2. Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint No more flash drives or sending yourself documents via e-mail Stop manually merging versions from multiple people Access them from almost any computer with a Web browser You control who can view, comment, and edit your documents

3. Visualize data in diagrams with Office Visio Professional 2007 so you can easily understand the data and effectively act on the results. Display data in any diagram as text, data bars, icons, and color- coding—all using the new Data Graphics feature in Office Visio Professional 2007. Now, the new features and enhancements in Office Visio 2007 make creating Visio diagrams even easier and faster, for results that are more impressive than ever. Microsoft Office Visio 2007 helps you to create professional-looking diagrams for understanding, documenting, and analyzing information, data, systems, and processes.

4. Integrate data with diagrams to combine disparate sources of complex visual, textual, and numeric information. Visualize data in diagrams with Office Visio Professional 2007 so you can easily understand the data and effectively act on the results. Display data in any diagram as text, data bars, icons, and color-coding—all using the new Data Graphics feature in Office Visio Professional 2007. Effectively visualize, explore, and communicate your processes, resources, systems, and the data behind them with the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007. Find recently used templates and documents quickly using the new Getting Started window.

5. Office Outlook 2007 has redesigned the look and feel of the messaging interface to make composing, formatting, and acting upon information an easier and more intuitive experience. You now have all of the rich features and capabilities of Outlook in an accessible and streamlined location, making it simple to navigate your options. Check your priorities for the day by looking at the To-Do Bar where your flagged mails and tasks are clearly laid out. The To- Do Bar also connects tasks you may have stored in other Microsoft Office programs like Project, OneNote, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology. This product guide provides an overview of the new and improved features in Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, as well as customer scenarios illustrating how these features can be used. Download this document to learn more about Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

6.  Teams often lack context when working on a project because not everyone is in the same place and connected to the same information and systems. Groove workspaces add context by putting all people, tools, and data in one place — the workspace — that's accessible to all team members right on their computers.  With Office Groove Server 2007, deployed in combination with Office Groove 2007 software, business teams can work together dynamically — anywhere, anytime, and with anyone — without compromising IT standards or security, or substantially increasing infrastructure costs.  Can choose which features to use based on the company’s needs.

7.  With a rich library of prebuilt solutions, you can start tracking your information immediately. Forms and reports are already built for your convenience, but you can easily customize them to meet your business needs. Contacts, issue tracking, project tracking, and asset tracking are only few of the out-of-the-box solutions included in Office Access 2007.  There is a “ribbon” now instead of menus and controls. Custom ribbons; if you do not like the way the ribbon is sorted, you can customize it to your needs.  Macros now allow error handling as well as simple variables and limited looping.

8.  Commands and features that were often buried in complex menus and toolbars are now easier to find on task-oriented tabs that contain logical groups of commands and features. Many dialog boxes are replaced with drop-down galleries that display the available options, and descriptive tooltips or sample previews are provided to help you choose the right option.  In a new results-oriented user interface, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides powerful tools and features that you can use to analyze, share, and manage your data with ease.  Conditional Formatting Feature; able to set a range of values so the higher the value, the more blue the cell becomes and the lower, the more yellow it becomes. Anything in the middle will be green.

9.  New Smart Art diagrams and a new charting engine help you create great-looking content with 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects.  With built-in workflow services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and track document review and approval processes from within Office Word 2007 to help accelerate review cycles across your organization without forcing people to learn new tools. Quickly compare two versions of a document Easily avoid spelling errors

10.  To help you produce professional-looking presentations, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 provides a comprehensive set of features that you can use to create and format your information. You can create and add designer-quality SmartArt graphics easily.  In the new “ribbon” you can see different types of slide layouts and roll over them to see what the effect is right away.  The new slide layout allows users to pick and choose slides quickly.