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Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007: Button Help

Graphics-rich contextual help appears when you hover the mouse over any interface feature, such as the new Office Button at the upper left of all windows.

Microsoft Office 2007: Word Header Gallery

Word now offers simple designs for headers, footers, title pages, and other layout features.

Microsoft Office 2007: Word Combine Revisions

Word can combine revisions from two versions of a document into a third document. This cluttered screen is less confusing to work with than it looks at first glance.

Microsoft Office 2007: Word Document Inspector

The Document Inspector lets you remove sensitive data before distributing a Word file.

Microsoft Office 2007: OfficeColorThemes

Office’s color and font themes allow for company-wide consistency in all parts of document and spreadsheet design.

Microsoft Office 2007: Excel Cell Styles

Excel cell backgrounds can use the same elegant color palettes as charts.

Microsoft Office 2007: Excel Data Bars

Excel can display color bars that correspond to displayed numbers—and an option lets you hide the numbers and display only the color bars.

Microsoft Office 2007: Outlook Message

Outlook ges the new Ribbon toolbar in its message-editing window, but not in the main mailbox interface.

Microsoft Office 2007: Outlook To Do Bar

Outlook’s new To-Do Bar opens up to a small calendar and to-do list (to the left of the bar in this image).

Microsoft Office 2007: Power Point SmartArt

SmartArt is Microsoft’s name for an easily customizable graphic display of verbal data.

Microsoft Office 2007: Online Menu Help

An online help screen shows the 2007 equivalents of 2003 menus—just click on this screen, and a picture of the matching 2007 menu appears.

Microsoft Office 2007: Diagnostics

A standalone diagnostics utility tests your Office setup for problems and opens a web page with possible solutions.