Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus

Now, first let me say that regardless of the features, the massive price tag is, for myself and many I have spoken too, simply too much. Maybe better value than the lower suites, like Professional or "Home and Student" (A concept I'll get on to later), but very expensive nonetheless. So I'll get my only major quarrel out of the way early. Cost Massive. I would not wish to spend "£386.99" on this suite. But the trouble is mnay would have to. For example, I am a Year 11 student, and I require this software to suit my needs. Many would argue there's open-source software available that does the ... more

Good PointsI suspect if we still had this software installed, we would notice some pretty useful new tools, eg in Word, as was the case with Office 2007 when compared with Office 2003, but because we have had to unistall this product (see below), we haven't had the chance to explore these developments. Bad Points Where do I start? On installation it failed to recognise that there was a trial version of the software on the computer but not actually installed, so when the full package was installed two versions of Outlook appeared to be running simultaneously and we had to manuall uninstall the ... more

I recently purchased office 2010 Professional Plus through a student discount website, otherwise i would not have upgraded from my perfectly good, Office 2003 Pro installation. I disliked many things about office 2010, starting with the look. I personally found it to look horrible. On top of that the tabbed interface was slightly confusing for users used to a classic interface, although i mastered it soon enough i would have liked to have seen more support. Another thing that really annoyed me about office 2010 is that a few of the useful features that i used regularly in office 2003 such as ... more