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Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE
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List Price: $329.95
Our Price: $259.99
Your Save: $ 69.96 ( 21% )
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224263603
Feature: Upgrade version designed for those computers with Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later
Format: DVD-Video
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: 269-11093
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2007-01-30
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Features
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Upgrade version designed for those computers with Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later
Includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word
Edit and analyze a financial spreadsheet, create an important presentation, or build a customer database; find and use the features you need faster and more easily
Create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information
Intuitive look and feel, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using; work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office
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Editorial Reviews:
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Upgrade only; previous version of Office Professional required. Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is the tool that office professionals need if they crave a simplified business life. With the tools in this software set, they'll quickly accomplish routine tasks, manage customer information, produce high-quality marketing materials and simplify database and report creation. Business Contact Manager integrates contact management directly with Outlook, for better control over your customer & prospect information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments and more. With Office Professional 2007 you can save time, produce professional-quality marketing materials in-house and simplify your analysis and reporting of crucial business information. Forecast sales and prioritize tasks with flexible reports and a customizable dashboard Enhance your brand identity with colors, fonts, logos and business information New Publisher Tasks offers tips for key marketing processes - Preparing e-mail lists, tracking effectiveness, writing marketing copy and publishing & distributing materials Save time by reusing content - The new content store keeps text and graphics ready for use in other publications & formats Business Contact Manager helps you manage and track marketing activities - Create recipient lists, personalize communications and more Use Powerpoint 2007 to create more dynamic business presentations - It features an extensive library of slide layouts; new tools for charts, diagrams and tables; quick preview changes and more Distribute marketing materials in PDF format -- convert easily from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access files
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Functional, but complicated
Comment: I have been required to use Office 2007 For College, and while it is functional, finding the tools and adjustments you need is made much more difficult to find. No more drop down menus with simple labels. But it is a bit more functional than past versions.
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Summary: Learning and using went very well.
Comment: Very well organized and the explanations are fairly easy to understand.
Not having the best eyesight I wish the photos were larger with better contrast. I have to go to the program and actually see the screen.
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Summary: Disappointed Yet Again
Comment: We purchased this upgrade because Microsoft no longer supports the version of Outlook we had on our computer and we needed to link with other software so we had to upgrade. We decided to upgrade the whole suite--big mistake. The helpful folks at Microsoft have come out with another unintuitive product that makes more things "automatic", which is very unhelpful. It has removed or hidden some features I used in the former version on a daily basis (for example, the ability to add columns in a simple table in Word--now I have to import an Excel spreadsheet instead--although I can add all sorts of more complex formulas to a Word table--that's just strange). Yet again my Big Brothers at Microsoft have decided that THEY know what I need better than I do so they will make my choices for me. By doing so, they have also made the program much slower and, surprise, sloppier. It's pretty, though--lots of new icons instead of WORDS (imagine that in a WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM!). Guess it would be great if I were ILLITERATE!
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Summary: Upgrade - do you really have to?
Comment: Overall, happy with the upgrade but not without frustrations. The ribbon takes getting used to and can be frustrating but other improvements in Excel are an improvement.
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Summary: TERRIBLE Product
Comment: I recently bought a new laptop, and the changeover involved an "upgrade" to Office 2007. I was aware that there was a new user interface, but was not aware that Office 2007 is, in almost every respect, an INFERIOR product to any Office version that came before it!
I have used MS Office for many years, and am what could be called a "power user," especially for Word and Powerpoint, which I use weekly.
One of the great features of Office is that it has been totally customizable. For those who use office frequently, it has been easy to create your own custom toolbars so you have what you need easily available. Most tasks could be done with one or two mouse clicks... Until Office 2007!
In Office 2007, hardly anything is customizable! You have a constantly changing tool ribbon, which takes up a lot of screen real estate.
The ribbon presents a set of icons based on what it "thinks" you will need at the moment. It is rarely right! ... so you go searching through the tabs trying to find the icon that was on the ribbon a few moments earlier! There is one small "tool bar" up on the title bar that you CAN customize, but it is not convenient, and will not hold many icons. It has the option of being moved below the ribbon, which takes up even more screen real estate, but is still very limited, and cannot be docked or moved from there.
Granted, there are third party programs, such as Ribbon Customizer and Toolbar Toggle, that add back some of the ability to customize, but it is still far inferior to what Office users are used to!
Even the third party programs, however, cannot get around the fact that there are some features in earlier Office versions that are simply NOT included in the new one. In previous versions of Powerpoint, you could add a set of icons that, with one mouse click, allowed you to adjust the vertical spacing of text. That has been omitted in 2007. In the "improved" 2007 version, you must open a dialog box, and make several mouse clicks to adjust vertical spacing!
To make matters worse, Office 2007 documents are not compatible with earlier versions. After spending years establishing formats such as .doc and .ppt as industry standards, Microsoft has introduced a version of office that does not use these formats! If you want to send a document to someone who still has Office 2003 (or any other program that reads .doc files) you need to remember to save it in that format. The default 2007 format cannot be opened by earlier versions!
Office 2007 CAN open the older formats, but even in opening earlier Office formats, there are problems. For example, most users of Powerpoint have learned the trick of adding drop shadows behind the text to make the text stand out on the screen. Office 2007 has changed the way these shadows are formed. When you open a powerpoint presentation made on an earlier version, your old drop shadows WILL NOT ANIMATE with the text. When a slide appears, the shadows of the letters are already in place, and the letters animate in on top! Mircosoft's only suggestion... go through your slides and take the old shadows out, and put new shadows in! (I tried this... it takes 30-40 minutes per presentation! ...And I have hundreds of powerpoint presentations in my file!)
For someone who never used Office before, or who just uses Word to type simple letters, 2007 may be okay, but for anyone who depends on Office for detailed tasks and productivity, 2007 is a nightmare.
I have always loved Microsoft Office. It has been an industry standard for ease of use. In my opinion, that is no longer the case. I believe Microsoft tried to produce something "different" to attract new users, but in the process totally ignored the needs of those who have used their products in the past. If you have the option of staying with an earlier version, DO NOT UPGRADE to this product!
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