Microsoft Office 2007

An integral component of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering, the 2007 Microsoft Office system is a complete set of desktop and server software that can help simplify how you access, analyze, and share data within your organization. In addition to significant enhancements to its BI capabilities, the 2007 Microsoft Office system features a new user interface, innovative collaborative and workflow tools, content management, and powerful, easy-to-use enterprise search.

The 2007 Microsoft Office system is a complete set of desktop and server software that can help streamline the way you and your people do business. This latest release offers significant new capabilities to help increase personal productivity, simplify how people work together, streamline processes and enterprise content management, and improve the quality of business insight across your organization.

With the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you can:

• Increase individual productivity and maximize personal impact on business outcomes.
  
• Simplify working together regardless of time or place.
  
• Streamline everyday business processes and enterprise content management.
  
• Extend and improve the quality of business insight across your organization.

Increase individual productivity and maximize personal impact on business outcomes
Cluttered computer desktops, multiple tasks, and conflicting demands on your time make it difficult for you and your people to work effectively. And when personal productivity is hampered, so is business performance. The 2007 Microsoft Office system streamlines workspaces and offers a wide array of innovative features to help you improve personal productivity and, ultimately enhance business outcomes. These features include:

The more intuitive Microsoft Office Fluent user interface speeds access to tasks through such features as a tabbed Ribbon that organizes commands around specific scenarios or objects, Galleries that let you pick and click the results you want, and a Live Preview feature you can use to see how a formatting or editing change will look before it’s made.

Create powerful, professional-looking documents more quickly and easily with the rich collection of graphics and creative effects in SmartArt graphics. The Document Inspector feature in Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007 and Office PowerPoint 2007 helps you find and remove unwanted comments, personally identifiable information, hidden text, and other information from a document.

Prioritize your time and tasks more effectively in Office Outlook 2007. The new To-Do Bar creates a consolidated view of day-to-day priorities, including e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, upcoming appointments, tasks from Office OneNote 2007, Office Project 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services Web sites.

Locate information quickly with Instant Search, which lets you do keyword searches through Office Outlook 2007, including attachments. You can also query for criteria such as date, from, Color Categories, mail importance and more. Optical character recognition in Office OneNote 2007 lets you search handwritten notes, text in pictures, or spoken words in audio and video recordings.

Simplify working together regardless of time or place
Today’s organizations need more effective ways to communicate and collaborate with remote workers, satellite offices and international partners and customers. Virtual presentations, meetings and collaborative sessions have made it possible for people to connect across distances but until now these communication modes have been poor substitutes for face-to-face meetings. With the real-time collaboration features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, your people and teams can more easily and effectively work together across geographical boundaries and time zones.

With the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you can:

• Identify colleagues with common interests through My Site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Social Networking Web Parts use information about the person’s organization, communities and electronic communications to produce more relevant search results.
  
• Work together more dynamically and effectively inside collaborative workspaces anytime, anywhere, through Microsoft Office Groove 2007. Office Groove 2007 keeps your team, tools, file and information in one place, increasing productivity and enhancing teamwork results.
  
• Deployed together, Office Groove 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide an integrated collaboration environment to help teams and organizations work together and share information.
  
• Manage projects more efficiently from start to finish with Office Project Server 2007. More transparent scheduling, enhanced decision-making, and timesheet tools help managers plan, monitor and measure project performance.
  
• Save Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets to a server and share them over the Web via HTML while maintaining tight control over them with document management and auditing tools.
  
• Easily capture, archive and reuse communal knowledge with Wikis and blogs, which now have enhanced support on Windows SharePoint Services. With the new 2007 Microsoft Office system, you can now also use Office Word 2007 to create blog posts complete with pictures, rich formatting, spell checker and more. You can then quickly publish the posts to many common blog services.

Streamline everyday business processes and enterprise content management
Manual and redundant tasks can significantly slow down everyday business processes. At the same time, organizations struggling to meet growing demands for compliance and security are bogged down with the monumental tasks of enterprise content management. The new Microsoft Office system helps you streamline processes by automating tasks and offers powerful end-to-end capabilities for creating, managing and storing enterprise content.

Automate your workflow with the review and approval workflow capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007, which includes out-of-the-box templates to make it easier for you and your end-users to decide which workflows to apply to your content. A full workflow history lets you and your IT administrators map past and future workflow steps.

Streamline forms-based processes through new server-based forms capabilities called InfoPath Forms Services, which allow you to create rich, dynamic forms that teams and organizations can use to gather, share, reuse, and manage information.

Manage your documents more efficiently through new features such as enterprise-scale repositories, item-level security, integrated information rights management protection, and streamlined workflow for document processing. The new Document Information Panel and Document Action Bar give you the ability to integrate content management capabilities directly inside Office Word 2007 documents.

Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, gain advanced control over enterprise content retention, archiving and auditing policies to meet current storage and regulatory compliance needs. Office SharePoint Server 2007 also supports enhanced content policies and auditing, direct uploading to a records repository, and richer email retention and archiving options.

Extend and improve the quality of business insight across your organization
Disparate data sources, physical separation of workers, and silos within organizations can often leave blind spots that make it harder for people to find the information they need to make smart business decisions. With the new Microsoft Office system, people across your organization now have faster, easier access to information.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create rich business intelligence dashboards that incorporate dynamic key performance indicators (KPIs) from Office Excel 2007 workbooks and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports.

Build richer Web content through Content Management Server within Office SharePoint Server 2007. This new functionality gives you the ability to improve Web content management on a unified SharePoint foundation that supports rich, in-place authoring capabilities for all content — whether it be Web- or document-based.

Identify, select, and manage projects that best align with your business strategy through Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007. This new offering helps you build case studies and workflow-driven governance processes using multiple analytical tools.

Store and share slides easily with Office PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also update and synchronize slides with existing Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations.

Look beyond documents and find the information you need through new search capabilities in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that let you index and expose information that resides with colleagues and partners, as well as in SharePoint sites across the organization and line-of-business systems and reports.

Powerful information analysis tools in Office Excel 2007 help you and your workers quickly and accurately extract meaning from Excel data. New data visualization capabilities, PivotTable and PivotChart views, and formula-based access to enterprise data help you integrate business intelligence with spreadsheets.

Components of the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Suites

Microsoft Office Basic 2007 (OEM only)
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Office Standard 2007
Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2007
Microsoft Office Professional 2007
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007