Which version of Office should I buy.

[andrew69]

Hi, can anyone help me as I want to buy a copy of Microsoft Office. My company use Office 2007 and windows 2003 operating system(which they are likley to update first). I have windows 7 and want to know if I should buy Office 2007 as it matches work, or should I buy Office 2010 and suffer the differences in favour of the benefits of the newer interface etc, as I want to learn Excel and intend to pass the Microsoft exams(core and expert), and also want to study VBA for work/career. Also Office pro 2007 is £225 at Amazon which is £100 cheaper than Office pro 2010!

Thanks in advance

 

[VoG]

I would go for 2010. There were bugs in 2007 which were largely fixed in 2010.

 

[alansidman]

I agree with VOG, but before you purchase, check with the IT department at your company as Microsoft has entered into agreements with many companies to offer a special discount to their employees for Office 2007 and Office 2010. In many cases you can purchase Office pro for as little as $15 US under this plan.

 

[alansidman]

Found this link but was unable to add it to the post above

http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/h...&culture=en-US&resID=T1O5CQoBAlgAADBRtDQAAAAA

Alan

 

[andrew69]

Wow, i didn't know that, I'll check that out tomorrow.

Thanks again

 

[Smitty]

Welcome the Board!

Stay away from Office 2007 if you can, and go straight to 2010. Aside from potential employer upgrades, if you don't need Access you can also look at the Student version, which is substantially less (provided you qualify).

Either way, you can download a fully functional trial from the Office website.

HTH,

 

[SydneyGeek]

I agree with all of the above *unless* you need Access. I had issues with 2010 and use 2007 for development work. For the rest of the Office package 2010 is the way to go.

Denis

 

[Smitty]

Denis,

I'm interested in hearing what issues you had with Access 2010 vs. 2007.

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Denis,

I'm interested in hearing what issues you had with Access 2010 vs. 2007.

I don't recall whether 2007 has this issue. Anyway, 2010 does not show the 1:n relations in the query grid as 2003 or earlier versions did. Also, from .mdb to .accdb conversion is not obvious...

 

[SydneyGeek]

You have to be very careful about backwards compatibility between 2010 and 2007.
I got bitten when I did some maintenance in 2010 on an .accdb from 2007. The file was then not readable in 2007 -- there is an MS article on it, to do with the new custom sorts (other issues listed as well) -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cc907897

The fix was to create a new database in 2007 and re-import everything.

Denis