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Rating:  - FrontPage is now usable
Here are some of my initial observations: Office XP has a sharp and appealing visual interface. The grammar checker has improved in its ability to flag sentence fragments. In the previous version of FrontPage the HTML editor would embed tags such as "CREATED BY FRONTPAGE" into my HTML files. I never used FrontPage because of this annoying feature. FrontPage has been improved so that you can edit HTML pages without FrontPage making any drastic changes to the underlying HTML. Microsoft Word style formatting or auto formatting is not impressive. It seemed impossible to get Microsoft Word to respect the format that I wanted using the resume wizard and resume templates.
Rating:  - A good program, but not worth the money.
I gave Office XP a fair trial, and I have to say that this program *looks* good. The interface was slick, the program responsive (even with a Pentium III 450) and the crash recovery a godsend. It should be noted that the program did not play nice with programs by Adobe, however. .pdf creation macros caused Microsoft Word to crash each and every time I exited the program. Adobe DTP programs such as PageMaker and InDesign could not easily import files saved in Office XP, even though they are not substantially different from Office 2000 files.
These were the only problems, however. Removing the faulty macros solved the crash problem, and saving XP files as rtf files allowed me to import without losing any of the formatting. So, on the whole, very good.
However, is it worth the amount of money required to upgrade, let alone buy the full version? The answer is no. I saw no reason whatsoever to upgrade from Office 2000 SR-1a. XP's Product Activation was also a nuisance. Microsoft clearly did not price this upgrade for me, and so I can't purchase, nor really recommend this version.
If you want a good Office suite, and want a better deal, download StarOffice 5.2 from [...]. The program is free, and it's fully compatible with Office 2000.
Best, James
Rating:  - How is Microsoft Word like a haunted house?
Every time you turn your back and turn around again, something has changed. Talk about the ghost in the machine! I'm a tech writer and so was a fairly advanced user of Word 97, though it was not my word processor of choice. I have spent the past week trying to reformat a long book, originally written in Word 97, into new styles in a master document in Word 2002. Word keeps renaming styles, changing styles in text I have already formatted, and adding styles I don't want, even after I turned off everything automatic I could find that had to do with styles (which in itself is an involved procedure involving several completely different menu items). I finally went to the Microsoft site and found bunches of 'known issues' having to do with formatting. I can't even tell if those are completely responsible for the problems I am having.
Besides formatting, there has been no improvement in other annoyances having to do with headers/footers and anchored graphics and text boxes changing themselves around whenever they feel like it. Who's supposed to be in control here, anyway? It's time to revolt--I'm going to try StarOffice from Sun.
Rating:  - Another great innovative tool by Microsoft
This is the biggest change in Office since 1997. With the new "smart tags" cuts your work in half! A "smart tag" recognizes what you are doing by reading the text. Increased security in Access provides a safer more relaxed work place; it helps by using 128-bit security! First comes Word. My most favorable upgrade is being able to combine multiple documents and put them all into one! Collaborative! The voice response feature isn't that great, it needs to be worked on a bit for feature office products. But it still works and saves major time. Next comes Outlook, I think the best new feature is color-coated colander dates, when you set a date it is now in color, rather than having them all in black and white and squinting my eyes to see what the freaking day's appointments are. Then comes PowerPoint, one of my personal favorite office programs. The best thing refined is the smoother, animations that give you a better feel while doing your presentation. Now comes Excel. This also contains the "smart tags". But thing I found was that you could now look up stock prices on the Internet...woooo.
The system requirements as usual for any office products are large. I am running on a P3 650, 128 sdram, and a 8.4 gig drive. 245 MB of available hard disk space and zn additional 115 MB is required on the hard disk where the operating system is installed. So as you can see it takes a lot of power to operate these innovative tools, its a well worth investment. It'll be interesting to see how Windows XP and Office XP work together!
Rating: - The BEST Microsoft Office.....EVER! :)
Microsoft Office XP Professional is the BEST version of Microsoft Office.....EVER! NEW features like Smart Tags will literally cut your work by 80%, and help you be more efficient, so you can work smarter. NOT harder. :)
New colloboration tools add to the collaboration experience, as you will attest once you BUY this....so what are you waiting for??
Examples:
Add a voice response Features voice recognition - impressive SharePoint Team Services enables instant collaboration on any company intranet---big or small. Smart Tags!
So GET "eXPerienced" and buy it TODAY! :)
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