Essential tools to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations



Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your notes and information in one place, making it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done. The latest version features a new streamlined user interface that exposes commonly used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, plus a powerful note and information organization tool, and more reliability and security with the Document Inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery. With these enhancements, Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home.

• Create high quality documents
• Work with enhanced security reliability
• Find commands and help more easily
• Organize your time and communications

This product is for non-commercial, educational use only.   This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting 

• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

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.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 features new context-sensitive tabs and easy-to-use galleries that make it simple for you to include tables and other graphics in your documents.




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.

Document Inspector can help you detect and remove personally identifiable information or unwanted comments from your documents before you share them with others.




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.

In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the new user interface is organized into logical command tabs. The new Ribbon brings to the surface common commands that were previously buried in drop-down menus.




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.

Office OneNote 2007 is organized into notebooks, sections, and pages, which helps you arrange your notes the way you want.




Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 helps home computer users get things done more quickly and easily. Here are the top 10 ways Office Home and Student 2007 can help you.

1. Get better results faster with a new streamlined user interface.  Office Home and Student 2007 has an improved user interface to help you create documents faster, more easily, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with commands that present the right tools when you need them.
2. Create high-quality documents you can be proud of.  Office Home and Student 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts.
3. Preview your changes quickly.  Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office documents with Live Preview. You can quickly preview proposed changes to your document while you’re working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. By “test-driving” your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily.
4. Organize notes and information for your personal projects, tasks, and to-do lists so you can get things done.  Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 gives you a digital notebook where you can gather, organize, and search all types of notes and information — typed text, images, audio and video recordings, Web clippings, computer files, and more. 
5. Visualize key data trends using conditional formatting.  Microsoft Office Excel 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons that you can use to format data based on specific rules, so you can more easily identify key data trends.
6. Remove private information from the documents you want to share.  Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector. With just a few clicks, you can automatically detect and choose to remove sensitive information from your documents.  
7. Have better control and predictability when formatting documents.  Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office Word documents with more stable and predictable bullets, numbering, and tables. Also, Document Themes help ensure a consistent appearance among the documents you create in Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, to make working across the programs you use most more convenient.
8. Create and save custom slide layouts for use in later presentations.  In Office PowerPoint 2007, create presentations with ease using pre-built and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the new custom layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future presentations.
9. Help ensure broader distribution of your documents and presentations.  New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others.¹ Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform.  ¹ You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in.
10. Find the Help you need to get started.  Office Home and Student 2007 is easier to use, thanks to an improved Help system that provides enhanced ScreenTips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates.

¹ 2 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher and 1 GB RAM or higher recommended for OneNote Audio Search. Close-talking microphone required. Audio Search not available in all languages.

² Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.

³ Send to OneNote 2007 print driver not available on a 64 bit operating system. The Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64 bit OS.




Please note the Microsoft Home & Student Edition Licensing Restrictions:
* This product is for non-commercial, non-commercial location, educational use only. * This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students.) * You can install this edition on up to three (3) PCs in your home. * This product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing or installation(s). * You may not transfer your usage rights to another individual or allow them to install the program at another location. * You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user. * Microsoft provides only installation support for this product.  For additional information please visit Microsoft's FAQ Page for the Office Home and Student 2007 @ (http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/office/preview/suites/home/faq.mspx)


Please Note: Due to the "Special Packaging" on this item, it can not be returned once it has been opened.