Product Description

Office Professional 2007 provides a complete suite of powerful and easy-to-use business productivity and information management tools that help small businesses and business professionals to manage customer information and marketing activities, analyze and report business information, and accomplish routine tasks quickly and effectively. Office Professional 2007 provides a complete set of productivity and information management software tools that helps business professionals to: Better manage prospect an...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 45890G
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .90 pounds

Features

• U2007 VUP EN

Manufacturer's Description:
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word. Powerful contact management features help you consolidate all customer and prospect information in one place, while improved menus present the right tools exactly when you need them. Professional 2007 also lets you develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. In addition, you can create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff.

Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions.

Tasks are easy to follow up on because they are included on the new To-Do Bar and within Outlook reminders. You can also drag tasks onto your calendar. View larger.

You can customize the new information dashboard in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to display your sales pipeline. View larger.

Business Contact Manager also combines contact, customer, and project information in one place. View larger.

With Access tracking templates, you can create databases and generate reports quickly. View larger.

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, colours, fonts, and business information. Or take advantage of hundreds of professionally designed and customisable 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 as catalogues and data sheets.

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 customisable 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.

Locate and Prioritise 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 Colour 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.

Keep Track of Tasks and Deadlines
Keeping track of appointments and deadlines can be stressful, but Professional 2007 streamlines the process so you're ready for whatever the day brings. For instance, the To-Do Bar in Outlook with Business Contact Manager consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Additionally, tasks scheduled in Outlook appear on your calendar, or you can drag them directly onto your calendar to help you stay organized.

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.

Capitalize on Key Opportunities
The success of your business depends upon taking advantage of key opportunities that come your way, and Professional 2007 offers several features to help prevent any lost or missed connections. Outlook with Business Contact Manager provides a customisable homepage that helps you forecast sales and prioritise tasks. Enhanced reporting features provide a consolidated view of your sales pipeline using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify to suit your unique business needs.

Visualize and Analyse Information
Excel provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyse 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 data sheet 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.

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 data sheets. 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.

Versatile, Flexible Operation
Because the future of your business may depend on your ability to work on-the-fly or from various locales, Professional 2007 lets you work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office. Whatever the size of your business, Professional 2007 is versatile and flexible enough to help you manage everyday tasks, while ensuring that you're ready for whatever the future brings.

Customer Reviews

Embrace the change
Everywhere I read so called `advanced users' saying `if it ain't broke, don't fix it', and complaining how traumatic it has been to upgrade from the oh so user friendly Office 2003 to this. Come on now. If you are really such an advanced user, spend an hour enjoying familiarising yourself with the new software rather than writing a review slating it. If you are a less advanced user then I take your point more seriously, but given time I'm sure you will find yourself benefiting hugely.

If you take a step back, you see how awful the interface for Office had become. It worked ok back in 1994 when there were fewer features, but just bunching the icons up at the top was completely inappropriate for an application of this size. When I speak to new users they often seem completely bewildered by the array of icons, and somewhat ill thought out method of adding and removing task bars. "Where has it gone?", they ask. Often I see them rolling their mouse over them for considerable periods. Awful bloated software, pandering to the ever-cautious business customer.

But no more. The new interface is logical and clean, with tabs on the ribbon representing application specific tasks within the document, and the `office button' featuring more generic tasks.

Changing the file types does seem unnecessary, I concede. But they are smaller and compatible with compatibility packs you can download.

In my view Microsoft is hampered by being too cautious, but it is the bold things which upset some users which make them stronger. For example, Windows XP, with its radically altered kernels, initially annoyed many `advanced' users, but is now near universally accepted. Without it a great many users would have been likely to have gone elsewhere for a stable operating system. I have used Office for 14 years now, and that is how long I have been waiting for this change. Viva la revolution.

Don't bother buying Office 2007!
Just bought Office 2007 as an upgrade from 2003, and am hugely dissapointed. For the money (and it isn't cheap!) I was expecting a lot more user interactive options, however it is just a more rounded & polished version of 2003.
I have a fairly new PC (about a year old) and can easily tell some of the programmes (Word in particular) is slower to load, slower to spell check and slower to interface graphs/charts.

If you are NOT used to Office 2003, it probably is a spanking good piece of software, however if you are looking for a direct upgrade then spend your money elsewhere.

Great New Software
This new Microsoft Office is a must have for so many people. The old Office lay out was basic and most buttons were easily accessible by one click: sounds good doesn't it. So why do i think people should buy this one?

The reason is this one is easier to use, more user friendly and better features. In the last few years i have written a report covering 143 pages and i used this suite a lot. I found the ribbon simple to use and it allowed me to find things which i didn't even know were there before. in using this product for a month, i became a well established user who now knows where all the buttons for each function are: somthing i didn't know about before.

Another feature i also like is the new emphasis on proffesional looking documents rather than just getting the job done. THe new designs and the ability to change whatever you want in the documents are an amazing feature

Recommended at all costs (within reason)