Office Standard 2007 is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release of Office Standard 2007 has a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. With these enhancements, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or work.

Create high-quality documents

Office Standard 2007 has new graphics capabilities, formatting galleries, and an improved user interface that exposes commonly used commands, making it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

New features and improvements include:

• A results-oriented user interface that makes it easier to find and use product features.
• More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents.
• Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices.
• Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

Work with enhanced reliability and security features

Office Standard 2007 has improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Standard 2007 enables you to work with more confidence and security.

New features and improvements include:

• A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
• Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
• Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
• Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find commands and help with ease

Office Standard 2007 has a new streamlined user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn about the programs and find answers to your questions.

New features and improvements include:

• Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
• An improved Help system that offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
• Command tabs that are context-sensitive and change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize your time and communications

Office Standard 2007 includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, which is now an even more complete and easy-to-use e-mail and appointment manager, leaving you more time to do the things you want to do. You can quickly search throughout your e-mail, share your calendar with the people you care about, and get the latest news from your favorite Web sites using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

New features and improvements include:

• Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
• A To-Do Bar that brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages in one place.
• Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
• An RSS aggregator that offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007. (A separate fee-based RSS subscription is required.)