Compare Office Professional Plus 2010 and the 2007 suite

Outlook Web Access 2007 provides browser based access to e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Changes are automatically maintained across with the Outlook 2007 client. Information Rights Management policies are also supported.

Office Web Apps are online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that let you review and make light edits to documents from a supported browser. Outlook Web App provides new conversation tools, incorporates the Ribbon in a redesigned user interface, and surfaces presence and IM integration.

SharePoint Workspace 2010 can take SharePoint lists and document libraries offline. After working with content offline, only the changes area synced so the updates happen more quickly.

OneNote 2007 enables people in different locations to work together in real time by using a live sharing session, so multiple people can view and edit the same page of notes at the same time.

Co-authoring enables simultaneous editing to reduce the administrative work that can come from team collaboration. Security is not compromised since the information can be hosted on premise. ³

Broadcast Slide Show provides the ability to present a slideshow directly from PowerPoint 2010 to anyone who can access a Web browser.

Send a calendar snapshot to others via e-mail, view multiple calendars at once, and take advantage of the Meeting Scheduling Assistant to make it a breeze to organize a meeting with others.

Now when you receive a meeting request, a preview of your calendar helps you better understand how the request affects your calendar without you leaving your inbox. Also, Schedule View, Group Scheduling Tools, and Team Calendar make it easy to see what you and your colleagues are scheduled to do, making it easier to schedule meetings.

MailTips give users important information before they hit “send” to avoid unnecessary, embarrassing, or even damaging e-mail.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 makes staying in touch with colleagues easier. Instant messaging and audio or video conferencing are accessible from a single screen. Presence technology makes it possible to start a conversation by simply clicking a person’s name in a Word document or Outlook e-mail message.

Your favorite instant messaging application has an improved, expanded reach. See presence and a new contact card for your friends and colleagues and easily initiate a conversation directly from within select Office 2010 applications. With Office Communicator, you get additional tools, such as the ability to initiate voice calls without ever leaving your work.

Use on-demand translation, full item translations, and a Mini Translator to easily work across languages.

Customize your multilingual experience from a single dialog box where you can set separate language preferences for editing, help, display, and—for several applications—even ScreenTips.

Results-oriented Office Fluent user interface is introduced to most applications with the Ribbon toolbar, making it easier to find commands needed most and uncover new ones.

Ribbon toolbar is now in all applications, improving discoverability across the suite. The new Microsoft Office Backstage™ view gives everyone quick access to important operations such as viewing document information, saving, printing, and sharing.

Photo and video editing tools in PowerPoint 2010 can trim a video clip, bookmark it, turn a color film into black & white, add artistic effects to photos, and more. Compress media to make file sizes smaller.

Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 provide basic photo editing options to help you make pictures suited for a presentation or report.

Use new and improved picture editing tools in Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010: Spectacular artistic effects and advanced correction, color and cropping tools, and more.

Use conditional formatting in Excel 2007 with new data bars and more colorful and gradual fills to format data based on specific rules. Create professional-looking charts and tables with greater ease by formatting with fewer clicks.

Sparklines save real estate on-screen by charting trends in a single cell right next to the corresponding data. New conditional formatting options provide enhanced ways to draw insights from data with Excel 2010—including more icon set flexibility, enhanced data bar length, gradient fills with borders, and more.

OneNote 2007 can capture text, images, audio, and video and provides advanced search capabilities.

The improved search experience in OneNote 2010 shows you search results as you type—and a new ranking system learns from past choices, prioritizing notes, pages, page titles, and recent picks.

Save time by quickly formatting text and tables throughout Word 2007 documents. Take advantage of new fonts and better on-screen reading.

New OpenType typography available in Word 2010 and Publisher 2010 helps create the look of professional typesetting in just a few clicks, with support for ligatures, stylistic sets, and other typography features available in many OpenType fonts.

Easily create reports in Access 2007 with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

Add data bars with gradient fills to your forms and reports and visually see how one value compares to the others or identify trends.

Publisher 2007 helps you create and publish a wide range of marketing publications for print, e-mail, and the Web with your own brand elements, including logo, colors, fonts, and business information.

Add some flair to your text with new OpenType typography available in Publisher 2010. And select from galleries of built-in and community-submitted content, including borders, sidebars, graphics, and more, to help you easily build professional-quality publications. You can also save your customized content as additional building blocks for reuse whenever you need them or to share with the Publisher community.