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- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / 95, Mac, Linux, Unix
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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- This item is an upgrade. To use it, you must own a copy of Office 97 or Office 2000
- Microsoft Word version 2002 (word processing)
- Microsoft Excel version 2002 (spreadsheet)
- Microsoft Outlook version 2002 (personal e-mail and information manager)
- Microsoft PowerPointversion 2002 (presentation graphics)
- Microsoft Access version 2002 (database management system)
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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 swishiest 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
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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
An impressive advance over Office 97 Pro, but less likely to dazzle users of Office 2000. Installation is quick and error-free. The activation requirement is straightforward and uncomplicated for first installation and subsequent re-installations on the same hardware. It will, however, prove an unwelcome nuisance if you have to make major changes to your hardware. I can see this becoming a major issue for the October release of Windows XP.
Overall, the appearance, speed and stability of the components have been improved. Formatting tasks are easier and more consistent to perform.
Access, Word, Excel and Powerpoint remain the standard to match for other Office suites. Outlook has also received a make-over and is much more open to the user's own customisation preferences. It is an effective and straightforward e-mail and personal organiser program. However, it still has weaknesses in its handling of contacts and scheduling of appointments and tasks.
This is an essential upgrade for current users of Office 97. Office 2000 users should try out the demonstration version to see if the improvements justify the cost of upgrading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Well, first of all i would like to congratulate all the other reviewers on being so ridiculously stupid. The only way the installation takes several hours is because they were using Windows 95, if you are running Windows xp the installation takes 10 minutes max. The software is also better that that in Office 2007 for vista, it looks better it runs faster and it never crashes. FIVE STARS FOR THIS PRODUCT.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
This is a key upgrade, irrespective of whether you are an Office 97 or Office 2000 user. Many of the tricks of the trade that skilled techies could use by tweaking the interface are there at a single mouseclick. So the nervous newcomer gets accelerated to being a power user and the experienced power user no longer has to maintain a load of home-grown tweaks. Plus a number of serious bugs that were never addressed in Office 2000 (particularly in Access) are fixed. The upgrade decision is a no-brainer - just do it. You'll be glad you did.
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