Office 2007 Small Business Upgrade - Retail Boxed

Office Small Business 2007 is a complete, powerful, and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software that helps you save time and stay organised. It includes new tools for completing routine tasks faster, managing customer information in one place, and developing professional-quality marketing materials and campaigns in-house.

Office 2007 Small Business includes the following components

• Word 2007
• Excel 2007
• Outlook 2007
• PowerPoint 2007
• Publisher 2007
• Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager

Save Time and Stay Organised

Office Small Business 2007 helps you quickly accomplish routine tasks so you can spend more time with your customers. New task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use, making it faster and easier to find the software features you need. And the new Live Preview feature makes it easy to sample your changes before you apply them. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• Work faster with new task-based menus and toolbars that display the commands and features you need when you need them.
• Manage your time more efficiently with the new To-Do Bar in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, which consolidates tasks, e-mail messages flagged as tasks, and appointments, and integrates tasks directly into your calendar.
• Locate, sort, prioritise, and act on your growing volume of e-mail in Office Outlook 2007 with advanced search, color categories, and improved junk mail and anti-phishing technologies.
• Create more professional-looking documents with less time and effort using Building Blocks and new designer-quality QuickFormats in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
• Analyse your business data with new tools and graphics capabilities for more effectively filtering, sorting, and visualizing your information in Microsoft Office Excel 2007.

Manage All Your Contact and Customer Information in One Place

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager integrates powerful contact management features into Office Outlook 2007. Now you can collect and control all of your customer information and communications in one place so you can stay organised and respond quickly to customer needs. Powerful tools simplify contact management so you can easily track, prioritise, and manage customer and contact information throughout the sales process, and all within the familiar Office Outlook 2007 environment. You also can track and manage project tasks and transfer tasks to coworkers. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• Access and track all prospect and customer information and communications, including contact data, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, documents, and financial data1.
• Track and manage opportunities throughout the sales cycle so you can easily assess progress, follow up, and close sales.
• Get a company-wide view of your sales pipeline with flexible reports and a customisable dashboard that helps forecast sales and prioritise tasks.
• Use mail merge features to create personalized marketing communications for print and e-mail using Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office Publisher 2007.
• Centralise project information and communications including e-mail messages, meetings, notes, and documents so you can easily manage, delegate, and follow up on project-related tasks.

Produce Professional-Quality Marketing Materials and Campaigns In-House

Produce compelling, professional-quality marketing communications and campaigns entirely in-house with the powerful and easy-to-use tools in Office Small Business 2007. Create designer-quality marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web using Office Publisher 2007. Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Publisher 2007 together to help you track and manage marketing campaign activities including compiling mailing lists, distributing materials, and tracking your results. You also can use the library of customisable templates in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create professional-quality presentations that enhance your business identity. Office Small Business 2007 helps you:

• Get started producing marketing campaigns in-house with new Publisher guides that quickly and easily lead you through the process of creating, publishing, and distributing designer-quality marketing materials.
• Choose from a wide variety of professionally designed layouts that you can customise with color and font schemes to enhance your brand identity, or you can begin from scratch for unique communications.
• Share design and content elements across all of your Office Publisher 2007 projects and automatically convert content from one type to another for print, e-mail, or Web publication.
• Publish your files in Portable Document Format file (PDF) to preserve the formatting you intended, so you can easily distribute files to others, and to help ensure compatibility with commercial printers.
• Manage print and e-mail marketing campaigns using new tools in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to create mailing lists, personalize marketing materials, and track results.
• Create more dynamic presentations with Office PowerPoint 2007 using an extensive library of customisable slide layouts and new tools that help you to create powerful charts, diagrams, and tables, and to quickly preview changes.

Why Upgrade? Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 Top 10 Benefits

Find and use the features you need.
The new and more intuitive look and feel of the 2007 Microsoft Office system makes it easier and faster to find and use the software features you need when you need them. The appropriate menus and toolbars are automatically displayed based on the task you are working on.

Search, manage, and prioritize your e-mail.
Advanced search features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager help you quickly find critical information. The Color Category feature helps you more easily sort and manage e-mail messages. And the improved junk mail and anti-phishing technologies help you filter out undesirable e-mail. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

Manage time and tasks more efficiently.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a new To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. Tasks scheduled appear on your calendar, and you can allocate time for tasks with drag-and-drop functionality to help you stay well organized. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007.

Manage all your customer and prospect information in one place.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a complete customer and contact management solution. Now you can centralize contact, customer, and prospect information in one place - including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks. You also can store all types of communications with a customer in one place, including all e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Manage sales leads and opportunities better.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you manage sales leads and opportunities in one place, including contact information and communications history. The innovative dashboard feature provides a consolidated view of your customer and prospect information to help you make decisions and prioritize tasks. Enhanced reporting features include over 50 reports that you can easily modify for your unique business needs, and new filtering capabilities help you forecast and close sales. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Produce professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house.
Create and distribute professional marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail, and the Web. Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you easily establish a visual identity for your business using your own brand elements - including logos, colors, fonts, and business information - then easily share design and content elements across all types of projects and convert publications from one type to another. New tools and deeper integration with other Microsoft Office system programs help you easily distribute your publications and track your activities. Learn more about Office Publisher 2007.

Save and distribute your files in PDF format.
Save and distribute your marketing and communications materials in Portable Document Format (PDF) to preserve formatting, help ensure compatibility with commercial printers, and help ensure that customers and prospects will see your marketing materials exactly as you created them. Office Publisher 2007 and other Microsoft Office system programs make it easy. Learn more about Office Publisher 2007.1

Manage your marketing efforts more efficiently.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides new features to help you easily create, manage, and track marketing campaigns. Step-by-step guides lead you through the process. Create custom mailing lists and personalize print or e-mail marketing materials created in Office Publisher 2007 or Microsoft Office Word 2007. Then, use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to track and assess responses so that you can determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Create more professional-looking documents and presentations in less time.
Office Word 2007 includes new templates and tools that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and preview changes. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it quicker and easier to create dynamic presentations, includes an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts, and includes new graphic tools that help you create powerful charts, SmartArt graphics, and quickly preview formatting changes. Learn more about Office Word 2007 and Office PowerPoint 2007.

Analyze your information to make better decisions.
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 includes new tools for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you analyze business data more effectively. The new collection of predefined styles and enhanced charts and graphics helps you quickly apply a consistent and professional look to everything you create. Learn more about Office Excel 2007.

1 You can save as a PDF or XPS file from a 2007 Microsoft Office system program only after you install an add-in. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in.



Upgrade Information for Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business Upgrade

This upgrades from:

• 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

System Requirements for Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business Upgrade

• Operating system - Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) required
• Computer and processor - 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher; 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher; DVD drive; 1 gigahertz (GHz) and 512 MB of RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Hard disk - 2 gigabyte (GB) necessary for install; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive
• Monitor resolution - Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher recommended
• Internet connection - Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or greater, for download and activation of products
• Additional components - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later required for Outlook 2007 users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you will need to first install Outlook 2007

Note: The 2007 Microsoft Office suites including Office Basic 2007, Office Home and Student 2007, Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007, Office Professional 2007, Office Ultimate 2007, Office Professional Plus 2007, and Office Enterprise 2007 will have similar requirements.

Refer to the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Product Guide for details on the system requirements for the EPM Solution which includes Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Web Access, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Web Access.