Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your notes and information in one place, making it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done. The latest version features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, plus a powerful note and information organization tool, and more reliability and security with the Document Inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery. With these enhancements, Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home.

What's included in Office Home and Student 2007

• Excel 2007
• OneNote 2007
• PowerPoint 2007
• Word 2007

Create High-Quality Documents
Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier than ever to format your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. New and improved features such as enhanced graphics and advanced formatting capabilities help you deliver high-quality documents in lightning-fast time. In addition, new features in Office PowerPoint 2007 make it easier to share and reuse presentations, providing a more enjoyable experience.

New Results-Oriented User Interface
The richer, redesigned user interface reflects an overall effort by Microsoft to deliver a more user-driven product. Rather than rethinking the product from a feature-oriented viewpoint, Microsoft focused Office Home and Student 2007 on the user’s results-oriented perspective. The end product delivers one of the most significant makeovers in the history of the Microsoft Office system. The new user interface is more intuitive and offers more easily accessible features. It’s less about commands and more about results. At the same time, although the look is very new, its evolution from previous versions of the Microsoft Office system will make it feel extremely familiar.

Figure 1: Office Word 2007 task-based user interface

The new results-oriented interface significantly simplifies how you author documents by:

• Making the experience more predictable, with less-complicated features and less guesswork.
• Maximizing your workspace and being less intrusive by not popping up images and dialog boxes on top of your work.
• Putting a majority of the most commonly used commands on the first tab so you don’t have to dig for commands in lengthy drop-down menus.

Improved Advanced Formatting
With the addition of more consistent numbering, bullet, and table features in Office Home and Student 2007, you won’t have to waste time formatting and reformatting your Office Word 2007 documents. Office Home and Student 2007 simplifies document formatting by:

• Making it possible for you to create and apply Quick Styles for text and tables with a single click.
• Providing previews of your formatting changes.
• Maintaining formatting across Microsoft Office system programs when you copy text or tables from one program to another.
• Providing more consistent and stable bullet and number formatting.

Figure 2: Table formats in Office Word 2007

SmartArt Diagramming and Enhanced Charting Capabilities
The new SmartArt™ diagramming and enhanced charting capabilities in Office Home and Student 2007 applications make it easy to create great-looking diagrams and charts. Just choose the chart type, the layout, and the format from visual galleries of predefined options. Or take a bulleted list and convert it to a compelling diagram with just a couple of clicks. You can also reuse content by saving your favorite charts as chart templates. In addition, the SmartArt graphics capabilities have been enhanced so you can easily use professional effects such as shading, reflections, glow, transparency, and other 3-D effects.

Figure 3: Charting tools in Office Excel 2007

Improved Templates and New Fonts
New and improved out-of-the-box templates in Office Home and Student 2007 enable you to create professional-looking documents more quickly and easily. You can either get started with the templates that are included in the product or search the preformatted templates available at Microsoft Office Online. In addition, Office Home and Student 2007 includes new and improved fonts that make on-screen reading easier.

Figure 4: Slide templates and color gallery in Office PowerPoint 2007

Improved Document Themes
Document Themes is an improvement that helps you maintain a consistent look among your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. This predictability means that when you copy tables and objects between programs, the items maintain their appearance. As a result, working simultaneously with different programs becomes more consistent and less frustrating.

Figure 5: Quick Styles in Office Word 2007

New Live Preview and Galleries
Everyone wants to create the highest-quality documents possible in the shortest amount of time. Accomplishing this often requires experimenting with different styles and formats. Office Home and Student 2007 enables you to quickly preview proposed changes to your document. With Live Preview when in one of the galleries, you can actually view formatting choices right inside your document while you’re working on it, without having to repeatedly search through drop-down menus. By test-driving your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily. The end result is a quickly created document that looks the way you want it to look. These galleries can be found in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007.

Save as PDF or XPS
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.* Now you can post your documents on the Internet or share them with others, knowing that users can view them regardless of the type of computer or programs they are using.

Figure 6: Word Art Gallery in Office PowerPoint 2007

New Custom Slide Layouts
The new Custom Slide Layouts feature in Office PowerPoint 2007 frees you from confining prepackaged layouts. Now you can quickly create and save information-rich layouts with multiple charts, tables, and text. You can then save these layouts as templates for future presentations.

Work with Enhanced Reliability and Se