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Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition (PC)

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Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
Release date: 30th January, 2007
Media: CD-ROM

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CD-ROM

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Produkt Version: 2007
Sprache: E
Format: DVD

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enthält: Word, Excel, Outlook mit Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, Office Groove/ 2007/ englisch/ Vollversion/ Box/ Datenträger: DVD/ Win Vista, Win XP

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Rating: - Clarity counts

The product description was not clear this was not the full edition. The advert identified this as the full "Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Professional Edition", so after paying I find I was misled with no recourse option. I will not be relying on Amazon to check the validity of the their offers in their market place, and I will unlikely be using Amazon again due to this shortcoming.

Rating: - Any fool can make something complicated. Microsoft do it better.

Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition (PC)
MS Office 2007 reminds me of cars in the 1960s: lots of chrome and tail fins but dodgy mechanicals and the switches and handles tended to drop off. Microsoft keeps patching on new pretty features but avoids dealing with the underlying flimsy core of code that supports the labyrinthine structures that its Office components have become. Why is it that computers get faster and more powerful every year but MS programs take longer and longer to load and do their work? Why do they still lock up and crash? Obviously, because they have become vastly over-complicated.

The feature of Office 2007 that drove me to screaming point this time is the "ribbon". Behind its vapid icons lie all the old Office commands, but you have to find them. And, just as you think you've learned the location of the bit you need, it disappears because the ribbon has changed again. As the final master stroke in their conspiracy for pan-global frustration, MS have hidden the bits you use most often in a place disguised not to be a menu.

I use MS products because I have to. If you can possibly use something else, I recommend you do. Alternatively, waste your money and your time e.g. I just spent 2 hours trying to find the cause of yellow underlining in a 4 line business letter. I am still re-learning MS Access, a program I thought I knew, from a book nearly 5 cm thick and it still does not tell me all the ways I can go wrong. Better luck with your work!

Rating: - Crashfest

Unusable because of the frequency of crashing. Microsoft support are virtually unreachable even though I have paid support tickets to use. Otherwise be prepared to shell out £199 for support.

Rating: - theultimatesteal dot co dot uk

Right I'm a student, and until 30th April go to the website above and pay £38.95 for this software officially from Microsoft, no I'm not talking about a dodgy version. Well anyway if you supply your .ac.uk email address, then you can buy it, if not, then you can't. Its a special promotion offer available to students and maybe staff (you'll have to check on that one) only until the date above, you can get a DVD backup sent to you for an extra £9. I choose to be buy it as downloading it illegally means I'm at risk getting sued and thats the last thing you want being a student.

The program itself is nicely updated, I've only used excel and word and to be honest but you get the rest thrown in too, which is nice. The Equation element in word takes a bit of getting used to as the interface is different from that of the older versions of word etc. I would say after a few days I'm getting used to it but after 10 years or so with the other interface, I don't know which I prefer. It seems to open and close easily, saving and everything else is okay.

To be honest, unless you've brought a new computer/laptop and don't have an older version with a few licenses spare :), then buying this is pointless. I wouldn't upgrade to ultimate or any 2007 office platform, as the older version do it well enough, and even spending an extra £40 isn't worth it as your not particularly getting anything rather than a new interface (in interface, I mean the look of it basically). However if you have brought a laptop with Vista, then it does work so well, just be careful as a student not to over spend, forty quid is a steal but over 500, don't bother.

Rating: - Takes some getting used to, but is worth it

I found Office to be an excellent upgrade. I must admit the ribbon is new and can take some getting used to. There will probably be a bit of frustration as nothing is in the "right place", but stick with it. Having said that, it does make a lot of features more discoverable. There are things Word can do I never knew about, or maybe they're new features. Pressing the "Alt" key will show the available shortcuts, so they're easier to learn.

Word has extended the footnote/endnote system by adding a fully blown referencing system which makes writing references and bibliographies 100x easier. There are more page layouts to do standard pages like title pages. It also has an equation editor which I found very useful.

Powerpoint has the concept of "Smart art", basically you can create fancy looking lists, hierarchies, relationships by writing a list. Very easy to use and very effective. No more drawing lots of textboxes and arrows to draw basic diagrams.

I haven't really used the other software enough to say much about it. I believe the Outlook performance issues (if you are having them) can be fixed by creating a new PST file and importing your e-mail from your old one. I wouldn't be surprised if SP1 fixes this issue though.

There are lots of new little features that are too numerous to mention, I would highly recommend Office 2k7.

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