Preferred combination for small business users: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Windows Vista Business.

Office Small Business 2007 is a powerful and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software with new tools to help you save time, stay organized, and deliver better customer service. Easily manage your prospect and customer information in one place. Quickly create dynamic documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Develop professional-looking marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. You can manage your calendar, tasks, and e-mail more efficiently, and filter out unwanted e-mail messages to help keep your computer safe and secure. And you will spend less time learning new features by using improved menus that present the right tools automatically.

Work more efficiently and effectively

Ofice 2007 Small Business helps you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Office Small Business 2007 also helps you quickly accomplish routine tasks so you can spend more time with your customers. New 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. And the new Live Preview feature makes it easy to sample your changes before you apply them. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• Spend less time learning new software by using improved menus and commands that present the tools you need when you need them.
• Find what you need faster and more easily by using Instant Search.
• Help protect yourself by using improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters. New graphics capabilities make it easier to produce professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are publication-ready.
• Schedule tasks in Office Outlook 2007 that will appear on your calendar.
• Use the new To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up.
• Use new Office Word 2007 templates and tools that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional-looking formatting, and quickly preview changes.
• Use new Office Excel 2007 tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you analyze business data more effectively.

Manage All Your Contact and Customer Information in One Place

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a complete contact management solution for small businesses to help you deliver better customer service. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to organize all of your contact, prospect, and customer information, so it’s easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales process in one place. You also can track and manage project tasks and transfer tasks to coworkers. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• Centralize contact, customer, and prospect information in one place — including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks.
• Record all types of communications with a customer in one place — including all e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Use a customizable dashboard to forecast sales and prioritize tasks.
• Use a consolidated view of your sales pipeline by using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify for your unique business needs.
• Work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC, and then synchronize data when you return to the office.
• Track project-related information in a single location — including e-mail messages, meetings, notes, tasks, and documents — and easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to other users.

Produce Professional-Looking Marketing Materials and Campaigns In-House

Create and distribute professional-looking marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web by using Office Publisher 2007. Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Publisher 2007 together to track and manage marketing campaign activities, including compiling mailing lists, distributing materials, and tracking your results. You also can use the library of customizable templates in Office PowerPoint 2007 to create professional-looking presentations that enhance your business identity. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• • Create and publish a wide range of marketing publications 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 design 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 Office Access 2007 to create personalized print and e-mail materials and build customized collateral such as catalogs and datasheets.
• Create, manage, and track marketing campaigns.
• Create more dynamic presentations by using an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts.
• Create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables, and quickly preview formatting changes.
• Use PDF1 file format for easier document distribution and high-quality printing.
  
  

Component	Requirement
Computer and processor	PC with Pentium 700 or faster processor
Memory	256 MB of RAM or more
Hard disk	1.5 GB of available harddisk space; a portion this disk space will be freed after installation the original download package is removed from the hard drive
Drive	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Display	1024 × 768 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system	Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later or Windows Server® 2003 Service Pack 1 or later operating system
Other	Connectivity to Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Connectivity to Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007. Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply). * Instant Search requires Windows Desktop Search 3.0.