Includes Microsoft Word 2002, Excel 2002, Outlook 2002 and PowerPoint 2002Minimum system requirements include:Microsoft Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, ME, NT4.0 with Service Pack 6 or greater, or Windows 2000 or greaterOn systems running Win...
Editorial Review:
Includes Microsoft Word 2002, Excel 2002, Outlook 2002 and PowerPoint 2002Minimum system requirements include:Microsoft Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, ME, NT4.0 with Service Pack 6 or greater, or Windows 2000 or greaterOn systems running Windows NT4
After the most painless installation yet from a Microsoft product, Office XP Standard immediately starts to make an impression. The code has obviously been tightened with programs starting and closing noticeably faster. As well as several key changes from Office 2000 to improve productivity and collaboration, many smaller welcome tweaks have been introduced to improve functionality across the board.
The focus in this release is on making Office smarter, providing better collaboration tools and self-customising to individual users (with a bit of help). The "Smart Tags" are a clever way of automatically matching data in documents to tasks such as inserting an address when you're writing a letter in Word or copying and pasting data in Excel. This is extremely welcome as is the ability to customise auto-correct (don't correct these types of errors but do correct these). Also new are "Task panes". Imagine a cross between a Wizard and the Help section which, by means of some drop-down menus makes relevant commands easily available, thus achieving results faster.
As well as the cross-product improvements, each suite has had an overhaul. Outlook has seen many tweaks that improve usability and productivity notably auto-correct during typing and improved ease of setting up mail accounts plus support for Hotmail. PowerPoint contains a plethora of enjoyable new effects that can be combined in multiple ways leading to the swishiest presentations and some useful new applications most notably the organisation chart creator. Word and Excel benefit the most from "Smart Tags" and "Task Panes". Some new useful features include a merge function in Word for incorporating other users' changes, a "Word Count" display for those late-night essays, a drop-down menu in Excel with commonly used functions and an extremely easy-to-use set of diagram creators.
Office XP will improve productivity and results across the entire application suite. The improved functionality especially with "Smart Tags" and "Task Panes" once learnt will save users considerable time in creating quality documents. --Colin Neal
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Excellent Value Ordered on a Sunday night. Arrived Thursday morning. Product activated online OK with Microsoft and all Office updates have been downloaded and work with this version. Most people who order this can manage without the instructions but lots of sites out there to help anybody who does get stuck
Well Satisfied - MS Office XP Standard Having investigated cheaper suites due to budget restrictions, and then having seen this package advertised on Amazon for £75:00 I couldn't believe it was true. It is NOT an upgrade, or educational, it IS an original. The supplier was very efficient (softwarekings) and delivered extremely promptly. For your money you receive an original holograph MS disk in a DVD case along with a Product Key. I activated and registered my installation on-line with MS without any problems, so I can testify that it is... more info
Save your money!! In my opinion MS Office is hugely over priced. Before you even consider buying this product, please visit:
http://www.openoffice.org/
It is a completely free alternative to MS Office. It is FULLY compatable with all MS Office documents and has equivilents to Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. You can also export documents into .pdf files.
We use it in our office everyday and have saved a small fortune on MS Office licences.
Save your money!
Not much different... If anything the newer versions have gone more rubish. Im a college student and having this Drawing Canvas in Microsoft word is a pain, one of the worse things they ever added into office. I got Office 2003 edition now its still the same, I dont like how they done the clip art as well its all gone, you have to have the internet now to get most of the clip art from the microsoft gallery that is another rubbish feature of it, we have paid for that clip art why dont we get it on the disk. Even when ive... more info
