| Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Win32 SPANISH FULL VERSION | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
Buy New: $499.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 10933
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Professional
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.6
Model: 269-13464
UPC: 882224450331
EAN: 0882224450331
ASIN: B000M7USDU
Release Date: January 31, 2007
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| Features:
| • | Complete suite of productivity and database software | | • | Manage all customer and prospect information in one place | | • | Produce professional marketing materials in-house | | • | Build databases with no prior experience or technical staff | | • | Includes Outlook, Access, Publisher, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word |
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 Overall, a big improvement for Office 2007 puts it atop the Suite Heap. October 11, 2008
With Office 2007, MS proves that although basic office productivity concepts for those not using SharePoint or Office Live servers have remained static since Office 97, there's still improvements to be made. With a focus on producing better documents, rather than collaboration, protection, and transformation as in Office 2003 and XP, Office is back in the direction most people want: Improving the ability to make an awesome document.
Improvements to drawing engines and picture engines are dramatic. Galleries throughout enable good designs to be simply click-and-modify, rather than from scratch. The galleries can be modified through the new theme, template, and style system.
Furthermore, the charts are much better now, and many annoying "wizards" have been removed. Clippy is no longer even available, and the new symbol menu provides easy access to your favorite symbols. The new QuickParts system replaces AutoText, which was quite the annoying, outdated system, and AutoFormat and other AutoCommands are toned down or removed.
Some of the best features of Office 2007 are all in its new way of dealing with objects in your documents, like drawings, pictures, artwork, and charts. All these are handled by either the Picture engine or the OfficeArt engine, and both have seen major improvements for 2007. The Picture engine nicely frames pictures, if desired, using custom frames. Furthermore, it can add lovely shadows, crop the picture to a shape, and even add 3-d rendering that's far more realistic then previous Office versions. In all major apps but Word, the drawing engine gains similar features, including more shapes, better 3-d rendering, better bezels, frames, halo effects, and other spiffy things.
Another major new feature is the user interface, which is much smarter about working with the flow instead of playing hunt and peck in a sea of 30 toolbars. The UI has created some myths, so let's tackle them:
1. The new UI is harder to use.
Extensive usability testing has shown that both beginners and intermediate Office users have improved productivity using the new UI. However, since it was designed by committee, you can't be sure, but generally speaking, most people find the new UI easier.
2. The new UI takes up too much room
The new UI takes up less pixels than Word 97's UI, which was designed to work on a smaller monitor. Furthermore, the lack of a default task pane means the UI is smaller than Office 2003.. Of course, customization of Office 2003 could lead to a slimmer UI, but you could get similar effects in 2007 by hiding the ribbon and having a large Quick Access Toolbar.
3. And the new UI is hard for advanced users to get used to
This myth is true. But if you're not extremely proficient in the Office apps it'll probably be great.
Word
Word lacks some of the new drawing features, but still gets new picture features and a all-new diagram/smartart engine, replacing the very limited diagram features in 2003. More features are introduced to "lock down" your document, and the new scrolling zoom bar is incredibly useful. The new TextBox, Header, and QuickParts galleries are very handy, and the new Quick Style system dramatically improves style handling by making it easier to make new styles. On the downside, the lack of the new drawing engine is silly and Word's AutoCommands were occasionally useful, but some are now mostly gone. Furthermore, Word's new DOCX format is more likely to cause trouble than any other .???X format. OTOH, the UI improves word's handling dramatically.
Excel
The new charting engine is incredibly powerful, and the new interface makes PivotTables a breeze. However, the new interface and other changes will wonk up many VBA macros, which will be felt most here. Furthermore, the keyboard still isn't customizable in Excel.
PowerPoint
PowerPoint had made pretty good use of task panes before, but the new UI is even more useful, and gives more horizontal space. Furthermore, PowerPoint loves that new drawing engine, as it gives better, more realistic results. Also, the Quick Themes and Templates are very useful in PowerPoint. Also useful is the theme colors in the color picker, which make color selection easier.
