| 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 (84) Used (10) from $74.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  913 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:
 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?
OneNote is a big improvement October 25, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The upgrade was worth buying for OneNote, which not only makes note-taking fun, it renders Outlook's calender all but obsolete. My laptop is a few years old, so Word 2007 takes forever to open, and opening new files also lags. OneNote takes quite a while to start up, but switching between pages and tabs has absolutely no lag.
Microsoft WAY off target with this dud October 24, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
If Microsoft's Home and Student 2007 software were a test pilot it would have crashed the airplane. In test pilot parlance: They "Poked the Pooch."
This expensive offering doesn't even include email capability like Outlook.
Such a waste of time!!!! I sent it back!!!
Jim Beazley
 Hard to get used to October 24, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought the updated MS Office after completely ruining my laptop and having to reinstall all my software after Dell essentially replaced everything in my computer but the processor. MS Office was the only thing I couldn't find the system disks for, so I wound up out $120 for a replacement. Strike one.
It does work. It's fine. But I HATE the interface. After years of the 2003 version, the 2007 version is very difficult to navigate and not at all intuitive. I cannot find even simple functions, and it took me almost 5 minutes to figure out how to use "Save As." Plus most people have the 2003 version, so when you get e-mail attachments, you keep having to mess around with compatibility. Be prepared to be very frustrated for a few days until you start to get the hang of how to use this, because it's like I have to relearn the programs all over again.
And the packaging is an enormous pain to get open.
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