Vote and Feedback on MS Office 2007

How do you like MS Office 2007?

  • Tasty - Awesome

    Votes: 8 38.1%
  • Fair

    Votes: 5 23.8%
  • Terrible

    Votes: 2 9.5%
  • Don't know, I haven't used it or seen it yet.

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Total voters
    21

skilche1

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Just wondering what the consensus is on MS Office 2007 package. I find it tasty and is quit different from the past versions. That being said, I am relearning the options and finding many new features that weren’t available in the past.

I am very impressed with it thus far.

Kilch
 
It'll be years before my clients upgrade because of the direct and indirect implementation cost, but I'll be ready.

The certificates issue is of concern and will add to my costs.
 
Love it so far! So many things that they should have implemented years ago.
 
Just thought I'd see if anyone has upgraded yet? :D

If so, your thoughts would be interesting to read.

~Kilch~
 
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I'm using it at home and it's great. However, I do know that there are some initial bugs to get out and when they get a service pack or two out, then I think it will be really good to go.
 
Some things I like. Some things I do not like. I've used 97, 2000, 2003, and now 2007.

2007 is a resource hog.
 
Some things I like. Some things I do not like. I've used 97, 2000, 2003, and now 2007.

2007 is a resource hog.

This is true Fred. I simply upgraded my system to adjust to the latest and greatest. :eek:

~Kilch~
 
Yeah, I was running Access 97 with 256MB or Ram with no issues. Upgraded everything to 2007, and it was like watching maple syrup being harvested when I ran certain codes. Bumped to 2GB of RAM and it made a world of difference. Of course it didn't help when I had Aceess/Outlook/Internet Exploder/Adobe open all at once.
 
I upgraded to Office 2007, also bought a Core 2 Duo, Vista Business Edition Laptop. No Wow favor for the softwarer. None of my old or new peripherals work with Vista without new drivers. Bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse - enclosed CD wouldn't install; the new driver from Microsoft was very difficiult to install the mouse and haven't gotten the keyboard installed afterseveral hours trying.:eek:

Numerous things in Firefox will not work in Vista; so have to kepp WIE and Firefiox both open all the time.

Vista wears you out with messages. I'd rate Vista negatively.

Never rely of the first of anything, especially Microsoft!:D

I work for a Fortune 10 company and it still uses NT, Office 2000, and Oracle 8.x.x. There's a good reason! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
Yeah, I was running Access 97 with 256MB or Ram with no issues. Upgraded everything to 2007, and it was like watching maple syrup being harvested when I ran certain codes. Bumped to 2GB of RAM and it made a world of difference. Of course it didn't help when I had Aceess/Outlook/Internet Exploder/Adobe open all at once.

Yea, RAM makes a huge difference. I once had a server in my house and I was running wind 2000 server at the time. well, I tried 512 mb RAM and seem to run pretty smooth. Crashed every oncein a while though. So, I ugraded the system to 2 gig and it never crashed and ran like roadrunner. lol

So RAM will make a huge difference in any system.

~Kilch~
 
I upgraded to Office 2007, also bought a Core 2 Duo, Vista Business Edition Laptop. No Wow favor for the softwarer. None of my old or new peripherals work with Vista without new drivers. Bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse - enclosed CD wouldn't install; the new driver from Microsoft was very difficiult to install the mouse and haven't gotten the keyboard installed afterseveral hours trying.:eek:

Numerous things in Firefox will not work in Vista; so have to kepp WIE and Firefiox both open all the time.

Vista wears you out with messages. I'd rate Vista negatively.

Never rely of the first of anything, especially Microsoft!:D

I work for a Fortune 10 company and it still uses NT, Office 2000, and Oracle 8.x.x. There's a good reason! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.


I believe in that too, why try to fix something when it's not broke. However, when it comes to software, I have a tendensy to upgrade. I just recently upgraded from XP to Vista myself and I, for one, love it. My laptop is 1 1/2 years old and all I had to do was to upgrade my memory to (again) 2 gigs. The only issue I have is sound. The funny thing is that when I upgraded from XP, I did have sound. Just recently, I did a clean install and not I don't have sound. I need to look for the driver. As far as softwere compatibility issues are concerned, Upgrade come day by day from software developers.

I consider myself as an upgrade junkie. lol

~Kilch~
 
I attribute the the upgrade issues to keeping ahead of the curve and plus it will increase my ability to solve future issues on the job.
 
