Microsoft Office Personal Portfolio 2002

Personal Portfolio complements the Office suite of applications with 300 new Word templates, 120 Excel templates, 90 PowerPoint templates, and 90 new stationeries for Outlook. Use this collection to add a little spice to your letters, e-mails, and even shopping lists, should you wish. And if you must stare at Excel spreadsheets all day, any change to the dull gray and white grid, the default display, is an improvement.

Personal Portfolio is not just for fun and games--it's a useful business application, too. PowerPoint users may be looking for new ways to make their professional presentations stand out from the crowd, and the resume templates can add a structure and discipline that your current curriculum vitae may be missing. You can even create slick-looking fax covers, reports, and business stationery to show off your savvy professional self. --John Rennie

If you have ordered it but it has not arrived, be ready for... regret and disappointment;
If you have not ordered it, never think buying it!


Microsoft should be ashamed...   September 27, 2002
H. David Peirce (Houston, TX USA)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful

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.


I was expecting better :(   September 17, 2002
Andre Da Costa (Jamaica W.I.)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful

I purchased this product a few months back, expecting to receive some very cool PowerPoint and Word templates, but was very much disappointed. PowerPoint temps are more for use in creating digital photoalbums, the ones that are dedicated presentation slides are very lame and drab I would certainly stick to the ones in Office. The ones in Word were very disappointing, its like they were trying to turn Word into a desktop publishing programme, its very difficult to navigate in application that was not made for creating postcards. The Outlook stationaries are satisfactory but I do not always use them, Excel is also satisfactory it has templates for creating book list and "student register". Overall I would suggest purchasing a third party app with much more pleasing templates than this. I was also expecting templates for MS Access.


obtiene lo que paga   August 29, 2002
9 out of 23 found this review helpful

realmente el precio dice lo que se obtiene. Personal portfolio es muy grande el titulo para lo que el programa ofrece. En cualquier sitio gratis de la web puede abtener algo mejor. Jorge G. El Salvador


Good for home users and students   July 24, 2002
These templates are good for home users and students but if you're a business looking for more professional looking templates, you can skip this item. This is not a product for the office environment.