Microsoft Office Personal Portfolio 2002

Price: $4.99
  

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Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for putting out such garbage. Of course, they aren't; they have no shame. I'm actually embarassed for having bought it. I'm hiding the product in the trash so I don't have to explain to my wife that I purchased it. What utter garbage! I was looking for some resume templates and some PowerPoint templates. The resume templates are horrible. Microsoft didn't even use the Styles feature of Word to identify headings and text and bullets in the resume documents. All they did was change a few font sizes (most of the fonts are Arial) under the normal template and adjust the margins of the documents. This is nowhere near the quality of resume templates that you get in the MS Office installation. Likewise, the PowerPoint templates are nowhere near the quality of the templates that come with MS Office. They literally took small pieces of clipart (that you could find free online) and pasted them into PowerPoint. Most of them are on white backgrounds. For instance, one template has a clipart graphic of piano keys placed as a border across the top of the PowerPoint slide. Still a white background, and still Arial font. Absolutely no creative effort went into this product. I was too disgusted to look at the Excel templates. I seriously doubt that it took the "team" that created this product more than two hours to put these templates together. I'm not kidding; I could have done this myself in no more than a few hours. Anyone who thinks this product deserves any stars has absolutely zero design sensibility. My own admittedly sorry efforts in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel at template design are far superior to anything found in this package. I loathe this product. I wouldn't take this product if it was given away for free. Under no circumstances is this product anything that should be sold commercially--not by some middle-school computer programmer, and certainly not by Microsoft. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)