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Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Edition (Upgrade) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £299.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2003 Server
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
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MPN: 1272657
Model: 45890G
UPC: 882224150248
EAN: 0882224150248
ASIN: B000HEV6EI
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Office Professional 2007 provides a complete suite of powerful and easy-to-use business productivity and information management tools that help small businesses and business professionals to manage customer information and marketing activities, analyze and report business information, and accomplish routine tasks quickly and effectively. Office Professional 2007 provides a complete set of productivity and information management software tools that helps business professionals to: Better manage prospect an...
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 For me - not worth the cost of upgrade February 3, 2007
Richard Broom (Lincolnshire UK)
112 out of 117 found this review helpful
I've just upgraded to MS Office 2007 Pro. Whilst it probably has some rinky dinky new features, for me, I wish had kept my money in my pocket. After a couple of days of usage I've come to the conclusion that I should very definitely not have upgraded. If it ain't broke, then why did they fix it? On the face of it the programs have been given just a new and annoying user interface with a few new frills. Word is driving me nuts at the moment! All those tried and tested tools have been scattered all over the place and I'm spending a disproportinate amount of time searching for the things I know and love. I'm not sure if it is my computer but Office 2007 seems to be running more slowly than the earlier version I had. In the new Outlook I have to wait for the program to catch me up when I'm typing (I've got a dual processor machine with 4 G/Bytes of RAM!).
Maybe I'll get used to this new version of Office but, for the moment, I'm having dark thoughts about Microsoft Office and what I see as the waste of over 200 for the upgrade.
There's a lot of truth in the saying 'caveat emptor' and I really am starting to wonder for how much longer I can continue pouring money into the Microsoft coffers. Time for a change I think. I would advise other customers to try before you buy. I dropped a bit of a clanger on this one!
Slightly buggy and definitely slow, but files ARE smaller February 11, 2007
Irene (Greece)
64 out of 66 found this review helpful
I have been using Word 2007 for two months (there was a beta release given for free with a PC magazine in my country before I got the official release) and, yes, I'm not that thrilled. I'm thrilled enough not to uninstall it, but I am discontented with many things.
For one thing, it IS slower, as the other reviewer said. No, it's not your impression, I also noticed it. And I have a 2,14 GHerz processor.
The main change in look and functionality is the tabbed ribbon. Well, I think that this Ribbon thing is good for people who did not know Word inside out, as I did. I find it time-consuming to switch among tabs in the Ribbon, when you had all the info neatly arranged in categories with drop-down menus. Now you have to switch back and forth all the time. But, like I said, for people who didn't know about the subtleties and where to find them, it must be a great relief. Tables are so easy now for my co-workers who were timid about tables.
I knew all the hidden places of everything, and I found it in a jiffy, and now for some things I need two or three clicks instead of one. With the result that I had to clog the customizable bar below the ribbon with all my necessary commands - which are quite a few, if you think that before they took three toolbars and now they have to be squeezed into one! For instance, Open New Blank Document. It's quite laborious if you want to do it "their way". Click on the Microsoft icon, click on New, and then you have a dialog box which has you choose whether you want a document or a spreadsheet or a presentation. What's the use of that? 99% of the times you click "New" from Word, you will want a Word document, otherwise you would open Excel, wouldn't you?
It took me ages to re-set all the old keyboard shortcuts (I'm a keyboard shortcut person, when using Word I hardly ever use the mouse at all, saving my wrists). In the beta version it was horrible, because each time I set them, they became invalid again after some time of working with the document, and nothing worked, not even CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Only their default shortcuts (that I had deleted) worked. Thankfully this problem was solved in the official version. But in a couple of instances I couldn't find the command at all, in order to assign a shortcut for it, even if I looked again and again at "All commands".
But this is not the main problem. The main problem is that I've been having problems. Things not working as they say they will. Even in the current, official version (not beta).
One thing is, that when I installed Office 2007, it asked me if I wanted to preserve the older version (2003), and I said yes. Yet, sometimes, when I want to open the older one, it says "this function does not function correctly anymore", or Windows installer comes in. I click on Cancel and it goes away, and Word 2003 functions normally. At other times, Word 2007 will open a Windows installer window. I tried to run setup again to "Repair", let's see if it will fix it.
