• Create high-quality documents

• Work with enhanced reliability and security features

• Find commands and help with ease

• Organize your time and communications

Microsoft Office Basic 2007 is the essential, preinstalled software suite for homes and small businesses with new computers that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents and spreadsheets and manage e-mail. The latest release features the Microsoft Office Fluent 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 Basic 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home or work.

Create high-quality documents

Office Basic 2007 has new graphics, formatting galleries, and the Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used commands. These features make it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

New features and improvements include:

• The Office Fluent user interface that makes it easier for you 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. View a larger image.

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Work with enhanced reliability and security features

Office Basic 2007 includes an improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents. These features enable you to work with more confidence and security.

New features and improvements include:

• A junk e-mail filter that helps to significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
• Anti-phishing tools that alert you to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
• Automatic document recovery that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
• The 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. View a larger image.

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Find commands and help with ease

Office Basic 2007 has the Office Fluent user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions. Using these features, 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 you 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.
• Context-sensitive command tabs that change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

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

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Organize your time and communications

Office Basic 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 tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages together into 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 so you can quickly locate information in any of the Outlook modules. Office Outlook 2007 finds the related entries and highlights them as shown. View a larger image.

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