Which Office 2007: Professional or Ultimate?

[Howard Kaikow]

For the purposes of programming in VBA, and, I guess, .NET, which is the
"right"
version of Office 2007? The retail cost is about the same.

I will not be programming workgroup or network stuff, but might it still be
wise to get Ultimate to
use any extra goodies in Ultimate?

Initially, this would be on a retail Windows XP system, later on Vista
Ultimate.

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

This pages gives you the details of the applications in each version.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/FX101635841033.aspx

And you can navigate through the applications to compare differences.

The predominant programming language within the apps will be VBA. Infopath
is .Net and there maybe others.
For those that do not support .net directly you can still program using .net
against the object model with Visual Studio.

Is the cost between professional and ultimate really that close?

Cheers
Andy

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Hi,

This pages gives you the details of the applications in each version.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/FX101635841033.aspx

And you can navigate through the applications to compare differences.

I saw that.
Would take too much time.

More cost effective would be to buy a book on Office 2007 such as the
InsideOut book.

The predominant programming language within the apps will be VBA. Infopath
is .Net and there maybe others.
For those that do not support .net directly you can still program using ..net
against the object model with Visual Studio.

For now, the only programming I would do would be with VB 6 and VBA.

Is the cost between professional and ultimate really that close?

Yes, $10 difference ar, say, www.newegg.com.