Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Overview
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On This Page
 | Create High-Quality Documents |
| Work with Enhanced Reliability and Security Features |
| Find Commands and Help with Ease |
| Organize Your Notes and Information |
Office Home and Student 2007 provides office software essentials to help you accomplish tasks more efficiently. You can use Office Home and Student 2007 to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and you can manage your notes and information in one place. With improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new information management tools, and more reliability and security, Office Home and Student 2007 makes working at home or at your office easier and more enjoyable.
Create High-Quality Documents
Office Home and Student 2007 has new graphics, formatting galleries, and improved menus and tools that expose commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.
New features and improvements include:
| • | Results-oriented menus and tools make finding and using product features more straightforward. |
| • | More stable bullets and numbers help you to consistently format documents. |
| • | Enhanced text effects and diagram and graphics galleries provide you with more formatting choices. |
| • | Office Themes create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs. |
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 has new context-sensitive menus and toolbars, as well as graphics that you can easily include in your presentations and documents to make them look great. View a larger image.
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Work with Enhanced Reliability and Security Features
With an improved automatic document recovery tool and new Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Home and Student 2007 helps you work with more confidence and security.
New features and improvements include:
| • | Document recovery tool helps you retrieve Microsoft Office system documents after a system crash. |
| • | Document Inspector detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents. |
Document Inspector can help you detect and remove personally identifiable information or unwanted comments from your documents before you share them with others. View a larger image.
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Find Commands and Help with Ease
Office Home and Student 2007 has improved menus and tools and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions. With these features, you can be more resourceful by quickly learning the product and finding answers to your questions.
New features and improvements include:
| • | Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus. |
| • | The Help system offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet. Larger, more informative tooltips provide help about commands. |
| • | Menus and commands are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete. |
| • | Online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks. |
In Microsoft Office Word 2007, the new menus and toolbars are organized into logical command tabs. They bring to the surface common commands that were previously buried in drop-down menus. View a larger image.
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Organize Your Notes and Information
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a note-taking program that helps you manage the increasing amount of information you face every day. You can now gather, store, organize, and find virtually any type of information in one place, quickly and easily, enabling you to stay on top of everything and work more efficiently.
New features and improvements include:
| • | An organization and navigation pane helps you to easily arrange and peruse information in your notebook. |
| • | A powerful search tool finds what you need in your typed or written text, audio, video, and notes. |
| • | Tools such as customizable note flags help track important action items. |
Office OneNote 2007 is organized into notebooks, sections, and pages. Results from the powerful search capability are highlighted in yellow. View a larger image.
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