Find and use the features you need faster and more easily.

The new, more intuitive look and feel of Office Professional 2007 helps you quickly and easily find and use the software features you need. Task-based menus and toolbars are automatically displayed based on the feature you are using.

Locate, prioritize, and act on an increasing volume of e-mail.

Instant Search capabilities in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager help you quickly find critical information. The new Color Category feature helps you to easily sort and manage e-mail messages. Improved junk mail and anti-phishing technologies help you filter out unwanted e-mail and manage the remaining messages

Manage time and tasks more efficiently.

The new To-Do Bar in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager consolidates your tasks, e-mail messages flagged for follow-up, and appointments in one view. Tasks scheduled in Office Outlook 2007 appear on your calendar, and you can drag tasks directly onto your calendar to help you stay organized.

Manage all your customer information in one place.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides a complete customer and contact management solution. Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager centralizes all contact, prospect, and customer information — including communications history, projected sales value, and probability of closing, and tasks — making it easier to manage prospects, respond to customers, and manage your sales pipeline in one place. You also can store all types of communications with each customer in one place, including e-mails messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.

Manage sales leads and opportunities better.

Office Outlook 2007 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.

Create professional marketing materials in-house.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you create and publish a wide range of marketing publications in-house for print, e-mail, and the Web. Hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates and more than 100 blank publication types are included. Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to reuse logos, colors, fonts, and business information in different types of publications.

Manage your marketing campaigns more efficiently.

Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager has new features that help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns. Office Publisher 2007 can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources — including Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 — to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets. You can then use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Create professional-looking documents and presentations in less time.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes new templates and tools that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it quicker and easier to create more dynamic presentations with an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts, and new graphic tools enable you to create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables, and then instantly preview formatting changes.

Analyze your information to make better decisions.

Office Excel 2007 provides new tools for filtering, sorting, graphing, and visualizing information so you can analyze business information more easily. For more advanced analysis, improved PivotTable and PivotChart views are now much easier to create.

Find, use, and manage information more effectively.

Manage business information using new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Office Access 2007 helps you create new databases easily, with no experience required. Office Access 2007 includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes, and now is more intuitive thanks to the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and the datasheet view, which is similar to Office Excel 2007. Easily create reports with a single click and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.