Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE

List Price: $329.95 Discount Price: $269.99

Features:

• 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

Accessories:
Outlook 2007 Essentials	Microsoft Office Professional 2007 FULL VERSION	PowerPoint 2007 Essentials	Excel 2007 Essentials	Microsoft Office 2007 Spanish Language Pack

Customer Reviews:

microsoft 2007 professional upgrade [Posted on 2008-04-06]
Perhaps my rating is too low. Word and excel work great. My big problem is the second disk will not load. I have been talking to microsoft and they told me the reason was that I had the 2003 professional and the academic versions of outlook 2007 and word 2007 still on my computer. I thought I had to have them or the upgrade would not work. I have since deleted pro 2003 and the academic versions of 2007. However, the second disk will still not load. It always stops on the first download on something called SQL server 2005 express. I keep writing microsoft and they answer me about once per week.

If I had to do over I would just buy the standard. The only good thing about pro 2007 is it will still let you save documents in the 2003 version. Apparently, I am the first in my business to have purchased the pro 2007. If you send a document that was saved in 2007 those with 2003 cannot open it.

As a result, I am really not using 2007 but saving everything in 2003 so my colleagues can get my emails.

But the second disk still not loading after all this time does tend to upset me.

Good luck

Office Professional 2007 [Posted on 2008-04-07]
When this software was first released, I heard a lot of complaints about the new user interface. I bought this software just before my trial period ended, and I must say that I have no problem with the new interface. I use Word, Access, and Excel mostly, and I really much prefer the new interface to the old. Performance wise, I have not had any problems with these, or with PowerPoint. The only problem I have come across is with Outlook, but it is the same problems I have always had with Outlook. I don't really like the way they redesigned the user interface on it; but it is configurable so I don't worry about it much. I would strongly advise against upgrading any existing Outlook Express programs when installing Outlook. By choosing "don't upgrade" you are not causing any problem with your computer. When I chose to upgrade Outlook Express, I either lost all the mail I had stored in it, or it is stored someplace that I have not yet been able to find. Microsoft Office Professional 2007 FULL VERSIONI am enjoying my new software tremendously.

Microsoft Office 2007 [Posted on 2008-04-14]
Works as advertised, a little glitch on install, you have to remove the trial version first (if you are running one). While a little bit of a learning curve for old windows users its feature set and look and feel are an improvement. Also pretty snappy while running Vista Business.

I miss Office 2003; I used to be productive [Posted on 2008-04-26]
Along with many others, I'm a longtime user of the Office Toolsuite. I had hoped that the latest release would boost productivity and would automate common tasks. It's unfortunate that it did neither. Even with top of the line hardware, this Office Suite is incredibly clumsy. Programs like Powerpoint take over a minute to save and close out, common tasks require more hunting in the "ribbon" than anything ever took in a menu driven system. Luckily, there's still a sliver of an area where you can add customized buttons to get some functionality back. There is no way to switch back to a "non-ribbon" driven system in case you are curious.

The equation editor, a feature I use quite a bit, has been reduced to non-sense and has become nearly unusable. Gone is the ability for you to move the editor box close to your working area on the page, instead, you constantly have to scroll to the top of the page to enter the equation components. Gone is the ability to use superscript, subscripts, integrals, etc.. in the editor with a highlight and select. After selection, your cursor is placed outside the component field and you have to click to get back in. Trying to use the keyboard to move around may close the equation editor completely. Luckily, Equation editor 3 is still available if you can find the "insert object" icon in the ribbon bar.

Object Linking and Embedding has been reduced to a monster chore. You must wait forever to move objects between applications, and you have to click a dialog box to retry on top of that, and wait even more. Many of the other complaints have been well documented so I won't bother going through them. In short, this is most certainly not an upgrade. It is bloated, has worst features not better, it is painfully slow, and worst of all, not intelligently thought out in terms of automating or speeding up tasks. Unfortunately, MS Office is the standard used everywhere so switching to other toolsuites is not trivial. However, do yourself a favor and wait for a better version than 2007. This one is definitely not worth your hard earned money.

Office Professional 2007...save your money! [Posted on 2008-04-29]
I have been using Office 2007 Professional on my corporate laptop running XP for a few months now and I must say it is the worst version yet. It is extremely irritating to me for companies to change so drastically the user interface to the point that you have to totally re-learn the product. I am working here...don't have time to re-learn staples such as word processors, spreadsheets, and databases. Jeesh! Give me a break Microsoft! In addition, I think it has to be the buggiest version yet. It is also a huge problem transferring important files to clients who are still on the older versions of Office...that part alone has been a disaster. If you have time to piddle around re-learning...buy it. If you have to work for a living...save yourself the money!

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