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Microsoft Office XP Professional puts the features needed within easy reach at all times. Working alone, experience a smarter way to work. Working with others, collaborate more effectively. And increased reliability means never looking back - which is perfect, because your best results lie in front of you. Delve into databases with ease. Use new and improved tools in Microsoft Access to build and manage lists and databases, or analyze information from databases such as Microsoft SQL Server™ Works with you. 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! Hands you tools. Now tasks that once required multiple steps are just one click a ay. 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. Connects your e-mail. The new version of Outlook ®condenses all your personal and professional e-mail into one central location. Even your Web-based e-mail accounts like MSN® Hotmail®. Guards your work. Relax. Your work is safe ith 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. Sparks your imagination. The artist in you will appreciate how Office XP programs mesh like never before, bringing a wealth of creative options together to create engaging documents that communicate far beyond the printed word. Brings your ideas to life. PowerPoint® lets you bring your presentations to life with animation effects and custom slide transitions. Print Preview assures that your printed slides come out right the first time. These new features, plus many more, allow you to become the presenter you’ve always wanted to be! Collaborates with the team. Say good-bye to time consuming routing procedures. Now just click Send For Review to make short work of combining revisions from multiple reviewers into a single document. What's New Smart Tags Microsoft Office Smart Tags are a set of buttons that are shared across the Office applications. These buttons appear when the user needs them (such as when a user makes an error in an Excel formula, when Word automatically corrects a user’s action, or when a user pastes some data) and gives the user the options they need to change the given action or error. Task Panes Office XP applications give users easy access to their important tasks in a single integrated view. From the Task Pane, which appears on the right side of the screen, users can perform searches, open or start a new document, view the contents of the clipboard, format their documents and presentations, or even access translation and template services via the Web. Note: Different Task Panes are associated with specific applications. Each individual application’s Product Guide highlights the Task Panes unique to the given application. Paste Options Smart Tags Multiple paste options allow users to decide whether they want to paste their data as they originally copied it, change the style so that it fits the style of the document they are pasting the data into, or apply specific characteristics to the data, based on the content. AutoCorrect Options Smart Tags This feature provides an easy mechanism for users to control and modify automatic behavior that takes place within the Office applications. Users can undo an auto correction, choose to not have that correction take place in the future, or access the AutoCorrect Options dialog box without needing to search for it under the Tools menu. Speech Office XP increases user productivity by supplementing traditional mouse and keyboard execution with voice commands. Users can dictate text, make direct formatting changes, and navigate menus using speech and voice commands. Note: Speech is currently available for U.S. English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese languages. Handwriting Office XP enables users to take handwritten notes on their handheld device and upload their notes as text directly into their Office applications. Users can also write directly in Word XP and keep the document in handwriting or convert it to typed text. Furthermore, East Asian users will be able to handwrite characters in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and Word will automatically convert it to the correct typed character. Office Document Imaging The new Office Document Imaging functionality, which takes advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, enables users to scan multi-page documents, view those documents, and reuse that text in their Office applications. Furthermore, users can locate their imaged documents at a later time using the full text search capabilities built into Office. Streamlined User Interface Office XP has a new look and feel that improves the user’s Office experience. This includes removing visually competing elements, visually prioritizing items on a page, increasing letter spacing and word spacing for better readability, and defining foreground and background color to bring the most important elements to the front. Office Template Gallery Provides hundreds of professionally designed templates on the Web that can be accessed and edited directly within Office. Compress Pictures The Office XP Compress Pictures feature enables users to compress images within their Office files. Users can select the intended use of the file (Web, print, screen display, etc.) and designate whether one or all images in the file should be optimized. The images are then shrunken and compressed in a manner that minimizes the size of the image without minimizing the visual quality of the image. Office E-mail Introduction Microsoft Office E-mail contains an introductory field, which enables users to enter a short introduction at the top of the message when sending mail from an Office application. This eliminates the need to change the body of the document the user is sending. Ask A Question Office XP enables users to type a question without launching the Answer Wizard or the Office Assistant. Even if the assistant is turned off or hidden, the question is answered in an Answer Wizard balloon. Context Sensitive Smart Tags In previous versions of Office, Word and Excel were smart enough to recognize URLs and e-mail names and assign links associated with these items. Users could then activate the items by clicking on them. Word XP and Excel XP extend this functionality to include information from Microsoft Outlook® or the Web, including names, dates, addresses, phone numbers, places, and stock symbols. Because these Smart Tags are extensible, organizations can create their own. Search (Task Pane) As part of the Task Pane, the new search capabilities of Office XP make it simple to find text in a document. Users can also find files or folders�regardless of where they are stored�without needing to leave the document they are working on. Furthermore, users can index the files on their machine. The result is faster and more comprehensive searches. Save to MSN Using MSN™ Communities, users can save their documents to a file cabinet on the Internet, which can be