This suite contains the following Microsoft Office programsWord 2007
Excel 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Outlook 2007



Microsoft Office Standard 2007 has new tools to manage e-mail and create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Create great-looking documents faster
New graphics and visual galleries help you create more dynamic documents and presentations.

Work more securely and confidently
An improved junk e-mail filter and automatic document recovery tool help to protect your work.

Organize your time and communications
Quickly search through e-mail, manage tasks, and get the latest news from your favorite Web sites.

Overview
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. With these enhancements, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or work.



Create high-quality documents
Office Standard 2007 has new graphics capabilities, formatting galleries, and an improved user interface that exposes commonly used commands, making it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

New features and improvements include
A results-oriented user interface that makes it easier to find and use product features.
More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents.
Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices.
Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.



Microsoft Office Word 2007 features new context-sensitive command tabs and easy-to-use galleries that make it simple for you to include tables and other graphics in your documents.

Work with enhanced reliability and security features
With an improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Standard 2007 enables you to work with more confidence and security.

New features and improvements include
A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.



Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 handles suspicious e-mail messages designed to steal your identity-a process known as "phishing"-by displaying a warning across the top of the message and disabling any contained hyperlinks.

Find commands and help with ease
Office Standard 2007 has a new streamlined user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn about the programs and find answers to your questions.

New features and improvements include
Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
An improved Help system that offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
Command tabs that are context-sensitive and change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.



In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the new user interface is organized into logical command tabs. The new Ribbon brings to the surface common commands that were previously buried in drop-down menus.

Organize your time and communications
Office Standard 2007 includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, which is now an even more complete and easy-to-use e-mail and appointment manager, leaving you more time to do the things you want to do. You can quickly search throughout your e-mail, share your calendar with the people you care about, and get the latest news from your favorite Web sites using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

New features and improvements include
Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
A To-Do Bar that brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages in one place.
Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
An RSS aggregator that offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007. (A separate fee-based RSS subscription is required.)



Office Outlook 2007 includes Instant Search to quickly locate information in any of the Outlook modules. Office Outlook 2007 finds the related entries and highlights them as shown.

Top 10 benefits
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 provides you with the software essentials that help you complete tasks more quickly and easily at your home or your small business. Here are the top 10 ways Office Standard 2007 can help you.

1.Get better results faster with a new streamlined user interface
Office Standard 2007 has an improved user interface to help you create documents faster, more easily, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with commands that present the right tools when you need them.

2.Create high-quality documents you can be proud of
Office Standard 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts.

3.Preview your changes quickly
Office Standard 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office documents with Live Preview. You can quickly preview proposed changes to your document while you’re working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. By “test-driving” your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily.

4.Organize your tasks and communications in one place
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 features a new To-Do Bar for organizing tasks, appointments, and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. You can also view tasks on the calendar alongside your appointments. Tasks not completed roll over to the next day and accumulate until completed. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

5.Visualize key data trends using conditional formatting
Office Standard 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons. You can then format data based on specific rules and easily identify key data trends with visual cues. Learn more about Office Excel 2007.

6.Keep your e-mail more secure and reduce electronic junk mail
Office Standard 2007 includes an enhanced Office Outlook 2007 junk e-mail filter to help reduce spam and protect against potentially harmful attachments. Office Outlook 2007 also includes security enhancements to help prevent "phishing," a fraudulent e-mail attempt to trick you into providing financial or personal information. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

7.Remove private information from the documents you want to share
Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector. With just a few clicks, you can automatically detect and choose to remove sensitive information from your documents.

8.Have better control and predictability when formatting documents
Office Standard 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents with more stable and predictable bullets, numbers, and tables. Also, Themes help ensure a consistent appearance between the documents you create in Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, reducing the effort of working across the programs you use the most. Learn more about Office Word 2007.

9.Help ensure broader distribution of your documents and presentations
New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others.1 Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform.

You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.

10.Find the Help you need to get started
Office Standard 2007 is easier to use, thanks to an improved Help system that provides enhanced ScreenTips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates.