Find and use the features you need.
The new and intuitive look and feel of Office Small Business 2007 makes it easier for you to find and use the features you need - when you need them. The appropriate menus and toolbars are displayed automatically based on the task you are working on.

Search, manage, and prioritize your e-mail.
Advanced search features in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager help you quickly find critical information. The Colour Category feature helps you sort and manage e-mail messages, while the improved junk mail screening and anti-phishing tools help you filter out undesirable e-mail.

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. Scheduled tasks appear on your calendar, and you can allocate time for tasks with drag-and-drop functionality to help you stay organised.

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

Manage sales leads and opportunities more effectively                           
As well as helping you manage your sales contacts, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you organise leads and opportunities in one place. The innovative dashboard feature provides a consolidated view of your customer and prospect information, to help you make decisions and prioritise tasks. Enhanced reporting features include over 50 reports that can easily be customised to your unique business needs, while new filtering capabilities help you forecast and close sales.

Produce professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house.
With Office Publisher 2007, it’s simple to create and distribute professional marketing materials and campaigns for print, e-mail and the Web. You can establish a visual identity or brand for your business - including logos, colours, fonts and business information - then easily share design and content elements across all types of projects and media. New tools and deeper integration with other Office 2007 programmes help you distribute your publications and track your activities quickly and simply.

Save and distribute your files in PDF format.
When you share your marketing and communications materials in Portable Document Format (PDF), you can be confident you’ll preserve formatting, be compatible with commercial printers, and help ensure that customers and prospects see your marketing materials exactly as you created them.

Manage your marketing efforts more efficiently.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager provides new features to help you easily initiate, manage and track marketing campaigns. Create custom mailing lists and personalise print or e-mail marketing materials in Office Publisher 2007 or Office Word 2007. Then with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can track and assess responses, to determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

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. Office PowerPoint 2007 speeds up the process of creating dynamic presentations, and includes an extensive library of customisable themes and slide layouts, plus new graphic tools to help you create high-impact charts and graphics.

Improve decision making with enhanced information analysis
Office Excel 2007 includes new tools for filtering, sorting and visualising information, to help you analyse business data more effectively. The new collection of predefined styles, along with enhanced charts and graphics, enables you to apply a consistent and professional look to everything you create.

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• 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
• 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
• 2 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
• CD-ROM or DVD drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system
• Certain inking features require running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later. Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device. Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services
• Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity
• Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007. To share data among multiple computers, the host computer must be running Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows XP Professional with SP2, or later
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply)
  Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system
  
  • 1 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher and 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Business Contact Manager. Business Contact Manager not available in all languages
  • 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant Search. Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory
  • Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64 bit OS

Office Professional includes Access 2007, Word 2007, Outlook 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Excel 2007, Business Contact Manager 2007, Publisher 2007, plus XML/IRM. Office Professional offers the most comprehensive solution for enterprise customers.

• Microsoft Office OneNote™ 2007 enables information workers to easily capture, organise, find and share their notes, so they can manage their information more productively from a single location.
• Office Project 2007 enables business and project managers to plan, budget, organise and measure simple or complex projects within a single software tool.
• Office Visio® 2007 is ideal for people who don’t have artistic skills but need visuals to help relay important information. Users can easily assemble diagrams using intelligent, pre-defined SmartShapes® symbols.

If you buy software ‘off the shelf’, known as Full Packaged Product (FPP), Microsoft offers free "warranty" support to certain FPP customers through the Microsoft support hotline.

Any business looking to buy more than five licences should consider a Volume Licensing agreement. These two or three year agreements represent good value for money for business customers; there is a range of agreements available, catering for different types of organisations.