Product Description

Word Home and Student 2007 makes it easier than ever to produce high-quality documents in any number of styles and formats. Get tasks done with confidence and security, with the document recovery feature and the Document Inspector tool. Organize your notes and information to gather, store, organize, and find any type of information in one place, quickly and easily. Create high-quality documents that you can be proud of, complete with new graphics, formatting galleries, and improved menus and tools. Also includes an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, helping you become resourceful, quickly learn the product, and find answers to your questions. Initiate, manage, and track document review and approval processes from within Office Word 2007, to accelerate review cycles across your organization Share documents in Portable Document Format File (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without using third-party tools XML support facilitates smaller, more robust documents and deep integration with information systems and external data sources Master Reduce file sizes and improve corruption recovery - Office Open XML Formats are compressed, segmented file formats that offer a dramatic reduction in file size and helps ensure damaged or corrupt files can be easily recovered

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 79F-00006
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .60 pounds

Features

• Student version intended for student and educational use only
• Combines a comprehensive set of writing tools with an easy-to-use interface
• Quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles; compose and publish blogs directly from within Word
• Add Building Blocks of predefined content and reduce the errors associated with copying and pasting frequently used content; Quick Styles function saves you time by helping you format text and tables throughout your document
• Format your references automatically by selecting a predefined style guide, including APA, MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and others

Amazon.com
Microsoft Word Home and Student 2007 is a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with an easy-to-use interface. Office Word 2007 helps you create professional-looking content more quickly than ever before. With a host of new tools, you can quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles, as well as compose and publish blogs directly from within Word. Advanced integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and new XML-based file formats make Office Word 2007 the ideal choice for building integrated document management solutions.

Use Quick Styles in a Word document to easily choose and apply a new style. View larger.

The new tri-pane review panel of Office Word 2007 enables you to quickly compare or merge two versions of a document and helps identify moved text and tracked changes within tables. View larger.

You can use the Document Inspector to remove comments. View larger.

The new user interface of Office Word 2007 enables you to create documents more quickly than ever because it presents the right tools when you need them. View larger.

Office Word 2007 enables you to digitally sign your documents, so readers know they haven't changed since they left your hands. View larger.

Licensing Restrictions
Please note that this version of Microsoft Word 2007 is for non-commercial, non-commercial location, educational use only. This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students.) You can install this edition on up to three PCs in your home and this product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing or installations). You may not transfer your usage rights to another individual or allow them to install the program at another location. You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user. Finally, Microsoft provides only installation support for this product.

Ideal For Students
Word 2007 is full of tools and capabilities that can help improve the quality of your academic work. With this software you can type and organize lecture or research notes, create and edit professional-looking reports and papers, effortlessly add endnotes and footnotes, and import graphs and charts from other applications. Easy to use and navigate, Word 2007 helps you keep all your school-related documents in one place so you can store, revise, and review them whenever you need to.

Gather Information, Create Documents, and Communicate Effectively
Rich review, commenting, and comparison capabilities help you quickly gather and manage feedback from classmates and instructors, and advanced data integration helps ensure documents stay connected to important sources of information. With Word 2007 you can create professional-looking documents effortlessly; spend more time writing and less time formatting, all while communicating more effectively than ever.

New Interface and Tools
Together with a new, streamlined, results-oriented interface, Word 2007 gives you the tools you need to create professional-looking content. You can add Building Blocks of predefined content and reduce the errors associated with copying and pasting frequently used content, while the Quick Styles function saves you time by helping you format text and tables throughout your document. And to make sure you documents are consistent, Document Themes apply the same colors, fonts, and effects.

Add Building Blocks to an Office Word 2007 document to increase efficiency and reduce errors. View larger.

Professional-Looking Documents
SmartArt diagrams and a new charting engine help you add a professional look to documents, while shared diagramming and charting with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet software and the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation graphics program help ensure a consistent look across your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Compose and publish blogs directly from within Word and complete your blog posts with pictures, rich formatting, spelling checker, and more. When it's time to publish your blogs, you can do so directly from Word to many common blog services including Office SharePoint Server 2007, MSN Spaces, Blogger, TypePad, Community Server, and more.