In the program itself, the text styles. I asked Word repeatedly to modify normal style according to my wishes (I have a black and white laser printer, so I didn't want the default light blue headings, I wanted them black, and I also didn't want all that space between the lines). I saved my changes saying "not only for this document, but for all documents based on this template". Next document, blue headings. Then, thinking I'm very clever, I went and changed "normal.dot", the template document, saved my changes, and went back to a document. Blue headings. GRRR. Not only that, but many times, when I select a text and then click on the "Normal" style, it won't change to normal, it remains as it was. Same when I do Shift+Control+N. Nothing. I have to scroll down the zillion fonts I have to find the one for normal, put it there manually. Or sometimes it works when I click "delete formatting" and then ask again for Normal.
Another thing, even more frustrating. The page numbers. To insert page numbers you normally have to go to the Headers group, but when you say "Insert page number on top of page", nothing happens. I tried to predefine a "building block" (that's how they call them, for some reason), I made one but I couldn't make a heading that would change to the next number in each subsequent page. I tried "Help" (yes, I do that, when I'm stuck) but -as it often happens- it only told me what I already knew, which wasn't working.
On a more frivolous side, I don' t like the fact that it only has those boring default colours, which you cannot change: blue, black-grey and light grey. Whereas my other windows are a gradient between blue and pink, with nice violet hues in between.
Good things? A lot. I like the calibri font. It's nice you can zoom and unzoom from the toolbar, and word count too (but if you want the details, and I do, because I'm a translator and I am paid by characters, not words, it's much less easy to find them). And if you want to Change Case... well, it's quicker to do it by hand. I like it that the Office Clipboard is not hidden in a menu, but more ready at hand, as you really want it often. And there are many many other great features. If only they could fix those annoying bugs.
Oh, an important thing. This docx format is much much much smaller than regular docs. It's just a pity that it isn't backwards compatible with them. Now I have to think, before saving as docx, do I want this document only for myself, or would I want to send it to some friend who doesn't have Office 2007, and wouldn't be able to read it? Well, of course, in this case you can always save it again as doc and send it to the friend, but it is a nuisance. I'm saving my docs little by little, and I find I'm making space in my hard drive.
I also think - but it's too early to judge - that it crashes less than its predecessor. It does crash, even if you're not doing anything wrong (Word 2003 crashed on me often when I used document map, which I always use to navigate between chapters of a book or play which I'm translating). This one crashes more randomly, I'll tell you after a few months...
On an end note: It was a great change from Office 03, whereas Office 03 was only a little different from Office 2000 (really not worth the upgrade). If I were starting out now, I would probably love it, and I surely recommend it. But for old-timers who were completely satisfied with Office 03, I'm not so sure. I mean, it's fun, but you really don't need to change, so if it will be a big financial sacrifice, you could easily consider not to make it, at least for now.
 Upgrade doesn't upgrade! August 13, 2007
Epiphiny (Manchester, UK)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
I downloaded the free trial version off Microsoft web site and loved it, so I bought the upgrade because I already have office 2003. I installed it, but it didn't take. The trial version still running and the purchased version didn't work. Worse - not only did it tell me that the Outlook upgrade on my purchased CD was not available for me, even though I paid for it, it disabled my existing Outlook program and I had to re-install my old Office 2003 CDs.
 MS Office February 17, 2007
jdc (UK)
11 out of 26 found this review helpful
I have been using the Beta version and have been prompted to write my review after reading the other comments.
I find all the programs easy to use and much better than their predecessors.
All programs are quick to load up.
Powerpoint seems much improved though I can't pin down why. Certainly it is much easier to integrate charts into a presentation.
Outlook is amazing and I can't live without it. Though not the fault of Microsoft (I guess), integration with AVG's email scanner was not good (I think this may have been fixed by AVG.)
I still find Access hard to get my head around, but I have only used basic features.
I no longer use excel as I am not a student anymore.
I will buy an upgrade if I am entitled (only have Beta version and OEM MS Works so not sure if I am yet) or I will shell out the extra for the full copy. Either way I am definitely going to get a copy.
Old users, stick with 2003, new users openoffice ! March 30, 2008
Dave Evans (Scotland)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having been a very heavy user of Office for more years than I care to remember, Office 2007 is a huge backward step (similar to Vista over XP). Microsoft have clearly lost their way, and this is a ploy to get large sums of money for a poorer product.
For existing users of Office 2003, stick with it. Do not upgrade, you WILL be disappointed !
For new users, go for the free OpenOffice. For most functions it more than competes with MS Office and very similar to office 2003.
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