Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition (PC)

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
Office Ultimate 2007 Win32 English International Not to US DVDOffice Ultimate 2007 provides people at home or work with a comprehensive set of tools to collect and consolidate virtually any type of information, find what they are looking for quickly, and easily share critical information with others across geographical or organizational boundaries, so they can meet their goals. Microsoft Office Groove 2007 provides a rich and security-enhanced collaboration environment in which teams can work together, regardless of location and with minimal IT support. Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 provides complete information management capabilities for any type of electronic content to enable individuals and project teams to deliver better results faster. Features:Office Ultimate 2007 provides people at home with the familiar tools they may use at work to efficiently gather, store, and share information Includes all of the familiar Microsoft Office system programs you may use at work: Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 New! Microsoft Office Groove 2007 helps increase your productivity by enabling you to work efficiently with others from anywhere you can take your laptop With Office Groove 2007, you can create and customize Groove workspaces in minutes and invite colleagues, partners, and customers with enhanced security and without requesting IT resources You can update tasks, meetings, and forms records simultaneously with other team members by using the Groove Files tool Simplify Working Together - Office Ultimate 2007 enables individuals to easily find, gather, consolidate, and share information, regardless of location or organization increasing everyone's effici

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-04-12 rating:
theultimatesteal dot co dot uk
Right I'm a student, and until 30th April go to the website above and pay £38.95 for this software officially from Microsoft, no I'm not talking about a dodgy version. Well anyway if you supply your .ac.uk email address, then you can buy it, if not, then you can't. Its a special promotion offer available to students and maybe staff (you'll have to check on that one) only until the date above, you can get a DVD backup sent to you for an extra £9. I choose to be buy it as downloading it illegally means I'm at risk getting sued and thats the last thing you want being a student.

The program itself is nicely updated, I've only used excel and word and to be honest but you get the rest thrown in too, which is nice. The Equation element in word takes a bit of getting used to as the interface is different from that of the older versions of word etc. I would say after a few days I'm getting used to it but after 10 years or so with the other interface, I don't know which I prefer. It seems to open and close easily, saving and everything else is okay.

To be honest, unless you've brought a new computer/laptop and don't have an older version with a few licenses spare :), then buying this is pointless. I wouldn't upgrade to ultimate or any 2007 office platform, as the older version do it well enough, and even spending an extra £40 isn't worth it as your not particularly getting anything rather than a new interface (in interface, I mean the look of it basically). However if you have brought a laptop with Vista, then it does work so well, just be careful as a student not to over spend, forty quid is a steal but over 500, don't bother.

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review by: date: 2008-04-12 rating:
Takes some getting used to, but is worth it
I found Office to be an excellent upgrade. I must admit the ribbon is new and can take some getting used to. There will probably be a bit of frustration as nothing is in the "right place", but stick with it. Having said that, it does make a lot of features more discoverable. There are things Word can do I never knew about, or maybe they're new features. Pressing the "Alt" key will show the available shortcuts, so they're easier to learn.

Word has extended the footnote/endnote system by adding a fully blown referencing system which makes writing references and bibliographies 100x easier. There are more page layouts to do standard pages like title pages. It also has an equation editor which I found very useful.

Powerpoint has the concept of "Smart art", basically you can create fancy looking lists, hierarchies, relationships by writing a list. Very easy to use and very effective. No more drawing lots of textboxes and arrows to draw basic diagrams.

I haven't really used the other software enough to say much about it. I believe the Outlook performance issues (if you are having them) can be fixed by creating a new PST file and importing your e-mail from your old one. I wouldn't be surprised if SP1 fixes this issue though.

There are lots of new little features that are too numerous to mention, I would highly recommend Office 2k7.

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review by: Woodenhausen date: 2007-12-15 rating:
Cost again !!
Yet again a very nice piece of software, but Microsoft are still living in the early 90's re. price.
Office and Vista Ultimate cost £765 together. Think about that for a moment and compare it with a 2gb/500gb/quad-core PC and a 24" monitor for the same price. We've reached the stage that just the OS and the Office suit cost as much as a top-end business PC. Simply unbelievable.

There's a lot of talk of Microsoft declining in its two core markets and the reasons are obvious. Vista and Office 2007 are not as well regarded as their predecessors yet together cost as much as two complete Dell business computers to run them on. Boggles the mind.

If Microsoft want to kill piracy just dump the WGA rubbish and use the saved money to reduce the price of these products.

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review by: date: 2007-12-03 rating:
Practically perfect in every way
Didn't actually buy this software from Amazon, rather got it on the 'very very' cheap as part of Microsoft's 'ULTIMATE' steal campaign. But I have to say, have been using for a few days now and if I had the money, I would quite happily of paid for this. Much for intuitive and straight forward way of working for me. Don't be put off by all the bad reviews. Give this a go.


review by: date: 2007-09-09 rating:
Unbelievable
Lets be clear, this won't suit everybody. That said, it is a fantastic bit of software. I am a serious Office user (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word mainly) and would consider myself an advanced user for many years.

The new ribbon interface did take a little getting used to, but within a few hours it's easy to pick up and is actually fairly intuitive. Most of the old keyboard shortcuts still work, which helps, but I tend not to use them as everything can be found very quickly. I also find the ribbon doesn't take up that much space as I have always found that I end up with a few layers of toolbars in Office 2003 anyway.

The additional functionality in excel and powerpoint really stand out for me. In the former the considerably increased row and column chart are helpful, as is the way the formula are handled and can be found. The formatting of charts and other objects can result in VERY professional loooking documents, which is the main benefit in powerpoint. Some of the textual effects, such as perspective, reflections etc are fantastic. They can even be applied to objects such as pictures or smart shapes.

There is so much more control over what is displayed. The only thing I can think of that is missing is allowing embedded fonts in Excel. Other than that, this is a practically perfect productivity suite. It simply makes all others look incredibly basic.

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