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Description [size=100]Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office System), also called MS Office 2007, is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Known as Office 12 in the early stages of its beta development, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006[4] and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface[5] (initially referred to as the Ribbon User Interface), replacing the menus and toolbars – which have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception – with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7.[6] Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office which is officially supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and the first version to officially work on Windows 8. The 'Ribbon User Interface' is a task-oriented Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a central menu button, widely known as the 'Office Button'. The Ribbon Interface has been improved in Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page. Microsoft FrontPage has been removed from the Office suite entirely. It has been replaced by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals. Its designer-oriented counterpart Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Office 2007. Speech recognition and handwriting recognition are now part of Windows Vista. Speech and ink components have been removed from Office 2007.[7][8] Handwriting and speech recognition work with Office 2007 only on Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. However, XP users can use an earlier version of Office to use speech recognition.[9] According to Forrester Research, as of May 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises it surveyed (its sample comprising 115 North American and European enterprise and SMB decision makers).[10] Contents [hide] 1 Development 1.1 Service packs 2 Editions 2.1 Volume licensing benefits 3 New features 3.1 User interface 3.1.1 Office button 3.1.2 Ribbon 3.1.3 Contextual Tabs 3.1.4 Live Preview 3.1.5 Mini Toolbar 3.1.6 Quick Access Toolbar 3.1.7 Other UI features 3.2 SmartArt 3.3 File formats 3.3.1 Office Open XML 3.3.2 PDF 3.3.3 XPS 3.3.4 OpenDocument 3.4 Metadata 3.5 User assistance system 3.6 Collaboration features 3.6.1 SharePoint 3.6.2 Groove 3.7 Themes and Quick Styles 4 Application-specific changes 4.1 Microsoft Office Word 4.2 Microsoft Office Outlook 4.3 Microsoft Office Excel 4.4 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 4.5 Microsoft Office OneNote 4.6 Microsoft Office Access 4.7 Microsoft Office Publisher 4.8 Microsoft Office InfoPath 4.9 Microsoft Office Visio 4.10 Microsoft Office Project 4.11 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 5 Server components 5.1 SharePoint Server 2007 5.2 Forms Server 2007 5.3 Groove Server 2007 5.4 Project Server 2007 5.5 Project Portfolio Server 2007 5.6 PerformancePoint Server 2007 6 Removed features 7 Criticism 7.1 Ribbons 7.1.1 Patenting controversy 7.2 Office Open XML 7.3 Bibliographies 8 See also 9 References 10 External links [edit]Development The first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as Beta-1 in emails sent to a small number of testers, was released on November 16, 2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13, 2006. The Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308. Microsoft revealed the Ribbon UI on March 9, 2006 at CeBIT in Germany.[11] Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site. However, because of an unprecedented number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2, 2006. The beta was updated on September 14, 2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Beta2TR). It included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality. The beta versions continued to function in a reduced functionality mode after February 1, 2007. If users downloaded the Technical Refresh to update Beta 2, then users could use its full functionality until March 31, 2007 for client products and May 15, 2007 for server products. The Beta program ended on November 8, 2006, when Microsoft declared the product "Released to Manufacturing" (RTM) and started manufacturing the final product. After RTM, the availability of the beta download ended. Office 2007 was released to volume licensing customers on November 30, 2006, and to the general public on January 30, 2007. [edit]Service packs Since the release of Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has released three service packs, cumulative updates that contain all previous updates released for Microsoft Office 2007 as well as additional features. Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 was released on December 11, 2007.[12] Official documentation claims that SP1 is not simply a rollup of publicly released patches, but that it also contains fixes for 455 total issues throughout the entire Office suite.[13] Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on April 28, 2009.[14] It added improved support for ODF, XPS and PDF standards as well as bug fixes.