Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 will help you and your organisation work more efficiently and effectively with a new set of powerful tools for creating, managing, analysing and sharing information. The newly redesigned user interface makes Office 2007 easier to use, and the new graphics capabilities make creating great-looking, high-impact documents very simple. The new software includes tight integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The version described below is Office Professional Plus.

Deliver Better Results Faster

Office 2007 delivers a host of innovative new capabilities that make it easier to produce great results.

• The user interface for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Access 2007, and Outlook 2007 has been redesigned to make program features easier to find and use. Editing and formatting operations have been streamlined so you can spend more time on the important work.
• The system brings a powerful new set of graphics capabilities to your desktop. New 3-D effects, shadows, reflection, glow, and surface texture tools make it easy to add highly professional looking charts and diagrams to your work.
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 helps you keep your e-mail, tasks, and commitments more organized with the new To-Do Bar.
• Make sense of spreadsheet data in a flash. New data visualization capabilities in Office Excel 2007 help you quickly make sense of your data using rich data visualization tools.
• The new streamlined workspace and easy-to-browse tabs make program features easier to find and use.

Work Together More Effectively

Office 2007 makes sharing information and working together easier and more productive. Tight integration with Microsoft collaboration and IT infrastructure technologies facilitates more efficient information sharing and out-of-the-box collaboration.

• Coordinate schedules quickly and easily. Reduce the time it takes to exchange scheduling information by sending a calendar snapshot through e-mail or publishing your calendar on Microsoft Office Online.
• Share documents with confidence. The Document Inspector makes it easy for you to remove “invisible” information such as comments, hidden text, and properties from documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Convert your documents and information to PDF or XPS. Office 2007 gives you the ability to share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Portable Document Format file (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without requiring additional third-party tools.
• Collaborate. Office 2007 delivers out-of-the-box integration with the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, creating a powerful self-service collaboration environment that supports workflow-enabled document review, managed reports distribution, and structured information sharing.
• Connect co-workers and colleagues more easily. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 helps people be more productive by enabling them to communicate seamlessly with others in different locations or time zones, with a range of different communication options, including instant messaging (IM), phone, and voice conferencing, video conferencing, or Web conferencing. Integration with 2007 Microsoft Office system programs Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint Server gives teams immediate access to a full set of collaboration tools.
• The new graphics capabilities make it easier to produce professional, high-impact charts in Office Excel 2007.

Get More Out of Your Information

Office 2007 helps you more easily find, analyse, and use information through a broad array of advanced information search, management, and analysis technologies that extend from the Inbox to the data center.

• Work with confidence. New capabilities for data integration in Office 2007 reduce the cost and complexity of connecting documents and spreadsheets to central data sources so that you can feel confident that you are working with consistent, accurate information.
• Analyse data more efficiently. Office Excel 2007 enhances your ability to analyse business information with streamlined access to corporate data sources, redesigned, easier-to-use PivotTable views, and new data visualisation capabilities.
  Apply conditional formatting using trend icons to find exceptions and spot trends in your data.
• Keep information where you need it. Office Outlook 2007 gives you new tools for making the information you need easily accessible whether you are online or off. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds can now be stored directly in your Inbox for easier access. Similarly, information stored on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology sites can be taken offline using Outlook folders, giving you the flexibility to work with this data whenever and wherever you choose.
• Find it fast. Office Outlook 2007 introduces a new integrated Instant Search capability so you can quickly locate the information you need right from within Office Outlook 2007. Search by keyword or other criteria throughout all of your Outlook data including e-mail attachments, calendars, contacts, and tasks.

Control Content, Streamline Processes

Office 2007 helps organisations lower the cost of executing business processes, including content production and management though streamlined process automation using advanced electronic forms technologies.

• Harness the power of electronic forms. Advances in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 give you the ability to deploy forms as Office Outlook 2007 e-mail messages so colleagues can complete them without leaving the familiar Outlook environment (functionality requires that Office InfoPath 2007 be installed on users’ PCs). Once you've collected the information in Office Outlook 2007, you can export it to an Excel spreadsheet or Access database, or merge the data back to a single InfoPath form.
• Extend the reach of your electronic forms. Office InfoPath 2007 and Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services make it easy to extend electronic forms solutions beyond your firewall by enabling forms to be completed using many different Web browsers and mobile devices.
• Share with greater control. Office Excel 2007 works with Office SharePoint Server 2007 so you can publish your spreadsheet reports and models with a full range of control over who can access them.
• Work with less “busy work.” Office Word 2007 works with the automated workflow services of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to reduce the busy work you have to do when managing the process of reviewing and publishing content.
• Go beyond documents. Office 2007 introduces a new level of support for XML with the Microsoft Office Open XML File Formats. These new file formats enable smaller, more robust documents, and deep integration with information systems and external data sources.
• Deploy forms as Office Outlook 2007 e-mail messages so colleagues can complete them without leaving the familiar Outlook 2007 environment (functionality requires that Office InfoPath 2007 be installed on users’ PCs).