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Version: Microsoft Office Standard 2007
"Stuffed with insane mass of features"
Pros: I like nothing, really, about it. The Office 2007 may have been a good programming exercise for MS programmers, but it's complexity is beyond reason or sense.
Cons: Let's take MS Word, for example. All I use it for is to write letters, make notes and lists for my own use. Why would I, and most average users, need all that enormous immensity of features, which do no fit onto any size screen anymore. They hit you with some reason-free presets, such a double spacing by default, when you press Enter to go to the next line. This way, your letterheads, addresses, etc., are double-spaced, which is a waste of space and looks non-professional in business and personal writing environment. To avoid this, you need to change the default style to that of Word 2003. So shy, then, bother with buyng the Word 2007 in the first place?
To learn all the complexities of the Office, one needs to do a lot of reading and learning. But if you are going to use only some 5 percent of all the enormous set of features, why waste all the time and effort on what you will never use? It's like learning the complete Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese), so that you would know a few phrases needed to find your way on your only short trip to China.
This is true for all parts of the Office 2007. I get a real pain in my neck, having to read sideways, bottom up menus in Outlook. I know, Arabs write and read from right to left, but why we, Americans, need to read from bottom to top, having to bend our necks 90 degrees to the left? Anybody injured their neck doing this? See a good lawyer.
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I agree completely. Since the trend these days is for people to use netbooks and similar small screen devices, the enormity of features in the new Office version is less than intelligent. It looks as though MS wants to compete with programs such as Adobe's InDesign whose features are enjoyed by editors like myself. (InDesign has quite a few complex features, which are conveniently hidden until you need to use them.) OneNote 2007, on the other hand, looks outdated if compared with the flamboyant make-up of Word 2007. MS is spreading itself too thin with such innovations. Too bad WordPerfect has lost track of time.
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Finally someone had the guts to say something- I agree microsoft has their noses too high too see that their about to trip- only good ones are the old products like Windows XP and Office 2003
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OMG! CHINESE HAS TWO LANGUAGES, I NEVER KNEW! OMG YOU ARE SSSMMMMMAAAARRRRTTT! wow. O_o. But a crazy thought through and effort-ful review. PROPS!
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If its got too many features, why not just use wordpad? Its free and already installed.
Just because you dont want to use them, doesnt make it a bad program
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