Product Guides

Enterprise Project Management Solution 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:44:17 GMT

The Microsoft® Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution helps you to effectively manage and prioritize projects and resources across your organization. The EPM Solution consists of the following programs: Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Web Access. Microsoft designed the EPM Solution for organizations needing strong team coordination, standardization across projects and programs, centralized resource management, as well as high-level reporting about projects and resources. Project provides a central repository of project and resource information so that organizations can consistently manage and report across the enterprise.

Project Professional incorporates all the features of Project Standard. Please refer to the Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 Product Guide for more information.

The EPM Solution empowers organizations to:

SharePoint Server 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:39:31 GMT

This evaluation guide is designed to give you a solid understanding of the design goals and feature set for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and a familiarity with the product implementation. It provides an overview of the solutions and benefits provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as descriptions of new and improved features in the areas of portal, search, content management, business processes, and business intelligence. It also provides a hands-on tour of the product’s main feature areas and concludes with useful information for administrators and developers.

The ultimate goal of this guide is to aid the reader in performing a thorough and effective evaluation of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about Office SharePoint Server 2007 and wants hands-on experience.

Visio 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:37:42 GMT

Whether you are new to Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007, evaluating it, or upgrading to it, this product guide helps you in the following ways:

· Demonstrates key benefits. Demonstrates how Microsoft Office, an integrated system of programs, servers, and services for information workers, can help solve some of the problems that IT and business professionals typically encounter when trying to visualize, analyze, and effectively communicate process, systems, and complex information.

· Highlights three typical scenarios. Highlights how Microsoft Office Visio 2007 helps solve the specific problems encountered when, for example, documenting and designing a company’s network infrastructure, meeting Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements, or identifying the sources of waste and bottlenecks in a company’s production process.

· Introduces new and enhanced features. Briefly introduces you to some of the most important new and enhanced features in Microsoft Office Visio 2007, such as new Data Link functionality and a new diagram type called PivotDiagram. The features discussed in this guide are integral to visualizing, analyzing, and effectively communicating process, systems, and complex information.

Note: For comprehensive information about new and enhanced features, on the Help menu, click Microsoft Office Visio Help.

· Provides additional resources. Provides information about the system requirements for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and online locations where you can find additional information.

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, analyze, and communicate complex information, systems, and processes by using diagrams. By using Microsoft Office Visio 2007, you can easily understand the current state of your systems and processes, analyze them to rapidly gain insights, as well as use them to effectively communicate and help make better business decisions.

Word 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:34:50 GMT

Welcome to Microsoft® Office Word 2007, included in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system of products. Office Word 2007 is a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share professional-looking documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with an easy-to-use interface.

Office Word 2007 helps information workers create professional-looking documents more quickly than ever before. With the host of new tools, you can spend more time writing and less time formatting documents. In addition, Office Word 2007 documents can be integrated with business processes and back-end systems. The new Word XML Format is a compact, robust file format offering smaller file sizes and improved recovery of corrupt documents.

This document provides an overview of Office Word 2007, with an emphasis on new and improved features. It also covers Office Word 2007 in action to demonstrate its exciting new capabilities.

Create Professional Documents Effortlessly

Together with a new results-oriented interface, Office Word 2007 gives you the tools you need to create professional-looking documents.

· New! A streamlined user interface presents the right tools to you when you need them.

· New! Add Building Blocks of predefined content and reduce the errors associated with copying and pasting frequently used content.

· New! Quick styles save you time by quickly formatting text and tables throughout your document.

· New! Document themes apply the same colors, fonts, and effects to your documents for a consistent look.

· New! Charting and diagramming tools help you add a professional look to documents. Shared diagramming and charting with Microsoft Office Excel® 2007 spreadsheet software and the Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 presentation graphics program help ensure a consistent look across your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

· New! The Equation Builder helps you construct mathematical equations using real mathematical symbols, prebuilt equations, and automatic formatting.

· New! Live word count keeps track of the number of words in your document as you type.

· Improved! Typographic capabilities offer new fonts and better on-screen reading.

· New! Citations and references give you the ability to search databases of predefined references and add them to your document with a single click.

· New! Contextual Spell Checking helps ensure you are using the right word in the right place.

Project 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:20:57 GMT

Designed for workers with deadlines and deliverables, as well as project managers who work as individual contributors, Microsoft® Office Project 2007 gives you the solution to plan, manage, and communicate project information, resulting in increased productivity and effectiveness.

Project provides you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances; keep project teams aligned; and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs.

