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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / NT 4
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- This special edition item is only available as an upgrade. To use it, you must own a copy of Office 97 or Office 2000
- Includes:
- Microsoft Word version 2002 (word processing)
- Microsoft Excel version 2002 (spreadsheet)
- Microsoft Outlook version 2002 (personal e-mail and information manager)
- Microsoft PowerPoint version 2002 (presentation graphics)
- Microsoft Access version 2002 (database management system)
- Microsoft SharePoint Team Services (Team Web site solution)
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
After the most painless installation yet from a Microsoft product, Office XP Professional immediately starts to make an impression. The code has obviously been tightened with programs starting and closing noticeably faster. As well as several key changes from Office 2000 to improve productivity and collaboration, many smaller welcome tweaks have been introduced to improve functionality across the board. The focus in this release is on making Office smarter, providing better collaboration tools and self-customising to individual users (with a bit of help). The "Smart Tags" are a clever way of automatically matching data in documents to tasks such as inserting an address when you're writing a letter in Word or copying and pasting data in Excel. This is extremely welcome as is the ability to customise auto-correct (don't correct these types of errors but do correct these). Also new are "Task panes". Imagine a cross between a Wizard and the Help section which, by means of some drop-down menus makes relevant commands easily available, thus achieving results faster.
As well as the cross-product improvements, each suite has had an overhaul. Outlook has seen many tweaks that improve usability and productivity notably auto-correct during typing and improved ease of setting up mail accounts plus support for Hotmail. PowerPoint contains a plethora of enjoyable new effects that can be combined in multiple ways leading to the most swish presentations and some useful new applications most notably the organisation chart creator. Word and Excel benefit the most from "Smart Tags" and "Task Panes". Some new useful features include a merge function in Word for incorporating other users' changes, a "Word Count" display for those late-night essays, a drop-down menu in Excel with commonly used functions and an extremely easy-to-use set of diagram creators.
Office XP will improve productivity and results across the entire application suite. The improved functionality especially with "Smart Tags" and "Task Panes" once learnt will save users considerable time in creating quality documents. --Colin Neal
Manufacturer's Description
The most significant version of Office ever released, Microsoft Office XP Professional integrates productivity innovations throughout its programs to transform the traditional Office suite into a smarter overall work experience. By simplifying productivity, enabling collaboration for everyone, and extending Office beyond the desktop, Office XP Professional streamlines how people work with information and one another, making it easier for everyone to create, share, and analyze important data.Microsoft Office XP Professional Special Edition is an introductory offer available for a limited time to existing Office customers. This edition delivers exceptional value and a wide range of functionality, including Word version 2002, Excel version 2002, Outlook version 2002, PowerPoint version 2002, Access version 2002, FrontPage version 2002, Publisher version 2002, and the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
I, like many people, tend to avoid upgrades and go for the full version. This particular upgrade, though, was as sweet and clean as you could ask for. A superb product; but if you already have Office 2000, it is a pure luxury rather than a necessity. If, on the other hand, you are using Office 98 or (God forbid) Office 97, then by all means upgrade. Yes, it's worth it.
64 of 71 people found the following review helpful
Like a lemming I went out and bought OfficeXP Special Edition and was dissapointed. Yes it has extra features but it has some caveats that aren't apparent until you install it.
WindowsME users will lose the facility to Fax from outlook. ME doesn't provide WinFAX Drivers and XP uninstalls WinFax Lite from Office 2000 leaving you to purchase a 3rd party tool. (Another £50 for WinFax Pro)
Text to Speech is partially implemented, i.e. It works only in Excel! What happened to Word and Outlook? Speech recognition is only implemented for US Speakers. You also need to start a seperate application for OCR scanning to WORD. Why did they not integrate this feature? Search and Replace text is still not available in outlook, and my machine refused to boot after installation because Office XP didn't like my Voodoo 3000 Graphics Drivers.
It's not all bad though. Handwriting recognition is very good and unlike PALM does not require you to learn a new way of writing, though joined up letters can pose it's difficulties. Outlook warns you if another application is trying to use it's address book a useful feature, if not annoying when trying to sync my PalmVX. The free Optical mouse is worth a mention also.
Do you really need to upgrade? No not yet, save your money!
40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
So you are thinking about upgrading, well, it did install OK on my machine and runs fine. There are some nice touches which if you are a power user of 2000 will be worth the upgrade. Otherwise you should maybe wait a while and see how XP pans out.
I will give you one tip once installed do not use the build and repair function with reset defaults option set, if you do all your own email addresses will be removed from Outlook, on my PC it wiped every entry, and that of course took a while to type back in.
Oh and as I havn't given a rave review I don't expect you will get to read this... Call me a cynic
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Best ever Office release
I just bought Office XP Professional Upgrade with Frontpage and Publisher - this is THE best Office release to date. Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2001
Early days, but very happy
Besides the software which is a world of difference in itself, the mouse that comes with this kit is brilliant. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2001 by I Waring
The best office yet
I have had this product ever since the first beta and in terms of function and ease of use, it is the best version of Office yet. Read more
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MS Office XP Pro a very excellemt Office suite one of MS's greatest achievment of the year and for now. The most impressive of all was the Smart Tags, Task Pane and the use of XML. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2001
Excellent, but not worth the extra!
Installed my copy this morning, and as always I was confronted with a seamless and efficient installation, leaving me with Microsoft's newest edition of the popular Office... Read more
Published on 31 May 2001
Office XP - Welcome to the Future
I have now been using the Evaluation version of Office XP for about three weeks. All I can say is: Brilliant! This is the best piece of software I have used for a long time. Read more
Published on 24 May 2001 by J. Lombard
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