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Microsoft Office

In the last 15 years or so, Microsoft Office has evolved from a mere contender to the defacto standard in office productivity applications. If you work in an office, then it is probably expected that you already possess the knowledge to use Microsoft Word and Excel. Some may balk at Microsoft's domination of these office productivity apps, but the truth is, they are great apps that are basically easy to use.

Microsoft Office XP

The world's leading suite of productivity software, Microsoft Office helps you complete common business tasks, including word processing, e-mail, presentations, data management and analysis, and much more. See how the newest version, Office XP—with features like smart tags, task panes, integrated e-mail, document recovery, and send for review—can help you work smarter.

Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft Office XP

Get information when and where it's needed.
Context-sensitive smart tags provide speedy access to relevant information by alerting you to important actions—such as formatting options for pasted information, formula error correction, and more.

Accomplish more in less time.
New task panes put the tools you need just a click away, helping you find files and format content quicker than ever.

Access and analyze information easily from the Web.
Add data—such as stock tickers, weather updates, or news flashes—to your spreadsheets and databases, and automatically keep them up to date.

Express ideas in powerful, compelling ways.
Create professional-looking documents with enhanced formatting, editing, review, and Web integration features. Use new speech recognition to dictate text, direct formatting changes, and navigate menus.

Spend time creating, not re-creating.
Document Recovery gives you the option to automatically save your current document, spreadsheet, or presentation at the time an application stops responding, so you don't lose a moment's work.

Compare and merge changes easily.
Send for Review streamlines the feedback process for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint, giving the author full control over which comments and revisions to accept or reject.

Manage all your e-mail in one place.
Microsoft Outlook makes it easy to send and receive e-mails from multiple accounts, including MSN Hotmail. You can also send and receive instant messages with MSN Messenger—all within a single view.

Work together, wherever you are.
SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft allows the seamless sharing of information between Office XP applications and your team Web site. Team members can upload documents, participate in discussions and surveys, and add content such as announcements and events.

Coordinate schedules and activities easily.
Manage all appointment and task reminders in a single, consolidated Reminders window. Outlook makes it easy to resolve scheduling conflicts—you can quickly review your group's schedule and allow others to propose alternate meeting times.

Use the robust Office platform to meet your business needs.
IT professionals and developers can create customizable smart tags that give users access to context-sensitive information.

Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 can be your bridge between traditional business values and the new business environment. For example, competing effectively is as important today as it was before the personal computer, but the tools available have created an environment that requires more speed, collaboration, targeted data analysis, and reliability than ever before.

Office 2000 can help your organization succeed in this new environment because it finally makes the intranet a practical business tool. That's because it enables people to use the productivity tools they're already familiar with to collaborate quickly and easily over your existing intranet infrastructure.

Below is the "big picture" on the business value of moving to Office 2000.

Enhanced Communication and Collaboration

Your teams will be able to collaborate on projects more efficiently:

• Office 2000 builds upon productivity tools people already use every day by adding HTML as a standard file format. This means anyone in your organization can instantly share information with anyone else, no matter where they're located, via your intranet, simply by selecting Save as Web Page for any Office file.
• With Office 2000 you can now collect all of your team's best ideas in one place—holding discussions within files on the team intranet—so users don't waste time dealing with multiple copies of outdated files and weeding through feedback scattered in e-mails and documents.
• With Office 2000, it's easy to convert standard file servers into Web servers—a platform for team collaboration—which means that users no longer need a webmaster or special programming skills to create, manage, and update a dynamic team intranet site.

More Targeted Data Access and Analysis

Your teams will be able to turn data into results more quickly and effectively:

• With Excel and Access in Office 2000, users can access and analyze data wherever it resides in the organization, which can greatly reduce the dependence on the IT department to produce custom reports.
• With Outlook 2000, the messaging and collaboration client in Office 2000, users have a single, consolidated view of all of their key information—e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, folders, and Web sites—so they stay up-to-date and better informed.

Improved Ease of Use and Management

Your desktops running Office will be easier to manage and use:

• Office 2000 can easily be customized down to the feature level, which means that IT can now give teams exactly the Office functionality they need, when they need it, and where they need it—no more "one size fits all" installations of Office.

• The applications in Office 2000 automatically repair themselves when a user mistakenly deletes a file or a file becomes corrupted, so users stay more productive with less downtime and fewer support calls.

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