Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0659556922191
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
MPN: 692424
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows XP Professional
Publisher: Microsoft
Studio: Microsoft

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Accessories:

• Microsoft Office Student & Teacher Edition 2003
• Office FrontPage 2003
• Studio MX 2004 Student Boxed Edition
• Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade Win

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 that, 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

*Important Note: Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers is for qualifying students, parents/guardians or teachers only.
Student: must be enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis in a school, college or university, which is recognised by the applicable government agency.
Parent/Guardian: have children in the above category and wish to purchase on their behalf for their educational use.
Teacher: employed full-time or part-time to teach within any such school, college or university as above.




Rating: - A Cheap Way To Get Industry Standard Tools
If you want the industry standard tools and qualify as a student or teacher, then this is the one to get. It doesn't have Access or Publisher which the previous deals did have, but it's still considerably lower than the full version. Openoffice/Staroffice will do the basic stuff for most people, but when you need the advanced formulaic functions of Excel, there's nothing better.

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Rating: - The right tool
As a mature student in part-time learning I have found this
package invaluable, also the price is right for low income people.
Yes, 'Word'is improved, and Powerpoint is better than the previous, [I am using both] I haven't used the rest yet, can't wait!

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Rating: - good but try open office
Is the cup half full or half empty? You can knock Microsoft's stuff if you want to. It is easy to find faults with it but it is generally good and it is the industry standard. The big draw back with the "standard" version is the loss of the Access database. The other thing to remember is that this version is a "student" version - designed to familiarise the young with the Microsoft way - so there are licence restrictions. If you are a freelance worker or a home office business using it for work then ... Read More

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Rating: - The only way to go for scientists...
First of all let me state that I'm in the 3rd year of a chemistry degree and use spreadsheets every week (this review deals with Excel as pretty much all word processors do the same thing whereas spreadsheets vary greatly).

I've tried out most of the competition (Lotus 1-2-3, Corel Quattro, Sun StarOffice etc.) but none can compare with the Data Analysis and Graphing capabilities of Excel. It has the most advanced XY graphs of any of the office packages, with the ability to add X and Y error ... Read More

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Rating: - Missing Access
I like most Microsoft Office products (despite their faults!). I have always recommended that staff and students buy them. But no longer. This package reduces the options available to the straightforward presentation and communications software. Where, oh where is Access? This may be a difficult package to use but it is crucial for students to be able to learn it.

So if you are a student I would go for Star Office until Microsoft gets its act together and offers the Professional version ... Read More

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