The 2007 Microsoft Office system improves communication and collaboration across government organizational boundaries
The new Office system release helps government workers work more effectively with documents and content, simplifying how they gather, organize, find, share, and store information and providing critical insight to those who need it.
The 2007 Microsoft Office system offers the latest in security technology and makes documents easier to share by consolidating and organizing information. It offers an easier set of tools that work with government organizations' existing information technology (IT) infrastructure to help empower the right people with the right information to make decisions and mitigate risk.
On This Page
Gather agency content in a single central location
2007 Microsoft Office programs help reduce the complexity of working together on projects and supports the ability for telework and remote access to mission-critical information by providing a self-service method for creating centralized document repositories, tracking versions, and managing every authorized users' feedback and revisions.
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 enables government stakeholders to gather all needed content in one place, regardless of the data format, so everyone can quickly and easily find the content they need. Team members can even access information on a smartphone or Pocket PC device and sync it with the OneNote notebook on a laptop computer.
Save time, advance cross-agency collaboration with enhanced tools for document review and comparison
Collaborative document development is less time-consuming with the enhanced tools for document review and comparison provided by Microsoft Office Word 2007. The Documents Inspector feature makes it easy to remove "invisible" information such as comments, hidden text, and properties from documents, spreadsheets, and presentations so they can be shared freely and without concern among decision-makers, general personnel, and/or our nation's allies.
Do you need to manage a review team of employees, contactors, and leaders that are all collaborating on a project? With the file-sharing capabilities of Office OneNote 2007, multiple users can simultaneously view and edit the same notes, reducing — in some cases eliminating — multiple time-consuming review cycles.
Working with Microsoft Office Groove 2007 helps ensure everyone's information is located in one central location with advanced security protection at all times, even on laptops and wireless networks, providing a rich set of tools military leaders and troops, elected and appointed officials, and government employees can use to more effectively to manage the flow of information—regardless of location or connectivity—increasing their ability to deliver mission-critical results.
Coordinate schedules across the organization—and around the world
Microsoft technologies simplify collaboration with internal teams; across commands, services, and agencies; and with stakeholders around the world—helping make certain that physical boundaries do not stand in the way of the government's ability to serve its citizens and communities.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 makes coordinating schedules across organizational boundaries more efficient by enabling calendar publishing using Office Online and calendar-sharing via e-mail. (Go here to learn more about calendar basics.) And the decentralized architecture of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 makes it possible for mobile teams to readily share information and easily work together even when they are not connected to the agency's network.