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Binding: CD-ROMBrand: Microsoft EAN: 0882224147989 Edition: Office Standard 2007 UPGRADE Format: CD Item Dimensions: Label: Microsoft Software Manufacturer: Microsoft Software Model: 021-07668 MPN: 1272661 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Microsoft Software Release Date: January 30, 2007 Studio: Microsoft Software Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Create great-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations, and manage your e-mail, calendar, and contacts efficiently. With a new streamlined user interface, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time management tools, and more reliability and security, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done. Amazon.com: Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Upgrade offers the core Microsoft Office applications, but significantly updated for faster, better results. Comprised of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, this software suite empowers you to create high-quality documents and presentations, build powerful spreadsheets, and manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts. With improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time and communication management tools, and more reliability and security, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or at work.
Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions. Improved User Interface The Office Standard 2007 user interface makes it easier for people to use Office applications. The streamlined screen layout and dynamic results-oriented galleries let you spend more time focused on your work and less time trying to get the application to do what you need. As a result, the Office Standard 2007 interface can help deliver great looking documents, high-impact presentations, effective spreadsheets, and powerful desktop database applications. The Ribbon Office Standard 2007 features the Ribbon, a new device that presents commands organized into a set of tabs, instead of traditional menus and toolbars. The tabs on the Ribbon display the commands that are most relevant for each of the task areas in the applications. For example, in Word, the tabs group commands for activities such as inserting objects like pictures and tables, doing page layout, working with references, doing mailings, and reviewing. For added convenience, the Home tab provides easy access to the most frequently used commands. Excel has a similar set of tabs that make sense for spreadsheet work including tabs for working with formulas, managing data, and reviewing. These tabs make it simple to access features because they organize the commands in a way that corresponds directly to the tasks you perform in the application you're using. The Microsoft Office Button Many of the most valuable features in previous versions of Office were not about the document authoring experience and instead focused on all the things you can do with a document: share it, protect it, print it, publish it, and send it. Although this focus had its advantages, previous releases lacked a single central location where a user could see all of these capabilities in one place. Office Standard 2007's new interface, however, brings together the capabilities of the Office system into a single entry point: the Microsoft Office button. This button allows for two major advantages. First, it helps users find these valuable features. Second, it simplifies the authoring process by allowing the Ribbon to focus on creating great documents. Contextual Tabs Office Standard 2007 features contextual tabs which bring important and appropriate command options to the user's attention precisely when they're needed most. Certain sets of commands are only relevant when objects of a particular type are being edited. For example, the commands for editing a chart are not relevant until a chart appears in a spreadsheet and the user is focusing on modifying it. In current versions of Office applications, these commands can be difficult to find. In Excel, however, clicking on a chart causes a contextual tab to appear with commands used for chart editing. Contextual tabs only appear when they are needed and make it much easier to find and use the commands needed for the operation at hand. Galleries Galleries are at the heart of the redesigned applications, and they deliver a set of clear results to choose from when working on your documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or Access databases. By presenting a simple set of potential results, rather than a complex dialog box with numerous options, galleries can simplify the process of producing professional looking work. For those who prefer a greater degree of control over the result of the operation, the traditional dialog box interfaces are still available. Live Preview Office Standard 2007 features Live Preview, a fresh and innovative technology that shows the results of applying an editing or formatting change as you move the pointer over the results presented in a gallery. This dynamic capability streamlines the process of laying out, editing, and formatting so you can create excellent results with less time and effort. Average Rating:
 Rating: - necessary evilNot particularly fond of the new version of office. Required to run outlook with Vista. Like the 2000 version better, more straightforward. Rating: - Has bugs in the programThe Excel program loses "comments" which you have to reset. On a few occasions my Word shows little number buttons in lieu of the picture icons in my tool bar. I also have to do HELP frequently to find where they're hidden some of the functions I'm familiar with. Rating: - It's ok I guessI am slowly getting used to Office 2007. The menus are so different. I was formatting tables yesterday in Word and it was actually easier in 2007 than 2003 on my work computer. If I had Office 2003 I would not be in a hurry to upgrade but on my home computer I still have Office 2000. I am disappointed that the fax software does not come in the Standard Office 2007 version. I could fax documents from my computer from 2000. In 2007 you have to buy a Premium or Business version. Rating:  - Great Office SuiteI have been using the Microsoft Office products since their introduction many years ago. This upgrade (2007) looks and feels somewhat different than past versions, but once you get used to it...it is fine...even better than before because a lot of the commonly used functionality is right up front, not buried in sub-menus. The help function is much more user friendly as well. Great Product! Rating:  - A DOWNGRADE from Office 2003I recently bought a new laptop, and the changeover involved an "upgrade" to Office 2007. I was aware that there was a new user interface, but was not aware that Office 2007 is, in almost every respect, an INFERIOR product to any Office version that came before it! I have used MS Office for many years, and am what could be called a "power user," especially for Word and Powerpoint, which I use weekly. One of the great features of Office is that it has been totally customizable. For those ... Read More |
