Microsoft Office 2007 Standard

Microsoft Office Standard Edition 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.

• Microsoft Office Word 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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).

• 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.)

Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Version Comparison

Microsoft Office 2007: Edition Comparison

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• 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
• 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher *
• 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive
• CD-ROM or DVD drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system **
• 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. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0.
  • 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.
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply).
• Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.

* 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.

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

Product information is advisory only. Specifications and compatibility should be checked with the manufacturer before order. Images are for illustrative purposes only.