Microsoft Office

Overview

Office Professional 2007 provides you with a complete set of productivity and information management tools to accomplish routine tasks quickly, effectively manage customer and contact information in one place, produce professional-quality marketing communications and campaigns in-house, and simplify database creation and reporting. Here are the top 10 ways that Office Professional 2007 can help you save time, stay organized, and spend more time with customers.

Features and Benefits

One of the many reasons to upgrade to the 2007 version of this suite is that you can manage, analyze, and communicate your information in more dynamic ways with new versions of familiar Microsoft Office programs. Here's a preview of what each of these programs has to offer:

Find and use the features you need with ease.
The new and more intuitive look and feel of Office Professional 2007 helps you use the software features you need easier and faster. Task-based menus and toolbars are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using.

Locate, manage, prioritize, and act on an increasing volume of e-mail.
The new category coloring feature in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 helps you more easily sort and manage e-mail messages. Advanced Instant Search capabilities speed your search for critical information. Improved junk mail and anti-phishing technologies help you filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the messages that matter.

Manage time and tasks more efficiently.
The new Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 To-Do bar consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Using the improved task and calendar integration, you can allocate time for tasks with drag-and-drop functionality to help you stay well organized.

Manage all your customer and prospect information in one place.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager brings small business contact management functionality to Office Outlook 2007. Track, view, and access customer information in Office Outlook 2007, including contact information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, documents, and faxed or scanned items.

Manage sales leads and opportunities better.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you manage sales leads and opportunities in one place, including contact information, communications history, phone calls, notes, documents, and more. You can customize the enhanced reporting features with new filtering capabilities to help forecast and close sales. And the innovative dashboard feature gives you a consolidated view of your customer and prospect information, which helps you make decisions and prioritize tasks.

Save Time and Stay Organized
Because it contains so many efficient software options in one package, Microsoft Professional 2007 gives you access to a multitude of options that save you time and keep you organized. For example, Outlook with Business Contact Manager lets you create, manage, and track marketing campaigns, while PowerPoint gives you the ability to craft more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts. When it's time to create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, you can quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and save yourself time-consuming future edits.

Manage all your marketing efforts more efficiently.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps guide you through the full spectrum of marketing campaign activities. Create custom mailing lists and personalize print or online marketing materials created in Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2007, or HTML. You can then use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Create professional-looking documents and presentations in less time.
New Microsoft Office Word 2007 tools, including the new QuickFormats and Live Preview features, help you create more professional Word documents by making it easier to reuse content, apply professional formats, and quickly preview changes. In the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation graphics program, an extensive library of customizable slide layouts and new tools help you create powerful charts, diagrams, and tables. You can also quickly preview changes to create more dynamic presentations faster. New style capabilities in the Microsoft Office system help to ensure a consistent appearance between documents you create in Office Word 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet program.

Analyze your information to make better decisions.
Office Excel 2007 includes new tools that help you more effectively filter, sort, graph, and visualize your business information. The new collection of predefined styles, Microsoft Office art, and integrated graphics in Office Excel 2007 help you quickly apply a consistently professional look to your spreadsheets. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create.

Simplify database creation and reporting.
Microsoft Office Access 2007 helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required. A library of predefined database applications help you track important business information, including assets, expense reports, and customer orders. Create reports with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides you with a comprehensive time and information manager. Using new features such as Instant Search and the To-Do Bar, you can organize and instantly locate the information that you need. New calendar sharing capabilities, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 technology, and improved access to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 information enable you to safely share data that is stored in Office Outlook 2007 with coworkers, friends, and family, no matter where those people are located. Office Outlook 2007 makes it easier for you to prioritize and control your time, allowing you to focus on the things that matter most.

Office PowerPoint 2007 has a new, intuitive user interface called the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, which helps you create better presentations much more quickly than you could in earlier versions of PowerPoint. Office PowerPoint 2007 offers new and improved effects, themes, layouts, and enhanced formatting options that you can use to create great-looking, dynamic presentations in a fraction of the time that you used to spend.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 helps you produce professional-looking documents by providing a comprehensive set of tools for creating and formatting your document in the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Rich review, commenting, and comparison capabilities help you quickly gather and manage feedback from colleagues. Advanced data integration ensures that documents stay connected to important sources of business information.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides powerful tools and features that you can use to analyze, share, and manage your data with ease. The new results-oriented user interface makes it easy for you to work in Microsoft Office Excel. Commands and features that were often buried in complex menus and toolbars are now easier to find on task-oriented tabs that contain logical groups of commands and features. Many dialog boxes are replaced with drop-down galleries that display the available options, and descriptive tooltips or sample previews are provided to help you choose the right option. No matter what activity you are performing in the new user interface—whether it's formatting or analyzing data—Excel presents the tools that are most useful to successfully complete that task.

Welcome to Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, the easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Use OneNote to capture your thoughts and ideas in electronic notebooks, where you can easily organize, search, and share them. OneNote is an electronic version of a paper notebook where you can write down notes, thoughts, ideas, scribbles, reminders, and all kinds of other information. Unlike the traditional document formats used by other programs such as word-processing or spreadsheet programs, OneNote offers a free-form canvas where you can type, write, or draw notes in the form of text, graphics, and images wherever and however you want them.

Details

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