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Software : Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (3 User Licence) (PC) .
Rating: 
- Microsoft have ruined their software
This software is almost unrecognisable from the previous version. I can't find anything (even some basic things). The learning curve is massive.
Using 2007 is not as uncomfortable as relearning bowel control but none of us would sign up to relarning something we do naturally so why buy 2007. I expect all the features which enable us to get things done quickly are still in there but you can't do it quickly any more because you can't find the feature you need!
Anyway if you are going to learn what is effectively new software why not go for Lotus (the difference is that huge).
If it aint broke don't fix it!
On the plus side it looks a bit prettier
Rating:
- More user friendly than 2003
I'll admit, at first it is very difficult to use, but once you have been using it a while, you'll see it is a lot more user friendly than 2003 was, and people who are not very good with microsoft office packages will find they can do a lot more with it, as it is much easier to find what you are looking for. As for the price, if you look around you'll be able to find a better price for what you want. Just remember, if all you want is Word,Excel and Powerpoint, Office Home and Student will be better for you, and cheaper than Standard
Rating:
- Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
Bought for my daughters laptop which had Vista; we didn't like Vista. So bought this application so that we could have something similar to Word, which we had on our main computer. Only used Microsoft Word previously; this is slightly different but you very quickly overcome any differences. Now prefer this to Word; find it excellent and would recommend it. Very easy and quick to install.Don't understand some of the comments from other purchases re not as good as Word.
Haven't as yet useed the other applications but feel sure that they will be just as good and easy to use.
Rating: - Maybe its just me...
I'm 19, a student at uni and have been using Microsoft Works which came with my laptop last August. I hate Microsoft Works. So within the last two weeks i've been searching for another program that would offer me more functionality for my uni work. I downloaded the trial and have to say that i've no problem with it whatsoever. Seriously... although the sight of seeing the new layout was initially disheartening i have to admit that i don't find it that hard to use the new layout or any other features. It does what i want it to do and i'm perfectly fine with the way it runs. I adapt fairly quickly to things so the changes don't matter so much to me.
However, i'm using the trial version which you can get of the Microsoft website (the uk version not the .com one) which gives you three options, that of testing it in your web browser straight away, downloadind a two month trial (which i've done), or buying it. I would test it if you're unsure to see if it works well on your pc/laptop before buying considering the volume of reviews that point out the inadequacy of the product.
At least try it out, i would say
Rating: - The truth : Insulting to the seasoned Excel - Word user
If you are familiar with Excel 1997 or 2003, and are not a user Clicking on menus but use mostly shortcuts and menu undescores to surf through menus and submenus, Office 2007 will be a true nightmare: you will have to learn it all back again. To me, consultant, learning the new Word is such a enormous waste of time, that I unistalled it right away. For Excel, well, confronted with the limits of memory management in the previous version of Excel, I had no choice than to switch to Office 2007. The price is dear : what Excel does is basically unchanged, however, the way to do it, is completely modified. Microsoft has been so disregarding for its users' needs, that it quietly informs them, that all classic menus are gone, irrevocably : you will use their "Ribbon"!
Add to that, that Excel2007 clearly is unfinished : many disfunctionnalities when using complex formulas, seeing different informations in the ActiveCell and the related information in the formula bar. You can wonder whether it has ever been beta tested. An explanantion : I was offered the beta test to the program 6 months ago, but confronted with the unacceptable user interface, I ignored the offer.
Add also that the colorful Ribbon distracts your eye into low efficiency. And add further, that the Ribbon takes 4 times more screen space than previous menus, so that Excel shows even less of the spreadsheet.
When you sum this all up, you realise that from the very first use, your efficiency is penalised by everything that is new (menus and screen). And for what is behind the user interface? Well, unchanged.
Microsofts' programmers do not seem to understand that Excel is not a fashion object, but an efficiency tool. I want my Menus back!
- Microsoft have ruined their softwareThis software is almost unrecognisable from the previous version. I can't find anything (even some basic things). The learning curve is massive.
Using 2007 is not as uncomfortable as relearning bowel control but none of us would sign up to relarning something we do naturally so why buy 2007. I expect all the features which enable us to get things done quickly are still in there but you can't do it quickly any more because you can't find the feature you need!
Anyway if you are going to learn what is effectively new software why not go for Lotus (the difference is that huge).
If it aint broke don't fix it!
On the plus side it looks a bit prettier
Rating:
- More user friendly than 2003I'll admit, at first it is very difficult to use, but once you have been using it a while, you'll see it is a lot more user friendly than 2003 was, and people who are not very good with microsoft office packages will find they can do a lot more with it, as it is much easier to find what you are looking for. As for the price, if you look around you'll be able to find a better price for what you want. Just remember, if all you want is Word,Excel and Powerpoint, Office Home and Student will be better for you, and cheaper than Standard
Rating:
- Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student EditionBought for my daughters laptop which had Vista; we didn't like Vista. So bought this application so that we could have something similar to Word, which we had on our main computer. Only used Microsoft Word previously; this is slightly different but you very quickly overcome any differences. Now prefer this to Word; find it excellent and would recommend it. Very easy and quick to install.Don't understand some of the comments from other purchases re not as good as Word.
Haven't as yet useed the other applications but feel sure that they will be just as good and easy to use.
Rating:
- Maybe its just me...I'm 19, a student at uni and have been using Microsoft Works which came with my laptop last August. I hate Microsoft Works. So within the last two weeks i've been searching for another program that would offer me more functionality for my uni work. I downloaded the trial and have to say that i've no problem with it whatsoever. Seriously... although the sight of seeing the new layout was initially disheartening i have to admit that i don't find it that hard to use the new layout or any other features. It does what i want it to do and i'm perfectly fine with the way it runs. I adapt fairly quickly to things so the changes don't matter so much to me.
However, i'm using the trial version which you can get of the Microsoft website (the uk version not the .com one) which gives you three options, that of testing it in your web browser straight away, downloadind a two month trial (which i've done), or buying it. I would test it if you're unsure to see if it works well on your pc/laptop before buying considering the volume of reviews that point out the inadequacy of the product.
At least try it out, i would say
Rating:
- The truth : Insulting to the seasoned Excel - Word userIf you are familiar with Excel 1997 or 2003, and are not a user Clicking on menus but use mostly shortcuts and menu undescores to surf through menus and submenus, Office 2007 will be a true nightmare: you will have to learn it all back again. To me, consultant, learning the new Word is such a enormous waste of time, that I unistalled it right away. For Excel, well, confronted with the limits of memory management in the previous version of Excel, I had no choice than to switch to Office 2007. The price is dear : what Excel does is basically unchanged, however, the way to do it, is completely modified. Microsoft has been so disregarding for its users' needs, that it quietly informs them, that all classic menus are gone, irrevocably : you will use their "Ribbon"!
Add to that, that Excel2007 clearly is unfinished : many disfunctionnalities when using complex formulas, seeing different informations in the ActiveCell and the related information in the formula bar. You can wonder whether it has ever been beta tested. An explanantion : I was offered the beta test to the program 6 months ago, but confronted with the unacceptable user interface, I ignored the offer.
Add also that the colorful Ribbon distracts your eye into low efficiency. And add further, that the Ribbon takes 4 times more screen space than previous menus, so that Excel shows even less of the spreadsheet.
When you sum this all up, you realise that from the very first use, your efficiency is penalised by everything that is new (menus and screen). And for what is behind the user interface? Well, unchanged.
Microsofts' programmers do not seem to understand that Excel is not a fashion object, but an efficiency tool. I want my Menus back!
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