[15][16] Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3 was released on October 25, 2011.[17] Although Microsoft description article of Service Pack 3 says it contains all previous updates,[18] the package description page in Microsoft Download Center requires Service Pack 1 or 2 to be installed prior to installing Service Pack 3.[17] [edit]Editions Table of Editions[19] Programs and Features Basic Home and Student Standard Small Business Professional Professional Plus Ultimate Enterprise Licensing scheme OEM OEM and retail Retail and volume OEM, retail, and volume OEM and retail Volume Retail Volume Word Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PowerPoint Viewer only Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Outlook Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Publisher No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Access No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes InfoPath No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Communicator No No No No No Yes No Yes Groove No No No No No No Yes Yes OneNote No Yes No No No No Yes Yes Project No No No No No No No No SharePoint Designer No No No No No No No No Visio No No No No No No No No Office Customization Tool (OCT)1 No No Volume licensing only[20] Volume licensing only[20] No Yes[20] No Yes[20] 1 Office Customization Tool is used to customize the installation of Office 2007 by creating a Windows Installer patch file (.MSP) and replacing the Custom Installation Wizard and Custom Deployment Wizard included in earlier versions of the Office Resource Kit which created a Windows Installer Transform (.MST).[20] Non-commercial banner on Microsoft Word 2007: Home and Student edition of Microsoft Office 2007 is not licensed for commercial use [edit]Volume licensing benefits Eligible employees of companies with volume license agreements for Microsoft Office receive additional tools, including enterprise content management, electronic forms, Information Rights Management capabilities and copies for use on a home computer.[21] [edit]New features [edit]User interface The new user interface (UI), officially known as Fluent User Interface,[22][23] has been implemented in the core Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and in the item inspector used to create or edit individual items in Outlook. These applications have been selected for the UI overhaul because they center around document authoring.[24] The rest of the applications in the suite will also be changed to the new UI in subsequent versions.[25] The default font used in this edition is Calibri. Original prototypes of the new user interface were revealed at MIX 2008 in Las Vegas.[26] [edit]Office button Office Button in Microsoft PowerPoint The Office 2007 button, located on the top-left of the window, replaces the File menu and provides access to functionality common across all Office applications, including opening, saving, printing, and sharing a file. It can also close the application. Users can also choose color schemes for the interface. A notable accessibility improvement is that the Office button follows Fitts's law.[27] [edit]Ribbon Main article: Ribbon (computing) The Ribbon, a panel that houses a fixed arrangement of command buttons and icons, organizes commands as a set of tabs, each grouping relevant commands. The Ribbon is present in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Access 2007 and some Outlook 2007 windows. The Ribbon is not user customizable in Office 2007. Each application has a different set of tabs which expose the functionality that application offers. For example, while Excel has a tab for the graphing capabilities, Word does not; instead it has tabs to control the formatting of a text document. Within each tab, various related options may be grouped together. The Ribbon is designed to make the features of the application more discoverable and accessible with fewer mouse clicks[28] as compared to the menu-based UI used prior to Office 2007. However, many users feel that the existing menus should have been left alone.[29][30] In an online survey, intermediate and advanced users self-report that the ribbon interface has decreased their productivity in using Excel by 20%.[31] Moving the mouse scroll wheel while on any of the tabs on the ribbon cycles—through the tabs. The Ribbon can be minimized by double clicking the active section's title, such as the Home text in the picture below.[32] Without third party add-ins, it is not possible to remove the Ribbon, modify it, or replace it with menus with the normal Office 2007 functions. There are third party add-ins which can be purchased that can bring menus and toolbars to Office 2007 as well as add-ins which allow users to customize the Ribbon commands. Add-ins that restore the ability to use a standard Windows menus and toolbars interface include Classic Menu for Office,[33] ToolbarToggle,[34][35] and Ubitmenu.[36] Others like RibbonCustomizer enable the customization of the Ribbon interface.