Downsides? PPTX-exclusive features are sometimes useless if you need to show using PowerPoint 2003 or earlier. The new drawing engine means anything converted to PPT 2003 loses drawing editability in most cases, at least in 2003/XP/2000/97. And some of the default galleries are lackluster, whereas in Word and Excel they seem extradionary.
Overall Package
The fit and feel comes together very nicely. The programs finally see significant updates in the theme of making good documents and being easy to use; most previous changes in 2003 and XP and 2000 involved the Web, collaboration, and SharePoint and/or Office Live.
Although it is expensive, made by an awful company, and much of what it can do is matched by OpenOffice, it is in my mind unquestionably the best Office Suite out there relative to GNOME Office, KOffice, OpenOffice, Novell OpenOffice, or, in many cases, iWork '08. If you want a good Office suite for cheap or one that feels like Office 2003, go with OpenOffice; 3.0 is a nice upgrade. If you want the best Office Suite on the block and are prepared to pay, go with Office 2007 Professional or whatever edition you choose.
Update: I have made a follow-up:
I happen to have one of the very few positive reviews of this product, so I thought I'd follow-up with an explanation of my positive feeling.
The New UI
In the old Office UI even quite proficient computer users complained they could not get around to the time-consuming task of customizing the Office System (2003/XP/2000/97) just so and that the default layout was confusing, hiding features in three or four different systems (task panes, toolbars, menus, and dialog boxes). They also complained Office 2003 quickly became "cluttered" with toolbars. (When you think about it, having 38 toolbars might not be the best interface; you can't even display all of them at once and still see much of your document)
And then there's the internal complaints, that you never really realize: Without tooltips, try telling the feature that each and every icon on the main toolbars (Standard, Formatting, Drawing) in Word, Excel, PowerPoint do. Then, tell me what each item does on every toolbar in Word and Excel. Can't do it? Neither can most advanced office users, much less your average user.
Try justifying why word count, speech, hyphenation, and spellcheck are all on the Tools menu, aka Junk Menu. And then justify why there are toolbar buttons for columns, reading layout, and the document map but not page breaks or symbol insertion.
So it's not a perfect system. There were problems. Mainly, toolbars are hard to scan, too many places to hunt for features, task panes are inconsistent, possible layout flaws, customization system is slow and unwieldy, and the 38 toolbars can clutter the work area if too many are open.
Microsoft is trying to fix these problems. They're being very bold, and this is competition at work, considering MS has basically sat on Office since 97, adding more collaboration but no real document-making improvements or UI changes. OpenOffice builds up steam, and look what happens; MS actually puts out a drastic upgrade.
The "Ribbon" or Fluent UI, is an attempt to fix the problem. It's true that its different. But it's designed to be better. Whether it is or not depends on your POV.
It also was designed to be somewhat backwards compatible, and somewhat customizable. Office 2003 menu shortcuts (ALT>E>S for Paste Special, for example) are still available. The Home Tab is similar to the Standard and Format toolbars. The Insert tab is similar to the Insert menu. The Drawing>Format tab is similar to the various drawing toolbars all piled together. The list goes on. The Quick Access Toolbar is also a concession to old-time Office in a way. Just like in old-time Office, you can put any command, even ones not on the Ribbon, in the Toolbar, and sets of commands can go on also. RibbonX is a concession to customizability. You can add new Ribbon Tabs in an XML programming language.
In my opinion, the new Fluent/Ribbon UI is easier for newbies to grasp, easier for intermediate users to become advanced in, and more intuitive. It is also more powerful and easier for many people to work with, even advanced users. For advanced users, the ribbon makes it easier to discover new version's new features and also become proficient in 100% of Office as opposed to just being advanced at most of it.
The ribbon can also handle new features more elegantly than the already cluttered menu/toolbar system. Downsides are the lack of customization ability without using RibbonX, and the big one: getting used to it.
Overall, the new UI is a big change. Most of the low ratings you'll see here are people who didn't even consider the possibility that the new UI might help them, they just wanted exactly the same Office as they've always had, and they didn't realize, or maybe even care, that Office 2007 also has many new features.
