Product - Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Retail

Office Home and Student 2007 delivers software essentials so home PC users can get tasks done more quickly and easily. Office Home and Student 2007 is the software suite that helps you create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your notes and information in one place. With a new streamlined user interface, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new information organization tools, and greater reliability, Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done.

Create high-quality documents
Office Home and Student 2007 has new graphics, formatting galleries, and an improved user interface that exposes commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

New features and improvements include:
- Results-oriented user interface makes it easier for you to find and use product features.
- More stable bullets and numbers help you to consistently format documents.
- Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries provide you with more formatting choices.
- Themes create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

Work with enhanced reliability and security features

With an improved automatic document recovery tool and the new Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Home and Student 2007 helps you work with more confidence and security.

New features and improvements include:
- Document recovery tool helps you retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system failure.
- Document Inspector detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find commands and help with ease

Office Home and Student 2007 has a new streamlined user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions. With these features, you can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your questions.

New features and improvements include:
- Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
- The Help system 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 are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
- Online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize your notes and information

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that helps you gather, organize, and search many types of information in one place.

New features and improvements include:
- Gather many different kinds of information — typed text, images, audio and video recordings, digital handwritten notes, Web clippings, and more — on the same page!
- Provides flexible note-taking tools to help you organize information the way you want. Categorize important projects or information in a way that makes sense to you, using an easy-to-use layout of notebooks, sections, and pages. Type or organize content anywhere on the page and track important items with customizable note tags.
- The powerful Instant Search feature of Office OneNote 2007 helps you to find information you are looking for quickly. With it you can even search handwritten notes, the text in images and scanned documents, and spoken words in audio recordings.

- Microsoft Office Word 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel 2007
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
- Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

Computer and processor: 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher*
Memory: 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher*,**
Hard disk: 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Display: 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP)2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system***

Other:
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 SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.

Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Some features require Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0, Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0, Microsoft DirectX 9.0b, Microsoft Active Sync 4.1, microphone1, audio output device, video recording device (such as a webcam), TWAIN-compatible digital camera or scanner, Windows Mobile 2003 powered Smartphone or Windows Mobile 5 powered Smartphone or Pocket PC, or a router that supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). Sharing notebooks requires users to be on the same network.

Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply).

Additional:
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.