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With six easy-to-use tools in one affordable package, Microsoft Works Suite 2006 has something for everyone in your household. Get a full version of Word plus programs for home organization, personal finance, travel planning, photo editing and organization, and interactive learning.

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Microsoft Office XP redefines the relationship between people and software by delivering a new set of experiences that provide a smarter way of working. Office XP delivers a personal experience, simplifying the way you work, a collaborative experience, helping your teamwork easily together, and an extended experience, enabling you to continually integrate additional services into Office and access information anytime.

Office XP provides you with a variety of new experiences that will give you greater control over the way Office works, easier access to information from the Web or your Office applications, and tools that ensure you don’t lose your important information. Whether you are working with one other person on a document or working with a group of coworkers on a project, Office XP features easy-to-use tools that help your team share and collaborate with one another more efficiently. Office XP offers organizations a variety of tools to help lower costs, improve deployment, administration, and management, and build customized, integrated business solutions that meet their business needs.

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Microsoft Works 8.0 provides the essential software applications you need on a home PC plus extra help to get personal tasks done quickly and easily. Works 8.0 offers a great set of core tools to get started. Tools to help with easier everyday computing include a word processor, dictionary, database, spreadsheet, PowerPoint viewer, Portfolio tool, calendar and address book, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook Express 6.0 and synchronization for Pocket PC and Palm devices. Works 8.0 provides the easy-to-use Answer Wizard and improved Help. Users can get started quickly with templates and wizards for step-by-step document creation.

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Office Professional 2007 is a complete, easy-to-use suite of productivity and information management software to help business professionals save time and stay organized. Powerful features centralize customer, sales and project information in one place so users can respond more quickly to opportunities. Enhanced tools help create professional-quality business and marketing publications, documents and presentations in-house.

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New suites, servers, and services in the 2007 Microsoft Office release will deliver additional functionality and new solutions. With updated packaging options, you will have more flexibility than ever before to adopt the specific technologies and solutions that best meet your business and personal needs.

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• We hear you. There’s always room for improvement. We’re constantly listening to your feedback and conducting our own research to perfect Office Online. It’s now more intuitive to navigate and offers richer content, so you can get more done. Every day.

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• Less is much more. From the instant you enter Office Online, you’ll notice fewer links on the page, so you can focus on the essentials. You’ll also find brand new demos, training courses, and Help articles to answer your more in-depth questions
  
• Brevity is the soul of productivity. Now the content you need most is front and center on the Home page, so you can go right to where you want to be
  
• You’ll also find convenient daily tips that keep you up to speed in the applications you use every day and help you use them even more effectively

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• Fewer paths, more destinations. Office Online now a new set of top tabs that help you find the most popular content. The Ribbon you

The most significant version of Office ever released, Microsoft Office XP Professional integrates productivity innovations throughout its programs to transform the traditional Office suite into a smarter overall work experience. By simplifying productivity, enabling collaboration for everyone, and extending Office beyond the desktop, Office XP Professional streamlines how people work with information and one another, making it easier for everyone to create, share, and analyze important data. In addition to the core Office XP programs - Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint - Office XP Professional includes Microsoft Access 2002, the Office XP database solution that helps users store, access, and analyze their data.

Whether you’re working on your PC, company intranet or the Web, new context-sensitive Smart Tags pop up with the options you need - right when you need them. No digging through menus! Now tasks that once required multiple steps are just one click away. The secret? The new Task Pane. The bottom line? You’ll use more of the software features in Office XP, to get more done in less time. Relax. Your work is safe with Office XP because AutoRecover saves it at regular intervals while you work. Prone to sudden power outages? Relax again. Document Recovery is designed to save your PC’s work-in-progress.

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Office 2003 Editions can help organizations and their employees transform information into impact. New and familiar products, features, and functionality improve how people and organizations connect to coworkers, information, and business processes.

Advances in intranet collaboration through integration with the collaboration and information-sharing portal, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, enable employees to access and share information both internally and externally. Support for information rights management (IRM) and industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) provide a platform on which to quickly build cost-effective solutions that can have an immediate impact.

Streamline communication and collaboration between internal and external team members using the desktop productivity programs that many people rely on every day. Enable teams to modify, access, and save documents in a central location using Document Workspaces. In addition, the Shared Workspace task pane displays tasks, related documents, links, and member lists that notify you when your team members are online. Document Workspaces and the Shared Workspace task pane require Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Share documents with team members and have control over what gets changed. Choose permission settings and allow coauthors to alter only the sections or formatting that you choose. Improve the efficiency of your meetings with Meeting Workspaces, which offer a centralized location for sharing agendas, visual resources, and other documentation. Meeting Workspaces require Windows Server 2003 running Windows SharePoint Services. Contact team members quickly with instant messaging (IM), which can be displayed in most programs in Office 2003 Editions and lets you know when your team members are online. Online presence information requires Windows Server 2003 running Windows SharePoint Services.

Help protect and control who can access vital business information using IRM, enabled by Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) on Windows Server 2003. IRM prevents or limits documents from being used in unintended ways, giving organizations and information workers greater control of their sensitive information. Help secure company assets by using IRM capabilities to prevent people who receive documents or e-mail messages from forwarding, copying, or printing documents and attachments. Reduce document sharing or unintended use by setting an expiration date on a document, after which it cannot be viewed or modified. Help protect your documents from being unintentionally changed by using Word Formatting and Editing Restrictions. Set permission controls on entire documents or portions of a document to prevent modifications or reformatting.

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 enables you to create IRM-protected content and grant other users the rights to access and modify your files or e-mail messages. Author, access, and analyze information that resides in disparate systems. Office 2003 Editions support the industry-standard XML technology that facilitates enterprise transactions and business-to-business data exchange. Manipulate and analyze XML business data. Office 2003 programs can manipulate, analyze, and format data from your most critical business systems. You can customize documents and task panes so that they integrate with XML data sources and outside programs. Empower users and reduce development time with XML. With Microsoft Office Excel 2003, you can use the visual mapping tool to connect a user-specified XML schema to fields in your spreadsheet. Customize smart tags to bring relevant business information directly into your work. Microsoft Office Access 2003, Outlook 2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 support third-party and customized smart tags.

In all Office 2003 Editions, Excel 2003 spreadsheets and Word 2003 documents can be saved in a native XML file format which can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry standard XML. With Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, companies can also use customized XML formats - or schemas - to enable easier and more advanced information creation, capture, exchange, and reuse.

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Office Home and Student 2007 is the software suite that helps people easily create great-looking documents, worksheets and presentations, as well as manage notes and information at home. It offers improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time management tools, and greater reliability and security.

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