Microsoft Greetings 2002 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005N9AF
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,996 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Microsoft Greetings 2002 has thousands of professional sentiments and designs for personalizing and making memorable greeting cards. Greetings 2002 provides a wide variety of sentiments for many situations--from traditional to contemporary and humorous--to tailor the message to fit the recipient. Share greetings by printing cards, e-mailing them, or posting them to the Web. Even get professionally printed cards and have them sent anywhere on MSN Photos, powered by Microsoft Picture It! A possible 2,000,000 greetings can be created with 7,000 sentiments and quotes, 2,000 images and graphics, and more than 125 fonts. There are more than 200 different artist designs from among more than 35 greeting card companies. Microsoft Greetings also includes basic photo editing features so personal photos can be incorporated into greetings. An address book with mail merge makes it possible to send greetings to many friends or family members all at once.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, February 26, 2002

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This review is from: Microsoft Greetings 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have been a fatihful user of the Microsoft Greeting Card programs, but with each new edition they do less and are less user friendly. If you just want to make cards....and nothing else. This program will suit you fine. However, if you are interested in creating not just cards, but posters, business cards, wrapping paper, certificates, etc., then check out
American Greetings Creatacard program - it has much more to offer for your money.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars MS Greetings is Good but Lacking..., April 2, 2002

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M. SPEIGHTS (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Greetings 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

If you're a novice with this type of program, better forget Greetings, since the software came with no user guide at all--just a CD in a large, flashy box. In addition, there is no online guide included on the CD. To make matters worse, when I went to prepare an Envelope and tried to find the Envelope feature, I made the mistake of going to the Help function. There is nothing there on preparing envelopes. I wrote Microsoft, and unbelievably, the response was "don't know if a user guide should have been included..." and "The Help wasn't written correctly for Greetings because they used the same Help function that goes with Picture It!" I stumbled on the Envelope feature by accident when I selected the topic "Blank." Microsoft should have done better. If you have time to play with it, the program is easy to use, good graphics and selections, but beware of lousy Help, no user guide, and lousy MS support.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but crashes all the time, March 26, 2002

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Jim B. Kohnman (Claremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Greetings 2002 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I've been using this for a couple of weeks now. Like everything about it, but make sure you save at every step. You still may have problems, but at least you stand a chance to recover. I have yet to get all the way through printing a card without it crashing at least once. Sometimes it corrupts the file you were working on, so even if you DID save it, it may or may not be recoverable.
The interface is nice and all, but it's very frustration to take an hour to make a card that SHOULD have taken 5 minutes.