Microsoft Office 2007 - The 2007 Microsoft Office system helps people work more effectively, whether they are individual home users or work for a multinational corporation. The core Office 2007 applications help everyone improve personal productivity by making it faster and easier to create flexible documents, powerful spreadsheets and great looking presentations.

For large organisations, Office Enterprise 2007 simplifies how people and teams work together and meet complex challenges. It streamlines processes and content management and improves business insight. With Office Professional 2007, organisations can create, manage and share business information; juggle multiple tasks; and control enterprise content for improved compliance and security.

Office Small Business 2007 helps companies improve personal productivity and create professional looking documents that enhance their marketing. And Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps maximise every business lead. For home and educational users, Office Home and Student helps get the job done quickly and easily.

Target customers
To make it easy to provide the features and capabilities that will be of maximum value to your customers, Microsoft offers a variety of suites. The updated 2007 Microsoft Office system packaging options offer more flexibility than ever before, supplying the specific technologies and solutions that meet customer requirements.

Three simple questions to start the customer conversation:

1. Do you have effective tools for ongoing, analysing and presenting business information?

- Use Microsoft Office Excel® 2007 to effectively collect, sort, organise and analyse business data, producing presentation quality worksheets with a consistent, professional look.
- Filter, sort and visualise data more effectively in Excel, with improved charting and graphing tools.
- Use predefined styles and enhanced charts and graphics to quickly apply a consistent, professional look to Excel worksheets.
- Import data from Office Access® 2007 to Excel for more in-depth analysis and detailed reporting.

2. How high is the standard of business documentation produced in your organisation?

- Use Microsoft Office Word 2007 to create more professional-looking business documents, without special training or expertise.
- The Live Preview feature in Word saves time, showing the effect of formatting options before they are applied.
- Convert Word documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) formats to easily share and distribute content.
- New tools in Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 help create a wide range of high-quality marketing materials for print, e-mail and the Web.
- Custom colour and font schemes in Publisher help users to easily and consistently reflect brand identity and include corporate logos on business materials.

3. How easily can you track and delegate project-related tasks and information?

- Use Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to centralise all project related information, assign and reassign tasks, track follow-up and make project information readily accessible.
- Create and organise project tasks in one place and integrate tasks with the Outlook 2007 calendar and To-Do Bar.
- Assign project tasks to others and automatically transfer that information to their task lists.
- Follow up on tasks using the To-Do Bar and Outlook 2007 reminders.

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Q. Can a customer have a mix of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 and Office Enterprise 2007 on their Platform Enterprise Agreement (EA)?

A. Yes. While Office Enterprise 2007 (which includes Office Groove 2007 and Office OneNote 2007) is the best solution for customers who have a need for advanced collaboration, some customers may decide that only a portion of their employees (such as sales, legal and IT) need this enhanced functionality. Therefore, customers may opt for a mix of Office Professional Plus 2007 and Office Enterprise 2007 on their Platform EA. They can still qualify for the Platform EA discount.

Q. Are Office Professional Plus 2007 files backward compatible?

A. Office Professional Plus 2007 introduces the new Microsoft Office Open XML file formats, which are compact, robust file formats, enabling improved interoperability with external systems. These formats are compatible with Office 2003, Office XP with the addition of a file format Compatibility Pack, available from Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Update. Users of Office 2003 and Office XP can open, edit and save files using the new Microsoft Office Open XML file formats. Windows users can also download the compatibility pack to perform conversions between the Open XML formats and the Office 97-2003 binary file formats within Windows explorer.

Q. How do I sell the value of Office Professional Plus 2007 over Office Standard 2007?

A. While Office Standard 2007 is a great solution for personal productivity, Office Professional Plus 2007 is a ‘Comprehensive toolset for business productivity’. It includes additional business focused programs, including Office Access 2007, Office Publisher 2007, Office InfoPath 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Furthermore, it includes several capabilities not available in Office Standard.

These include Integrated Electronic Forms, Integrated Enterprise Content Management and the ability to create Information Rights Management (IRM) protected documents. These added programs and enhanced functionality and integration with the 2007 Office Servers make Office Professional Plus 2007 and Office Enterprise 2007 (with Office Groove 2007 and Office OneNote 2007) the best solution for businesses to deliver better results faster.

Q. How do I sell the value of Office Enterprise 2007 over Office Professional Plus 2007?

A. Office Enterprise 2007 builds on the strengths of Office Professional Plus 2007 by adding Office Groove 2007 and Office OneNote 2007 to make the most complete set of tools for people who must collaborate and work efficiently with information from any location.

These two additional applications enable people to gather, find and share information, regardless of location, organisation or connectivity. These capabilities increase everyone’s efficiency and productivity, delivering better results with less effort. Office Enterprise 2007 is for organisations that have the following scenarios within their business: small high-performance teams that need to assemble quickly to collaborate on projects of short duration, challenging network environments and mobile requirements.

Valuable information is captured through informal processes and/or the need to collaborate with people inside and outside of the organisation

Q. Who is Office Enterprise 2007 for?

A. Office Enterprise 2007 is for people and organisations that depend on gathering, sharing and collaborating on information across geographic locations and companies, while both online and offline, to meet their objectives. More specifically, it is for mobile/laptop users; people who work frequently with people outside the organisation; people who work on a lot of different projects of short duration; people who use SharePoint and need to work offline; and managers, IT, customer-facing teams or research departments.

Processor: 500-MHz processor or faster

Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later or Windows Server 2003 (or later) required

Memory: 256 MB of RAM or more; DVD-ROM drive; 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM or more is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager

Hard Disk: 2 GB necessary for install; a portion of this disk space is freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive

Monitor Resolution: Minimum 800 x 600; 1024 x 768 or higher recommended

Internet Connection: Broadband connection; 128 Kbps or greater, for download and activation of products

Additional Components: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or later required for Office Outlook 2007 users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you need to first install Office Outlook 2007.

Note: The 2007 Microsoft Office system suites, including Office Basic 2007, Office Home and Student 2007, Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007, Office Professional 2007, Office Ultimate 2007, Office Professional Plus 2007 and Office Enterprise 2007 have similar requirements.

Microsoft Office UK Partner Site: https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/productssolutions/officesystem

For more information: http://office.microsoft.com/suites

Licensing information for customers: https://licensing.microsoft.com

Customer incentives: www.microsoftincentives.com