I upgraded to Office 2007, also bought a Core 2 Duo, Vista Business Edition Laptop. No Wow favor for the softwarer. None of my old or new peripherals work with Vista without new drivers. Bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse - enclosed CD wouldn't install; the new driver from Microsoft was very difficiult to install the mouse and haven't gotten the keyboard installed afterseveral hours trying.:eek:

Numerous things in Firefox will not work in Vista; so have to kepp WIE and Firefiox both open all the time.

Vista wears you out with messages. I'd rate Vista negatively.

Never rely of the first of anything, especially Microsoft!:D

I work for a Fortune 10 company and it still uses NT, Office 2000, and Oracle 8.x.x. There's a good reason! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

IIlkhout, I haven't tried Vista yet, but wanted to install a test version of Office 2007, on my XP OS. Your notes above are mainly on Vista, but what is your experience with Office 2007.
Would appreciate anyones comments/notes.

Cheers, Ron
 
IIlkhout, I haven't tried Vista yet, but wanted to install a test version of Office 2007, on my XP OS. Your notes above are mainly on Vista, but what is your experience with Office 2007.
Would appreciate anyones comments/notes.

Cheers, Ron

Rak,

I find MS Office very good thus far. The only thing that is hard to is find certain configuration settings. I am still finding it difficult to locate certain settings. One of the things I like is when you're in the date field in form view, a little icon is displayed to the right of the space allowing you to access a pop-up calendar to input a date. Similar to the "CalenderInput2000" script that is located here on the forum.

I going to keep using this version of Office and learn all the settings I go. My theory is this, "You're going to have to use it sooner or later, as it too will be phased out in the future". Like MS Access 98, which is not supported by MS any longer.

Day after day, I am becoming more and more familiar with it. Me Likie. :)

Good luck.

Kilch
 
Got Office 2007 on monday.

When opening the darn thing, it looks like an invitation to join kindergarten. Gigantic icons for templates I'm not interested in. I can't do Alt+F then hit 1 to open my latest app. Neither can I use ALT+D to get to design view - lot of other shortcut keys are gone too...

Opening the app, the navigation pain is near useless even for a medium size db.

The ribbon, don't get me started on the ribbon! The take about the same space as 7 toolbars seven toolbars!!!. When deplyoing, I seldom have more than one toolbar, that's a real screen estate killer. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

For some more objective information, Allen Browne has compiled a rather good list, check out http://allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html for pros/cons.
 
You can double click on one of the text headers in the ribbon to get rid of it. I didn't like the nav pane at first, but when looking for all objects that have "customer" or "invent" in them it works real nice, and like it better than the old database window
 
Good and bad

When I first installed Office 2007 on my machine I was a bit confused by where everything was. I got the hang of it pretty quickly. There were some really cool new features. I loved the new formatting, but there were issues with crashing. That got to be pretty annoying when I could crash Access by just doing a straight copy and paste of a query! That seemed to resolve with the diagnosis tool they have. Then came the biggest shock! When I created a Switchboard using the Switchboard manager and I went to manipulate the code (I tend to do this frequently) I was shocked to find that it no longer creates code for you! If you drop a command button on a form, it will write a macro! Since macros are a pain to debug, I was not very happy! :mad: I don't know how many countless others like to use the wizard to create the start of your code and then go in and add or manipulate it afterwards. I was highly disappointed in that! Now, here's the other thing, the "Convert Forms Macros to Visual Basic" wizard does not work! I didn't want to have to write all of that code and I used the "Convert Forms Macros to Visual Basic" wizard only to find that the code didn't work! I had to fix the following errors:
TempVars.Add "SwitchboardID", "DLookUp(""SwitchboardID"",""Switchboard Items"",""[ItemNumber] = 0 AND [Argument] = 'Default'"")" --> TempVars.Add "SwitchboardID", DLookUp("SwitchboardID","Switchboard Items","[ItemNumber] = 0 AND [Argument] = 'Default'")
And
TempVars.Add "SwitchboardID", "[Argument]" --> TempVars.Add "SwitchboardID", Argument.Value
And
Call Argument & "()" --> Access.Application.Run Argument.Value
Hence my displeasure. I'd really like to have them return that functionality. It wasn't broke! Why did they "fix" it?
 

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