With six great Microsoft software titles in one affordable package, Microsoft Works Suite 2006 has something for everyone in...... more

With six great Microsoft software titles in one affordable package, Microsoft Works Suite 2006 has something for everyone in your household. Works Suite includes a full version of Word plus easy-to-use tools for home organization, personal finance, travel planning, photo editing and organization, and interactive learning. With something for everyone in your home, Works Suite 2006 is the ideal combination of six great software titles in one affordable package. Microsoft Works Suite 2006 includes a full vers...

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Money 2001 Standard: Who needs a personal finance package on their PC? Well if you pay bills, own shares, plan to make a will, write cheques, have a mortgage......... more

Money 2001 Standard: Who needs a personal finance package on their PC? Well if you pay bills, own shares, plan to make a will, write cheques, have a mortgage... in fact if you are an earning, spending consumer in the 21st century, a package like Money will make your affairs easier to manage. It should even make you a little richer.Money has quite a pedigree. Though Microsoft only entered the personal finance market a few years ago, it has quickly carved a big slice of the market. Microsoft knows we all want to get our finances in order; it also knows that, to most of us, they are a terrifying mystery. So, with yearly updates, it has honed Money so even the financially illiterate can compile a personal financial resume in around half-an-hour as the software pumps you with questions. Money then swallows the details of accounts, endowments, mortgages and investments--your whole financial life in fact--and handily regurgitates them in a tidy Web browser style.This exercise is a useful financial discipline in itself, forcing you to take a short hard look at your finances, and get organised. Money then provides figures on your net worth, your projected wealth in the next month, year or decade and give you hints on making your cash work better. And the browser style makes it simple. You click links to take you to your bills and view quickly which are due (and which overdue). Click on accounts to see your current account, then click an Internet link to go online and download your account details from your bank, should you choose. Users of earlier editions, such as Money 2000 will find that Money 2001 seamlessly updates their existing files and you will receive a rebate too. --John RennieAutoroute 2001: You have a 10:30 meeting in Paris and a lunch date at noon. Time will be tight if the airport traffic's slow but with Microsoft Autoroute 2001 to plot your route in advance you may just make it. Enter your starting point and destinations and the program pops up a route for you, complete with point-to-point time estimates and detailed directions. Points of interest, restaurants and hotels along the way are marked on the map, with contact information and on occasion a review in a pop-up box. A few years ago, it would have looked like science fiction.Microsoft Autoroute 2001 covers the UK and Europe, with maps for most major European cities and address-to-address routing in Britain, France and Germany. It may not cover the very minor streets (the ones your car might not fit down anyway) but the maps are reasonably clear and well delineated, and you can choose from three types--political, geographical or auto. If you use a handheld, running Windows CE 2 or later, you may want to try Pocket Streets, and there's GPS support. Getting started using this program is time consuming, as you have to fill out each address, but once you've built your database of destinations, Autoroute's intelligently plotted routes may just save you a bundle of time. --Kathleen KeefeMicrosoft Word 2000: Microsoft Word 2000 was designed to be the easiest way to create common Web, e-mail, and print documents around the world. Microsoft Word is currently the application of choice for creating print documents. Word 2000 embraces HTML as a first-class file format and extends Word's industry-leading ease of use to the Web and e-mail. Word 2000 also extends that ease of use to international users, making it easy to create multilingual documents.Microsoft Picture It! Publishing 2001: Find 5000 project templates, choose from more than 20,000 images, get photo editing and desktop publishing all in one, and catalogue all your photos, sounds and animation with the Gallery.Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas: Wherever you want to go, someone has been there first. Desk-chair travellers and students alike will love Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2001, which offers more detail than any other atlas yet available, plus multimedia tours of hundreds of locations world-wide. Almost 2 million place names include practically everybody's hometown; the dynamic maps let the user follow chains of association beyond simple geography. Traditionalists will approve of the flat maps outlining bioregions, political demarcations and other qualities--all printable in a wide array of styles.Local place-name spellings, informative articles, and numbers galore pepper the software with features not found in other references, but the key to Encarta's success is its optimisation of multimedia. Using images, sounds and Web links to surround the user with information, the Interactive World Atlas is both dazzling and useful. Reports are easy to complete--use the researcher tool to gather, organise and export information to Microsoft Office tools. While you might not be able to discover new lands, you can certainly explore the world we know without ever leaving home. --Rob Lightner

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Microsoft Works Suite 2003 is a set of five CDs which comprises Works 7.0 with its integrated word processor, spreadsheet,...... more

Microsoft Works Suite 2003 is a set of five CDs which comprises Works 7.0 with its integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database and calendar and adds full copies of Word 2002, Encarta Standard Edition 2003, Money 2003, Picture It Photo and AutoRoute 2002. Given the individual retail cost of these extra products, it represents excellent value for money. The Works 7.0 core is very task-based. For example, if you choose to "Manage a club" you'll end up using the spreadsheet to track finances, the database for membership records, Word to design the newsletter and Picture It to handle your club photos. By organising its interface around things to do rather than old-style menus of programs, Works encourages novices to explore its wide range of features; once you know what you're doing, you can use the programs menu to jump straight to the applications themselves. The extras (even the year-old AutoRoute) are really worth having. Word is the most widely used word processor in the world and it never hurts to have a copy on your home PC, while Picture It Photo has a decent selection of mainstream photo projects (calendars, address cards, flyers, kids ID cards and so on) to go with its easy-to-use editing features for removing red eye, adding picture frames and text to photos, cropping and framing photos or preparing them for use on the Web. Elsewhere, Money 2003 remains the friendliest of home finance programs with good investment tracking and an excellent, customisable front summary page. AutoRoute 2002 still sets the pace for getting from A to B in Europe. The standard version of Encarta 2003 is a good study aid for juniors upwards; it's updatable via the Web and incorporates more than 30,000 articles and images along with videos, animations and audio. Microsoft Works Suite 2003 is simple enough to allow beginners to accomplish a wide range of home computing tasks. Thanks to the inclusion of Word, it will also appeal to the workaholic who just won't let go. --Rob Beattie

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This upgrade version of Microsoft Office 2007 will install only if you are a licensed user of Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft...... more

This upgrade version of Microsoft Office 2007 will install only if you are a licensed user of Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office program or suite; any Microsoft Office XP suite. Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2007 is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. With these enhancements, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or work. Microsoft Office Standard 2007 includes: Microsoft Office Word 2007 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Create high-quality documents Office Standard 2007 has new graphics capabilities, formatting galleries, and an improved user interface that exposes commonly used commands, making it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of. New features and improvements include: A results-oriented user interface that makes it easier to find and use product features. More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents. Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices. Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs. Work with enhanced reliability and security features With an improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Standard 2007 enables you to work with more confidence and security. New features and improvements include: A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages. Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages. Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding. Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents. Find commands and help with ease

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