[knowone]

Does Word still maintain the same merge functionality in the Student version?

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

You'd need to be more specific on a particular macro and review your settings in the Trust Center (assuming these are individual,
not business machines) to see why something may not work or be grayed out. It could be an incompatible add-in for example.

The Enterprise/volume license editions of Office have additional deployment capabilities and protection (IRM) features, but the
basic end user functionallity is the same in the desktop apps for end users in each of the Office suites. The two products you
mentioned, Basic and Home & Student vary only in the apps that are included in the box as can be seen at the comparison charts at
http://office.microsoft.com/suites.

If you have a macro that uses Word as Outlooks email editor, that may not work as Outlook now has its own Word flavored editor.
Unlike Office 2003, which did some odd limitations on XML capabilities in different versions, Word is Word in 2007, but if you don't
have 'InfoPath' you won't see the linked capabilities.

For some University students MS offered MS Office Ultimate for something like $49, and campus/license agreements have been known to
offer Office Pro or Enterprise for around $25 under their volume licenses, so price isn't necessarily a good benchmark for out of
the box capability.


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"knowone" wrote in message ...
Thanks for the replies. But neither answers the question.
I'm looking for info on what is the difference in functionality (if any) of
MS Word 2007 in the various flavors of the 2007 Office suite.
It has been my experience that macros don't work and items in the Trust
Center are "grayed out" in the Basic and Home & Student versions. All of
which makes me think that since these 2 Office versions cost considerably
less than the other versions that Word (and maybe the other programs in the
suite) have some of their features or functionality turned off or disabled.
And if that is the case what are those missing features? Or is there
something different about the way these suites need to be configured versus
the other suites?
Thanks again for any info provided.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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