Microsoft Word 2007

List Price: $229.95 Discount Price: $185.00

Features:

• Document authoring program helps people create and share great-looking documents
• Combines a comprehensive set of writing tools with an easy-to-use interface
• Quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles; compose and publish blogs directly from within Word
• Add Building Blocks of predefined content and reduce the errors associated with copying and pasting frequently used content; Quick Styles function saves you time by helping you format text and tables throughout your document
• Format your references automatically by selecting a predefined style guide, including APA, MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and others

Accessories:
Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide	PC World	Word 2007 Essentials

Customer Reviews:

Not a full version [Posted on 2008-03-29]
I bought Word 2007 to install on all of my computers. I paid 80 dollars more for the full version than I would have for the student version so that I could use it more than 3 times. I used it on two computers and it won't install on any more. Nowhere on this product does it say the use is limited.

How NOT to win customers and influence people [Posted on 2008-04-04]
I am a long time user of Word (over 12 years) and other computer systems, and this is the closest I have ever been to throwing my computer out of the window.

My home productivity has dropped through the floor since I installed 2007 (having lost the disks for 2003 in a house move, but having found incompatibility issues with Open Office too much of a pain to deal with).

My experience includes lecturing to consultants on website usability, and my opinion is firmly aligned with the one star raters.

The problem with the previous interface was not the menu content, but the menu structure. Too many options, you needed to be an advanced user to know how to switch them off permanently, inconsistencies with other applications in the suite etc.

The solution has made it much, much worse.
~ There is no option (or at least I haven't found it yet) to hide stuff you do not need.
~ It is incompatible with other toolsets like browsers and 99% of the other computer applications out there that still use menus and options.
~ It has changed where you find things (when a supermarket does this, their sales drop dramatically over the following 4 weeks).
~ The help file is only available online.
~ There is no option to return to the classic interface.
~ It took me over 15 minutes to find the keyboard shortcut alternatives for the new "menus" (eventually having to search the online help for "disability" - I use it for productivity) and some of the style formatting is still inaccessible or requires multiple key strokes to access
~ customisation is hidden on the different Word button icon that turns out to be a menu (under options - you can create your own ribbon, thank goodness!)
~ still yet to find how I attach an existing Word Template with all my macros and standard styles in it to this document (help returned over 15 answers and the most obvious one, isn't the answer).

As another reviewer mentioned elsewhere, I hate to think of the costs this is going to impose on my company's IT department to re-write the manuals, templates and retrain over 1,000 colleagues...

People who have never used Word before will get the hang of it soon enough. Anyone else, be prepared (and buy a copy of Office 2003 while you can!).

Word and Office 2007 are complete disasters [Posted on 2008-05-28]
I have never encountered as much frustration with a piece of software than I have with MS Word 2007, and Office 2007 for that matter. The software is user unfriendly (using the ribbon and finding commands), poorly designed, and has too many errors in formating documents, especially using the styles features. With these flaws and many others in the software, it could only be a relief to use a replacement program from the competitors. MS has gained a reputation of making really bad software and charging an awful lot for it. MS Word 2007(and Office) are examples of the really bad software.

Don't buy it [Posted on 2008-06-01]
I will go back to OpenOffice - its free and usable whereas this program only costs money

Microsoft WORST 2007 [Posted on 2008-06-15]
Word 2007 is a perfect example of why you shouldn't try to fix something that was never broken. Instead of improving Word, they made it ugly and just plain annoying. An experienced user can figure out how to use it...but the hunting and searching for functions that used to be a snap to find is a frustrating, time-consuming waste. The toolbar is now a "ribbon" that's a cluttered mess of icons instead of quick, simple pull-down menus. I wish I'd done more research, and I'd have ordered an older version of Word with my new laptop. THIS SYSTEM SUCKS. I think they were trying to court Apple users and instead alienated their loyal MS customers. One star isn't low enough.

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