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This is an excellent office suite, and in terms of features and
ease of use, it's also the best -- Computer Shopper
Manufacturer's Description
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Microsoft Office 2007 is the essential software suite for home
computer users and includes 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint,
Word, and Outlook. This system enables you to quickly and easily
create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations,
and organize your emails in one place, making it easier and more
enjoyable for you to get things done. This updated version
features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly
used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities
that let you create high-quality documents, plus a powerful email
and package, and more reliability and security with the
document inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery.
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of Microsoft Office 2007 editions.
Create High-Quality Documents
Office 2007 gives you access to updated graphics, formatting
galleries, and an intuitive user interface that exposes commonly
used commands. These features enable you to easily produce
high-quality documents that will make you proud. Improved
picture, charting, and graphics tools help you produce
better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more
quickly, while a large library of standard charts, quick
formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include
rich and stunning visuals and charts. The results-oriented user
interface makes it easier for you to find and use product
features so you can enhance your documents according to your
specifications. More stable bullets and numbers, SmartArt
diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries provide you with a
wealth of other formatting choices. Meanwhile, document themes
help ensure a consistent appearance among the documents you
create in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, to make working across the
pr! ograms you use most more convenient. PowerPoint also features
context-sensitive tabs and easy-to-use galleries that make it
simple for you to include tables and other graphics in your
documents.
Enhanced Reliability and Security Features
With an improved automatic Document Recovery tool and the new
Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable
information from your documents, Office 2007 helps you work with
more confidence and security. Thanks to these two features,
you'll never have to worry about losing documents after a system
failure or exposing your personal identification information or
unwanted comments to others before sharing your documents.
User-Friendly Operation
Packed with innovative features and improvements, Office 2007
has a streamlined interface and an enhanced Help system,
including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you
can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your
questions. In addition, command tabs on the results-oriented
Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared
only in lengthy drop-down menus. The Help system also offers a
smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office
system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more
informative ScreenTips provide help concerning commands, and the
command tabs themselves are context-sensitive, changing
automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to
complete, so you won't waste time figuring out the appropriate
command. When you need more guidance, online tutorials provide
step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
Manage Your Mails and More
Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a comprehensive time and information
manager for your busy digital life. You'll never have problems
with personal information again. Take control of the tools you
need to prioritise, organize and search. Schedule and block off
time to follow up on items, manage your daily priorities and use
Windows SharePoint Services technology to manage every aspect of
your digital life more effectively. Manage your shared
information and content in one interface, through SharePoint
Services -- documents, s, contacts, tasks, and other
information are easier than ever to handle Stay safe from junk
mail and phishing Web sites - The improved junk e-mail filter and
has added new features that disable links and warn you about
threatening content within an e-mail message Colour-code your
information for easier organization -- it's a simple, visual way
to distinguish items from one another Manage all your blogs to
RSS feeds directly through Outlook ! 2007 New Attachment Preview
helps you see your Office Outlook 2007 attachments with one click
directly in the reading pane, saving you time and effort
Preview Changes and Spot Trends
Office 2007 saves you time by making it easier to format your
Office documents with Live Preview. This tool lets you quickly
preview proposed changes to your document while you're working on
it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus.
Taking a look at your proposed formatting before committing to it
lets you experiment without risk and can help minimize future
edits. Excel features highly visual conditional formatting with
new data bars, more colourful gradients, and icons that you can
use to format data based on specific rules, so you can more
easily identify key data trends, which can help you study and
prepare written papers or reports.
Create and Save Custom Slide Layouts
PowerPoint lets you create presentations with ease using
pre-built and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the custom
layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you
envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard
layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future
presentations.
Insert graphics and charts such as these into your documents to
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Use the new diagram and improved charting tools to create rich
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Quick and easy-to-use table styles help your tables look great
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.Broader Distribution of Your Documents
Home and Student 2007's features aren't limited to the work you
do at home; they extend to broader distribution of your documents
and presentations. New support for Portable Document Format (PDF)
and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure
increased distribution and sharing of your documents with users
on any platform. This is particularly ideal for either sharing
documents with friends and families, or for presenting
information and assignments in a computer-integrated class.