| Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $89.00
You Save: $60.95 (41%)
New (85) Used (10) from $74.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  911 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home and Student
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 79g-00007
Model: 79G-00007
UPC: 882224165242
EAN: 0882224165242
ASIN: B000HCZ8EO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Stay away, you will regret using this software October 28, 2007
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Sorry Microsoft, but your "ribbon" user interface is the most retarded upgrade feature ever. It renders all your Office applications useless. I have no interest spending hours to learn a completely different UI and to recustomize the toolbar all over again (I'm not even sure if it's even possible to customize the "ribbon"). The ribbon is ugly and WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY too big.
My advice: try to avoid upgrading for as long as possible.
 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 October 27, 2007
My daughter, a college freshman in engineering, needed a Microsoft Office package for school. The Home and Student 2007 version met her needs (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) and mine ($$$).
 Nice features...but WHERE are the command buttons? October 27, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The added features are welcomed as an upgrade from Office 2003, but I don't enjoy the default command settings. Slowly I am customizing the software programs so that I don't have to go searching for buttons (or words on menus) to click and do what I wanted to do twenty seconds ago. My daughter similarly was left wondering "How do I do ______?" and "Where is the _______ command button to click?"
Twenty years ago I memorized many of the keyboard commands. Then clicking mouses became the norm. Maybe we are moving back in the direction of mostly using memorized keyboard commands?
One of the nicer features that immediately stood out while using Word 2007 was that when I thought about changing fonts, font size, etc., I instantly saw the change of the screen without have to click for the change, see the results, and then need to reverse the change if I did not like it. This "instant preview" feature is nice!
The Product ID Blues October 26, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
New XP Professional Computer, New Unopened Software Box, Microsoft would not accept the product ID number. They would, however allow me to sit for hours trying to jump through their loops to activate the new software.
Amazon saves me through a wonderful return policy. Easy return, nice refund. Thank you Amazon!
Power users: don't buy this software! October 25, 2007
57 out of 61 found this review helpful
Sure, this release has lots of "improvements". I'll focus on Excel. The biggest potential improvement is that the row and column maximums have been opened up.
Beyond that, I've encountered nothing but problems.
* Once a document is saved in the new .xlsx format, Excel would not save back to the older .xls format. Instead, it just hung.
* The software refused to change the limits on a date x-axis of my charts. Instead it blithly reset the values back to the original values.
* It is SLOW. Clicking on a curve in a chart could take 10-20 seconds to respond.
* Occasionally, Excel would just crash for no obvious reason. The up side is that it would restart with opening the same workbooks.
Also, as usual, I have been unable to find a place on the Microsoft web site to report such troubles. All I've been able to find are FAQs that answer queries unrelated to the problems I've had.
Maybe you can work with that. I gave up and am just hoping that my new laptop is still functioning by the time that Microsoft gets around to noticing such glitches and releasing a service pack. Maybe next year?
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