One important issue is that Office 2007 H & S does not have Access as one of
the included programs. The academic license from your college's bookstore
will also probably be cheaper than the license for H & S or Standard with
the Access upgrade.

The other's post to ensure that you system can run Office 2007 is important
also as you must have at least Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or
Vista operating system to run Office 2007.


"mojoman" <mojoman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AB35569E-4CCA-460F-A2D4-11942FA30905@microsoft.com...
> Several years ago I purchased Office 2000 Small Business . I have only
> used
> Word and Excel. I will soon be going back to college for a degree in
> Finance. I will be using Office, Excel, Powerpoint and Access. I have
> received opposing answers from the IT department where I work. One answer
> is
> to upgrade to Office 2007 Small Business and the other is to purchase
> Office
> 2007 Student and Home version. I am told that all of my saved Word and
> Excel
> files on Office 2000 will open in Office 2007. I am leaning toward the
> Student and Home version as I don't need all of the extras in the Small
> Business version but am somewhat confused. Help!! Also, my understanding
> is
> that I will need to purchase Access separately. Am I correct? Thanks.