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| Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Upgrade |
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| Media : CD-ROM, License Type : Version Upgrade, License Qty : 1 User(s), Microsoft Windows, Analyze and Communicate Information:- Results-oriented user interface
- Import, organize, and explore massive data sets within significantly expanded spreads |
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| Average Overall Rating: 245 Ratings,266 Reviews |
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By dpsdkep 2008-08-03 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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Used MS Office products for a million years, so the new interface was a shock to me. After using it for several weeks, I can find my way around fine, but I'm not sure this was a move up (I'm sure it was fund for the MS UI team to develop). I find i (Read full review at CNET)
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| Pros: Easy to install, seems faster than Office 2003 |
| Cons: The new GUI - The Ribbon (Maybe) |
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| "it takes some tuime to get used to" |
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By jrappy87 2008-07-17 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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In my opinion, office 2007 is okay, it just takes some time to get used to. There are more options than the previous version, but you have to get used to having designated tabs for each thing you want to do...i think microsoft wanted to mitigate havi (Read full review at CNET)
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| Pros: Cool interface |
| Cons: drastic change from office 2003 |
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| "I'm going against the grain- I LOVE OFFICE 2007!" |
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By michelleespinoza 2008-06-07 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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I have to disagree with most of the negative opinions. I'll admit, the first week that I used this, I thought "oh my god, why on earth would they make this obnoxious ribbon?"- It took me another minute to get rid of that damn Calibri font every time (Read full review at CNET)
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| Pros: user-friendly, functional, features greatly improved |
| Cons: learning curve, still a lot of people that need a plug in to read '07 files |
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| Worst Ever |
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2008-06-06 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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This is possibly the worst software I have ever encountered, disjointed poorly presented an absolute disaster. I wouldnt buy this software with someone else's money, let alone my own. The only people that will appreciate this package are those who... (Read full review at Amazon)
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| "Stick to Office 2003 (esp. Excel) until improvements made." |
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By rickyyc 2008-06-05 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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Excel 2007 has lots of fancy formatting and some good new features (especially autofiltering and conditional formatting), but the replacement of toolbars with the "ribbon" was a big step backwards. Calc'n performance is also poor compared with Excel (Read full review at CNET)
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| Pros: Some good new features, but... |
| Cons: Poorly desighned user intterface (ie - the"Ribbon"), terrible calculation speed |
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| -- Activehome Expert, Activehome 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| Just as with the majority of components within Office 2007, Excel uses the new ribbon interface. The Home ribbon includes sections for font formatting, alignment, number and cell formatting, clipboard, search and filtering, and styles. The last section contains a rather clever conditional formatting tool. This will come in handy if, for example, you have a table of numbers and want to highlight the cells according to their magnitude. The traditional way to do this is to set up a rule for each range you want distinguished and then apply a distinctive format; background colour, for example. This takes a lot of time, and the formatting options are limited. In Excel 2007 you can do this with two clicks, and have a choice of coloured shading, data bars or coloured icons ā?? all with live preview . Formulae share a ribbon with tools for managing named cells and auditing tools that check for errors or show a cellā??s dependents or precedents. Charts take up the lionā??s share of the insert ribbon, and they have their own pop-up ribbons for Design, Layout and Format. Officeā??s other charts ā?? organisational, process and Venn diagrams ā?? have been reborn as SmartArt . Although probably most used in PowerPoint, they are available suite-wide. In design terms they are a vast improvement on the previous clunky diagrams, and there are nearly 100 to choose from. As with other graphic elements they respect the colour scheme of the current theme. The Data ribbon contains tools for advanced filtering and sorting, ā??What Ifā?? analysis, links to other worksheets and importing data from other sources such as an SQL server. Other improvements include size ā?? the former worksheet limit of 256 columns and 65,536 rows has been extended to 16,384 and 1,048,576 respectively, which should satisfy the most avid power-user or aspiring millionaire. To cope with this, Excelā??s memory management has been increased from 1GB to 2GB and it now takes advantage of dual-core processors. As with Word and other suite members you can now save as a Pdf (Adobe Acrobat) document, or Microsoftā??s own XPS format, formerly known as Metro. This doesnā??t come as standard, so you'll need to download the appropriate add-in and jump through the Office Genuine Advantage hoop to enable this. Overall, Microsoft has done a good job with this Excel makeover and, thankfully, it doesn't suffer from the same problems as Word 2007 [/REVIEW LINK] when viewing multiple documents. This article is part of our complete Microsoft Office 2007 review Microsoft Office 2007 overview Microsoft Word 2007 review Microsoft Outlook 2007 review See also Microsoft Windows Vista review Video review: Windows Vista Also consider Tesco Complete Office software suite An excellent budget alternative to Microsoft Office, providing all the basics required of an office suite Openoffice.org 2 Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office make this a genuine alternative for many home and business users Zoho Virtual Office productivity software Share contacts and organise calendars All Office Applications Tags: Spreadsheets , Office 2007 Like this story? Spread the news by clicking below: del.icio.us Digg this reddit! Permalink for this story ...
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| -- Vnunet Expert, Vnunet 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| The new 2007 version of Microsoft Office has been available to corporate clients since November 2006, but retail customers have had to wait until the end of January 2007. As ever, it is available in a variety of configurations and prices, from the Student/Home edition at £90, comprising Word , Excel , PowerPoint and OneNote to the Ultimate edition at £487. The version supplied for review, Professional, includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook with Business Contact Manager and Publisher. The best price we could find was £357 for the full version or £235 for an upgrade. To qualify for an upgrade you need any Office 2000 (or later) suite or program, or Works 6.0 or later. So, what¯??s new? The two big changes are in the file formats and the interface. The proprietary binary file formats ¯?? Doc, Xls and Ppt ¯?? have been supplanted by Office Open XML (OOXML), with the DocX, XlsX and PptX extensions. These combine Zip technology to reduce file size (if you rename a DocX extension to Zip , you can see that the document consists of several files) and XML. The latter isn¯??t new to Office ¯?? version 2000 introduced XML-based Smart Tags ¯?? but the new formats are claimed to ¯??enable rapid creation of documents from disparate data sources, accelerating document assembly, data mining, and content reuse¯??. As the name implies, OOXML is open-standard, but is not the same as the XML-based Open Document Format used by OpenOffice . The latter already has ISO ratification, but at the time of writing Microsoft was encountering obstacles in fast-track ISO approval. You can read more about Microsoft's ODF standard in our news story . This may cause the company to lose government contracts, but end users have little to fear since the new formats are not compulsory, and you can continue to use the former Doc, Xls and Ppt formats as default. What's more, Microsoft has made available converter packs, via Office Update , that will let 2000 and 2003 users open and save files in the new formats. The other big change is in the interface. The familiar menus and toolbars that have graced Word and Excel since 1990 are gone. Microsoft¯??s reasoning is that the accumulation of features and commands has made it hard to find anything through the menu system. Previous alterations to the interface ¯?? the irritating Office Assistant, the space-hogging task pane and the infuriating ¯??adaptive¯?? menus - have not proved popular. So, let¯??s hear a big welcome for the new ribbon interface. The text labels at the top of the screen may look like menus but they are really tabs; each revealing a different ribbon of tools below. Word, for example, has a Home ribbon containing formatting, clipboard and search tools, and other task-orientated ribbons for Page Layout, Mailing, and so on. Other ribbons ¯?? such as Excel¯??s Chart Design ¯?? don¯??t have a permanent tab but appear when needed. Whichever tab is open, you can still edit text, numbers and formulae. Keyboard shortcuts also work irrespective of the current ribbon. Customisation (once the joy of power users and the despair of support staff) has all but been excised. Although custom keystrokes are still permitted, the r ibbons are set in stone ¯?? only the Quick Access Toolbar can have commands or macros added. Is it worth upgrading? For home and small business users, the new file formats bring little benefit. XML is largely irrelevant and if file size is still an issue in these days of sub-25p per gigabyte hard disks, then XP and Vista users already have methods of file compression. It isn¯??t cheap, and UK purchasers have to pay 40 per cent more than their US counterparts. And elegant though the new interface is, upgraders are still going to have to devote time and effort to learning it. For new recruits who can do without Access or Outlook, then the sub-£100 Home and Student edition is an enticing proposition. Indeed, although we've given the overall suite three out of five for value for money, the Student edition is well worth five out of five in this category. More Office 2007 reviews: Microsoft Word 2007 review Microsoft Excel 2007 review Microsoft Outlook 2007 review See also: Microsoft Windows Vista review Video review: Windows Vista Also consider: Tesco Complete Office software suite An excellent budget alternative to Microsoft Office, providing all the basics required of an office suite Openoffice.org 2 Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office make this a genuine alternative for many home and business users Zoho Virtual Office productivity software Share contacts and organise calendars All Office Applications Tags: Microsoft , Office 2007 ...
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| A rewritten front end makes Excel????????s significant power far more accessible than before. Many people????????s experience of Excel is that it????????s stagnated over the past three versions, but the 2007 offering is a huge leap forward both in te ...
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| Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - Upgrade Full Description |
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Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool for analyzing, sharing, and managing information to help you make more informed decisions. Office Excel 2007 delivers a new, results-oriented interface, PivotTable views that are easy to create and use, enhanced formula authoring, rich data visualization, and a much faster way to create professional-looking charts and tables. Share and manage spreadsheets that contain sensitive business information using Excel Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. |
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