It's not just for accountants. With Microsoft Office Excel 2007, you can analyse, share and manage information to organise your life and make more informed household decisions.
- Keep track of your monthly household budgets: Plan your budget, use Excel formulae to figure out payments, savings and other key numbers for example how quickly can you repay your credit card?
- Create timetables and lists: Keep essential lists of important documents, contact information or account details. Just make sure to password protect the file to keep your information private.
- Throw a party: Use Excel spreadsheets to keep track of all the organisational details for your next party. Keep an up to date list of who's replied, who can’t make it, even who's driving so you can plan your drinks appropriately.
- Use ready-made templates: Calendars, planners, budgets and more. Base a new workbook on the templates that are installed with Excel 2007, or you can download useful templates from the Microsoft Office Online website.
Our indispensible Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 digital notebook software helps you organise notes and information for your personal projects, homework, tasks and to-do's.
- Collect notes in one place. Gather, sort out and search all types of information – including text, images, audio files, video recordings, web clips, PC files and more.
- Make studying easier: Turn on the 'Outlining' toolbar when you take notes, then collapse your outline down to the highest level of information to quiz yourself about the details hidden in the collapsed levels.
- Email your notes: Quickly email notes to others so that you can share ideas or catch up on a missed class
- Work on your notes together: You can share your notes online so that you and your friends can work on the same notes at the same time – great for sorting out group assignments or discussing the plans for that surprise birthday party.
Make Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 work for your photo slideshows, party presentations, and seminars as well as it works in the boardroom.
- Spice up your presentations: Add animations to a slideshow to bring your presentation to life – and guarantee that you’re the hit of the rugby club AGM
- Show off your holiday photos: Use new photo effects to add some pizzazz to your holiday snaps
- Produce professional-looking awards: Whether it's to reward your children for helping around the home or creating the certificates for the village show, there's a template to help you out. And when you're done, you can create a PowerPoint Wizard certificate for yourself!
- Display your portfolio in its best light: Show off your hard work, whether it’s for a great new job or as part of a hobby. PowerPoint’s new graphic effects can help you present your work in a winning way.
Do your homework, write letters and produce professional-looking documents, Word is the indispensible household tool.
- Put together professional reports for school or university: Include headers, footers, page numbers, citations, a bibliography, a table of contents, an index and appendices, all at the click of a button.
- Keep on top of the parish council minutes: Save yourself time while still creating a professional finish for club or council notes, memos and minutes.
- Send personal greeting cards and invitations: Personalise all your socialising by creating your own cards. So you can have a princess-perfect invitation for your daughter’s sixth birthday and she can create thank-you notes for all your relatives afterwards.
- Publish blogs direct from your PC: Whatever your passion, let the world know about it by blogging. You can configure Office Word 2007 to link directly to your blog site. Transfer images and advanced text formatting too.
