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Software Microsoft Office Standard 2007 UPGRADE

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- Much worse than flawed ---de-evolution----unfriendly
Current experience
It is possible to avoid some problems by loading an Office 2007 product (Excel, Word, etc.) before starting other programs.

February 2008
It is still slow. Office2007 seems to have problems getting along with some software, namely evidence eliminator. After intervening several times, it has become a ritual of closing office to run EE. EE is my data scrambling program. I have loaded the recent updates and Office seems to be a little easier to operate, though it is frightfully slow to start. One nasty trick is that closing a document by using the 'X' in the corner results in office terminating; the only safe way to close a file is from the file bar, or what passes for the file bar. One nice feature is that you now can access more than 5 past files from the file bar. I would give them 3 stars now.

12/07 experience
At first, I thought my vast experience with programming could overcome some of the flaws. I was wrong. This software is defective in a number of ways. First, customizing does not work. Second, autoformating is a failure. I retract my 3 stars and give them 2. If this continues, make it one.

Early experience
In it's 2003 form, Microsoft Office had reached it's pinnacle. Like most people, I created an array of personalized buttons that began to resemble the clutter of keys on a church organ; add together the footpedals, knobs, levers and controls and small wonder musicians take pride at mastering it! With a series of touch buttons at the corner of boxes for less used controls, and the organization of these buttons into categories, some of the clutter is gone.

The small size of all these buttons is a shock, especially for those of us with reading glasses and laptops. It would be nice if the sliding zoom control in the right corner could also magnify the buttons as well as the text. All of this takes time to adjust.

One of the properties I like least is how long it takes to load a file. I counted over 60 seconds. With the upgrade, I was hoping that this would improve from Office XP. Perhaps future downloads from Microsoft will reduce start-up time.
Another feature that I do not like in Word is the listing of "Normal", "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Title", etc. These buttons are huge compared to others and used least of all. It would be a far better approach to have put them under their own category in the master headings on top: Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.
I have noticed that once I ran Excel a few times it loads very fast. This is an improvement over Excel 2003. I will update this review as I gain more experience with Excel and Powerpoint.
This gets back to the reason for buying Office 2007. Working with XP will expose your computer to unnecessary risk to bugs. Before loading this upgrade, I erased my old Office XP files to get rid of a bug. The longer a software has been out there, the easier it is to invade and the slower it will run as countermeasures are installed. So, here's your choice, buy a used version of Office 2003 for $150 or Office 2007 for $200. You decide, but remember that Office 2003 will need to be replaced by 2008 and Office 2007 may get you to 2012.
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- Good Upgrade for Grad Students
While I agree that the menus are a little cryptic and that the interface is awkward to navigate at first, I'm of the firm opinion that Office 2007 is actually a great improvement over Office 2003. It is oriented towards a web-savvy population, used to manipulating tabs for content. It's off-putting at first, but a little patience and you realize that the new menus are much more intuitive than were the old ones, and that the interface is much more fluid and coherent.

What really impressed me about Office 2007, however, is its incredibly fluid interface with the bibliographic manager EndNote X1. For grad students in any discipline who are using EndNote X1 for writing their dissertations, you should upgrade immediately to Office 2007. The two programs work seamlessly together. Again, like any new program, it requires some experimentation to get used to the interface, but in the end it's well worth it. So, grad students of the world, make the investment and get Office 2007. Just be prepared to have a little patience.

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- Read all the reviews before you buy
Microsoft Office 2007 is a real disappointment. Outlook is very slow, they have not corrected the cursor/typing delay. Word does not react well with earlier editions of Word. There seem to be a lot of bugs to be worked out by Microsoft, if they are still interested in doing that.

Combined with the overloaded, slow Vista, it is a fatal combination. Be prepared to be discouraged.

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- Frustrated
This product does not interact with an earlier version of Peachtree or Outlook, so I am unable to use spreadsheets to create documents, nor does it look at my Outlook Address Book. It is also frustrating to find some of the formatting that I was used to in the tool bar. I need to give it more time since that was a feature that had been reviewed before. Hopefully, I will get used to it in due time - but the inability to interact with Peachtree or Outlook is extremely disappointing.

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