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- From a Graphic Designer's perspective
Granted, Microsoft Office is not a design program and should not be judged that way. However, as a Graphic Designer you have to use this tool quite often whether it is for Powerpoint presentations or creating stationary pieces in Word for your clients. From my rather short experience with this product, my feeling is a mixed one. My first impression was very positive actually. Office is notorious with its chaotic user interface, with menu items that seem to be placed randomly about, supposedly without any inner logic. For people accustomed with Adobe's superior user interface, Office can drive you mad. This new product is a step forward in this regard. The basic menu remained the same old inexplicable mess, but the added and expanded visual interface and palettes are putting some order where there was none before. So far, so good. Problems began when I actually sat down and started to work on a new Word template that was supposed to go to a PC using client. Importing a PNG image worked once. When trying to import a second time the program did not respond and I needed to restart it. After completing the document, I opened it on my older PC to see if it will work on my client's end. The transition between the two operating systems was not smooth at all. Tables got chaotic, copy changed colors, line breaks got all messed up. So I had to redo some work on my PC and then send it away. So bottom line is mixed. Barring the unfortunate bugs, it is a more pleasant experience than previous versions. If you prefer working on a Mac only environment like me, then you will have to check the final document on a PC, otherwise it is a recipe for trouble. A half baked cookie.

Rating:

- junk piece of software
Although I used (used?) mainly WORD, I am totally disappointed.
While working on a document the beach ball shows-up and that's it. No way to continue working, you have to force quit.
I still haven't managed how to complete one single document with this new junk piece of software.

Rating:

- Crashes constantly
Excel quit on me 10 times in 15 minutes the other day. Word crashes as well, but not as often. I haven't had a chance to test PowerPoint yet. I am less than impressed with this new version.

Rating:

- Giant step backwards for writers
The Word portion of this software suite is a huge step backwards.
I used to be able to use the pull down menu to instantly summon the thesaurus and/or the dictionary while writing.
MS farmed out the dictionary function to Encarta. Encarta's dictionary has a basic fatal error; it won't look up your word for you. For instance, I wanted to check "watch dog". Was it a hyphenated word, a single word, two words? Encarta doesn't know. It gave me "waste" instead. The Encarta dictionary consistently does that; when you ask for a word, it gives one prior to what you seek.
The thesaurus isn't much better. It is short of entries, and skimpy on suggestions.
I've bought a new hardback dictionary and thesaurus. I'm contemplating going back to my old iBook for writing, and leaving my new iMac for Internet use only. And it's not the iMac's fault. It's the wretchedness of Word.
Actual rating for this product: zero stars and a big Bronx cheer.

Rating:

- Runs like a (very old) dog...
I'm not very demanding of my productivity apps, but having to wait upward to 1 minute for word/excel to open on a brand new MacPro 2008 with a RAID system and 10GB of memory?!?!? And that's not even mentioning a simple page zoom makes me wait 3-6 seconds before doing anything. As a single ownership business owner, this totally redefines the concept of a "productivity application". Stick to the older version until Microsoft seriously patches this disaster, it'll be much more worth it!!!

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