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3 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great product, 2007-10-08
I got Microsoft student 2007, and it works great i have 8 programs including word, powerpoint, access, onenote, groove, excel outlook and publisher. Works great for a college student needing good powerpoints ect. On the other hand it is a bit tricky to use, you do have to learn a few new things, and were everything relocated too.
47 of 58 customers found the following review helpful:
 ...and two steps back..., 2007-09-30
I would like to know which genius came up with this little gem. This must be the worst "update" of a software in history.
As I was forced to buy a new computer, I was "blessed" with this malady of a software.
Despite the appealing first impression - the new Office presents itself with a modern and colorful layout, the debilitating flaws become all too quickly obvious once one starts to work with it.
The new feature, the Ribbon, is one of those things that look good only on paper. (like those state-of-the-art kitchen which are designed by very smart men, designers, engineers... but alas no cooks...) If you, like me, are one of those frequent users who work with the software on a daily basis, are very familiar with all its features and value the option of customizing your settings and toolbars in order to streamline (=timesaving) your individual processes, you are in for a major disappointment. The Ribbon is static - no customizing. Microsoft allegedly surveyed thousands of users and put the most popular features in so-called groups on this Ribbon. Great, if you are one of those surveyed users - a nightmare, if you were taking full advantage of individualizing (=streamlining) features. It is sort of like having a closet full of nice clothes, and then a survey shows that "gray goes with everything" and we are all stuck with the same gray clothes.
Instead of doing my work, I spent hours searching for features that are now hidden, moved, or simply do not exist anymore. I have been cursing at my screen, for hours. And I am getting more and more irritated as I am looking at my work which wants to be done.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am all for innovation, but not for innovation's sake. And I don't mind at all learning new things, if they prove to, in fact, improve things. And nope, there was not one "new thing" that made me say "ah, now that's a great improvement."
Sorry, Microsoft, but simply moving things around, throwing features out and making everything more uniform (=static) does not count as innovation in my book.
3 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, 2007-09-19
The product works but I had to install 4 different times because it would only load one thing at a time: Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint. I don't know if it was Vista issue or product issue.
19 of 29 customers found the following review helpful:
 New User, 2007-08-23
I know that I give this office 5 stars because I never used the older versions that the other reviewers did. I did have to take the tutorials.
I have really enjoyed the office and it has been a great learning experience. Other reviewers that gave the Office low scores were the ones that had the older version. They had a lot of changes and a lot of new things to learn which they did not enjoy.
I can say that if you never used any other version of office you will enjoy the 2007 full version.
You do have to take the tutorials to get the full benefits of the office.
I have been using the office for all most 2 months at the end of August.
I would recommend this to my friends if they are interested in putting in the time to learn the software.
68 of 85 customers found the following review helpful:
 Waste of money? Um, yeah., 2007-08-19
It appears what happened was someone sitting around the old Microsoft Offices said "Hey, I got a great idea! Let's make Office look really pretty! We may have to take away some of the functionality, but hey, it will look great!" My problem is I need tools such as a workhorse spreadsheet program, a powerful word processor, a flexible database, and stunning presentation program to successfully complete my job. Upon purchasing Office 2007, I was expecting expanded features and functions to assist me in doing so, just like every update had previously provided me. Instead I found myself with a redesigned interface (which takes time to learn) and an actual reduction of features from Office 2003 (which Microsoft freely admits occurred, because they couldn't fit a few of the features into the new interface). So what you are in fact spending your hard earned money on is a group of programs designed to look really good (with neato 3D graphics, wow!), but at the expense of taking away your tools rather than expanding them.
Waste of money? Um, yeah.
I recommend waiting until Microsoft finally comes to the realization that how the software looks is truly the least of my concerns because I have work to do.
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