Office Basic 2007 has the Office Fluent user interface to help you create documents faster, more easily, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with commands that present the right tools when you need them.

Office Basic 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents and spreadsheets more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts.

Office Basic 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office documents with Live Preview. You can quickly preview proposed changes to your document while you’re working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. By “test-driving” your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 features a new To-Do Bar for organizing tasks, appointments, and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. You can also view tasks on the calendar alongside your appointments. Uncompleted tasks roll over to the next day and accumulate until completed. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

Office Basic 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons. With these features, you can format data based on specific rules and easily identify key data trends with visual cues. Learn more about Office Excel 2007.

Office Basic 2007 includes an enhanced junk e-mail filter in Office Outlook 2007 to help reduce spam sent to your inbox and protect against potentially harmful attachments. Office Outlook 2007 also includes security enhancements to help prevent "phishing," a fraudulent e-mail attempt to trick you into providing financial or personal information. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector. With just a few clicks, you can automatically detect and choose to remove sensitive information from your documents.

Office Basic 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office Word documents with more stable and predictable bullets, numbering, and tables. Also, Document Themes help ensure a consistent appearance between the documents you create in Office Word 2007 and Office Excel 2007 to make working across the programs you use most more convenient. Learn more about Office Word 2007.

New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others.¹ Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform.

Office Basic 2007 is easier to use, thanks to an improved Help system that provides enhanced ScreenTips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates.