Software Surplus: Office 2007 Professional

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is the tool that office professionals need if they crave a simplified business life. With the tools in this software set, they'll quickly accomplish routine tasks, manage customer information, produce high-quality marketing materials and simplify database and report creation. Business Contact Manager integrates contact management directly with Outlook, for better control over your customer & prospect information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments and more. With Office Professional 2007 you can save time, produce professional-quality marketing materials in-house and simplify your analysis and reporting of crucial business information. Forecast sales and prioritize tasks with flexible reports and a customizable dashboard Enhance your brand identity with colors, fonts, logos and business information New Publisher Tasks offers tips for key marketing processes - Preparing e-mail lists, tracking effectiveness, writing marketing copy and publishing & distributing materials Save time by reusing content - The new content store keeps text and graphics ready for use in other publications & formats Business Contact Manager helps you manage and track marketing activities - Create recipient lists, personalize communications and more Use Powerpoint 2007 to create more dynamic business presentations - It features an extensive library of slide layouts; new tools for charts, diagrams and tables; quick preview changes and more Distribute marketing materials in PDF format -- convert easily from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access files.

What's New?

The 2007 edition of this product includes many new features and benefits, including the ability to create great-looking documents faster. New graphics and visual galleries help you create more dynamic documents and presentations.In addition, the suite enables you to find commands and help with ease. An improved user interface and help system make it easy to find the tools you need to get things done. Another key improvement is that you can now work more securely and confidently. An improved Document Inspector and automatic document recovery help to protect your work. You also get the ability to track and analyze business information. Gain insight into your business with new tools for organizing and visualizing your information. Moreover, you can now work more efficiently and effectively. New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. There are also improved tools to help you manage sales and marketing activities. New contact management and marketing tools help you manage sales leads and marketing communications.

Access 2007!
Get started quickly with no prior experience using a new library of pre-built databases.Create reports with one click and use improved tools to filter, sort, and group data. Create a split form by using the Split Form tool A split form is a new feature in Microsoft Office Access 2007 that gives you two views of the data at the same time a Form view and a Datasheet view.The two views are connected to the same data source and are synchronized with each other at all times. Selecting a field in one part of the form selects the same field in the other part of the form. You can add, edit, or delete data from either part.If you want to add a wider variety of controls to the form, switch to Design view. You can then use the tools in the Controls group (pictured below) on the Design tab.

Locate and Prioritize E-mail!
Because so much important communication is now done via e-mail, Professional 2007 includes several features that help you manage key correspondence. Instant Search capabilities in Outlook with Business Contact Manager let you quickly find critical information while the Color Category feature helps you to easily sort and manage e-mail messages. And because nothing is more inefficient than troubleshooting problems that compromise the security of your computer, this software package includes improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters to filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the remaining messages.

Outlook & Business Contact Manager!
Control your e-mail with new Instant Search, category coloring, and junk e-mail filtering.Manage contact information in one place, including e-mails, phone logs, meetings, and tasks. The new To-Do bar, gives a consolidated view of your daily priorities by integrating tasks, mails flagged for follow-up, upcoming appointments, and calendar information, can take up the right side of your Outlook window or be minimized so that it's a horizontal list that you open with just one click. Now you can see your Mail Folders list, your Inbox, your Reading Pane, and your To-Do bar...all at the same time. Color categories can be assigned to messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, and more.And, to make things even easier, a Categorized Mail search folder has been added to Search Folders in the Navigation Pane which provides a view of all your categorized mail items.

Save Time and Stay Organized!
Because it contains so many efficient software options in one package, Professional 2007 gives you access to a multitude of options that save you time and keep you organized. For example, Outlook with Business Contact Manager lets you create, manage, and track marketing campaigns, while PowerPoint gives you the ability to craft more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts. When it's time to create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, you can quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and save yourself time-consuming future edits.

PowerPoint 2007!
Create dynamic business presentations faster with new themes, layouts, and styles. Add visual impact with new SmartArt diagrams, charts, and tables and quickly preview changes. You can create your own themes, save, and reuse them, just like templates. You can quickly change the entire look of a presentation by changing the theme colors and theme effects. Another benefit is that Word and Excel can use them too. Everything has Quick Styles. These are preset formatting for shapes, backgrounds, charts, tables, pictures, SmartArt diagrams, and more. You find these styles through drop-down galleries. Galleries allow you to see the result on your slide by just hovering the cursor over a choice. So, no clicking and undoing over and over.

More Efficient Marketing Campaigns!
Outlook with Business Contact Manager has exciting features that help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns while Publisher can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources--including Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access--to create personalized print and e-mail materials. This feature also enables you to build custom materials such as catalogs and datasheets. You can then use Outlook with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

PowerPoint Slide Libraries!
Wish there were a better way to reuse content from one presentation to another. With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, you can store presentations as individual slides on a site supported by SharePoint Server 2007 and easily repurpose the content later from within PowerPoint. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert can remain synchronized with the server version to help ensure your content is always up to date. You can also use the Slide Libraries to share custom layouts with others so that your presentations always look sharp and professional.

Re-Designed Interface!
PowerPoint 2007 features a redesigned user interface with a new look and feel to make creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more experience. You can now enjoy all of the rich features and capabilities of PowerPoint in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizesdistraction and helps you achieve the results you want more quickly and easily. PowerPoint offers a wealth of options that can help improve your business so youcan create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams as well as relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram or modify and update existing diagrams. This new version also makes it easier than ever to take advantage of rich formatting options with the contextual diagramming menus.

Publisher 2007!
Create custom publications and marketing materials in-house for print, e-mail, and the Web. Manage e-mail and print marketing campaigns using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. You can create your own publications with the professionally designed Publisher templates, customize the templates as needed, and then change from one type of publication to another by clicking a single button. For example, you can start with a business card and then click Change Template to create a return mailing label with the Business Information set : your name, mailing address, business logo, and design colors already applied.

Fast and Efficient Operation!
Whether you're working on a financial spreadsheet, creating an important presentation, or building a customer database, Professional 2007 helps you find and use the features you need faster and more easily. The intuitive look and feel of this software, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using, improves your productivity. With Publisher 2007, you can create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information. Or take advantage of hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types. This software also lets you reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another. You can also combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources, including the 2007 versions of Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access, to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such ascatalogs and datasheets.

Manage Customer Information in One Place!
Outlook with Business Contact Manager also provides a complete customer and contact management solution by centralizing all contact, prospect, and customer information--including communications history, projected sales value, and probability of closing, and tasks. This makes it easier to manage prospects and respond to customers. You also can store all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mails messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.

Word 2007!

Apply professional formats to your document with one click and instantly preview changes.Communicate more effectively with new high-impact tables, charts, and SmartArt diagrams. Thanks to the new Themes feature, you can skip working with the individual effects that go into controlling the format of your document. If you like quick and easy methods for reviewing your long documents, you�ll love the new Thumbnails viewNow you can look over the section headings in Document Map and then switch to Thumbnails view to get a miniature view of each page in layout form. This enables you to see how your document flows, check the placement of tables and pictures, and just generally get a feel for whether your document is looking right.

Visualize and Analyze Information!
Excel provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily and make more informed decisions. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create. Manage business information using efficient tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Access helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required, and also includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes. And thanks to the task-based user interface and the datasheet view, (which is similar to Excel), it's more intuitive than ever before. When you're ready to consolidate your data, easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

Excel 2007!
Organize and analyze data with new tools such as Conditional Formatting for sorting and visualizing information.Create more attractive and professional looking charts with enhanced visual effects. Reduce the size of spreadsheets and improve damaged file recovery at the same time. Extend your business intelligence investments because Office Excel 2007 provides full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. Take advantage of the flexibility and the new cube functions in Office Excel 2007 to build a custom report from an OLAP database. You can also connect to external sources of data more easily using the Data Connection Library.