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The ambitious, ground-up rebuild of Microsoft Office Standard 2007
presents drastically different interfaces and new file formats. The new
Office looks so unlike its predecessors, it's likely to spark intense
love-hate responses from users. This upgrade isn't for everyone: If
you're patient, eager to try the latest tools, and willing to relearn
most of what you already know about Office, then you may relish the
challenge of Office 2007. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 can produce
more-polished documents and presentations, and Outlook's new scheduling
abilities make it a handier communications hub. Professionals who want
to impress clients and co-workers with attractive reports, charts, and
slide shows will find this a worthy upgrade. First-time Office users
may have an easier time than veteran users getting their bearings.

However, if you only use a small fraction of what Office offers or you
felt that getting the hang of Office 2003 was painful enough, then you
might want to leave Office 2007 on the shelf or try it free for two
months first. We imagine that power users who have mastered the nooks
and crannies of the older versions will curse the steep learning curve.
But take heed: The new era of Office affects even those who don't
upgrade, and a conversion tool is needed to let older Office versions
open Office 2007's default, Open XML files.

Office 2007 does offer complex features that you can't yet find
elsewhere. However, it also falls short in key areas. Integration among
the applications isn't as thorough as we'd hoped, and there's no
one-click way to collaborate with others on an edit without buying
Microsoft's Groove online collaboration tool or working within a server
setting. The advent of Office 2007 comes as a growing number of
competing tools are simpler, cost less (if they aren't free), and
handle the same core features. Oddly, despite its bevy of Windows Live
and Office Live services, Microsoft chose not to build a bridge to the
Web for all Office users.

Office editions
We reviewed Microsoft Office Standard 2007, which costs a substantial
$399, or $239 to upgrade. This suite includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
and Outlook in addition to Office Tools that manage language settings
and pictures and include a diagnostics tool for use in the event of a
crash. Households that don't need desktop e-mail should opt for Office
Home & Student at $149 (no upgrade option), a new suite roughly
equivalent to Office Student and Teacher 2003 but with OneNote instead
of Outlook. The Basic package, with Word, Excel, and Outlook, only
comes pre-installed on computers sold by manufacturers that have
Microsoft software licensing agreements. At $449 ($279 upgrade),
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 costs $50 less than the
Professional edition that includes the Access database program. Only
the Enterprise and the $679 ($539 upgrade) Ultimate editions include
the new Groove tool. And oddly both the Enterprise and Professional
Plus editions lack the Business Contact Manager component of Outlook,
which corporate users might want for their marketing efforts.

Setup
Breezing through the options, our fastest installation of Microsoft
Office Standard 2007 took no more than 20 minutes on a Windows XP
computer (see our installation slide show). However, settle into your
chair if you're curious about the fine print. We spent 40 minutes just
skimming the 10,379-word End User License Agreement and stopped before
we could understand it all. Here are some of the highlights: You're
allowed to install Office 2007 software on two computers; you must
agree to download updates whenever Microsoft decides you need them; and
Microsoft may verify your license key at any time to make sure that
you're not using pirated software. We wished that Microsoft better
explained the Internet-based services Office 2007 can connect to.

When we chose to Customize the installation on another PC, the process
was more involved. It's too bad that while this process lets you
handpick which items to install, it doesn't explain what you'll miss if
you reject, say, Office Tools. And while Microsoft displays your
available hard drive space as well as how much of that is needed by
your selected set of applications, there's no indication of the size of
each individual application and you're left to your subtraction skills
here. In the end, we installed everything available.

From that point on, loading the Office suite onto our hard drive took
15 minutes flat. Office Standard 2007 is smaller than its predecessors,
at about 3GB. Unlike the Windows Vista operating system, the new Office
does not demand the newest hardware. Office 2007 is supposed to work
the same whether running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows
Vista. At a minimum, you'll need to have Windows Server 2003 with
Service Pack 1 or Windows XP SP2 on a 500MHz processor with 256MB of
RAM (512MB or more for Outlook with Business Contact Manager, which
comes in the Small Business, Professional, and Ultimate editions).
However, of course, this rules out those still using older versions of
Windows.