New Features
The key to Office 2007 is the new Object system. That is, Drawings, Charts, Diagrams, SmartArt, PivotCharts, Paintings, Pictures, Clip Art, Text Boxes, and more... they've all been changed. The new features of the new Office Object system are effects, like halo and reflection, and somewhat practical or very practical features, like bevels, 3-d perspective, shadows, and pre-made style galleries. The new OfficeArt system applies to Excel and Powerpoint, and to paintings and pictures in Word. In Word, the OfficeArt system applies also to SmartArt, some Clipart, and some parts to everything else.
Also big is the overarching theme of "building blocks". Two major new features are building blocks to better documents: pre-fab document parts, like headers, footers, and cover pages in word, charts in excel, smartart everywhere, for example. Quick Styles and Document Themes are also "building blocks" features. QuickStyles can be changed company-wide, yet are otherwise similar to normal styles. Document themes control styles, colors, and fonts, as well as graphics and SmartArt, and can be changed on a whim, affecting all the document.
SmartArt is the other major new feature, and essentially are modifiable professional looking diagrams. They're easy to change to look "just so" and come with several good defaults.
Finally, there's the odds and ends. New spelling features, like global spelling options and "contextual" spellcheck (for problems like its/it's and their/there/they're) improve the global Office Spell engine. Document Comparing in Word. Document protection, like Mark As Final, and Remove Identity features. Saving custom slide layouts in PowerPoint. Multi-monitor support in PowerPoint. And so forth.
So, in summary, MS didn't just change the interface. They added tons of new features *at the same time*.
Summary:
MS Office 2007 has lots of new features, and overall the UI helps Office be easier to use. This follow-up should clear up why I rated Office 4 stars even though I hate Microsoft, I love open-source, and I don't really want them to win. They are simply better than OpenOffice, or Lotus Symphony, or KOffice.
 Not the FULL version, this turned out to be the Academic Version October 6, 2008
I was very disappointed to find that the vendor sold me the Academic Version of this software under the guise of the FULL version.
The vendor agreed to a partial refund, but to this date has not issued any refund.
I'm not happy with this transaction.
 WHY Microsoft? WHY? September 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 professional trial version and installed it. I tried it for the 60 days!
What nightmare! EVERYTHING had changed- I could not even figure out how to print a document in Word and I have been using Word from its very first version when I switched from WordPerfect! I asked myself WHY?
Which NUT at Microsoft decided to make such a radical change? Even the file format was different, saving files as this .docx format which nobody can open unless they have 2007.
In fact I was so frustrated that I went back to my old version of XP and eventually upgraded to Microsoft Office Professional 2003. That version is an excellent buy and is Microsoft's best kept secret! It installed without a hitch deleted the old word program files, imported all the previous settings, e- mails, folders, calendars etc.seamlessly. The new layout of outlook is lovely. Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Front-page, I could go on, all lovely! Outlook 2003 is a marked improvement from XP and 2000! Well worth the upgrade.
No need to "upgrade" to 2007 unless you like frustration. The radical menus or "ribbons" and idiotic placements of common taks or lack of placement are an exercise in futility and a waste of your precious time. For experienced users, 2003 is all you need.
If you are NEW to computers, an Office Novice or need to have the latest version then 2007 will work for you.
For the rest of us, Microsoft Office 2003 Professional is Microsoft's best kept secret! Buy it now.
Pass on 2007.
MS Office Pro 2007 Full Version September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Item was received a few days later than expected. It was a single disk in shrink wrapping with thin cardboard Microsoft cover and product key. Item installed/and registered OK. Have not had any problems with it to date.
I think its good! September 17, 2008
I've been using office for many years. I love the old interface, but the new one is pretty cool. If all these old school computer users don't know how to configure the new office system, then they must not be as much of a power user as they thought they were.
I actually got a new laptop with Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Visual Studio 2008. I've been running this for a few months now and everything works great. It just seems like everyones so afraid of change.
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