Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Overview

Get more out of the Microsoft Office system. The user interface for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and Office Access 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.

Give your work greater impact. Office Professional Plus 2007 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.

Manage your work with ease. 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.

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 Professional Plus 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 with the greatest of ease. Office Professional Plus 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 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.

Work with confidence. New capabilities for data integration in Office Professional Plus 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.

Analyze 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 visualization capabilities.

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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.

Harness the power of electronic forms. Advances in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 give you the ability to deploy forms as Outlook e-mail messages so colleagues can complete them without leaving the familiar Outlook environment. Once you've collected the information in Outlook, 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 Professional Plus 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.