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Microsoft Project Standard 2007 | Not as bad as others would have you believe

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	Microsoft Project Standard 2007 Windows \| Microsoft Software, 2007 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Microsoft Office Project 2007 Standard is project planning that meets the management needs of today's organizations. This suite delivers robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility -- allowing you to manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances; keep project teams aligned; and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting options, as well as guided planning, wizards, and templates. Custom metrics help you track data relevant to your project - Percent complete, budget versus actual, earned value and more Track project performance over the project lifespan by saving project snapshots in up to 11 baselines Tailor the Software to meet your needs - Choose custom display fields; modify toolbars, formulas, graphical indicators and reports; leverage XML, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and Component Object Model (COM) add-ins to facilitate data sharing and creation of custom solutions Get assistance when you need it - Project Standard 2007 provides a robust Help search engine, smart tags, and wizards to aid novice and experienced users

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This software made it so easy to track finances and projects/tasks at work. It has very adaptable tool functions.

Not as bad as others would have you believe

My first attempt to own Microsoft Projects was to buy the 2003 version. In general, Microsoft did best in 2003. I was rough on Microsoft Office 2007 for good reason: it is not an improvement over 2003. After getting bogus software I bit the bullet and bought Projects 2007; the guy who provided it said it ran fine on his machine.

All in all, this software is adequate. I am only disappointed in that I expected more after years of development. I used an Gantt chart program developed by Symantec in the 1990s; I always suspected that MS stole the core software but this the nature of the business: "Yo, ho, ho... it's the pirate's life for me."

Other reviewers will tell you that the software won't work with the web. I really don't care. If you want that, pay the extra for Primavara. If you want Pert charts, Gantt charts and want to do it simple, with your eyes closed, then this is the software for you. Avoid the other planning software that you can google. Go with Microsoft Projects. The other software will nickle and dime you with add-ins.

They did improve this software over early versions. I used Projects 2000 and it was clumsy and hard to edit. Oh, and by the way, there really is no good training material with this software. I looked at "Projects for Dummies" and was not impressed. I did buy a book on details but don't expect to use it. Microsoft Projects is really a hands-to-learn software. So, dig into your wallet and buy this software. It really is a good deal, not a great deal, but a good deal.

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Rough Start

I'm running on Vista. Unlike what is specified at the top of Amazon's page for Project, the platform for Project 2007 is NOT just XP. All Microsoft 2007 products are Vista compatible (or so I'm told). At any rate, Project works on my Vista machine.

Sort of. I've never used Project before, although I'm highly experienced with Excel, Word, Power Point, and other Micrsoft products. I've always had staff doing my cost-schedule engineering, but now I'm running my own company so I thought I'd give Project a go.

First, there is very little that is intuitive about this program. I just recently received my "Project 2007 for Dummies" book and am really glad I made that purchase, because I was ready to set fire to this product.

For example, where I work we have no Sat/Sun weekends (Afghanistan). But Project doesn't agree with that schedule. It was extremely frustrating to select a Saturday to start a task, and Project automatically changing it to Monday. It would be understandable if it gave you a prompt or a warning about working weekends, but instead it simply refused to allow you to pick a weekend day for a task.

It took me about an hour going through the Help Online thing to figure out how to make Project allow me to work on a Satruday. I was fully expecting to feel like an idiot and find some simple way to tell Project to ignore weekend constraints. But I found that doing so is actually a multi-step process (about 7 steps, few intuitive) to get Project to allow me to start work on the day I wanted. Ridiculous.

And the Help that comes with the software doesn't work. When I clicked on Help, it said it has to configure and install Help. So I waited for the task bar to go all the way across after several minutes, and then it required a reboot for the changes to take effect. After reboot, I started up the program fresh, clicked Help, and went through the same thing all over again. After the third time, I was spitting nails. Hence the need to go to on-line Help (not your first choice in Afghanistan).

You know, if there's one part of any software that should NOT be messed up, it's Help.

Bottom Line: Bugs; not intuitive at all. But it does seem to work mostly, and I acknowledge I'm a PRoject rookie. I did finally produce my simple schedule, hence the 3 stars and not 2 or 1.

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