Editor's Conclusion
Microsoft Office, Microsoft’s powerhouse productivity suite, needs no introduction. It is used everywhere from the New York offices of Fortune 500 companies high up in skyscrapers all the way down to rural elementary school classrooms.
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook with Business Contact Manager and Publisher. Office 2007 improved a lot based on Office 2003: Previously hard-to-find features now easier to explore; Word embraces basic desktop publishing tools; Excel formulas are easier to reference; PowerPoint presentations are more attractive; Outlook improves task and time management; improved integration throughout the applications; smaller application and file sizes; new file formats are easier to salvage if corrupted; document security is more straightforward ...
Key Features
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that will help you save time and stay organized. This suite includes: Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Access 2007, Outlook 2007with Business Contact Manager and Publisher 2007.
Work more efficiently and effectively
Office 2007 improved a lot based on Office 2003. Office Professional 2007 helps you quickly finish routine task.
- Task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use, making it faster and easier to find the software features you need; New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; Instant Search help you find what you need faster and more easily.
- Outlook 2007: Improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters to protect; Schedule tasks will appear on calendar; To-Do Bar presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow up.

- Word 2007: Templates and tools make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes.
- Excel 2007: can be used to filter, sort, and visualize information and help you analyze business data more effectively.
Manage all your customer and contact information in one place
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management. With Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can:
- Centralize all contact, prospect and customer information - including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks;

- Record all types of commnunications with each customer including e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes and documments in one place;
- Forecast sales and prioritize tasks using the customizable dashboard
- Work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office.
- Track project related information in one place - including e-mail, meetings, notes, tasks, and documents - and easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to others.
Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house
With Office Professional 2007, you can create and distribute professional and compelling marketing materials and campaigns entirely in-house.
- Publisher 2007: 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; Use hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types; Reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another; Combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources — including Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 — to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets.

- Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager: Create, manage, and track marketing campaigns.
- PowerPoint 2007: Create more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts using Office .
- Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007: Using the new graphics tool to create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, and then quickly preview formatting changes.
Find, use, and manage information more effectively
Office Professional 2007 helps you find, use and manage information more effectively!
- Access 2007: Create databases, even if you have no prior experience; Use a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes; Manage Office Access 2007 databases more intuitively using the Microsoft Office Fluent user inte
rface and the new datasheet view, which is similar to Excel; Create reports in Office Access 2007 with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.
- Excel 2007: Filter, sort, graph, and visualize information to analyze business information more easily; Summarize information and find the answers you need using PivotTable and PivotChart views