Display Important Information
Word 2007 offers a variety of tools and functions to help you to express and display important information. For instance, the Equation Builder helps you construct editable, in-line mathematical equations using real mathematical symbols, prebuilt equations, and automatic formatting. Live word count keeps track of the number of words in your document as you type, and is always in view in the new user interface. In addition, typographic capabilities offer improved bulleted and numbered lists, numbered list styles, and new fonts designed to improve on-screen reading. To help keep you organized, Citation Manager and Reference Builder give you the ability to add references, footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents, tables of figures or tables of authorities. You can also format your reference automatically by selecting a pre-defined style guide, including APA, MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and others. There's even a Contextual Spelling Checker helps you avoid common mistakes and misuse of similarly spelled words.

Editing and Reviewing Tools
Word 2007 provides editing and reviewing tools that help you create professional documents faster than ever before. Live visual previews, predefined style galleries, table formats, and other content and other options are always at your fingertips. To help minimize time wasted re-typing, take advantage of new Building Blocks designed specifically for the addition of frequently used content to your documents. You can even create your own Building Blocks to simplify the addition of custom text, such as legal disclaimer text or other frequently used materials. For that professional touch, select from a predefined gallery of cover pages, pull quotes, headers, and footers.

High-Impact Graphics
Word 2007 helps you communicate more effectively with high-impact graphics. New charting and diagramming features include 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects to help you create professional-looking graphics that result in more effective documents. Quickly apply a new look and feel to your documents using Quick Styles and Document Themes to change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout your entire document to match your preferred style or color scheme.

Keep Your Documents Safe and Secure
Word 2007 offers the Document Inspector feature to help you detect and remove unwanted comments, personally identifiable information, hidden text, or other information from the document so that private information stays that way. You can also add digital signatures to a document to help others verify that content has not been changed since it was published, or add a new signature line to prompt other Word users for their signature. Additionally, the Reading Mode offers you an immersive, full-screen reading experience that makes online reading easier, reducing the need to print the document. And because quality editing depends on the ease of viewing text, new navigation controls and typography display improvements make the reading experience better than ever.

Quickly Compare Two Versions of a Document
Word 2007 makes it easy to find out what changes were made to a document; a new tri-pane review panel helps you see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly marked. This feature is especially helpful for those drafting several versions of a long paper or presentation.

Convert Your Word Documents
With Word 2007, you can share documents in Portable Document Format file (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without using third-party tools. XML support facilitates smaller, more robust documents and deep integration with information systems and external data sources. Because Office Open XML Formats are compressed, segmented file formats, they offer a dramatic reduction in file size and help ensure damaged or corrupt files can be easily recovered.

Customer Reviews

More cumbersome bloatware from Microsoft
There was a time when Microsoft Office Word's most recent incarnation was held as the Gold Standard of word-processing programs by most casual- and many professional-computer users. This "article of faith" was so ubiquitous that the pre-installed downgraded word-processing program, part of what is called Microsoft Works, was held in some contempt by most users and usually deleted right away and replaced with the most recent version of Word. No more.

Office Word 2007 is packed with things no one needs and wastes every user's time trying to figure it out.

Compared to the over written and unnecessarily complex Word 2007, the basic templates in Microsoft Works (version 8.5) are refreshingly appealing, simple to use and entirely adequate for most writing and word processing tasks.

Unlike the older versions of Word and the Works Word Processor, Office Word 2007 opens to seven separate template tabs - Each with its own full range of choices and each with own set of multiple and complex tool bars and options. These view pages include 1) Home, 2) Insert, 3) Page Layout, 4) References, 5) Mailings, 6) Review and 7) View. Without going into detail, suffice it to say that the truly necessary aspects of each were once contained on the two simple toolbars most commonly used in the earlier versions of Word, Editing and Navigation.

Navigating between these seven tabbed templates is like moving from room to room - or from house to house - to complete one meal or one conversation. It is simply a user-unfriendly, ill-conceived design. The multiplicity, design and inclusion of many useless options on the production default page ("Home") alone are distracting, delaying, complicated and yield no better product than the earlier, simpler versions.

