Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE

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Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Version Upgrade is a complete suite of productivity and database software that includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word. Powerful contact management features help you consolidate all customer and prospect information in one place, while improved menus present the right tools exactly when you need them.


The new look and feel of the 2007 Microsoft Office system automatically displays the menus and toolbars you need when you need them. View larger.


Tasks are easy to follow up on because they are included on the new To-Do Bar and within Outlook reminders. You can also drag tasks onto your calendar. View larger.


You can customize the new information dashboard in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to display your sales pipeline. View larger.


Business Contact Manager also combines contact, customer, and project information in one place. View larger.


Create, preview, and send personalized e-mail publications with Office Publisher 2007 using new E-Mail Merge. View larger.


With Access tracking templates, you can create databases and generate reports quickly. View larger.
Professional 2007 also lets you develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. In addition, you can create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff.

This update version of Professional 2007 is designed for use by those computers with the following operating systems: Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later.

Which edition of Office is right for you? View a comparison of Microsoft Office 2007 editions.

Fast and Efficient Operation
Whether you're working on a financial spreadsheet, creating an important presentation, or building a customer database, Professional 2007 helps you find and use the features you need faster and more easily. The intuitive look and feel of this software, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using, improves your productivity. With Publisher 2007, you can create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information. Or take advantage of hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types. This software also lets you reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another. You can also combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources, including the 2007 versions of Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access, to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets.

Save Time and Stay Organized
Because it contains so many efficient software options in one package, Professional 2007 gives you access to a multitude of options that save you time and keep you organized. For example, Outlook with Business Contact Manager lets you create, manage, and track marketing campaigns, while PowerPoint gives you the ability to craft more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts. When it's time to create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, you can quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and save yourself time-consuming future edits.



Office Excel 2007 makes it easy to analyze data. View larger.
Locate and Prioritize E-mail
Because so much important communication is now done via e-mail, Professional 2007 includes several features that help you manage key correspondence. Instant Search capabilities in Outlook with Business Contact Manager let you quickly find critical information while the Color Category feature helps you to easily sort and manage e-mail messages. And because nothing is more inefficient than troubleshooting problems that compromise the security of your computer, this software package includes improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters to filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the remaining messages.

Keep Track of Tasks and Deadlines
Keeping track of appointments and deadlines can be stressful, but Professional 2007 streamlines the process so you're ready for whatever the day brings. For instance, the To-Do Bar in Outlook with Business Contact Manager consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Additionally, tasks scheduled in Outlook appear on your calendar, or you can drag them directly onto your calendar to help you stay organized.

Manage Customer Information in One Place
Outlook with Business Contact Manager also provides a complete customer and contact management solution by centralizing all contact, prospect, and customer information--including communications history, projected sales value, and probability of closing, and tasks. This makes it easier to manage prospects and respond to customers. You also can store all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mails messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.



Including charts in Office PowerPoint 2007 is easy. View larger.
Capitalize on Key Opportunities
The success of your business depends upon taking advantage of key opportunities that come your way, and Professional 2007 offers several features to help prevent any lost or missed connections. Outlook with Business Contact Manager provides a customizable homepage that helps you forecast sales and prioritize tasks. Enhanced reporting features provide a consolidated view of your sales pipeline using a variety of flexible reports that you can easily modify to suit your unique business needs.

Visualize and Analyze Information
Excel provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily and make more informed decisions. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create. Manage business information using efficient tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Access helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required, and also includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes. And thanks to the task-based user interface and the datasheet view, (which is similar to Excel), it's more intuitive than ever before. When you're ready to consolidate your data, easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.

More Efficient Marketing Campaigns
Outlook with Business Contact Manager has exciting features that help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns while Publisher can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources--including Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, and Access--to create personalized print and e-mail materials. This feature also enables you to build custom materials such as catalogs and datasheets. You can then use Outlook with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Versatile, Flexible Operation
Because the future of your business may depend on your ability to work on-the-fly or from various locales, Professional 2007 lets you work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office. Whatever the size of your business, Professional 2007 is versatile and flexible enough to help you manage everyday tasks, while ensuring that you're ready for whatever the future brings.

Product Details

  • Upgrade version designed for those computers with Windows server 2003 or later and Windows XP SP2 and later
  • Includes the 2007 versions of Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Access, and Word
  • Edit and analyze a financial spreadsheet, create an important presentation, or build a customer database; find and use the features you need faster and more easily
  • Create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information
  • Intuitive look and feel, including task-based menus and toolbars that are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using; work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office

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Customer Reviews

The Best Version Yet and Worth the Price of Admission
 
Review Date: June 26, 2007
Reviewer: S. Geneva, Southern Colorado
I like the changes MS has made, it is quite a bit more user friendly, the enhancements for a small business with a business process integration approach is fantastic. First time I really felt that I was working with an integrated package capitalizing on the strengths of the different programs, Word for correspondence, Publisher for marketing materials, excel for performance measurement, etc.. The new version has opened up different ways to approach using the tools efficiently.

