15 reviews
Sales Rank: 2067

Platforms: Windows Nt, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

MPN: 269-04920
Model: 269-04920
UPC: 659556616625
EAN: 0659556616625
ASIN: B00005BK7I

Release Date: May 31, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Includes Microsoft Word 2002, Excel 2002, Access 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 system...

Accessories:

•	Office XP Professional
•	Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade
•	Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade Win
•	Office Standard Edition 2003 (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint)
•	Office Professional 2003 Upgrade (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access)

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Includes Microsoft Word 2002, Excel 2002, Access 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 runnin

Amazon.co.uk Review
After the most painless installation yet from a Microsoft product, Office XP Professional 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. p 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 IWord/I or copying and pasting data in IExcel/I. 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. p 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. p 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. --IColin Neal/I

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Don't Listen to the previous reviews February 20, 2007
Mr. R. B. Palmer (london)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Well, first of all i would like to congratulate all the other reviewers on being so ridiculously stupid. The only way the installation takes several hours is because they were using Windows 95, if you are running Windows xp the installation takes 10 minutes max. The software is also better that that in Office 2007 for vista, it looks better it runs faster and it never crashes. FIVE STARS FOR THIS PRODUCT.

5 out of 5 stars

You get what you pay for... April 24, 2003
8 out of 15 found this review helpful

Having used MS Office for years and needing to upgrade a number of PCs I thought I would explore the Office Suite options and chose to test Office XP and StarOffice in our small business.pI bought StarOffice having read all the reviews and on the face of it StarOffice seems good value for money, but NOT when you get down to really using it. This is really important in my view as staff costs add up to a great deal more than software even in the smallest business.pIn short, Office XP was far superior to StarOffice in every area but most people know that. The main areas not highlighted by other reviewers are all the things that are not obvious...pFor instance, what business can really function without a strong email package and contact manager missing from StarOffice? And the compatibility between office docs is not good enough, it's only 80% in my view, it loses formatting and any kind of customisation which is useless when sharing docs with others.pThen there are the little things we take for granted when using an Microsoft Office Suite such as the smart tags, macros, the ease of use, drag and drop, intuitive interface and ability to easily share docs with clients, suppliers and colleagues - the list goes on.pSo my take on Office XP is you get what you pay for, if you want something that works, everyone else can use and has all the functions any business might need then this alone is worth the price. Why get lots of bits of software and try to get them to work and then train all the staff up? Also, why take the risk on buying a cheap package which might not be around in the future?

4 out of 5 stars

Office? XPlease April 10, 2003
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you#8217;ve got Windows XP you need Office XP, surely it#8217;s true. Don#8217;t you want all your programs to have that slightly rounded, cartoon look about them? Don#8217;t you want fancy menus that just waste your PCs resources? Of course you do. Only kidding, Office XP makes office what it should have been. FrontPage is still inferior to Dreamweaver, I#8217;ve never touched Access and I prefer Outlook Express to Outlook. But Word, Excel and PowerPoint are top. Almost as good as they can be, but not as good as Mac Office V.X