Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student

Office 2007 -- Careful

Strengths: Visually more interesting Intuitive interface -- once you get used to it

Weakness: Files are not compatible with the versions of the Office that most of the world still uses. Outlook 2007 is NOT included. The low price of this version is deceiving becasue you have to buy an add-on.

I suspect someday that the interface on this program will seem "normal", but it takes getting used to, and any time something with which you are quite familiar changes, it causes frustration. A little like rearranging the location of everything in your supermarket. Eventually you'll see the improvements, but in the short run it drives you buggy. Another reason to delay upgrading is that files...

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Office 2007 Home and Student (Full Product, PC)

Strengths: includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Weakness: does not include Outlook

Good product for the price compared to Office Standard or Business editions. Included programs are sufficient for the average home user. The only thing missing is Outlook which is not important if you have an email account through Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

By member: dragons_1068577230 - Mar 24, 2007

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

Strengths: New features, new GUI, more capable, install 3 PCs and great price!

Weakness: No Outlook

Neat look, new features and cheaper price for 3 install PCs. Drawback is no outlook included. The fine print on the package states "not for use in any commercial, nonprofit, or revenue-generating business activities, or by any government organization." If you look for Microsoft Office with your limit budget and don't need Outlook, it is for you.

What a gem!

Strengths: The new "ribbon" and being able to see font and format changes as you SCAN through the possibilites.

Weakness: Some standard features are not where you would expect them.

I have been using this software for a couple of months now via a MicroSoft trial of the full version. It is very "Apple like" in the way it handles but this is a good thing. All of the print and save things are "hidden" in the button at the upper left of the screen. With mine being a "trial" I have had to be careful to save as a Word 2003 document to transfer to other machines. All-in-all I am...

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I like it!

Strengths: License for 3 computers, OneNote, Create PDF files. New UI and this UI is more intuitive then in the past.

Weakness: New docx, xlsx, and pptx file formats. New UI to learn but the new UI is also a big strength.

Office 2007 Home/Student comes with Word, Excel, Power Point, and OneNote. I mostly use Word but sometimes use Power Point and excel in the past. I always have to learn the menu structure when a new office version comes out. However, office 2007 uses a different system called ribbons which is very user friendly and intuitive, so much so that I missed it in OneNote, which uses a menu UI. . The...

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Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student

Strengths: More robust; icons make for less time navigating menus

Weakness: Larger tool bars reduce work screen

Icons provided in lieu of drop down menus for many style and editing functions; more robust applications. Since drop down menus have been replaced, it is sometimes difficult to find functions; use of icons increased size of toolbars, reducing size if work screen

Office 2007 Home and Student

Strengths: More visual representation of actions and tabs of sets

Weakness: Slow to load. Several key common actions no longer one click

New layout takes some getting used to as much of the desktop has changed or been rearranged. Use of tabs for moving between major function groups instead of having to add toolbars is a nice touch. Software loaded far slower then 2003 but once it is running there did not seem to be a lag. Visual representations of things like fonts and layouts help choose selections quickly. Being able to put it...

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Office 2007 Home & Student

Strengths: New features added to software that was already good. Being able to preview what a font change will look like as you scroll through the list of fonts, for example, is nice.

Weakness: There doesn't seem to be a way to make this new version look like the old one, so it takes a minute to figure out where things are now.

Some new features are added to software that was already good to begin with. It's expensive as always, but is licensed for 3 computers. There's no Outlook in this edition, but I didn't think it was worth the jump in price to get it.

Office 2007 Home and Student

Strengths: Very good user interface and updated. A bit of time to get used to.

Weakness: None really that I can see at this point.

I have been using word 97 for the past 6 years and to get this new version of Office 2007 Home and Student is very refreshing. It takes a bit of time getting use to because because word 97 seems so old after using and seeing this one.

Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student

Strengths: Word has many new 'ease of usage' buttons. PowerPoint has become so easy even for a novice to use. Unique OneNote proves worthy.

Weakness: No Outlook as part of Student/Home version and no Publisher as well. These 2 come in handy very often and don't come as a part of this package unfortunately.

The essentials of Microsoft updated and more user friendly than ever. I recommend highly for anyone who needs the basics, plus some, for their work, school, and home use. The price is worth the products.