As a busy professional, you’re constantly juggling multiple tasks, managing large amounts of information, and racing against tight deadlines.  Microsoft Office Professional 2007 helps you work more efficiently and better manage and share critical business information.

• Save time and stay organized
• Centralize contact and customer information
• Produce professional-quality marketing materials in-house
• Track and manage data with ease

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that will help you save time and stay organized. Powerful contact management features help you manage prospect and customer information in one place and deliver better customer service. Easily develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. Quickly create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff. You will rapidly learn new features using improved menus that present the right tools when you need them.

INCLUDES

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007¹
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

Work more efficiently and effectively

New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Office Professional 2007 helps you quickly accomplish routine tasks so you can spend more time with your customers. New task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use, making it faster and easier to find the software features you need. And the new Live Preview feature makes it easy to sample your changes before you apply them. Office Professional 2007 helps you:

• Spend less time learning new software with improved menus and commands that present the tools you need when you need them.
• Find what you need faster and more easily using Instant Search.
• Protect yourself with improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters.
• Produce professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are publication-ready without spending hours on formatting and refinements.
• Schedule tasks in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that also will appear on your calendar.
• Use the new Office Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow up.
• Use new templates and tools in Microsoft Office Word 2007 that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes.
• Use new tools in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you analyze business data more effectively.

Manage all your customer and contact information in one place

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management. Now you can collect and control all of your customer information and communications in one place so you can stay organized and respond quickly to customers. Powerful tools simplify contact management so you can easily track, prioritize, and manage customer and contact information throughout the sales process — all within the familiar Office Outlook 2007 environment. You also can track and manage project tasks and assign tasks to coworkers. With Office Professional 2007, you can:

• Centralize all contact, prospect, and customer information — including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks — using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Record all types of communications with each customer in one place — including e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Forecast sales and prioritize tasks using the customizable dashboard in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office.
• Track project related information in one place — including e-mail, meetings, notes, tasks, and documents — and easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to others using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house

Create and distribute professional and compelling marketing materials and campaigns entirely in-house with Office Professional 2007. Create designer-quality marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web using Office Publisher 2007. Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Publisher 2007 together to track and manage marketing campaign activities such as compiling mailing lists, distributing materials, and tracking results. You also can use the library of customizable templates in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create professional-looking presentations. Office Professional 2007 enables you to:

• Create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information using Office Publisher 2007.
• Use hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types provided by Office Publisher 2007.
• Reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another with Office Publisher 2007.
• Use Office Publisher 2007 to combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources — including Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 — to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets.
• Create, manage, and track marketing campaigns using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Create more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts using Office PowerPoint 2007.
• Create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, and then quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007.

Find, use, and manage information more effectively

Manage business information with new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Using Office Professional 2007, you can easily create databases from scratch and generate reports - with no technology background required. Predefined database templates and an intuitive interface in Office Access 2007 help you quickly and easily manage business information. That information can be filtered, sorted, and displayed in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for easier analysis. Office Professional 2007 helps you:

• Create databases, even if you have no prior experience using Office Access 2007.
• Use a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes that are included with Office Access 2007.
• Manage Office Access 2007 databases more intuitively using the new task-based user interface and the new datasheet view, which is similar to Excel.
• Create reports in Office Access 2007 with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.
• Filter, sort, graph, and visualize information in Office Excel 2007 using new tools to analyze business information more easily.
• Summarize information and find the answers you need using PivotTable and PivotChart views that are now much easier to create using Office Excel 2007.

Here are the top 10 ways that Office Professional 2007 can help you save time and stay organized, so you can spend more time with customers.

1. Find and use the features you need faster and more easily.  The new, more intuitive look and feel of Office Professional 2007 helps you quickly and easily find and use the software features you need. Task-based menus and toolbars are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using.
   
2. Locate, prioritize, and act on an increasing volume of e-mail.  Instant Search capabilities in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager help you quickly find critical information. The new Color Category feature helps you to easily sort and manage e-mail messages. Improved junk mail and anti-phishing technologies help you filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the remaining messages. 
   
3. Manage time and tasks more efficiently.  The new To-Do Bar in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Tasks scheduled in Office Outlook 2007 appear on your calendar, and you can drag tasks directly onto your calendar to help you stay organized. 
   
4. Manage all your customer information in one place.  Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a complete customer and contact management solution. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all contact, prospect, and customer information - including communications history, projected sales value, and probability of closing, and tasks - making it easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales pipeline in one place. You also can store all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mails messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
   
5. Manage sales leads and opportunities better.  Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a customizable homepage that helps you forecast sales and prioritize tasks. Enhanced reporting features provide a consolidated view of your sales pipeline using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify to suit your unique business needs.
   
6. Create professional marketing materials in-house.  Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you create and publish a wide range of marketing publications in-house for print, e-mail, and the Web. Hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates and more than 100 blank publication types are included. Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to reuse logos, colors, fonts, and business information in different types of publications.
   
7. Manage your marketing campaigns more efficiently.  Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager has new features that help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns. Office Publisher 2007 can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources — including Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 - to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets. 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.
   
8. Create professional looking documents and presentations in less time.  Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes new templates and tools that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it quicker and easier to create more dynamic presentations with an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts, and new graphic tools enable you to create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables, and then instantly preview formatting changes.
   
9. Analyze your information to make better decisions.  Office Excel 2007 provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create.  
   
10. Find, use, and manage information more effectively.  Manage business information using new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Office Access 2007 helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required. Office Access 2007 includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes, and now is more intuitive thanks to the new task-based user interface and the datasheet view, which is similar to Office Excel 2007. Easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

Computer and processor:	500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher1
Memory:	256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher1, 2
Hard disk:	2 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Drive:	CD-ROM or DVD drive
Display:	1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system:	Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system3
Other:	Certain inking features require running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later. Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device. Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services. Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity. Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007. To share data among multiple computers, the host computer must be running Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows XP Professional with SP2, or later. Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply).
Additional:	Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.

¹ 1 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher and 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Business Contact Manager. Business Contact Manager not available in all languages.

² 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant Search. Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.

³ Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64 bit OS.