im going to pc world in a bit to get once package, not sure which one though as everyone i know is on 97 or 2003
2007-04-25 05:55:18 · 8 answers · asked by DesertRose 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I have just bought Office 2007 (Home & Student - £85, has Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and the tools).
I agree it is hard to find the functions as it is COMPLETELY different, but there are a few nice bonuses. I do Mechanical Engineering at Uni, and find the Equation and Symbol function invaluable. I have never used Outlook so don't miss it in my version. I love OneNote for organising my LIFE, never had this before.
Eventually everyone will be using Office 2007, and will be using the new document format (which isnt compatible with 97-2003, but documents use less memory) so you will have to upgrade in the future anyway. You can save your files as 97-2003 files for when you do need this compatibility.
What I have got is definately worth the money I paid, you are allowed to purchase Home & Student if you EVER have a student use it (even once!!)
2007-04-25 06:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by beckythemadcow 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Office 2007 uses tabs for menus rather than drop down boxes. Apart from this there is allegedly no functional difference between 2007 and 2003. If you are happy with the older version then get it, it'll probably be cheaper now anyway. I've tried a trial version of 2007 and it takes 4 times as long to find stuff on Word 2007 initially. The 2007 Excel, Access and Powerpoint aren't so bad.
2007-04-25 06:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not much.
The only thing I prefer is the calendar in Outlook.
I run 2003.
2007 is newer so also has more bugs in (like Vista).
Go with 2003. It is more stable and more people have it or packages which can read the file types.
2007-04-25 05:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use office 2003 its not buggy and the only difference between them is a different look and vista is buggy 2
2007-04-25 09:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by Jackkkk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2007 OFFICE HAS WORKED OUT ALOT OF BUGS, AND HAS SO MANY MORE OPTIONS, ALOT BETTER PROGRAM-----------------What's included in Office Ultimate 2007
Access 2007
Accounting Express 2007
Excel 2007
InfoPath 2007
Groove 2007
OneNote 2007
Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
PowerPoint 2007
Publisher 2007
Word 2007
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------What's included in Office Standard 2007
Excel 2007
Outlook 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Word 2007
----------------------------------------------------------------------------What's included in Office Professional Plus 2007
Access 2007
Communicator 2007
Excel 2007
InfoPath 2007
Outlook 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Publisher 2007
Word 2007
2007-04-25 06:06:08 · answer #5 · answered by gotuthnkn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest microsoft office (both of them) is a bit of overkill with a lot of things that average users don't really use.
I would suggest giving openoffice a try to see if it does what you need and buy ms office if you need.
Open office is free from http://www.openoffice.org
2007-04-25 11:21:37 · answer #6 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO NOT UPGRADE
Office 2007 is totally different layout (which fails to impress me) and you have to literally learn everything from scratch again becauses its all organised differently now.
2007-04-25 05:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by vazsingh_soorma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly the same as, why is vista better than xp, for the money.
2007-04-25 05:59:35 · answer #8 · answered by capa-de-monty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