Office Home and Student 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 Home and Student 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations 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 Home and Student 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 OneNote 2007 gives you a digital notebook where you can gather, organize, and search all types of notes and information — typed text, images, audio and video recordings, Web clippings, computer files, and more — all in one place. Learn more about Office OneNote 2007.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons that you can use to format data based on specific rules, so you can more easily identify key data trends. Learn more about Office Excel 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 Home and Student 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 among the documents you create in Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, to make working across the programs you use most more convenient. Learn more about Office Word 2007.

In Office PowerPoint 2007, create presentations with ease using prebuilt and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the new custom layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future presentations. Learn more about Office PowerPoint 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 Home and Student 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.