What do you guys think of office 2007

[luciusad2004]

Hey guys. I started school recently and my University uses office 2007.I am also forced to take a class which, once a week, involves a lab were i get to spend two hours learning how to use office. I'm not really sure what i think of it yet.

At the moment, i find it sort of confusing. However i think it could grow on me as i get more familiar with it. I'm just not sure how much i like the layout. It's pretty though.

I just wanted to know what you guys thought of office 2007

Edit: Also, if you prefer some sort of Office alternative feel free to mention it here.

[Greco101]

I definitely like the older versions more... I'm more use to the file/edit/view type deal not the *click circle thing* *see if what I want is in there* *click other stuff* *look through pictures and read text to see wtf it is* etc...

[luciusad2004]

Yeah I'm so used to the old menu system that its hard to move away from. Now i find that if i don't already know what i am doing, and if I'm not being explicitly told i just sort of start floating my mouse over random things untill i find what looks like it MIGHT be helpful... only to find out that it wasn't what i thought it was.

I'm not going to say its horrible, as i go through the tutorials i have to go through for class, it starts to work out for me, I'm just so used to the old system.

[calumc]

the worst thing about it is the price and also the backward compatibility thing.
The new open office is meant to be much improved, havent had a chance to try it though

[Greco101]

It's more vista-ish.

[elbarto241]

like all things new, it takes some getting use to and there always that learning curve.
overall i like it, i was getting with bored with the old menus anyways..

[Airbozo]

Still an Open Office user. I just can not justify the cost of that bloated M$ product. Is office 2007 open document capable yet?

[Wasabisam]

I am using Office 03 atm because school does so im use to it, But when i had vista on, i used 07. I liked it apart from the fact when i just hit save, it saved as an 07 doc, Got to school couldnt open it. You have to go save As 95/98/2000/2003 Capable. Other than that takes abit to get use to, but i like it

Sam

[Exley]

My dad bought a copy of 2007 student edition ( its cheaper ) and i read in the eula that you get three installs so i put it on my desktop to mess with. Well when i started college in the fall it turned out they use it. At first i really hated the new menus but now i'm getting used to them. and i like the other new features they added like the live preview. Its really hard to explain the new menus to people though "how do i save!" "click on that damn little round thing in the corner"

[luciusad2004]

Still an Open Office user. I just can not justify the cost of that bloated M$ product. Is office 2007 open document capable yet?

I thought i read somewhere on the internetz that open office ran more slowly? Is this a fallacy? If it supported the right formats, i would use it on my ibook since i see no need to buy expensive software for such a pitiful machine.