Office Word 2007 helps you create great-looking documents more quickly and more easily than ever before. The Microsoft Office Fluent user interface presents the tools you need when you need them. New text editing, diagramming, and charting tools deliver visually effective results without requiring you to spend excessive time formatting your documents.

Office Word 2007 is for people who want to create and share documents. People will benefit from the improvements in editing and formatting capabilities, new charting tools, new SmartArt Diagram tools, the Office Fluent user interface, and many other features. A new blogging tool has been added to Office Word 2007 to help people create and manage their blogging activities using the rich editing environment. There are many new capabilities in Office Word 2007 to improve the document authoring experience for everyone.

Office Word 2007 will help you create great-looking content more quickly than ever before. Use Office Word 2007 to:

• Create great-looking documents with new diagramming and charting tools, easy-to-use page layout tools, Reference Builder, Equation Builder, and many other new editing features.
• Share documents with other users by converting them to Portable Document Format file (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS), or by initiating a review and approval workflow directly from Office Word 2007.¹
• Remove sensitive or personally identifiable information from documents, including comments, tracked changes, hidden text, and other information.
• Help protect your documents by applying a digital signature or by marking them as final to, prevent future changes.

Office Word 2007 can still be used as the everyday workhorse for document authoring, but it is equally applicable to more advanced scenarios that require the interaction of many people. Using Office Word 2007:

• A corporate compliance department can create and deploy structured document templates that enforce branding or other compliance guidelines in documents.
• A developer can use the XML integration capabilities to integrate live XML data sources into documents, so that any version of a document always contains the latest information.
• Any information worker can quickly assemble documents from libraries of predefined document parts to avoid having to recreate content repeatedly.
• Any information worker can use Office Word 2007 to create and manage blog entries for their favorite blog accounts.

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Microsoft Works is targeted at home users who want a basic, task-based tool. The Works suite includes templates designed for personal use, such as cards, invitations, flyers, and home budgets. In contrast, Microsoft Office offers productivity and collaboration tools for use in businesses and home offices.

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Yes. Find packaging information on the 2007 Microsoft Office packaging page.

You can download a free trial of Office Word 2007 (as part of Office Professional 2007). Or, you can try Office Word 2007 in your browser through the 2007 Microsoft Office system online test drive.

The Microsoft Office system provides you with a set of programs you can choose from to best address your business needs. Office Word 2007 can be used as the interface to help gather information more effectively. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a spreadsheet program that can help you analyze numerical data. Microsoft Office Access 2007 is a database management program for storing information and creating reports. Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to graphically present information.

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Office Word 2007 includes support for the new Ecma Office Open XML Formats, compact, robust file formats designed to enable improved integration with external data sources and systems. The Ecma Office Open XML Formats are compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000 with the addition of a file format converter patch, available from Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Update. Users of Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000 can open, edit, and save files using the new Office XML Formats.

Office Word 2007 introduces a new file format that addresses a number of important issues. File sizes for documents stored in this new format are significantly smaller than earlier Microsoft Office file formats (.doc, .dot). Because of the way that data is stored within the documents, the recovery of corrupt or damaged files is much improved. Additionally, because the file format is XML-based, with an open, royalty-free license, developers can more easily build solutions that use Word document contents and metadata.

When combined with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office Word 2007 provides powerful out-of-the-box functionality for creating and managing document review and approval workflows, and other types of workflows that can be defined. Office SharePoint Server 2007 takes care of the management and administrative tasks for the workflow, leaving Office Word 2007 to consume the results and complete the processes successfully. Organizations can automatically assign document policies to newly created Word documents, without requiring users to take any special action.

Using the collaboration features in Windows SharePoint Services technology, organizations can help their employees create and manage rich, easy-to-build Web sites to work together on documents, projects, and tasks. These sites can be organized, discovered, and used throughout the organization. Features such as document versioning, check in and check out, document profiling, and publishing can help improve information flow. Intranet and extranet sites can be personalized and customized using advanced user-profiling capabilities. Office Word 2007 can be used to create and manage blog entries hosted within the Windows SharePoint Services environment.

Windows Server 2003 is the foundation for an integrated infrastructure. By adding the power of smart clients and collaborative servers, you get easier, more secure, and more reliable access to your own and shared information, including team documents. For example, Windows Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services together can help teams collaborate through team collaboration sites. Similarly, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003 enables you to implement information rights management (IRM) technologies introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office suites. IRM can help prevent sensitive documents and e-mail messages from being forwarded, edited, or copied by unauthorized individuals.

XML is an open, industry-standard language for organizing and storing data. Having data in XML means that the information is transportable and can be easily shared and reused. Office Word 2007 supports XML in many ways. The new default file format for Word is the Open XML Formats — compact, robust file formats based on XML. The Open XML Formats of Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 offer a substantial reduction in document sizes, improved data recovery for damaged documents, and integration with external systems and live data sources. Office Word 2007 also enables you to create and deploy structured document templates that integrate custom XML information with other document contents. By creating content bindings, you can link the data in a Word document to an external data source.