March 16, 2011 Punjab Technical University, Assignment

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office System) is a Windows version of
the Microsoft Office System,Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial
stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume licensecustomers on November 30, 2006 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 (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. 1Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2
or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7. Office
2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office which is officially supported on Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition.

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 It has been replaced
by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint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.

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Speech recognition and handwriting recognition are now part of Windows Vista. Speech and ink
components have been removed from Office 2007. 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.

➢ Service Pack 1

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 was released on December 11, 2007. Microsoft published a list of
changes. 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.

➢ Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on April 28, 2009. Service Pack 2 is inclusive of Office
2007 Service Pack 1. It added improved support of ODF, XPS, and PDF standards as well as a large number
of bug fixes.

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Latest Version of MS Word

Version Features

MS Word 2007

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