Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

- Essential software suite for home computer users makes it a pleasure to complete schoolwork and other tasks
- Includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote
- Intuitive user interface that exposes commonly used commands; updated graphics and formatting galleries help you to easily produce high-quality documents
- Work with confidence and security thanks to the improved automatic Document Recovery tool and the Document Inspector tool, which removes personally identifiable information from your document
- Enhanced Help system includes online tutorials with step-by-step instructions; includes OneNote, a digital notebook that helps you gather, organize, and search many types of information in one place

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Reviews:
The new look of the software is really confusing. I’m not a computer expert by any means, but I am knowledgeable enough that my family and friends call me to help them fix their computers and software problems, so I’m not a newbie either. I understand the basic idea that some things are on the screen for you to see, the things they consider to be the most important; but the things I use the most, like frame or underlining are now several click away and you can’t customize the menus to what you like. They’ve put up what they think is important and that’s it. If you use other features, you’re out of luck… it’s hunt and peck every time. You also have to learn to think the way they think. If you want to find a feature, it might not be in the menu set of screens you think. They may consider it a different type of feature than you think of it being, so you have start searching all the different sets of menus to find the feature you’re looking for. Also, I like to copy and paste from boxes like this, when writing on the internet, for spell checking… well you can’t do that anymore because when you paste back your text it appears in HTML format with all the weird stuff that goes along with it. It might be that I’m just too set in my ways and don’t feel I have the time to learn a completely new software to do a simple letter. Maybe if I had the time to relearn everything I might find it easier, but I just don’t have the weeks it would take to devote to the study of each product (Word, Excel mainly). I got the software and tried it for several months and went back to my old Word and Excel.

While Office 2003 offered a refreshed look and some improvements in functionality, the basic structure remained the same. While veteran users were able to easily navigate the familiar menus, it had become increasingly difficult to locate some features (for instance, in Word, would you find “insert new rows” to a table in the “insert” or “table” menu?).

With Office 2007, Microsoft offers the “ribbon”, a new and more intuitive way to access features that we used to find in the menus. While the features are basically the same, they are now grouped together according to when and how you would normally use them. These groupings are accessed by clicking on tabs, which are organized in the order you’d use them. The best way to get a better understanding of this change is to check out the screenshots, or download a free trial version of Office from Microsoft. While Office 2007 was released at the same time as Vista, you do not need Vista in order to run it. The program ran fine on my Windows XP laptop, which only had 512 MB of RAM, and it runs even better on my Vista laptop with 2 GB of RAM.