Product Description

Microsoft Works 9 gives you the basic home productivity tools youneed to help make your everyday tasks easier from start to finish.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 070-03575
• Released on: 2007-12-20
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Windows XP
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .62 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Get things done quickly and easily with Microsoft Works 9 - Works can help you coordinate everything from little tasks to large projects. You can stay on top of your busy schedule, update your contact list, manage a household budget and keep up with your correspondence. Works gives you the basic tools you need to make your tasks easier from start to finish.

Customer Reviews

Works 9 - simple and effective toolset
I have been a Works user for years. I was pleased that the new Works 9 retained those facilities that I value: easy file creation and management within the Database - great for expenses files, which can then be totalled by month and analysed by category. Satisfactory basic Spreadsheet, although I use Excel for "clever" stuff. The Word Processor is like a simplified MS Word and is great for letters, envelopes and links to the Database or the email Address Book for names & addresses.
I would not be without it.

great templates, but no presentation software
Let it be clear: this is a great household package. It is great for producing letters, flyers, greeting cards etc. on the fly. But let it be clear also: this is no educational package, as it is lacking presentation software (powerpoint). If you have kids/students, opt for Office student licence, or the free OpenOffice.

Like MS Office; but (much) faster, more intuitive and cheaper
No wonder Microsoft are withdrawing it! It makes the Office suites look like the over-complex and slow-w-w-w-w work solutions they are. Microsoft Works 9 gives you a simple database, an Excel-like spreadsheet, a word processor, calendar, email, address book, fast-access dictionary, Powerpoint viewer and more. Open Office put me off with its needless complexity and nerd-friendly list of options, Ashampoo Office costs more and doesn't always open docx very well (if at all, depending on version). docx (or xlsx) is the current Microsoft Office format, and people will send you documents saved in that format quite often - this product will let you open them, and send back similar documents if you want to. In short, for 95% of users, including myself, this is a superior product to Office because it is faster to start up, easier to use and does almost everything. For under £30? Just buy it, before it is withdrawn at the end of 2009. It will probably be all you need for the next few years - you can even do a 'mail merge' from the database and send out personalised emails, something which seems to be fraught with glitches in supposedly more capable (and certainly more expensive!) suites. Incredibly, it currently also qualifies you for a cheap upgrade to the full-blown Office 2007 products, which would save you £75 to £150 on buying them - should you absolutely need some obscure function that isn't in Works 9. The suite works well and can be learnt easily by a beginner, but many more demanding users will really appreciate the speed at which it lets you get things done. It even integrates with the full Office products very nicely, should you own them (I do). Incidentally, I'm not technically limited - I design web sites at code level. Many of the complaints on here seem to me to be rather ill-founded - there is, for example, absolutely no need to print out every record in a database. In short, this is an excellent and massively under-rated suite.