Product Description

Office Small Business 2007 is the complete powerful andeasy-to-use productivity and contact management suite. It willoffer new tools to help employees at small businesses work moreefficiently and effectively so they can deliver better customerservic

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 45202G
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 5.51" w x 7.48" l, .93 pounds

Features

• • Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 upgrade package• Contains: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher• Work effectively, manage your customer and prospect information in one place• Produce professional marketing materials

Manufacturer's Description
Office Small Business 2007 is the complete, powerful and easy-to-use productivity and contact management suite. It will offer new tools to help employees at small businesses work more efficiently and effectively so they can deliver better customer service. People will be able to organize all their customer and prospect information in one place, as well as develop more professional presentations, marketing materials and campaigns in-house.

Customer Reviews

A must have, because you must have it
First things first, this is a great piece of software. If your computers can support it then it runs quick, it's slick, and it does everything you want from a small business piece of office software. It's good. Seriously.

But then again, so was Office 2003, and the thing is, this doesn't do stuff so much better. You're on a learning curve with the new interface, and though after some initial work it's arguably better in the short run you're still looking at time put in, if not training costs.

If you're running Office 2003, stay with it while you can. But if you're looking at new office software, Office 2007 beats everything out there hands down.

Elegant and efficient software that does its job well
I was bounced into buying Office Small Business 2007 by Microsoft, whose Windows Genuine Advantage spyware discovered that my old and trustworthy copy of Office 2003 was, shall we say, of somewhat irregular provenance. From the Amazon reviews, I fully expected that getting used to the new office suite would be sheer misery. Imagine my surprise, then, when I found Office 2007 to be beautifully designed, fast, intuitive and easy to use. After a couple of hours of practice, I felt quite at home. Some users might object to the new appearance and layout, and those who hardly ever use a mouse but prefer to use keyboard instructions may find things rather challenging at first. But for those like me who are mouse users and who require not much beyond Word and Excel, Office 2007 should more than fit the bill. I was delighted to find, incidentally, that I can open Word 2003 files without any difficulty, and that I can save files in a form compatible with Word 2003. So far so good, in other words, and highly recommended.

Bitterly disappointing. More difficult to use, no advantage
As a business user I don't really have anything good to say about Office 2007. The new interface now requires 3-4 mouse clicks where 2-3 were needed previously. Many of the keyboard shortcuts no longer work or don't work the way they used to (I don't use the mouse very often). It's not possible to customise the menu structure to any extent as Microsoft have imposed the "ribbon" structure with it's fixed content.

Many of the highlight colours just don't stand out e.g. highlighting text is pink on a white background but highlighted buttons are a sort of yellow colour. There are also only 3 colour schemes available, blue, silver or black. None is particularly attractive and none is particularly clear. Differentiating between several windows often not easy because they are all similar colours.

As a heavy office user, I found the new version of office restrictive and un-instinctive, as if Microsoft have told me how i will work and what commands I will have easily available instead of me being able to select my own. Oh, and you can't even customise a macro button image now! Instead you have to use the ones provided which are an anonymous bunch at best.

you are restricted to a single row of custom buttons - the "quick access toolbar" but if you want the traditional icons on the bar (font, size, style) then you can only fit another 10 or so on the bar - which is restricted to a single line only. when visible, the ribbon occupies a massive amount of space (about 30mm of vertical height) thus restricting the amount of text that can be seen. There appears to be no option to relocate the ribbon, it's always along the top. Hiding the ribbon then needs a double click to bring it back.

I am struggling to express how frustrating I find this software. I am currently in the process of requesting a refund from MS and going back to Office 2003. Note that I can't find anything that 2007 does which 2003 didn't already do for me.