Outlook 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:07:24 GMT

Office Outlook 2007 makes it easier for you to locate, manage, prioritize, and act on the volume of e-mail you deal with every day. Powerful new features help you save time finding the information you need, so you can focus on your most critical work.

· New! Instant Search makes it possible for you to search through all of your e-mail, e-mail attachments, calendars, contacts, and tasks, helping you find the information you need much faster.

· New! To-Do Bar gives you a consolidated view of your daily priorities by integrating tasks, e-mails flagged for follow-up, upcoming appointments, and calendar information in one convenient place.

· New! Color categories help you create and assign customized categories to any type of information, so you can organize and quickly search your information and visually distinguish items from one another.

· New! Flagging Mail as Tasks provides a way for you to create tasks from e-mail in one simple step.

· New! Task integration on the calendar provides an interactive way to work with your tasks and flagged mail by dragging them onto your calendar to schedule time to complete them.

· New! Results-oriented user interface makes composing, formatting, and acting on e-mail easier and more intuitive.

· New! Attachment Previewer makes it possible for you to preview attachments in the reading pane, giving you quick insight into e-mail attachments and speeding decision making.

OneNote 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:04:31 GMT

Office OneNote 2007 includes a range of improvements and new tools that make it easier than ever to gather, find, and collaborate on information. Microsoft has made major investments to help you search for content faster and more flexibly, including major investments that you can use to search for information in multiple types of content. Office OneNote 2007 offers stronger integration with other Office system products and improves collaboration between team members. Yet you can also distinguish between personal and “group” notebooks so that you can organize your information while working with others more effectively.

SharePoint Designer 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:02:59 GMT

Welcome to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007, a member of the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system. The 2007 release is an integrated system of programs, servers, and services for information workers.

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is based on Microsoft Office FrontPage® technologies. The new name reflects the emphasis on creating and customizing Microsoft SharePoint Web sites and building applications on the SharePoint platform.

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is specifically designed to help you create and customize Web sites and workflows built with SharePoint Products and Technologies (Microsoft Windows® SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). It provides all the tools that IT professionals and solution creators need to develop SharePoint-based applications and workflow solutions that enhance organizational agility and business process automation. Creating a typical SharePoint site involves these steps:

· Page layout and design

· Master page creation

· Cascading style sheets (CSS) edit/apply

· List/Content Type design

· Creation of sample data

· Web Part page creation

· Web Part hookup

· No-code data view/forms

· No-code workflows

Coupled with the other SharePoint-enabled applications in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system, Office SharePoint Designer 2007 will help make it easier than ever for individuals and teams to collaborate effectively.

InfoPath 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:01:21 GMT

Welcome to the Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007 information-gathering program, a member of the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system of products. With Office InfoPath 2007, you can create and deploy electronic forms solutions to gather information efficiently and reliably. You can also use the Office InfoPath Forms Services capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to extend your business processes beyond your corporate firewall, delivering forms as Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 e-mail messages, Web browser forms, or forms for mobile devices.

Groove 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:59:04 GMT

Welcome to Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007, the new Microsoft collaboration tool for helping teams work together efficiently and productively. The purpose of this guide is to familiarize you with the features and functionality of Office Groove 2007. In addition, this guide provides scenarios to help you envision how Office Groove 2007 can enable your teams to work better together.

Excel 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:57:05 GMT

Welcome to Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 spreadsheet software, included in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system. The Microsoft Office system, an integrated system of programs, servers, and services for information workers, provides an even more accessible and comprehensive set of tools for people who rely on working with information efficiently and productively.

Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool that helps you to analyze, communicate, and manage information to make more informed decisions. When Office Excel 2007 is used with Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, you can take advantage of Excel Services—a new, server-based version of Excel that is optimized for managing, consuming, and sharing spreadsheets. Excel Services makes the most of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 power so that you have new opportunities to use Office Excel 2007 for business intelligence.

Microsoft Office Open XML Formats reside at the heart of the new Microsoft Office system. A compact and robust file format, Office XML Formats allow for better data integration between documents and back-end systems. Also, with Excel XML Formats, you can reduce file sizes, improve data recovery, and increase the interoperability of your spreadsheets with other data sources such as line-of-business systems.

Access 2007 Product Guide

Josh Phillips — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:55:16 GMT

Welcome to Microsoft® Office Access 2007, included in the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system. The Microsoft Office system is an integrated system of programs, servers, and services for information workers. With Office Access 2007, information workers can track and report information with ease, using an improved interface and interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge or programming skills. Information can be shared through Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services lists, which can be audited and backed up easily.