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 all customer and prospect information in one place. Easily develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. Create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff. You will learn new features rapidly using the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and improved menus that present the right tools when you need them.

• Work more efficiently and effectively. Spend less time learning new software with improved menus and toolbars that present the tools you need when you need them. Office Professional 2007 has a new look and feel that makes it easier and faster to find and use the features you need to create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It also provides you with tools for task and time management in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, so you can stay organized and spend more time working with customers and managing your business.
• Manage all of your prospect and customer information in one place. Office Professional 2007 now includes a complete contact management solution to help small businesses deliver better customer service. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you organize all contact, prospect, and customer information — including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks — making it easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales process in one place. It also can record all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house. Office Professional 2007 helps you create and distribute professional marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web. Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 provides hundreds of professionally designed and customizable design templates and more than 100 blank publication types, and Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to reuse your brand elements in different publication types. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides new features to help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns. And Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it easier than ever to create dynamic presentations using an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts.
• Find, use, and manage information more effectively. Manage business information with new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Microsoft Office Access 2007 makes it easier to get started working with databases, and includes a library of pre-defined database tracking applications for the most common business processes. You can easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 also provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily.

Office Professional 2007 includes:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 ¹
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

There are many new capabilities in Office Professional 2007, including:

• Office Professional 2007 provides the Office Fluent user interface that helps you easily find and use the features you need.
• Office Access 2007 includes predefined database tracking applications and the Office Fluent user interface that help you easily create and manage databases to track your business information.
• Office Excel 2007 offers new tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to make it easier to get an insight into your business.
• Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a new To-Do Bar and Outlook task integration on the calendar to help you manage time and tasks more effectively. It also includes Instant Search capabilities and Color Category feature to help you locate, prioritize, and act upon your growing volume of e-mail.
• Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager also helps you organize and manage prospect and customer information, follow up on sales leads and opportunities, create marketing campaigns, track projects, and monitor response to marketing activities.
• Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it quicker and easier to create dynamic presentations with an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts. New graphic tools enable you to create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables, and then instantly preview formatting changes.
• Office Publisher 2007 helps you create and publish a wide range of marketing publications for print, e-mail, and the Web using your own brand elements. Office Publisher 2007 provides hundreds of professionally designed and customizable design templates and more than 100 blank publication types, and Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to reuse text, graphics, and design elements in different types of publications.
• Office Word 2007 includes new templates and tools to make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes.

With the addition of more features and functionality to Microsoft Office system applications, it has become more challenging for people to find the commands and options they want to use. For example, Word 1.0 had only about 100 commands; you could easily browse through the menus and find everything you could do. In comparison, Word 2003 has more than 1,500 commands, many of which are admittedly difficult to find. Helping people quickly find the menus, commands, and options they need is the key benefit of the Office Fluent user interface.

We wanted to deliver new capabilities that empower people to get the results they want faster. We had four major design goals:

• Make it easier for people to find and use product features.
• Reduce design clutter and interruptions.
• Make it easier for people to discover the capabilities they need.
• Support the creation of great-looking documents.

The 2007 versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and the authoring part of Outlook — your calendar, your mail notes, and your contacts — have the Office Fluent user interface.

By creating a robust yet compact structure based on industry standards such as XML and ZIP, the new default file formats make document creation faster; reduce the size of Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007 files; and improve data recovery in corrupted files.

Yes. Office Professional 2007 programs can be configured to save in the earlier Microsoft Office file formats. When configured this way, the Microsoft Office system programs operate in a Compatibility Mode that enforces compatibility between versions of Microsoft Office by disabling functionality that is incompatible with prior Microsoft Office releases.

Office Professional 2007 introduces the new Ecma Office XML Formats, which are compact, robust file formats that facilitate improved integration with external data sources and systems. These formats are compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000 with the addition of a file format converter patch, available from Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Update. Users of Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000 can open, edit, and save files using the new Office XML Formats.

Find pricing and licensing information on the 2007 Microsoft Office System pricing page.

You can download a free trial of Office Professional 2007 or try Office Professional 2007 programs in the online test drive.

See the system requirements for Office Professional 2007.