Is Office 2007 w/Vista Worth the Effort as far as Outlook & other apps?

I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other things
a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel, Access,
and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I have not yet
opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy getting my home
network up and running, which I finally had success with. I would value some
of you guys opinions who have already played around with this optional
feature and give me your true accessment of the product and some of the +'s
and -'s of this product.

Thanks in advance . . .

Tom Johnson

"tjdarth" <> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other
>things a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel,
>Access, and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I
>have not yet opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy
>getting my home network up and running, which I finally had success with. I
>would value some of you guys opinions who have already played around with
>this optional feature and give me your true accessment of the product and
>some of the +'s and -'s of this product.


Office is critical to your business, and you have a Office 2007 trial which
you have not started.

Well, d'uh... maybe you should try the trial then..

ss.

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> "tjdarth" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other
>>things a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel,
>>Access, and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I
>>have not yet opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy
>>getting my home network up and running, which I finally had success with.
>>I would value some of you guys opinions who have already played around
>>with this optional feature and give me your true accessment of the product
>>and some of the +'s and -'s of this product.
>

1) If you're very very familiar with earlier versions of Office, there may
be a learning curve for you.

2) If you're sharing documents with other people, you need to remember to
save your Office 07 docs in a format that's compatible with earlier versions
of Office. Not hard to do; you just need to remember to do it.

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 01:07:09 -0600, tjdarth wrote:

> I would value some of you guys opinions who have already played
> around with this optional feature and give me your true
> accessment of the product and some of the +'s and -'s of this
> product.

Your trial may not include Outlook!

--
Chris Game

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

I use the office 2007 package, it took a while to get used to the new
layout but is worth the effort.


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Please read my Office 2007 review:
http://www.activewin.com/reviews/sof...ms/office2007/
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"tjdarth" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other
>things a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel,
>Access, and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I
>have not yet opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy
>getting my home network up and running, which I finally had success with. I
>would value some of you guys opinions who have already played around with
>this optional feature and give me your true accessment of the product and
>some of the +'s and -'s of this product.
>
> Thanks in advance . . .
>
> Tom Johnson
>
>

"tjdarth" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other
>things a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel,
>Access, and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I
>have not yet opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy
>getting my home network up and running, which I finally had success with. I
>would value some of you guys opinions who have already played around with
>this optional feature and give me your true accessment of the product and
>some of the +'s and -'s of this product.
>
> Thanks in advance . . .
>
> Tom Johnson
>
>


If you already have Office 2003 on its own installation media, you can use
it with Vista. The Office 2007 learning curve for some seems to be
difficult, although I personally prefer it.

Also, Office 2000 will run in Vista, but Outlook 2000 will need username and
password entered each time it is opened.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

"If you're sharing documents with other people, you need to..."
Not necessarily:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...686761033.aspx

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar



"DP" <> wrote in message
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> 1) If you're very very familiar with earlier versions of Office,
> there may be a learning curve for you.
>
> 2) If you're sharing documents with other people, you need to
> remember to save your Office 07 docs in a format that's compatible
> with earlier versions of Office. Not hard to do; you just need to
> remember to do it.

"tjdarth" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I recently purchased my HP Pavilion laptop which includes among other
> things a version of Office 2007. Several of the programs including Exel,
> Access, and especially Outlook are critical to my continued business. I
> have not yet opted for the 60-day trial because I have been too busy
> getting my home network up and running, which I finally had success with.
> I would value some of you guys opinions who have already played around
> with this optional feature and give me your true accessment of the product
> and some of the +'s and -'s of this product.

I would use the trial first to see if you like, and can use the new
interface. There HAVE been some issues with Outlook 2007 and Vista which I
personally had. Was a relatively easy fix however, and I use it everyday.
What it all boils down to, is use make makes you most productive.

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Thanks Roy for the response. I have read various stories from different
blogs about differences between my current Office XP 2002 version of Outlook
which my wife and I greatly depend upon on my Win XP SP-II system and the
new Office 2007 version. I don't mind change as long as I have backward
compatibility with prior versions of the same product. I am still doing some
research on Outlook and other apps like Excel and Access.

I really appreciate everyone's input . . .
Thanks
Tom J.
"roy69" <> wrote in message
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>
> I use the office 2007 package, it took a while to get used to the new
> layout but is worth the effort.
>
>
> --
> roy69
>
> - Core 2 Quad Q6600
> - Abit IP35 Pro
> - 4 x 1GB OcUK PC2-6400 C5 800 MHZ Dual Channel
> - Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
> - CiBox TFT 22" Widescreen LCD Panel. 1680 x 1050
> - Creative X-Fi 7.1 PCI-E
> - Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
> - Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
> - Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU