Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Win32 SPANISH UPGRADE

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Product Features

• Essential software suite for homes and small businesses
• Create high-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
• Streamlined user interface and enhanced Help system
• E-mail and appointment manager; time-management tools
• Includes PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Excel

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000M7UVNW
• Item model number: 021-08715
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 26, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,888 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands; enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents; new time-management tools to help manage your schedule; and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. With these enhancements, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or work.

Office Standard 2007 Contains:

• PowerPoint
• Word
• Outlook
• Excel

Create High-Quality Documents
Office Standard 2007 has new graphics capabilities, formatting galleries, and an improved user interface that exposes commonly used commands, making it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

• A results-oriented user interface that makes it easier to find and use product features.
• More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents.
• Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices.
• Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

Work with Enhanced Reliability and Security Features
With an improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Standard 2007 enables you to work with more confidence and security.

• A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
• Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
• Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
• Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find Commands and Help with Ease
Office Standard 2007 has a new streamlined user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn about the programs and find answers to your questions.

• Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
• An improved Help system that offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
• Command tabs that are context-sensitive and change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize your Time and Communications
Office Standard 2007 includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, which is now an even more complete and easy-to-use e-mail and appointment manager, leaving you more time to do the things you want to do. You can quickly search throughout your e-mail, share your calendar with the people you care about, and get the latest news from your favorite Web sites using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

• Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
• A To-Do Bar that brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages in one place.
• Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
• An RSS aggregator that offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007. (A separate fee-based RSS subscription is required.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

134 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Before You Upgrade -- Things You Need to Know, March 28, 2007

By	Bruce D. Namerow (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Normally I might wait to install a new software upgrade, but I just got a new laptop and thought it would be best to use Office 2007 with the new Vista operating system. I was wrong.

You would expect that a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft could put out a powerful and bug-free piece of software. But after a month of using Office 2007, you get the distinct impression that this software is not ready for public release. Microsoft should be ashamed.

I don't know the root cause of my problems, but I have to stress that I am running a clean install of Office 2007 on Vista, so there shouldn't be any software conflicts or issues.

So what are my issues? The list is long:

-- My biggest concern is that MS Word constantly hangs and stalls. It can making editing a document very painful. I suspect the problem is when I put images or Visio diagrams into a document. But that is something the old MS Word was able to do without an issue. Oddly, if I have a colleague open the document and save it out in Word 2003, the problem goes away! What?! It's killing my productivity.

-- When ever I cut and paste from an old document, Word hangs for 15 to 20 seconds. And often the formatting and margins in my new document go haywire. I keep having to spend a ton of time fixing things. This never happened in the old Word. This is another time killer.

-- Every few days, Outlook 2007 starts telling me that it cannot display my email folders. Uh oh! I have to completely restart my computer to see my email again.

-- Outlook 2007 breaks many graphic emails that people send -- they look like a mess. It is because Outlook 2007 does NOT render HTML correctly since it uses the Word engine, not Internet Explorer to display email. I have no idea why Microsoft did this, but they have got to fix it.

-- Many of the issues in the old Word 2003 still haven't been fixed. If you place an image, it can often be hard to get it to appear correctly. Why can't they solve this one?

-- While most Office programs have the new ribbon interface (which I like), some programs like Visio 2007 do not. So you have to remember how to use two interfaces. Couldn't Microsoft find the time and money to update ALL its programs? Give me a break.

-- On a few occassions in Visio 2007, my files have failed to save correctly. At first I thought this must have been my fault, but it's happened to me a few times and can't be a coincidence. A few times I've gotten an error message and lost my work. Ug.

-- Word and Excel 2007 use a completely new file format. So anyone you send a document to has to have 2007 installed (which isn't likely the case). To get around this, you can save it down to a 2003 file format, but then you end up with two files on your hard drive -- one in the new format and one in the old format. What a pain! Also, there definitely seems to be an issue with Office 2007 opening older Office 2003 files. Could be the cause of many of my problems, but there is no way I can avoid using old files. They should have worked harder on compatibility.

There are good things about the new 2007. I do like the new interface design and the new features in Outlook 2007 are amazing for organizing tasks and sharing your calendar.

But I don't think it's fair that Microsoft released a product so full of serious, serious bugs that have cost me hours and hours of extra work. I didn't spend hundreds of dollars on a beta product and don't think the public should have to suffer. Surely they can afford to do better!

48 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars License allows an additional laptop install, May 14, 2007

By	Graham (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

The product requires activation, which includes sending machine identification information to Microsoft.

The good news is that the Office Standard license allows installation on both a desktop system AND a laptop. It also allows you to transfer the license to new systems, over time.

From the license: "Before you use the software under a license, you must assign that license to one device. ... You may install another copy on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device. ... You may reassign the license to a different device any number of times, but not more than one time every 90 days"

146 of 185 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Giant Leap Backwards, January 31, 2007

By	Kevin McGorry "Kevin McGorry" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

Office 2003 had it's share of difficulties, but was overall a useful application, as were the previous versions of Office. I was never a huge fan, but appreciated the common logic of the application and with each upgrade they've continued to move forward with improvements.

Now they've introduced a set of applications that are a gigantic leap backwards in productivity and usability. It's loaded with overburdened, irregular icons and hidden menus. All of the menu sets, menu names, and functionality has been completely rearranged with no noticeable benefit for the user.

Even the help functionality, of all things, has been rendered completely differently and contains less information and more generalities referencing help for Word within Outlook and vice versa. This would be helpful except that the same menu name bears entirely different meaning between the two applications now.

Menus are also too light so you can't really tell if highlights are active or passive in drop menus. Drop menus change radically within each element of the frame or window, and there are layers upon layers of custom menus you need to build from scratch.

Let me say that again... you need to build your own menus. I'm not kidding.

Basic functionlity that you used to find as a default icon in the last several versions you need to hunt down in a "Quicklaunch" type supermenu that's hidden above (or below) the default icon menu.

I am a web usability, design, and production professional who's used more beta applications and experimental software than most users could imagine and I'm warning *anyone* to stay away from this until you absolutely must upgrade. Microsoft needs time to get the content updated on the help screens and create some functionality to return to "classic" menus that can be customized later.

I generally have a lot of patience for new applications and have been accused of being to accomodating to bad usability by Microsoft in the past. Well in this case, I've never been so frustrated by *any* application.

I need to be productive and this set me back by at least a day already.

Be warned!!!!!