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Come Meet the New Microsoft Office 2007

By: Christy Osborne

Microsoft has unveiled Office 2007. Its precursors have received a complete overhaul, making Office 2007 the most cutting-edge and sophisticated program available.

Microsoft has unveiled its new Office 2007 product. It's precursors have received a complete restructuring and streamlining, making Office 2007 the most cutting-edge, rational and sophisticated program available to the modern PC user. Office 2007 brings a great promise—the pledge of transparency for your

world, for this system allows you to safely and confidently rely on your PC.

The greatest improvement comes in the form of organization. A great shift has occurred within Microsoft’s conception of the grouping of menu items and tool bars into new context-sensitive tabs. No longer hunt through various cascading menus to alter your Office documents! Now you are able to find menu items based upon their function type rather than hunting and picking your way through unrelated categories to streamline your PC's performance.

Office 2007 is similar to older versions of Office, but has an improved compatibility and strategies for making your PC experience impactful and dynamic.

This word processing program might appear very foreign at first glance, but let's explore this new release bit-by-bit over the next couple of newsletters to

master this powerful program.

Before diving into the components of Microsoft Office package, it is most helpful to find the right version of Office 2007 that will fit best with your

lifestyle.

All versions include Office Word and Excel. Otherwise, version options differ as shown below.

• Office Home and Student 2007: This version is ideal for the home computer user, enabling you to create presentations high-quality documents and spreadsheets to make organizing your personal documents and information in an easier and more enjoyable manner. Features include:
  • Office PowerPoint and Office OneNote
  • Enhanced text, graphics and charting galleries
  • Creative themes to change the appearance of Office programs
  • Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents
  • Digital Notebook to gather, organize, and search many types of information in one place
• Office Standard 2007: Ideal for homes and small businesses, this version includes new tools to manage e-mail and create great looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Other features:
  • Office PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools
  • Document Inspector
  • Instant Search to quickly find e-mail, calendar, and contacts
  • To-Do Bar that groups tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages
  • RSS aggregator that receives live news feeds within Outlook
• Office Small Business 2007: Includes productivity tools which help small businesses accomplish routine tasks quickly, manage information and produce quality marketing materials. Small Business 2007 will work faster and create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations to benefit your company. Other features are:
  • Office PowerPoint, Outlook with business Contact Manager, Accounting Express and Publisher
  • Instant Search
  • Improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters
  • Schedule Outlook Calendar tasks
  • To-Do Bar
  • Office Word templates and tools to reuse content, apply professional-looking formatting and quickly preview changes
  • New Excel 2007 tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information
  • Work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC
  • Track project-related information in a single location—including e-mail messages, meetings, notes, tasks and documents—and easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to other users in Outlook.
  • Create and publish a wide range of marketing publications
  • Use PDF file format for easier document distribution and high-quality printing
• Office Professional 2007: Productivity and information management tools that help workers save time, stay organized and focus efforts on sales, marketing and customers.
  • All Office Small Business 2007 features plus Office Access
  • Create databases, without prior Office Access experience to create a library of predefined database tracking applications
  • Business Contact Manager for forecasting sales and prioritizing tasks using the customizable dashboard in Office Outlook
  • Office Publisher offers 100 blank publication templates
  • Create, manage and track marketing campaigns in Office Outlook
  • Create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams and tables with PivotTable and PivotChart in Office Excel
• Office Professional Plus 2007: Contains powerful tools for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing information for your larger businesses. The elite features include:
  • Office Outlook, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, Communicator, Integrated Electronic Forms, Advanced Information Rights Management and Policy Capabilities and Integrated Enterprise Content Management
  • Office Fluent user interface enabling faster searches
  • Powerful graphics capabilities for your desktop with new 3-D effects
  • Rich data visualization tools for Excel
  • E-mail or publishing calendars with Microsoft Office Online
  • Share documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Portable Document Format file (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without third-party tools
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides workflow-enabled document review, managed reports distribution, and structured information sharing
  • Office Communicator 2007 helps people be more productive by enabling them to easily communicate with others in different locations or time zones
  • Access touts a redesigned Getting Started experience, WYSIWYG report writer and powerful integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology
  • InfoPath 2007 makes information gathering more efficient by delivering electronic forms that reach the necessary participants easily and reduce redundant data entry.
  • SharePoint Server 2007 so you can publish your spreadsheet reports and models
• Office Enterprise 2007: Comprehensive tools that help enterprises collect and consolidate information, quickly find what they are looking for, and share critical information, online or offline. Enterprise features include:
  • All Office Professional Plus 2007 features plus Office Groove and OneNote
  • Communicator 2007
  • Office Groove 2007 provides IT organizations with enterprise-class server software and tools for deploying, managing and integrating Microsoft Office Groove 2007 across the enterprise
• Office Ultimate 2007: This version includes new programs for collecting, consolidating, and easily sharing information across boundaries, this particular version is comprehensive in its features. Do your worlds of business and pleasure overlap? No worries, Microsoft will take care of you with the most complete edition--Office Ultimate. The premiere version is for PC users who want to have every available Office application at their fingertips. Never go without with Office Ultimate on your PC.
  • Office Ultimate 2007 includes the entire Microsoft Office toolset that you’re accustomed to working with at the office: Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office Groove 2007, and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. Never go without with Office Ultimate.
</o> Microsoft Office 2007 offers various options for the PC user that span a broad array of usages, bridging the gulf between home organization and entertainment to high-productivity for large businesses. The choice is yours; you hold the keys to your technologically-elite kingdom.

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