Microsoft Office Standard 2007, Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, and Microsoft Office Professional 2007 suites comparison

This suites comparison provides a feature-to-feature comparison of Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007, and Office Professional 2007.

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• Work more efficiently

• Manage all your customer and contact information in one place

• Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house

• Find, use, and manage information more effectively

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Office Standard 2007
Office Standard 2007 provides software essentials to homes and small businesses so that users can complete tasks more quickly and easily. With the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and improved tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time and communication management tools, and more reliability and security of Office Standard 2007, you can:

• Create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Easily manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts.
• Complete tasks at home or at work more easily and enjoyably.

Office Small Business 2007
Office Small Business 2007 is a powerful and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software that has new tools to help you save time, stay organized, and deliver better customer service. With Office Small Business 2007, you can:

• Easily manage your prospect and customer information in one place.
• Quickly create dynamic documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house.
• Manage your calendar, tasks, and e-mail messages more efficiently, and filter out unwanted e-mail messages to help keep your computer safe and secure.
• Spend less time learning new features by using the Office Fluent user interface that present the right tools automatically.

Office Professional 2007
Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that will help you save time and stay organized. With Office Professional 2007, you can:

• Use powerful contact management features to 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 without prior experience or technical staff.
• Learn new features by using the Office Fluent user interface that presents the right tools when you need them.

Work more efficiently

New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

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= Feature Included

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Small Business 2007	Office Professional 2007
New look and feel The Office Fluent user interface makes it easier for you to find and use program features.1
Instant Search The new search technology in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 helps you find the e-mail message you need much faster.
Attachment preview View attachments to e-mail messages without opening them in Office Outlook 2007.
Junk e-mail filter Significantly reduce spam e-mail messages in Office Outlook 2007.
Anti-phishing Receive alerts when you get suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages in Office Outlook 2007.
SmartArt graphics SmartArt Graphics are an enhanced set of design tools that make it easy to create visually stunning diagrams and charts.
Live Preview Preview formatting changes with one click.
Office themes New themes make it easy for you to create attractive documents that are based on a consistent style across 2007 Microsoft Office system programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Improved time and task management Office Outlook 2007 includes a new To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages that are flagged for follow-up. Tasks that are scheduled in Office Outlook 2007 appear on your calendar.
Document Inspector Easily remove “invisible” information such as comments, hidden text, and properties. Share documents with confidence.
Publish to PDF or XPS format Save to PDF or XPS file format for online viewing and commercial printing after you install an add-in.2

¹ Available in programs that have the Office Fluent user interface.
² You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.

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Manage all your customer and contact information in one place

Office Outlook 2007 now includes a complete contact management solution for small businesses to help you deliver better customer service.

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= Feature Included

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Small Business 2007	Office Professional 2007
Centralize contact and customer information Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all contact, prospect, and customer information, making it easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales process in one place.
Track communications history Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager stores in one place all types of communications with each customer, including e-mail messages, telephone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
Assign contacts, leads, and tasks Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to others.
Dashboard Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a customizable dashboard, so that you can view all your important customer information and business metrics on one page.
Customize forms, fields, and lists Customize the type of contact information that you track in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager for your unique business needs.
Reports Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to choose from a wide selection of customer and prospect reports, and to export to Office Excel 2007 for further analysis.
Offline access to customer information Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager now enables you to work offline on your portable computer and synchronize data when you return to the office.
Synchronize Microsoft Windows Mobile–based Pocket PC While out of the office, you can work on your Microsoft Windows Mobile–based Pocket PC and synchronize your data when you return.
Project tracking Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to track project-related information in one place — including e-mail messages, meetings, notes, tasks, and documents — and easily assign tasks to other users.

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Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house

Create and distribute professional marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web.

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= Feature Included

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Small Business 2007	Office Professional 2007
Create publications for print, e-mail, and the Web Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you create and publish a wide range of marketing publications for print, e-mail, and the Web that use your own brand elements, including logo, colors, fonts, and business information.
E-mail marketing Use e-mail templates, bookmarks, personalized hyperlinks, and new E-mail Merge in Office Publisher 2007 to create effective, personalized e-mail marketing messages.
Combine lists Combine and filter lists within Office Publisher 2007 from multiple data sources in the 2007 system — including Excel, Outlook, and Access — to create personalized print and e-mail materials.
Apply your brand to publisher catalog Office Publisher 2007 enables you easily to apply and view elements from your brand — such as logo, colors, fonts, and business information — to all templates within the Publisher Catalog, in one step.
Marketing campaigns The Marketing Campaigns feature in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you manage and track a marketing campaign that uses documents created in the Microsoft Office system of programs, such as Word, Publisher, or Outlook.
New templates and blank publications Office Publisher 2007 provides hundreds of customizable design templates and more than 100 blank publication types.
Search for templates Quickly find just the right template within Office Publisher 2007 or on Microsoft Office Online. Preview Office Online templates within Office Publisher 2007.
My Templates Easily categorize and save your own branded templates within Office Publisher 2007.
Publisher tasks Use Publisher Tasks for help with common Office Publisher 2007 creation and distribution procedures.
Content Library Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to store and reuse text, graphics, and design elements across Office Publisher 2007 publications by using the new Content Library.
Catalog Merge Use Catalog Merge in Office Publisher 2007 to build custom materials, such as datasheets or catalogs, by merging text and images from a database.
Create dynamic presentations Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it quicker and easier to create more dynamic presentations by using an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts.

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Find, use, and manage information more effectively

Manage business information by using new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information.

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= Feature Included

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Small Business 2007	Office Professional 2007
Data visualization Office Excel 2007 includes new tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you analyze data for deeper insights into your business.
PivotTable and PivotChart views Summarize information and find the answers you need by using PivotTable and PivotChart views that are now much easier to create by using Office Excel 2007.
Start working with databases easily Microsoft Office Access 2007 makes it easier to get started working with databases without prior experience.
Office Fluent user interface Office Access 2007 is more intuitive to use, thanks to the Office Fluent user interface and the datasheet view, which is similar to that in Office Excel 2007.
Prebuilt database solutions Information workers who have no coding expertise and very limited database knowledge can organize and track information more efficiently.
E-Mail Data Collection Wizard Creates an e-mail message to collect new data or update existing data in an Office Access 2007 table and keep your database up-to-date by gathering the information directly from the source.
Reporting Easily create reports in Office Access 2007 with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

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