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Summary: Dont' do it!
Review: This is an extremely disappointing product. When I bought a new computer with Windows XP loaded, I was forced to upgrade my previous version of Office to restore all of the functionality. They have added so many 'features' that many things that used to be simple are nearly impossible. It is also extremely intrusive (guessing what you're trying to do), often wrong, and very hard to dissuade. Something as simple as a numbered list with sub-bullets in Word is an exercise in frustration. Creating web pages with Word that used to take me 15 minutes or so are now multi-hour curse-a-thons.Unless your hand is forced, you'll be much happier with the earlier versions of MS Office.
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Summary: Microsoft Office XP small office edition
Review: I recently purchased the above item from "Fun2sell" using Amazon.com.
I was most impressed not only with the product but the integrity of the seller,Patrick.
The product was excellent,the service fast,the seller professional and courteous.
I would not hesitate to use your service again.
Thank you. Sincerely,
Diane Smith
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Summary: Stick with what you have.
Review: I wasn't going to post a review up but I must seriously disagree with the last post. Office is nice, looks pretty, but the price is ridiculous. If you've got Win98SE and an old edition of Office then stick with it and keep your money in your own bank. You worked to hard to just give it away. If you have a different office suite package that does what you want then you'll be alot happier if you treated yourself out for a night of fun instead of buying this. With the price of this software you can have ALOT of fun! I guess this is what a monopoly gets us...inflated prices!!!!
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Summary: One Word: [BAD]
Review: Our office made it mandatory for us to upgrade to Office XP....I have had nothing but problems since. Thankfully, I only have to deal with this piece of garbage at work. I definetely will NOT be buying ANY XP branded product for my home computer. First of all if you thought Word was slow, wait until you try Word XP. It takes nearly 5 minutes for a large document to load in Word XP while Word brought it up in a few seconds. And when word finally does load your document, it has stupid comments all over your document (which is probally why it took so long to load). The first time I tried printing a document with Word XP, it took nearly 90 minutes for it to even get to the printer! When the document FINALLY printed out, I found that it printed out ALL the comments which DOUBLED the size of my document. I figured out how to turn the comments off, but have not figured out how to turn it off permantly. So everytime I load a document, I have to turn the comments off and hope that the drop downs that do this actually work! Also when I first loaded word, outlook or excel there was this annoying "pop up" at the top corner of your screen that had something to do with hands free typing. I permantly killed this window too because I DON'T NEED THIS [stuff] MICROSOFT!! Also another feature I don't like is when you copy more that one item in word, it brings up another annoying clipboard window that Microsoft assumes you want. This window displays EVERYTHING you have copied and covers up part of the window you are working in. I never have and never will use this clipboard so there is no reason why it should keep popping up. Apparantly Microsft "forgot" to add a way to permantely turn this off from office. I ended up having to go into the Windows registry to do it. Finally there are bugs galore. The buttons and drop downs sometimes stop working for no apparant reason. Sometimes when trying to open certain documents from other office programs you get error messages, and when trying to open Help, you occasionally get messages saying "Error opening help"! Go figure. Top these errors off with the ever annoying autoformatting "feature" in Word, Excel and Office and you have a complete waste of money. Bottom line, Don't waste your money on this. You are MUCH better off with what you have now. I have discovered, that Microsoft tries to FORCE you to do things the way they ASSUME you like to do things. They just keep adding more "features" that intefere more than assist you. You will spend a lot of time undoing what they force you to do. You will also spend a lot of time trying to turn off their useless and annoying "features" just to type ONE document. Heck you may be better off with a typewritter since you have the freedom to do what YOU want instead of wasting time undoing what Microsoft automatically does for you.
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Summary: A critical upgrade
Review: XP Professional carries the basic office into a far more integrated structure of flipping data, graphics, and presentations from one format to another without any Office family squabbles. No system is perfect, but this beats out the clunker systems from the "competitors"
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Summary: an excellent Office Suite
Review: I decided to give OfficeXP a short review, particularly because it deserves much better then an average 2.5 stars rating - as the previous reviewer said, the OfficeXP is the best office suite you can currently get. While this package is not a bargain, it beats any competition by the huge margin. I noticed improvements over the older versions of MS Office at several places - while the improvements may be minor to some people, the fact that the product runs without a glitch is enough for me to justify the purchase. Everything is very intuitive & straightforward, and without cumbersome handling and abundant variety of errors encountered in non-MS products. If you want to get frustrated, do everything twice as long with numerous glitches appearing usually at the least convenient moments (like when you need to have something urgently done, save your work to the file, etc. ), get free Open Office or pay moderate fee for Star Office 6.0; if you want to work fast and effortlessly since the first minute following the ultra-smooth installation, do yourself a favor and purchase OfficeXP; if you're not in a hurry, you may want to wait for Office 2003, which should be out soon. (Note: installed on Win2kPro-SP4 machine /P2.4GHz-1GB RAM/, absolutely smooth ride and I'm impressed with the software - reviewed version: OfficeXP(2002)SBE/DSP incl. Word, Excel, Outlook and Publisher)
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Summary: If you're a regular user, DON'T USE IT
Review: Microsoft Office is an essential suite for computer users, because it lets you write documents, elaborate presentations, that sort of thing. And you thought there's nothing out there that can really replace it. Think again.
