Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 is a powerful and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software with new tools to help you save time, stay organized, and deliver better customer service. Easily manage your customer and prospect 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. You can manage your calendar, tasks, and e-mail more efficiently, and filter out unwanted e-mail messages to help keep your information safe and secure. And you will spend less time learning new features with improved menus that present the right tools automatically. Office Small Business 2007 offers many significant benefits:

• Work more efficiently and effectively.
  Office Small Business 2007 has the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface that makes it easier and faster to find and use the software features you need to complete tasks. New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It also provides you with tools for task management and project tracking in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, so you can stay organized and spend more time working with customers and managing your business.
• Manage all your prospect and customer information in one place.
  Office Small Business 2007 now includes a complete contact management solution to help small businesses deliver better customer service. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all contact, prospect, and customer information — including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks — making it easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales process in one place. Powerful tools help you more easily and effectively track, prioritize, and manage leads, and help keep your sales processes organized and productive. And you can store all customer information in one place, including all e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Produce professional marketing communications and campaigns in-house.
  Create and distribute professional marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web. Office Publisher 2007 helps you easily establish a visual identity for your business using your own brand elements — including logos, colors, fonts, and business information — then easily share design and content elements across all types of projects, and convert publications from one type to another. New tools and deeper integration with other Microsoft Office system programs help you easily distribute your publications and track your activities.

Office Small Business 2007 includes:

• Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 ¹
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

There are many new capabilities in Office Small Business 2007, including:

• The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides the Office Fluent user interface that helps you quickly find and use the features you need.
• Office Excel 2007 offers new tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to make it easier to analyze your business.
• Office Outlook 2007 includes a new To-Do Bar and Outlook task integration on the calendar, to help you manage time and tasks more effectively. It also includes Instant Search capabilities and Color Category feature to help you locate, prioritize, and act upon your growing volume of e-mail.
• Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager also helps you organize and manage prospect and customer information, follow up on sales leads and opportunities, create marketing campaigns, track projects, and monitor response to marketing activities.
• Office PowerPoint 2007 helps you easily get started with a more extensive library of professional slide layouts and new tools that help you create powerful charts, diagrams, and tables, and then quickly preview changes.
• Office Publisher 2007 provides a wide collection of professionally designed, customizable templates for print, e-mail, and the Web, and new guides to lead you through the processes for creating marketing materials and campaigns.
• Office Word 2007 offers new Quick Formats, Live Preview, and Building Blocks that help you to quickly, easily, and confidently create professional-quality documents.

Helping people quickly find the menus, commands, and options they need is the key benefit of the Office Fluent user interface. With the addition of more features and functionality to Microsoft Office system programs, it has become more challenging for people to find the commands and options they want to use. For example, Microsoft Word 1.0 had only about 100 commands, and you could easily browse through the menus and find everything you could do. Today, Microsoft Office Word 2003 has more than 1,500 commands, many of which are admittedly difficult to find.

We wanted to deliver new capabilities that empower people to get the results they want faster. We had four major design goals:

• Make it easier for people to find and use product features.
• Reduce design clutter and interruptions.
• Make it easier for people to discover the capabilities they need.
• Support the creation of great-looking documents.

Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Access 2007, and the authoring part of Office Outlook 2007 — your calendar, your mail notes, and your contacts — feature the Office Fluent user interface.

By creating a robust yet compact structure based on industry standards such as XML and ZIP, the new default file formats make document creation faster; reduce the size of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files; and improve data recovery in corrupted files.

Yes, the Office Small Business 2007 programs can be configured to save in the earlier Microsoft Office file formats. When configured this way, the Microsoft Office system programs operate in a Compatibility Mode that enforces compatibility between releases of Microsoft Office by disabling functionality that is incompatible with prior Microsoft Office releases.

Find pricing and licensing information on the 2007 Microsoft Office System pricing page.

See the system requirements for Office Small Business 2007.