Please note that all Microsoft educational software is sold on the basis that the end user qualifies under the criteria specified at www.microsoft.com/uk/education/how-to-buy/do-you-qualify This product is licensed for use on up to 3 non-commercial PCs Preferred combination for most home users: Office Home and Student 2007 and Windows Vista Home Premium. Office Home and Student 2007 provides office software essentials to help you accomplish tasks more efficiently. You can use Office Home and Student 2007 to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and you can manage your notes and information in one place. With improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new information management tools, and more reliability and security, Office Home and Student 2007 makes working at home or at your office easier and more enjoyable. Office 2007 Home and Student includes the following components: Word 2007 Excel 2007 PowerPoint 2007 OneNote 2007 Create High-Quality Documents Office Home and Student 2007 has new graphics, formatting galleries, and improved menus and tools that expose commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of. New features and improvements include: Results-oriented menus and tools make finding and using product features more straightforward. More stable bullets and numbers help you to consistently format documents. Enhanced text effects and diagram and graphics galleries provide you with more formatting choices. Office Themes create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs. Work with Enhanced Reliability and Security Features With an improved automatic document recovery tool and new Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Home and Student 2007 helps you work with more confidence and security. New features and improvements include: Document recovery tool helps you retrieve Microsoft Office system documents after a system crash. Document Inspector detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents. Find Commands and Help with Ease Office Home and Student 2007 has improved menus and tools and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions. With these features, you can be more resourceful by quickly learning the product and finding answers to your questions. New features and improvements include: Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus. The Help system offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet. Larger, more informative tooltips provide help about commands. Menus and commands are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete. Online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks. Organise Your Notes and Information Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a note-taking program that helps you manage the increasing amount of information you face every day. You can now gather, store, organise, and find virtually any type of information in one place, quickly and easily, enabling you to stay on top of everything and work more efficiently. New features and improvements include: An organisation and navigation pane helps you to easily arrange and peruse information in your notebook. A powerful search tool finds what you need in your typed or written text, audio, video, and notes. Tools such as customisable note flags help track important action items. Why upgrade? Top 10 Benefits Get better results faster with a new streamlined user interface. Office Home and Student 2007 has an improved user interface to help you create documents faster, more easily, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with commands that present the right tools when you need them. Create high-quality documents you can be proud of. Office Home and Student 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts. Preview your changes quickly. Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office documents with Live Preview. You can quickly preview proposed changes to your document while you are working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. By test-driving your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily. Organize notes and information for your personal projects, tasks, and to-do lists so you can get things done. Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 gives you a digital notebook where you can gather, organize, and search all types of notes and information -- typed text, images, audio and video recordings, Web clippings, computer files, and more -- all in one place. Learn more about Office OneNote 2007. Visualize key data trends using conditional formatting. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons that you can use to format data based on specific rules, so you can more easily identify key data trends. Learn more about Office Excel 2007. Remove private information from the documents you want to share. Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector. With just a few clicks, you can automatically detect and choose to remove sensitive information from your documents. Have better control and predictability when formatting documents. Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office Word documents with more stable and predictable bullets, numbering, and tables. Also, Document Themes help ensure a consistent appearance among the documents you create in Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, to make working across the programs you use most more convenient. Learn more about Office Word 2007. Create and save custom slide layouts for use in later presentations. In Office PowerPoint 2007, create presentations with ease using prebuilt and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the new custom layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future presentations. Learn more about Office PowerPoint 2007. Help ensure broader distribution of your documents and presentations. New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others.1 Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform. 1 You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in. <<p>Operating system - Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) required Computer and processor - 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher; 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher; DVD drive; 1 gigahertz (GHz) and 512 MB of RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager Hard disk - 2 gigabyte (GB) necessary for install; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive Monitor resolution - Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher recommended Internet connection - Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or greater, for download and activation of products Additional components - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later required for Outlook 2007 users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you will need to first install Outlook 2007 Note: The 2007 Microsoft Office 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 will have similar requirements. Refer to the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Product Guide for details on the system requirements for the EPM Solution which includes Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Web Access, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Web Access.