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Sam I Am said:
Before you donate your hard-earned money yet again to Bill Gates’ ‘Feed the Multi-Billionaire Fund’, do yourself and the world a favor and search for ‘Star Office 8′ on Amazon and read the reviews there. I use MS Office Professional 2003 in the office, and just cannot believe how badly so many businesses and individuals are being ripped off by Microsoft for this BLOAT-ware.
Star Office 8 is under $50 from Amazon and is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, and includes full functionalities of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, and Access. Let me know what MS software I can buy under $100, let alone $50. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end of the Microsoft Monopoly, and the dawning of the Era of Sanity in computer software.
Rating: 2 / 5
# 27 May 2010 at 1:21 am

Mischa Barton said:
My new laptop came with a trial of microsoft office. So basically I purchased this for the key code so that I could have it perminately. Microsoft office includes all of the major programs including word and excel. If your computer doesn’t already have these programs buy it!
Rating: 5 / 5
# 27 May 2010 at 4:17 am

evaluator said:
You need to get out more. Just the fact that you are looking at this page and are thinking of upgrading your Microsoft Office makes it clear that you have a problem. Don’t believe the Microsoft advertisement featuring dinosaurs to announce “Microsoft Office Has Evolved.” It hasn’t. This is a mature product. It doesn’t matter if you use Office 1997, 2000 or 2003. They are all the same. The good, the bad and the ugly. It is all still here. Maybe a few bugs have been fixed. Most haven’t, and ther are always new bugs. If Microsoft took the time to really improve the software, that would be one thing. But they don’t.
Here is an example. You are in Outlook. You call up a contact and want to send that person a letter. You need to print an envelope, but there is no command to do so. There is no button to click. You can’t right click anywhere to print an envelope. I am not making this up. Outlook has been out for almost ten years and multiple upgrades, and Microsoft still hasn’t gotten around to implementing functionality to print a single envelope. Your only option (the on-line support confirms this) is to perform a mail merge. This is an elaborate process that is designed for printing thousands of envelopes for a bulk mailing. It involves opening multiple windows and setting all sorts of settings. You have to go through the ENTIRE PROCESS just to print a single envelope! What is more, the mail merge feature has bugs in it. It leaves blank lines in addresses that look atrocious, and it drops country names from addresses. It gives you options as to how you want country names treaed in addresses, but these all do nothing. Whatever option you select, Outlook leaves countries out of addresses when it prints envelopes.
I could go on, but I won’t. If you are using Office 2000 or even Office 1997, you aren’t missing out on anything. There is absolutely no reason to shell out $400 for new software that does all the same things in all the same ways with mostly the same bugs.
Rating: 1 / 5
# 27 May 2010 at 4:24 am

Rodolfo Lambour Chocano said:
I bought this upgrade to try to solve a problem I had with the size of the Outlook pst file.

I installed the software without problems and solved the problem, besides adding some improvements to my previous Office version.

If you have a significant volume of e-mail, I recommend installing this upgrade.
Rating: 5 / 5
# 27 May 2010 at 4:25 am

Dawn Montero said:
For the home use for which I acquired this product, the upgrade is decent. I don’t use most of it’s functionality, but what I do use is very nice.
Rating: 4 / 5
# 27 May 2010 at 6:03 am

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