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10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Great update for an already highly capable program, February 19, 2002
As an avid user of Microsoft Office programs, I was interested in the new version of Word, after the more than adequate changes made to Word 97 with Word 2000. While Word 2002 doesn't totally break the mold from pervious versions of Word, I'm glad it didn't. Microsoft has already got a great product, with only a few egregious things that needed some fixing and altering. First off, the look of Word 2002 is more classic and softer to the eyes with soft hues of gray and white. Words in the menu bar are spaced out more, and highlighting is done in lavender as opposed to black. Language tools have also been improved. Basic (stress on basic) word translation, can be done within the program, from English to Spanish and French - a useful tool when composing documents in various languages and that translation dictionary is not as handy as it could be. Spell checking is more seamless, and some foreign languages can now be detected automatically. Word count has its own toolbar now, which is very convenient. With a click of a button (not a click of a toolbar, et cetera), automatic features can be turned on and off. Task panes aren't as obtrusive as I thought they might be, and are actually useful once you get accustomed to them. The Clip Art gallery gets its own task pane, although I prefer clip gallery version 5 (with Office 2000) to the new version packaged with Office XE. The obtrusive and marginally helpful office assistants (no new ones have been added to Office XE) have been exiled to the menu bar, but can reappear with a click of the mouse. Now, questions can be typed into an "Ask a Question" box in the menu bar. More intuitive, and streamlined, Word XE is a pleasant and effective update of an already fully functional program.
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 Microsoft Word 2002 Upgrade B00005B0C6
Microsoft Software
Microsoft Word 2002 Upgrade
Software
Great update for an already highly capable program
As an avid user of Microsoft Office programs, I was interested in the new version of Word, after the more than adequate changes made to Word 97 with Word 2000. While Word 2002 doesn't totally break the mold from pervious versions of Word, I'm glad it didn't. Microsoft has already got a great product, with only a few egregious things that needed some fixing and altering. First off, the look of Word 2002 is more classic and softer to the eyes with soft hues of gray and white. Words in the menu bar are spaced out more, and highlighting is done in lavender as opposed to black. Language tools have also been improved. Basic (stress on basic) word translation, can be done within the program, from English to Spanish and French - a useful tool when composing documents in various languages and that translation dictionary is not as handy as it could be. Spell checking is more seamless, and some foreign languages can now be detected automatically. Word count has its own toolbar now, which is very convenient. With a click of a button (not a click of a toolbar, et cetera), automatic features can be turned on and off. Task panes aren't as obtrusive as I thought they might be, and are actually useful once you get accustomed to them. The Clip Art gallery gets its own task pane, although I prefer clip gallery version 5 (with Office 2000) to the new version packaged with Office XE. The obtrusive and marginally helpful office assistants (no new ones have been added to Office XE) have been exiled to the menu bar, but can reappear with a click of the mouse. Now, questions can be typed into an "Ask a Question" box in the menu bar. More intuitive, and streamlined, Word XE is a pleasant and effective update of an already fully functional program.
Bryan Bradford
February 19, 2002
- Overall: 5
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