( 51 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 12 2009
I have never had a greater desire to spew profanity than when I opened PowerPoint 2007 and stared at a screen where it was absolutley impossible to find the F****** SAVE BUTTON. This is dog crap. The changes are useless, stylistic, fluff that do nothing except screw up your productivity because you can't figure out how to do what you've been doing for years.
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Posted: Jul 23 2009
I have used Word/Office for many years for work. I was even a computer lab assistant so I knew it pretty well. My company upgraded to 2007 this year, and everyone in the whole office hates it. In fact everyone I know complains about it. It is impossible to find the simplest of tools, and as said before, the whole interface is not intuitive in the least. It seems MS thought that they needed to make their software completely unusable so that the millions of people who rely on it would have to pay for retraining. If I was a lawyer, I would consider organizing a class action lawsuit against MS based on the staggering amount of downtime and retraining that their failure has caused. The software is so frustrating to use that one day my boss began punching his computer screen, and he is one of the most mild mannered, pc savvy people I know.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 22 2009
I'm not always a fan of Microsoft, and after reading all the terrible reviews of Word 2007, I was dreading having to convert to it. To my complete surprise, I think it's really pretty good. I'd been using Word 2002 for years, but learning the new user interface wasn't hard at all. Everything seems to be very logically arranged, and in some ways, the 2007 version actually seems easier to use. Moreover, they've kept all the Alt-key sequences exactly the same. Plus, it's got some good new features, such as the ability to save to PDF format. As far as the problem some have complained about with saving files to the new ".docx" format which older versions of Word can't read, that hasn't been a problem, as I just set the default save format to the old ".doc" format. The only drawback I see is that the new "ribbon" toolbar uses up a few more lines of space at the top of the document, so there's slightly less room to see what you're writing. But if it really matters, you can set the ribbon to disappear unless you hover over it (like with the taskbar), so that's not too bad. Overall, to my great surprise, I like it fine, maybe even better than the old version. Give it a try. You may be pleasantly surprised, too.
