Microsoft Office 2007 Standard Upgrade (Mac) Description:

Microsoft Office 2007 Standard Upgrade (Mac) review:
3 stars (Some interesting improvements - but keep your Office v.X Entourage) - Though there are improvement to the other programs, you'll want to keep your Entourage from the previous Office v.X version. The Office 2007 version of Entourage is more full of bugs than a bug-zapper on a Summer Sunday... during a picnic... at dusk... near a stagnant pond. You get the idea.



Try to get your email, get an error. Try to print your email, get an error. Tell it to refresh, get an error. In all honesty, I haven't found an Entourage 2007 command yet that doesn't seem to resullt in some kind of error.



The reason I'm still giving this three stars is my Excel and Word portions are responding faster and with greater ease than previously. Also, the fact that the standard installation does not include the whole-sale deletion of the previous version was the saving grace that still lets me get my email with the old Entourage. So kudos, because though the Office 2007 Standard Upgrade did put me up a river Entourage-wise, it did not leave me without a paddle.




5 stars (Cleaning up some confusion) - In Office 2007, Microsoft continues to support most Palm handheld devices. However, one common situation Microsoft has seen is that people upgrading from Office X to Office 2007 do not install the Office 2007 Handheld Sync software (which is found in the Additional Tools folder). Failure to do so results in sync failure.



That said, Office 2007 Handheld Sync does not fully support the Palm Tungsten T3 or E [it is incorrect to say that it does not support any Tungsten T - it does!]. To enable sync with those devices, the user needs to go to the Conduit Settings and enable syncing capability with those devices. There are possible issues when this capability is enabled - and all of this is clearly documented in the read me that is installed when you install the Office 2007 Handheld Sync.
3 stars (Better than Office v.X) - This new version of MS Office for Mac OS X is definitely a big improvement over the original version. As a student I had the option of getting the full version for a reasonable price, so I did, mostly because several other students I know had problems with the upgrade version. I can't really comment on their experiences other than hearing their complaints and frustrations persuaded me to go with the full version. I had no problems with the installation or the use of the Office 2007 full version. Yes there are some (relatively) minor annoyances, but most of the major problems (text formatting, printing alignment issues-- the old version was definitely NOT WYSIWYG) are gone. Admittedly I have fairly low expectations after the disappointing original version. The new one has not crashed or lost data yet. Although I find the Project Center (or whatever it is called) awkward to use, it is definitely a good idea. Hopefully it will become easier and more intuitive to use in future versions.It is a big disappointment that it does not work with my Palm. I still have to use Mail.app and iCal because I rely on my Palm. It would be nice to have everything integrated into one environment.Visually Office 2007 seems less clunky and more sleek than OpenOffice, which is surprising because it runs noticeably slower than OpenOffice.