The transition went relatively smooth albeit I did look around a bit to find the normal things I use but after a few days I was up and running pretty much like normal. As a heavy Excel user I really like the improvements made with the conditional formatting and pivot improvements and presentation/report quality has significantly improved. The improvements to Outlook are also very beneficial from a task management standpoint, improvements to flag options and task color coding along with being able to customize search folders for easy mail retrieval has decreased the amount of time I have spent coordinating activities, that alone was worth the price of the upgrade. PowerPoint seems to be about the same but I do like the template that is formatted with a 16:9 "widescreen" aspect ratio.

If you are wondering how well it works going back and forth with MS Office 2003, I have not had any issues yet, there is a compatibility mode you can work and save in to go backwards to 2003, you lose some of the enhancement functionality when you save as a 2003 file but I haven't run into any show stoppers yet but I suspect it will only be a matter of time until I receive an e-mail stating that they could not open a file. I guess as technology advances we are always going to have that problem. I hope this review was helpful and have a smooth transition if you decide to migrate to the new version.

By the way, I am not a Microsoft employee or affiliated with them in any way.

All in all I am very happy with the improvements and felt the upgrade price, fairly cheap actually, was well worth it.
Worth the upgrade
 
Review Date: July 15, 2007
Reviewer: Jan Schultink, Tel Aviv, Israel
This was $270 well-spent. Some impressions after my first day of use.

THE RIBBON. I actually like it. But I am a heavy Office user who recognises button icons easily. Less experienced users might need more time to adjust. However you view it, these context sensitive menus are the only way forward to dealing with complex menu structures. For the menu buttons I really need to hang on to there is the bypass of sticking them in the title bar of the window (object alignment and distribution in PPT for example, "send-to-back" in PPT)

EXCEL. Finally, "unlimited" amount of columns: EXCELLENT. Professional color templates (similar to those in PPT) now for use inside worksheets AND graphs. GREAT. The ribbon includes some useful buttons that in 2003 required a menu deep dive (wrap-text-in-cell, allign-cell-top-not-bottom for example)

POWER POINT. I love the new drop shadows and image manipulation functions. A shame that many of my clients do not have 2007 installed yet... Not many people write about this, but the color palette functions are a BIG improvement over 2003. Each palette color now comes in a number of intensity shadings, very useful.

OUTLOOK. I have not noticed much difference except for a nicer looking user interface.

PERFORMANCE. My 2002 P4 with 768MB is suffering some performance reduction. I am planning to upgrade to a new system soon, but in the mean time I switched off the format previews in Power Point.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2008 additional observations:

Much improved color management. Once you have defined your color schema, PowerPoint makes it very easy to apply intensity levels of the same color in your presentation

Adding a monochrome color overlay to images
Sophisticated drop shadows. There are many useless graphical effects in PowerPoint (Microsoft had a look at Adobe products), the drop shadow is the one I actually use

3D text rotation. In a later post I will explain how to stick a 3D logo/text on an image (update: here it is), PowerPoint has a more basic function now that more or less does the same
PDF conversion plug, one that is free, and better than Adobe Acrobat (see this post)

Smaller file size

Much improved editing of data charts, fully compatible with Excel. Creating beautiful, simple and clean data charts used to require a lot of "hacks" in 2003. It's not perfect in PowerPoint 2007, but a lot better.
The proportion of tip of an arrow does not change anymore when you re-size the object

The selection pane tool that allows you to edit charts with many overlapping objects, without having to send them to the back all the time.
Worthwhile upgrade
 
Review Date: April 5, 2007
Reviewer: D. Smith,
If you use Office for basic word processing, an upgrade might not be worthwhile for you (although real-time word count and contextual spell check are pretty nifty). On the other hand, if you use Office for more than typing documents, this product is definitely a must.

Pros:
-- more user friendly
-- Ribbon interface provides quicker and more efficient access to icons that were previously difficult to find (if you don't like the ribbon, F1 will make it disappear)
-- Excel offers millions of colors now (instead of just 53); transparency in bars and lines for charts/graphs; WAY more rows and columns.
-- Numerous new collaboration features. Seemless integration with Sharepoint and improved document-sharing capabilities.
-- improved search features in Outlook.

Cons:
-- steep learning curve. The ribbon interface is cool and a major improvement, but it is very different from the old menu interface.

--You probalby would not be researching a Microsoft product if you prefer open-source or less expensive alternatives like StarOffice or OpenOffice. Cost, openness, and potential security flaws (probably just a matter of time) could be potential drawbacks.
Business Contact Manager is Great!
 
Review Date: February 1, 2007
Reviewer: T. Payton, Seattle, WA
This version of Office is truely a time saver and a productivity tool. No more ACT!ing up for me or SalesHorceing around. Business Contact Manager is for anyone that needs to manager a large number of contacts and opportunities with those contacts. Awesome job on the interface from someone that was very, very cynical about whether this product would be a true inprovement. I am now going to recommended it to the rest of my staff.
Worked great....even with TRIAL Versions of the software installed
 
Review Date: June 26, 2007
Reviewer: goosedude, Washington, DC
Suffice to say IMO this is the best version of OFFICE in years....the improvements to OUTLOOK 2007 make it more than worth it.

Save yourself some money and install the FREE TRIAL Versions available directly from Microsoft for testing....then apply the upgrade....

I personally love it.

I have had ZERO problems installing and using it....but I must note I am using a brand new ATHLON X2 6000+ Build with all new hardware so it was a near virgin machine to install on.

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