• A results-oriented user interface that makes it easier to find and use product features.
• More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents.
• Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices.
• Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

Work with enhanced reliability and security features:

• A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
• Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
• Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
• Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find commands and help with ease:

• Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
• An improved Help system that offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
• Command tabs that are context-sensitive and change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize your time and communications:

• Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
• A To-Do Bar that brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages in one place.
• Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
• An RSS aggregator that offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007. (A separate fee-based RSS subscription is required.)

• Excel 2007
• Outlook 2007
• PowerPoint 2007
• Word 2007

• Microsoft Works 6.0 - 10
• Microsoft Works suite 2000 - 2006 or later
• Any 2000 - 2007 Microsoft Office program or suite
• Any Microsoft Office XP suite

• 500 MHz or higher

Operating System*:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2
• Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later

Memory**:

• 256 MB RAM or higher

Hard Drive:

• 1.5 GB

Optical Drive:

• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Other:

• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• Certain inking features require running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later. Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device. Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with Service Pack 1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.
• Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0.
• Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access.

*The Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64 bit OS.

**512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant Search. Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.