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Rating:  - Not worth the money
Don't use unless you are forced to. The price Microsoft wants for this package is too much for what it offers. For the most part it is no different than Office 2000, Office 98, Office 95 or for that matter Office 6 for windows 3.1. Features that were poorly implemented in earlier versions are still poorly implemented. Most of the functionality in Office XP is the same as it was in these earlier products, so it leaves the user with the question, what am I paying over "$" for? Even the upgrade price is ridiculus. My opinion, check out Staroffice or if you can't afford that then check out OpenOffice. I have gone back to Office 97 on the one PC I use Microsoft office on (the hard drive was reformatted and instead of hassling through MS's product activation, AGAIN, it was decided to just go with an earlier version). Staroffice and openoffice are used everywhere else.
Rating:  - Worth the Money?
I'm afraid I'm going to have to buy this thing. Let's face it, Office is an outstanding multi-task tool, however complicated it may be. My problem is having to pay so much damn money for it. I have tried Sun's StarOffice, but I found that it's not FULLY compatible with MS programs, especially if the file in question is remotely complicated. I'll bet that I'm like a lot of other people in that I already have so many existing MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft files that I need to work with, I am kind of forced into buying this program for my new computer.
I would have no problem whatsoever switching to another brand if I weren't "locked in" to using Microsoft, especially considering the highway robbery. What ever happened to the anti-trust thing?
Rating: - Nothing Good About It
I can not find one good thing about MS Office that I can't get from a cheaper alternative. MS Office tries to "read your mind" and ends up formatting your document in goofy ways. When it crashed it asks you to send an error report, the report contained data from my Excel file! It takes forever to load and to install and if you do not do the step by step (ugh!) install you end up having to put the disk in every other week to get the feature that was not originally installed.
In short:
If you want to share personal info with MS
If you want your work to look like MS wants it to
If you want to "never" be done installing to software
If you think wasting $$ is good
Then
Buy this product. Other wise look at Star Office or another product.
Rating: - overpriced
This software is incredibly over priced for ANY level of usibilty. There is No reason for you to pay this much for anything Microsft unless it will run a server, give you lifetime on site support, and make you coffee. Consider something less costly with the same useability like StarOffice or gobeProductive.
Rating:  - Only if you are new to MS Office!
Microsoft Office XP Standard offers four essential tools that allows the user to create professional looking documents, resumes, letters etc. It also has powerful tools for mail merge, document recovery ( so if a blue screen attack happens it will recover your document). It also has a speech recoginition technology, which you have to train before you can actually start telling it what to do. Microsoft Excel, is a very essential program that makes adding up and analyzing numbers very easy, you are able to create chart's with your numbers for formal presentation. Microsoft Excel has become like a industry standard spreadsheet program so that at least should make you think about buying this suite. It also contains features for publishing your data on the web. Microsoft Outlook is a great e-mail program or PIM that has everything in one place, you are able to have multiple accounts without having to sign in multiple times separately into different e-mail services, Outlooks scheduling features are truly amazing when it comes to organizing your life. Microsoft PowerPoint is a great program for creating presentations, with its fantastic effects, PowerPoint 2002, especially is worth the buy, you will have a lot of fun with this product alone! Over all the new features in Office XP it self will make it a great buy for first time users, things such as task pane which allows users to work more faster. It would have been nice to add Microsoft Access, which is a great database program but, you have to look to the Professional edition of Office XP for that program. If the price of the program scares you and you don't have the money and only want essential tools look to Microsoft Works Suite 2002, a great set of integrated tools, which offers the complete version of Microsoft Word and a spreadsheet, database etc at a [lowe] price, ... check out the review!
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