[35] Office 2010 does allow user customization of the ribbon out of the box. [edit]Contextual Tabs Some tabs, called Contextual Tabs, appear only when certain objects are selected. Contextual Tabs expose functionality specific only to the object with focus. For example, selecting a picture brings up the Pictures tab, which presents options for dealing with the picture. Similarly, focusing on a table exposes table-related options in a specific tab. Contextual Tabs remain hidden except when an applicable object is selected. [edit]Live Preview Microsoft Office 2007 also introduces a feature called "Live Preview", which temporarily applies formatting on the focused text or object when any formatting button is moused-over. The temporary formatting is removed when the mouse pointer is moved from the button. This allows users to have a preview of how the option would affect the appearance of the object, without actually applying it. [edit]Mini Toolbar The new "Mini Toolbar" is a type of context menu that is automatically shown (by default) when text is selected. The purpose of this feature is to provide easy access to the most-used formatting commands without requiring a right-mouse-button click, as was necessary in older versions of the software. Because the Mini Toolbar is automatically displayed, it remains semi-transparent until the mouse pointer is situated on the control in order to allow an almost-unobstructed view of what is beneath it. It also appears above the right-click menu when a user right-clicks on a selection of words. The Mini Toolbar is currently not customizable, but can be turned off. [edit]Quick Access Toolbar The Quick Access toolbar, which sits in the title bar, serves as a repository of most used functions, regardless of which application is being used, such as save, undo/redo and print. The Quick Access toolbar is customizable, although this feature is limited compared to toolbars in previous Office versions. Any command available in the entire Office application can be added to the Quick Access toolbar, including commands not available in the Ribbon and macros. Keyboard shortcuts for any of the commands on the toolbar are also fully customizable, similar to previous Office versions. [edit]Other UI features Super-tooltips, or screentips, that can house formatted text and even images, are used to provide detailed descriptions of what most buttons do. A zoom slider present in the bottom-right corner, allowing for dynamic and rapid magnification of documents. The status bar is fully customizable. Users can right click the status bar and add or remove what they want the status bar to display.[37] [edit]SmartArt SmartArt, found under the Insert tab in the ribbon in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook, is a new group of editable and formatted diagrams. There are 115 preset SmartArt graphics layout templates in categories such as list, process, cycle, and hierarchy. When an instance of a SmartArt is inserted, a Text Pane appears next to it to guide the user through entering text in the hierarchical levels. Each SmartArt graphic, based on its design, maps the text outline, automatically resized for best fit, onto the graphic. There are a number of "quick styles" for each graphic that apply largely different 3D effects to the graphic, and the graphic's shapes and text can be formatted through shape styles and WordArt styles. In addition, SmartArt graphics change their colors, fonts, and effects to match the document's theme. [edit]File formats [edit]Office Open XML Main article: Microsoft Office 2007 filename extensions Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new file format, called Office Open XML, as the default file format. Such files are saved using an extra X letter in their extension (.docx/xlsx/pptx/etc.). However, it can still save documents in the old format which is compatible with previous versions. Alternatively, Microsoft has made available a free add-on known as the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack that lets Office 2000, XP, and 2003 open, edit, and save documents created under the newer 2007 format.[38] Office Open XML is based on XML and uses the ZIP file container. According to Microsoft, documents created in this format are up to 75% smaller than the same documents saved with previous Microsoft Office file formats, owing to the ZIP data compression.[39] Files containing macros are saved with an extra M letter in their extension instead (.docm/xlsm/pptm/etc.). [edit]PDF Initially, Microsoft promised to support exporting to Portable Document Format (PDF) in Office 2007. However, due to legal objections from Adobe Systems, Office 2007 originally did not offer PDF support out of the box, but rather as a separate free download.[40][41][42] However, starting with Service Pack 2, Office allows users to natively export PDF files.[43] [edit]XPS Office 2007 documents can also be exported as XPS documents. This is part of service pack 2 and prior to that, was available as a free plug-in in a separate download.[43] [44] [edit]OpenDocument Main article: OpenDocument software Microsoft backs an open Related Torrents
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