Customer Reviews

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 [Old Version]

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This product is almost impossible to use.

Three months ago, after spending frustrating hours trying to figure out how to create a presentation, I was finally able.

Now, with another presentation, I can't figure it out. Back to square one. I ended up re-using the old presentation, because I couldn't figure out how to make layouts for a new one.

The program uses a Master Slide system that is hard to find. Once you find it, you create Master Slide layouts. But they don't behave as you would think when you go to create the slides. The text you put in the Master Slide layout does not show up. Slide numbers don't show up.

I was a software developer for 20 years, and have mastered hundreds of programs. This one baffles me to an extreme degree.

Be prepared for maximum frustration with PowerPoint 2007.

Microsoft completely reorganized the menu options into their new "ribbon" menu system with this release. Most of the time, the ribbon is easy to navigate and find what you're looking for. Other times, what seems like it should be a one or two step process, often takes 4+ steps with the supposedly great ribbon.

Overall, this version of PowerPoint is fairly stable and works well.

When I installed it, it erased Word and Excell. Microsoft refused to do anything about it, even though they agreed I installed it correctly.

I then had to purchase the entire package and found out that I could have bought the entire package cheaper than I paid for just the Power Point alone.

Not a good deal.

Lots of new features and presentations look exceptionally slick. The VBA integration works well and it's the most significant upgrade since 1997.

PowerPoint 2007 seems to do what its supposed to, but I have a few complaints: it doesn't package a powerpoint presentation to CD-RW, only to CD-R, and its rather difficult to get the program to do things other than in the pre-designed fashion. Also, when one sets up a slide show, it insists of moving any title slides one has made to the end of the show when you update with more slides. Probably a way to side step this, but time consuming figuring out how. I got the program from you quicker than I could have gotten, and I think cheaper, from Microsoft.