I absolutely have no problems against MS Office, except for two things: THE PRICE. I refuse myself to pay 400 dollars for this. Besides, I don't even have 400 dollars to spend.
THE ACTIVATION PROCESS. Microsoft can't kidnap my right of installing the program on the amount of computers I want to.
Yes, I know this is still a very good software package. But if you're a high school or college student who doesn't have a budget worthy of a Fortune 500 company, or just a regular Joe who wants to write neat stuff in his computer, you can try alternatives such as StarOffice or OpenOffice.org, which are very similar, the learning curve is nonexistant if you've already used MS Office, and the price is unbeatable (it can be even free). It even opens and saves stuff in MS Office formats. Ask one of your techie friends to download OpenOffice.org and burn it into a CD, and YOU WON'T BE BREAKING ANY LAWS. If you're a corporate user and you can pay this much for Microsoft support, go ahead. It's really not worth it anymore.
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Summary: Crashes / Doesn't Maintain Earlier Version Format Integrity
Review: After having used Word 6.0C and the same other programs on my computer for years, without hardly ever crashing, OfficeXP2002 was my nightmare in waiting. Once installed on my Win98SE 256/40G, Office XP crashed regularly while reading emails, writing emails and editing Word documents. Explorer also started to crash regularly. I got to know the blue screen really well! After passing on error messages to MS, they told me it was conflicting with my Nvidia graphics software. Upgrade their driver I was told. After that, my Epson 800 printer wouldn't work. The new Nvidia driver conflicted with a Librarydll file. Had to msconfig and turn Nvidia's flashy controls off at startup. Now the printer works. OfficeXP still crashes, but it seems not mid document, usually when exiting or restarting when one or two other programs are running, thus locking up the entire system. Shutting down never seemed the same also - a hanging Win98 screen! After reinstalling Win98SE and reading several articles, I went to a MS Win98SE patch html page and updated about 7 updates! My computer still crashes, usually daily, probably because Outlook is always running and I need to run two or three other programs. Never had this problem over the years with Outlook Express always running. OfficeXP hasn't crashed mid-email or mid-Word document (yet) but my computer hardly ever goes a day without crashing. OfficeXP's Word will not maintain the formatting integrity of my Word 6 or Word97 documents! You can count on boxes and lines being out of alignment with text. Apparently MS changes the formatting in Word for every new version (to force everyone to upgrade?) Doesn't even maintain formatting integrity when you save a document in an older version (just try opening it up with the older version!!!) The whole thing is a nightmare but I now feel locked in. It will be a loooooog time before I upgrade ever again. One day there'll be an alternative to Word that is truly cross-platform and productive.
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Summary: Mother's Little Helper
Review: Bought this for me Mum to go with her birthday laptop. Her emails and photo attachments seem to be getting thru OK, so I guess the books works.
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Summary: Too [much $], too much bloat.
Review: If you have followed Microsoft Office from version to version you may have noticed something: it gets BIGGER and BIGGER and BIGGER. Office 95, office 97, Office 2000, and now Office XP, continue the trend towards larger, more complex software on each release. You have to keep upgrading your PC every year or two so the "Microsoft Office of the year" runs ok on your system. I got a shrinkwrapped MS Office XP box with my last computer (it was a bundle at a special store price). Before opening the shinrwrap, I asked the store manager if I could use the demo system they had on display, which had Office XP installed. After seeing that there were no improvements from previous versions, and that disk space usage was higher than Office 97, I decided it was time to move on. ... Bottom line: StarOffice 6.0 costs a fraction of MS Office, uses a fraction of the hd space and ram of MS Office (which means StarOffice will run OK on systems where Microsoft Office XP is dog-slow), StarOffice 6.0 reads and writes all Microsoft office file formats, and lets you install LEGALLY, with NO ACTIVATION WHATSOEVER, your StarOffice suite on 5 machines, with no extra cost. To top all this, the look-and-feel is essentially the same, no re-learning curve!. Oh, I almost forgot, I saved $.. more, because StarOffice 6.0 includes templates for all AVERY LABELS, no need to purchase "Avery LabelPro" software like I had planned to do.
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