Although the terms of the EULA were less than transparent, we were
pleased that Microsoft offered the least intrusive installation
settings by default. For example, Privacy Options leaves it up to users
to hook up to online Help automatically, as well as to download a file
that continually tracks system problems. No Office 2007 shortcuts
appeared on our desktop or in our system tray, either. The Office
Shortcut Bar--a feature that disappeared in the 2003 version--is back,
located within the Office Tools menu.

Interface
Once you open each Office 2007 application, you'll see a radically
different, blue interface that's brighter than in the past. Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint arrange features within a tabbed Ribbon toolbar
that largely replaces the gray drop-down menus and dialog boxes from a
quarter-century of Office software. The Office logo menu, docked in the
upper left corner, bundles many commands from the old File and Edit
menus. Outlook lacks the logo button and adopts the Ribbon only within
its message composition and scheduling windows. There's a core set of
always-on tabs, as well as contextual tabs that hide until the software
detects that you need them. For instance, the Picture Tools Format tab
only shows up when you click on an image. We were stumped at first
about how to format images, tables, and charts until we got used to
clicking on them first.

The Office 2007 programs, which share a new graphics engine, strongly
emphasize ways to decorate documents. Pull-down Style Galleries let you
preview how new fonts, color themes, chart styles, images and such
appear before you apply the change. This is great for selecting from
menus of fonts or page templates. At the same time, however, the
"intelligent" shape-shifting may bewilder those who don't realize that
they must click a style to apply a formatting change. In most cases,
the preformatted styles only present colors within the same range
already used by your document. And sometimes the pull-down galleries
jut into the document and obscure the charts or images you're trying to
change, and you can't turn them off.

Nor do the dynamic previews apply to all style elements. For example,
from the Page Layout tab of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you can
preview Themes of colors and templates by mousing over them. But the
Page Borders option takes you to an unhelpful, old-school pop-up box
without dynamic previews.

On the one hand, newbies to Office software, particularly young, visual
learners, may find the 2007 interface easier to master than Office
2003. Icons label most of the commands, and many expand into pull-down
menus. There are inconsistencies, though, such as buttons that open
older dialog boxes. And many items have moved to places that we don't
find intuitive. For instance, the dictionary and thesaurus in Word are
under the Review tab, not References near the footnote and bibliography
buttons. And the Insert Rows command in Excel 2007 is located beneath
the Home tab, not the Insert tab. Likewise, PowerPoint's New Slide
button is under Home instead of Insert. Notice a pattern? Although the
Home tab houses many frequently used features, it's not the first place
we look for them.

After more than a year of alternating between Office 2003 and test
versions of Office 2007, we still found it hard to break old habits.
Microsoft advertises the Ribbon's ability to help you "browse, pick,
and click." If you're upgrading, though, you could get stuck in the
"browse" stage longer than you'd like, slowing your work.

Rather than piling on more features--Word 2003 alone had some 1,500
commands--Microsoft attempted to better show off functions that already
existed. To some extent, the Ribbon meets this goal, as it's easier to
find Conditional Formatting in Excel, among other sophisticated tools.
And the View tab in Word and Excel better provides options for viewing
two or three open documents at once.

You can customize Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to some extent, such as
by adding buttons to the small, Quick Access Toolbar, but not as much
as with their predecessors. Luckily, keyboard shortcuts remain the
same; just press ALT at any time to see tiny "badges" that label the
quick keys for the Ribbon's commands. We like that you can hide the
Ribbon by double-clicking on any tab. Plus, Microsoft has killed
Clippy, the annoying animated pop-up assistant that would interrupt
your work in Office 2003. A subtle new quick formatting toolbar in Word
2007 fades in and out near your cursor. Overall, our favorite interface
tweak is the slider bar in the lower right corner that lets you zoom in
and out with ease.

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