Word processing should be straightforward, easily navigated and complete. The basic tools of spell-checking, formatting, cutting, pasting, highlighting, etc. should be positioned so as to make them immediately available while working. With Office Word 2007, Microsoft has abandoned these basic precepts and needs. Every time a different tab/template selection needs to be entered to accomplish a necessary task, the writer is distracted. Any writer - including many of you who are reading this, will agree that adding distraction reduces productivity and efficiency.

Microsoft's Office Word 2007 was appears to have not been designed by writers, but by software engineers rewarded for building bigger and more complex programs.

The same strategic error was made by Microsoft in its current operating system, Windows VISTA. Most users of the Microsoft XP system found it perfectly adequate. VISTA bloated a good operating system until it became a gargantuan program of gigabyte-guzzling proportions while adding little if any functional improvements. Yet another example of size and complexity winning out over necessary functionality. Office Word 2007 is a repetition of the self-same misjudgment.

Time is of the essence to most people when they write. It took me nearly ten minutes to figure out how to change a default that double spaced every line I wrote! The Style templates are simply bizarre and distracting, taking up fully half the toolbar space in the basic "Home" production tab. The more functional and necessary functions are squeezed into mini-size half icons making the necessary navigation all the more difficult.
Yes, there is a way to customize one's own toolbar - but why should we have to spend our own time to re-simplify what Microsoft Word 2007 has literally encrypted and hidden in a maze of overlapping separate templates, options and useless features!

There is talk of VISTA being replaced sooner rather than later and that, as heavily promoted as it was and with the talk of ceasing to provide support or updates for XP in the coming year, it will be piled atop the 'it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time' junk heap along with Windows Millennium. I expect Word 2007 to wind up there, too.

In the meanwhile, there are good choices, even if you choose to stay within the Windows 'family' of word processing programs. Most simply (and inexpensively) the aforementioned Microsoft Works 8.5 actually turns out to be a pretty user friendly and functional package that includes a more familiar and easier to use word processing program, an Excel-like spread sheet as well as an Access-like database for keeping and sorting information.

Office Word 2003 and XP software is still out there and is getting pretty inexpensive - And it is far easier to use.

As a former admitted "Microsoft Word snob," I must confess that I have learned something from these experiences. Bigger is not necessarily better. The principle applies to software as well as to cars. Microsoft should not be rewarded for bringing this 'upgrade' to market any more than the developers and promoters of Hummers ought be acknowledged for their ecological contributions to the well being of the planet.

I have also learned that the earlier and simpler versions of Microsoft's word processing programs are far superior in ease of use and essential, efficient functionality than is its newest product, Office Word 2007. I encourage every new computer buyer to give Microsoft Works a try before automatically dumping it in favor of Word and its related programs. You might be in for a very pleasant and economically satisfying experience!

Ribbons
The program is great! They seemed to have been a bit more influenced by Apple and their software with the new 2007 Word. The toolbar is now about an inch thick and instead of scrolling down on "file" it's already up and it goes across the screen instead of down, which is smart because it doesn't block your view of your document. New features include: when you scroll over a premade font is changes the font you highlighted with out even having to click on it, this makes it easy to test which one you like.
The only thing that I found annoying, or I should say haven't found is the spell checker, and how to turn it off or on. It is set to be on, but sometimes I need to turn it off for job purposes and, well I can't find out how to.
Overall, it's all the same stuff, just much more user friendly-most of it. I don't regret one cent that I spent on it.

Very pleased so far.
I just got this and so far its been great. I have been using an older version of WordPerfect but needed to go to Word for work. In a review for the professional version, the reviewer stated that it probably is easier to learn this program if your new to Microsoft Word and it has been easy for me so far. I installed this version on both my home computer and work computer. My work computer had Office Works 2003 with Word and this had to be removed before Word 2007 could be installed. I didn't realize this and called Microsoft when it wouldn't install. I was amazed how quickly I got through and how helpful customer support was.