You have to closely consider your options before making a selection. Consider a balance between the functionality, features and capabilities each suite provides and your actual needs. Just to make things as easy as possible, I have also included a comparison between the Office suites in the image towards the end of the article.
Well, let's get to it. Office Basic contains only Word, Excel and Outlook. In order to streamline your reading experience you have to imply that all the products mentioned in this article are an integer part of the Office System, unless mentioned otherwise. Unlike the Windows Vista operating system , the new Office does not demand the newest hardware. However, of course, this rules out those still using older versions of Windows.
Although the terms of the EULA were less than transparent, we were pleased that Microsoft offered the least intrusive installation settings by default. For example, Privacy Options leaves it up to users to hook up to online Help automatically, as well as to download a file that continually tracks system problems.
No Office shortcuts appeared on our desktop or in our system tray, either. The Office Shortcut Bar--a feature that disappeared in the version--is back, located within the Office Tools menu. Interface Once you open each Office application, you'll see a radically different, blue interface that's brighter than in the past.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint arrange features within a tabbed Ribbon toolbar that largely replaces the gray drop-down menus and dialog boxes from a quarter-century of Office software. The Office logo menu, docked in the upper left corner, bundles many commands from the old File and Edit menus.
Outlook lacks the logo button and adopts the Ribbon only within its message composition and scheduling windows. There's a core set of always-on tabs, as well as contextual tabs that hide until the software detects that you need them. For instance, the Picture Tools Format tab only shows up when you click on an image. We were stumped at first about how to format images, tables, and charts until we got used to clicking on them first. The Office programs, which share a new graphics engine, strongly emphasize ways to decorate documents.
Pull-down Style Galleries let you preview how new fonts, color themes, chart styles, images and such appear before you apply the change.
This is great for selecting from menus of fonts or page templates. At the same time, however, the "intelligent" shape-shifting may bewilder those who don't realize that they must click a style to apply a formatting change.
In most cases, the preformatted styles only present colors within the same range already used by your document. And sometimes the pull-down galleries jut into the document and obscure the charts or images you're trying to change, and you can't turn them off. Nor do the dynamic previews apply to all style elements.
For example, from the Page Layout tab of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you can preview Themes of colors and templates by mousing over them. But the Page Borders option takes you to an unhelpful, old-school pop-up box without dynamic previews. On the one hand, newbies to Office software, particularly young, visual learners, may find the interface easier to master than Office Icons label most of the commands, and many expand into pull-down menus.
There are inconsistencies, though, such as buttons that open older dialog boxes. And many items have moved to places that we don't find intuitive. For instance, the dictionary and thesaurus in Word are under the Review tab, not References near the footnote and bibliography buttons. Notice a pattern? Although the Home tab houses many frequently used features, it's not the first place we look for them.
After more than a year of alternating between Office and test versions of Office , we still found it hard to break old habits. Microsoft advertises the Ribbon's ability to help you "browse, pick, and click. Rather than piling on more features--Word alone had some 1, commands--Microsoft attempted to better show off functions that already existed. To some extent, the Ribbon meets this goal, as it's easier to find Conditional Formatting in Excel, among other sophisticated tools.
And the View tab in Word and Excel better provides options for viewing two or three open documents at once. You can customize Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to some extent, such as by adding buttons to the small, Quick Access Toolbar, but not as much as with their predecessors. Luckily, keyboard shortcuts remain the same; just press ALT at any time to see tiny "badges" that label the quick keys for the Ribbon's commands. We like that you can hide the Ribbon by double-clicking on any tab.
Plus, Microsoft has killed Clippy, the annoying animated pop-up assistant that would interrupt your work in Office A subtle new quick formatting toolbar in Word fades in and out near your cursor. Overall, our favorite interface tweak is the slider bar in the lower right corner that lets you zoom in and out with ease.
Features Many of the changes to Office feel skin deep. By that, we mean that there's a strong emphasis on making documents, spreadsheets, and presentations easier on the eyes. You can adjust the brightness of images, for instance, and add 3D effects such as drop shadows and glows to pictures and charts. And many of the features that might appear new are simply easier to stumble upon in the new interface. The useful Document Inspector provides old and new ways to clean up hidden metadata in files.
But don't expect too many new features. Word offers some basic tools that you'd otherwise look to in desktop publishing programs such as Microsoft Publisher or Adobe InDesign. A host of new templates as well as preformatted styles and SmartArt diagrams let you dress up reports, flyers, and so on with images and charts. License Category. Minimum RAM. Minimum Hard Drive Space. Buying Format. Only 1 left! Genuine Microsoft Office Small Business 3. Results Pagination - Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6.
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Quick Styles are galleries with a range of styles based on the current theme. There are quick styles galleries for text, tables, charts, SmartArt, WordArt and more. Microsoft Office Outlook can also include an optional Business Contact Manager which allows management of business contacts and their sales and marketing activities.
Phone calls, e-mails, appointments, notes and other business metrics can be managed for each contact. It can also keep a track of billable time for each contact on the Outlook Calendar. Based on these data, a consolidated report view can be generated by Microsoft Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager.
The data can be further analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel. This data can also be shared using SharePoint services. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server allows sharing and collaborative editing of Office documents. It allows central storage of documents and management of Office documents, throughout the enterprise. These documents can be accessed either by the applications which created them, Microsoft Office Outlook , or a web browser.
Documents can also be managed through pre-defined policies that let users create and publish shared content, through a SharePoint site. SharePoint server allows searching of all Office documents which are being managed by it, centrally, thereby making data more accessible. It also provides access control for documents. Specialized server components can plug into the SharePoint server to extend the functionality of the server, such as Excel Services exposing data analysis services for Excel services.
Data from other data sources can also be merged with Office data. SharePoint also lets users personalize the SharePoint sites, filtering content they are interested in. SharePoint documents can also be locally cached by clients for offline editing; the changes are later merged. Microsoft Office Forms Server allows InfoPath forms to be accessed and filled out using any browser, including mobile phone browsers.
Forms Server also supports using a database or other data source as the back-end for the form. Additionally, it allows centralized deployment and management of forms. Forms Server hosted forms also support data validation and conditional formatting, as does their InfoPath counterpart.
It also supports advanced controls like Repeating section and Repeating table. However, some InfoPath controls cannot be used if it has to be hosted on a Forms server. Microsoft Office Groove Server is for centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft Office Groove in the enterprise.
It enables using Active Directory for Groove user accounts, and create Groove Domains , with individual policy settings. Microsoft Office Project Server allows one to centrally manage and coordinate projects. It allows budget and resource tracking, and activity plan management. The project data and reports can also be further analyzed using Cube Building Service. The project management data can be accessed from a browser as well.
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally, so that the information is available throughout the enterprise, even from a browser. It also aids in centralized data aggregation regarding the project planning and execution, and in visualizing and analyzing the data to optimize the project plan. It can also support multiple portfolios per project, to track different aspects of it.
It also includes reporting tools to create consolidated reports out of the project data. Microsoft Performance Management allows users to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.
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