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Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to frequently asked questions about Office Small Business 2007.

Overview

What is Office Small Business 2007?

Office Small Business 2007 is a complete, easy-to-use set of productivity and contact management software that helps you save time and stay organized. The new Office Small Business 2007 offers many significant benefits:

•	Save time and stay organized. Office Small Business 2007 has a new look and feel that makes it easier and faster to find and use the software features you need to complete tasks. It also provides you with tools for task management and project tracking in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, so you can stay organized and spend more time working with customers and managing your business.
•	Manage all your prospect and customer information in one place. Office Small Business 2007 simplifies lead and customer management with easy-to-use capabilities within the familiar Outlook environment. It provides powerful tools that help you more easily and effectively track, prioritize, and manage leads, and help keep your sales processes organized and productive. And it provides the tools you need to better manage customer information and communications history.
•	Produce professional-quality marketing communications and campaigns in-house. Office Small Business 2007 helps you create, publish, and manage designer-quality marketing communications for print, e-mail, and the Web, and create and manage effective marketing campaigns in-house. You also can create professional-quality presentations using a library of flexible templates that can be customized to reflect your unique business identity.

What is included in Office Small Business 2007?

Office Small Business 2007 includes:

•	Microsoft Office Excel 2007
•	Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
•	Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
•	Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
•	Microsoft Office Word 2007

How is Office Small Business 2007 different from Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003?

There are many new capabilities in Office Small Business 2007, including:

•	The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides an improved user interface that helps you find and use the features you need fast.
•	Office Excel 2007 offers new tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to make it easier to analyze your business.
•	Office Outlook 2007 includes a new To-Do Bar and Outlook task integration on the calendar, to help you manage time and tasks more effectively. It also includes instant search capabilities and color categories to help you locate, prioritize, and act upon your growing volume of e-mail.
•	Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager also helps you organize and manage prospect and customer information, follow up on sales leads and opportunities, create marketing campaigns, track projects, and monitor response to marketing activities.
•	Office PowerPoint 2007 helps you easily get started with a more extensive library of professional slide layouts and new tools to create powerful charts, diagrams, and tables, and to quickly preview changes.
•	Office Publisher 2007 provides a wide collection of professionally designed, customizable templates for print, e-mail, and the Web, and new guides to lead you through the processes for creating marketing materials and campaigns.
•	Office Word 2007 offers new Quick Formats, Live Preview, and Building Blocks that help you to quickly, easily, and confidently create professional-quality documents.

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Features

Why has the look and feel of the Microsoft Office system been redesigned?

With the addition of more features and functionality to Microsoft Office system applications, it has become more challenging for people to find the commands and options they want to use. For example, Microsoft Word 1.0 had only about 100 commands, and you could easily browse through the menus and find everything you could do. Today, Microsoft Office Word 2003 has over 1,500 commands, many of which are admittedly difficult to find. Helping people quickly find the menus, commands, and options they need is the key benefit of the new user interface.

What were the main goals for the new product design?

We wanted to deliver new capabilities that empower people to get the results they want faster. We had four major design goals:

•	Make it easier for people to find and use product features.
•	Reduce design clutter and interruptions.
•	Make it easier for people to discover the capabilities they need.
•	Support the creation of great-looking documents.

Which applications have received the new product design?

Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, Office Access 2007, and the authoring part of Office Outlook 2007—your calendar, your mail notes, and your contacts—will have the new user interface.

Why have the default file formats changed?

Microsoft developed Microsoft Office Open XML File Formats to respond to customer requests for faster document creation from different data sources and to extend our commitment to industry-standard XML. By creating a robust yet compact structure based on industry standards such as XML and ZIP, the new default file formats make document creation faster; reduce the size of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files; and improve data recovery in corrupted files.

Can the old file formats still be used?

Yes, the Office Small Business 2007 programs can be configured to save in the earlier Microsoft Office file formats. When configured this way, the Microsoft Office system programs operate in a Compatibility Mode that enforces compatibility between versions of Microsoft Office by disabling functionality that is incompatible with prior Microsoft Office releases.

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Pricing and Ordering

Q.	How much does Office Small Business 2007 cost?
A.	Find pricing and licensing information on the 2007 Microsoft Office System Pricing page.
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Integration and Compatibility

Q.	What are the system requirements for Office Small Business 2007?
A.	See the system requirements for Office Small Business 2007.
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