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Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007 

What's included in Office Professional Plus 2007

Access 2007
Communicator 2007
Excel 2007
InfoPath 2007
Outlook 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Publisher 2007
Word 2007

Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007 has all the products you have come to expect from Office Pro: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Publisher. Plus, it now includes a new set of powerful tools for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing information.

Here are 10 ways (according to Microsoft) that Office Pro has been improved:

Reason 1

The new Microsoft Office user interface organizes product features according to task, labeling them with both text and graphics, and enhancing ScreenTips with illustrations and Help text.
   
Reason 2

The new graphics capabilities of Office Pro Plus 2007 make it easy to produce great-looking, high-impact documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are publication-ready. The new Office Pro also allows you to share documents in .PDF and .XPS formats without other software.
   
Reason 3

Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes a set of connected enhancements, including Building Blocks, enhanced reviewing tools, and integration with the built-in workflow services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to make it easier to produce and distribute high-quality content.
   
Reason 4

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 makes high-level data analysis available to more information workers through easier access to corporate data sources, redesigned interfaces for PivotTable views, and more powerful and easier-to-use conditional formatting. Share your analysis using the redesigned charting tools. Apply rich visual enhancements to your charts such as 3-D effects, soft shadowing, and transparency.
   
Reason 5 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 offers new tools such as the To-Do Bar, task and calendar integration, and Instant Search.
   
Reason 6

Office Pro Plus 2007 now includes Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 to make communicating with colleagues in different locations or time zones easier while using a range of communication options, including instant messaging (IM), voice, and video.2 These capabilities are enabled by the integration of Office Professional Plus 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007.

   
Reason 7

Office Pro Plus 2007 introduces a new level of support for XML with new Ecma Office Open XML Formats. These new file formats enable smaller, more robust documents and enable easier integration with information systems and external data sources.
   
Reason 8

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 makes information gathering more efficient by delivering electronic forms that reach the necessary participants easily, reduce redundant data entry, and improve the quality of the data collected.

   
Reason 9

New capabilities for data integration in Office Pro Plus 2007 reduce the cost and complexity of connecting documents and spreadsheets to central data sources.

   
Reason 10

The new Microsoft Office Migration Management Technologies are a set of tools to aid with migration planning, compatibility testing, file conversion, and patch management.