private or public. This allows users to easily share files on the Internet without ever leaving Microsoft Office. MSN Communities uses Passport as its authentication mechanism. Media Gallery Thousands of clip art images, sounds, photos, and animations are available on the Web and can be accessed from Office XP applications. The Clip Gallery Live is updated monthly so that users can constantly extend their design possibilities. My Data Sources A new folder in the My Documents folder keeps track of the data sources that users have previously accessed. This enables users to quickly find a connection to a database or other data source without having to spend time searching for it. Document Recovery Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint give users the option of saving their current files at the time an error occurs in an application. As a result, users spend less time recreating their documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations. Application Error Reporting In Office XP, the applications can automatically report any errors that occur directly to Microsoft or the user’s corporate IT department. This gives Microsoft (or organizations) the data needed to further diagnose and correct these errors as well as to provide users with direct access to workarounds or other information on the error. Application and Document Recovery This provides a safer method for shutting down an application that is not responding. Users can choose to shut down a non-responding application while initiating recovery of the document. They can also report the problem to Microsoft or their corporate IT department at the same time. Repair and Extract Microsoft Word and Excel can automatically invoke this corrupt-document repair and recovery functionality in the event of an error or a failure to load a file. Users can also invoke this functionality by choosing Open and Repair from the File Open dialog box (the drop-down menu to the right of Open). Auto Recover Automatic recovery has been added to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Publisher. Users can choose how often files are automatically saved. If an error occurs, the recovered file is opened, and users have the option of discarding the file, saving it over the original, or saving it as a separate file. Safe Mode Office XP can recognize common problems associated with booting up an application and can automatically run the appropriate work-around. This enables the user to launch the application in the event of a boot-related error, thus preventing unnecessary downtime. Document Password Encryption Word and Excel offer improved password encryption options, and PowerPoint has it for the first time. These applications offer the choice of using the standard CryptoAPI, a stronger encryption algorithm than previous versions. Default encryption remains the same (for backward compatibility) while the stronger encryption is offered as a choice. Digital Signatures Office XP gives users the ability to digitally sign entire documents. This enables users to know if a document has come from a trusted source as well as if the document has been altered from its original state. Single Security Tab The security options for each application are now available under a single tab under Tools>Options. This makes it easy for users to access their security options without having to go to multiple locations. Visual Basic for Applications Installation Options Administrators and/or users have the option of removing Visual Basic for Applications from Office installations on a user, group, or organization-wide basis. Send for Review Office understands each user’s specific role in the review cycle and gives each user the tools needed to successfully collaborate on documents. When a document is sent for review (from the File > Send To menu), the correct reviewing tools are automatically turned on for others to review. Furthermore, when the document is sent back, users can merge the changes back into the original document. MSN Messenger Integration When an Outlook user opens an e-mail message (or views it via the Preview Pane) or a contact card, he or she can identify whether that person is online. Users can then immediately initiate an MSN Messenger session from within Outlook. Outlook Free/Busy Sharing Using Microsoft Outlook, users can share Free/Busy information with others over the Internet. This makes it easy to schedule meetings among Outlook users who do not share an Exchange server. Propose New Time When receiving a meeting request, users now have the option of proposing a new meeting time to the meeting organizer rather than just declining the request. Furthermore, users who have Exchange server will be able to see the free and busy times of each attendee before submitting the new meeting time. Group Schedules Users can save multiple group calendars within Outlook for quick and easy access to their team or conference room schedules. Within this single calendar interface, users can view the free and busy times of their group as well as easily send e-mail or set up an appointment with the entire group. XML Support in Excel and Access Excel now supports Extensible Markup Language (XML). Users can load and save generic, well-formed, and spreadsheet XML directly into Excel. Furthermore users can query XML spreadsheets from the Web and thereby analyze important Web data. Access users can easily import or export XML schema and data documents into and out of Access. Users can automatically import the XML tables or access advanced options to customize the import. Intelligent Setup When upgrading from a previous version of Office, Setup analyzes a user’s current configuration and intelligently installs the same components. Smart Tag Extensibility In addition to the Smart Tags that will ship as part of Word and Excel, third parties can tie in to the Smart Tag technology to offer their own solutions for Office XP users. For example, an organization can create a Smart Tag that links the user directly to all the organization’s customers, orders, prices, and more, when the user simply types in an order number into Excel. Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) This feature gives administrators the ability to maintain and configure Office XP after it has been installed. Among the options available to the administrator is the ability to add or remove files, programs, or components of an installation. Administrators also have the ability to change settings for a given install and to change Outlook configuration settings. The Custom Maintenance Wizard options mirror those of the Custom Installation Wizard. Save My Settings Wizard With this wizard, users can save their settings directly to a file or up to the Web (using Microsoft Passport for authentication) where they can easily access them and apply them to another machine. Users no longer have to recreate their settings on a second machine (such as a machine at home) or a new machine. In addition, this feature saves time for administrators who can quickly move settings from machine to machine. Setup from HTTP Office XP can now be installed directly from a Web Server instead of just from a file share on the organization’s network. This includes installation support from HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Digital Dashboard Support Users can easily create Digital Dashboards to access their important information from Office or the Web right from within Outlook version 2002. Save/Open from Exchange Documents can be saved directly from Office into the Web Storage System using the File/Save As dialog box. Documents are easily retrieved from Exchange 2000 into Office using the File/Open dialog box, enabling users to utilize the security, replication, accessibility, powerful application and workflow capabilities of Exchange as a store. Office users can store e-mail, tasks, documents, or spreadsheets in a single folder and can access this folder from any client, including the Windows Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express, or a Web browser. Document Properties The Web Storage System allows custom properties such as document author, workflow recipient, or description to be stored with each item in the database. This provides powerful opportunities for rich viewing, indexing, searching, and organization of information. Any number of properties can be stored with each item, and the set of properties can be different for each item. Built-in Content Indexing and Search The Web Storage System includes built-in indexing for high-speed, accurate, full-text searches, enabling users to find content quickly and easily. Users of Outlook can search for documents in the Web Storage System as easily as they search for e-mail messages today, increasing their productivity. Users can use the same Outlook search interface they have become accustomed to, but the queries are significantly faster. Furthermore, users can find matches in documents both attached to e-mail messages and stand-alone, rather than only in messages. Support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) Web DAV is a new HTTP-based protocol that people can use to collaborate seamlessly on documents over the Web, regardless of their authoring tools. With Web DAV, users can perform basic remote file operations (for example, copy, move, and delete) across the Web. The support for Web DAV in Exchange 2000 enables Office documents to be stored directly into Exchange Server, facilitating working with and searching for important Office files. Integration with Microsoft FrontPage FrontPage can be used to edit and manage Web applications hosted on the Web Storage System. For example, Web-based custom forms can be created in FrontPage 2000 and hosted by the Web Storage System. Using the native dialog boxes in FrontPage, developers can open a Web page directly in the Web Storage System, edit it using the familiar FrontPage tools, and then run the application in a browser directly from the Web Storage System. Document Subscriptions Office users can subscribe to documents and folders, and they can even search and categorize their subscriptions. Readers or authors can express interest in a particular document, folder, search, or category and be notified (via SMTP mail or through a central Web site) when there has been a change. Notifications can fire immediately or be batched within a particular interval. Collaboration Toolbar Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server servers are valid Collaboration Servers within the Office 2000 collaboration toolbar. File Menu Additions The file menu in Office applications is enhanced to allow documents to be checked in, checked out, and submitted for publication without ever leaving Office. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server document libraries are directly visible and navigable in the Office 2000 Open/Save dialog boxes. Property Promotion Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server synchronizes Office document properties set inside a document with those in the document profile. If a document contains an �author� property, that value is promoted to the document profile. If a document profile is edited, it is updated in the underlying document. Document Versioning Edited Office documents are tracked so that previous versions can be retrieved. Versioning is used for two reasons�audit and recovery. Audit is used to find out who changed a document, when it was changed, and what was changed. Recovery is used when a user wants to revert to a previous version of a document. Document Profiling Document Profiling allows users to associate attributes with their Office documents, making them easier to find, organize, and act on. These profiles can be configured on a per-folder basis, and profile requirements can be set for each folder. Document Retrieval Once Office documents are placed into a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, they can be retrieved based on content, location, key words or phrases, document profile, and attribute information. All versions of a document can be retrieved. Furthermore, users who do not have access to a document or do not have access to a draft document do not see it returned in search results. Single Check-in/Check-out A uthors and editors can reserve their Office documents for editing. When checked out, the document cannot be updated. Office Document locking with check-in and check-out can be configured on a per-folder basis. Drafts Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server draft-support feature ensures that Office documents are not seen until they are ready to be seen. Office documents that are created as �drafts� can be shared by a set of authors, but are not visible to readers. When a document is ready to publish, it is made visible to users by an explicit �publish� operation. Publishing Approval Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server allows customers to establish a simple procedure for publishing their Office documents. �Approvers� can be set for a folder, determining who has permission to make documents available to readers. An author can submit a document for publication to an approver who examines the document to decide whether to publish or reject the document. Several different models for publishing are supported. Note: Requires previous version.
Platform:	PC
Media Format:	CD-ROM
Required Operating System:	Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0 Microsoft® Windows® Me Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Microsoft® Windows® 95 Microsoft® Windows® 98
Required Processor Class:	Intel® Pentium® Processor
Required Processor Speed:	133 MHz
Required Memory:	32 MB
Required Disk Space:	245 MB
Recommended Processor Class:	Intel® Pentium® III Processor
Recommended Memory:	128 MB
Recommended Disk Space:	500 MB
Other Recommendations:	Internet Connection