Microsoft Office

Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

Overview
Users of the Microsoft Office XP and 2003 programs Word, Excel, or PowerPoint—please install all High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update before downloading the Compatibility Pack.

By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. For more information about the Compatibility Pack, see Knowledge Base article 924074.

Note: If you use Microsoft Word 2000 or Microsoft Word 2002 to read or write documents containing complex scripts, please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925451 for information to enable Word 2007 documents to be displayed correctly in your version of Word.

Administrators: The administrative template for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint converters contained within the Compatibility Pack is available for download.

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2
Recommended Microsoft Office programs:

Microsoft Word 2000 with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Excel 2000 with Service Pack 3, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 with Service Pack 3

Microsoft Word 2002 with Service Pack 3, Microsoft Excel 2002 with Service Pack 3, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 with Service Pack 3

Microsoft Office Word 2003 with at least Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with at least Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 with at least Service Pack 1

Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003

Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003

Instructions
To install this download:

Ensure your system is up to date by installing all High-Priority/Required updates on Microsoft Update (required for Microsoft Office XP and 2003 users).

After installing all High-Priority/Required updates with Microsoft Update, download the Compatibility Pack by clicking the Download button above and saving the file to your hard disk.

Double-click the FileFormatConverters.exe program file on your hard disk to start the setup program.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

To remove this download:

On the Windows Start menu, click Control Panel.

Select Add/Remove Programs.

In the list of currently installed programs, select Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system and then click Remove or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.

Click Yes or OK to confirm that you want to remove the program.

Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy-monitoring application for eco-conscious consumers. You can use it to more actively control your PC’s energy consumption — and subsequently your household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Feature Summary

Made for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista PC users, Verdiem’s Edison enhances the operating systems’ existing power settings with increased overall energy savings and provides a consumer-friendly user interface that makes it easy to set up and manage. Endorsed by Microsoft and Climate Savers, Verdiem’s Edison enables consumers to measure, monitor, and manage their PC energy efficiency in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Features include:

Scheduling. Identify work and non-work schedules to optimize power schemes based on when your PC is in use or on standby. Settings. Choose from among several options for power savings and settings. Estimated Savings Reports. Find information that shows how PC power settings correlate to money, kWh and CO2 savings. Intuitive User Interface. Drag easy-to-use sliding bars to choose settings and instantly see the power and monetary savings. Clearly marked tabs make the interface easy to navigate.

System Requirements

System requirements for Edison are Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista; 256 MB RAM; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later; 7 MB free hard disk space. If .NET 2.0 is not already installed, 280 MB of additional disk space is required.

Edison was developed by Verdiem, a company that has helped enterprises the world over reduce energy waste from IT devices. Now Verdiem is bringing Edison into your home—at no cost whatsoever. Download Edison and start saving energy today!

From the “Inside Office Online blog”: Our downward spiraling economy and the increasing number of failing businesses got me thinking about people who are out of work or facing potential layoffs. I’ve been in that position once or twice in my life, so I understand how overwhelming it can feel to have to drag out the resume yet again and go through interviews. One of the qualities Microsoft values in employees is the ability to deal with this sort of ambiguity - to adapt, to change, to do something you may never have done before. It’s the nature of our business - you experiment, you learn, you start something new. Repeat.

Which brings me back to all the people out there who may be in the process of reinventing themselves. It seems computers are ubiquitous in many jobs these days. I’m curious about a few things.

How many of you have enhanced your resume to claim computer skills you had to learn on the fly after you got the job?
What Office programs do you use the most and what tricks have you learned that make you more efficient?
Would it help to have a cheat sheet, for example, of the top 10 Excel skills you should know for almost any office job?
What are the most useful tips you’ve picked up in your job? (Anything counts -from using the sort feature in Excel to formatting a document.)
Did you learn on your own, or did someone you work with show you a special shortcut or trick that has made things easier for you?

Besides just downloading a template and updating your resume, where do you feel you could use some help polishing those skills that will help you move on and move up to the next best thing?

From Zeyad Rajabi : My last blog post series was about building blocks and backwards compatibility. In this series, I’ll cover how Word is used within Outlook. We typically refer to the experience of using Word within Outlook as WordMail. In my next few posts, I will talk about what to expect from WordMail, improvements in the reading and search experiences, and, lastly, tips and tricks composing emails with WordMail.

Why was this design bad? Well, having two different rendering engines led to differences in the way emails looked at compose time vs. receive time, especially when dealing with East Asian features like vertical text. So much for WYSIWYG. In addition, authoring emails within Internet Explorer (when the abovementioned “Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages” was turned off) was frustrating due to the lack of features contained within that authoring experience.

In Office 2007, we made a big change to the reading and composing experience within Outlook. We fully integrated Word as the core renderer and composer of emails. That’s right, we use only Word to read and write emails for all message formats. Why, you might ask?

The main reason is that we wanted to provide our customers with a consistent end-to-end user experience when composing and reading emails. Using Word to read and write emails allows for a truly WYSIWYG experience with Outlook 2007. In addition, Internet Explorer, at least prior to version 8, focused on the rendering of HTML content and not on the content itself. Using Word allowed us to build richer reading experiences based on the content of emails. Lastly, from a maintenance point of view, the fact that Word and Outlook are part of the same Office umbrella makes releasing and supporting much less complicated.

The goodness of Word for composing emails
It’s no secret that in today’s world of fast-paced communication we are writing a whole lot more emails than Word documents. That begs the question: Isn’t an email just a type of document? If so, why not bring the goodness of Word authoring to email?

With Outlook 2007 and WordMail, you have all the power of Word for emails as well as for documents.

If you are not familiar with creating Outlook tasks flags from OneNote notes and synchronizing them, you can read about the basic here: OneNote and Outlook task syncing.

This post is about using OneNote and Outlook task sync for in team shared notebook. (What’s a shared notebook? Look in the help sections or online at microsoft OneNote 2007)

Summary: If you create a list of team tasks in a OneNote shared notebook, you can make them into Outlook tasks and assign them to team members. The nice thing in OneNote 2007 B2TR is that these tasks will keep synching with the OneNote shared notebook for any of the team members who have the task in their Outlook (assigner, or assignee) and the notebook open.

When is this useful?

Your team may want to keep track of particular project tasks in one place - on a page in in the shared notebook with the rest of project materials (ideas, reference materials, drafts, comments, etc.). This is often done for a list of action items from meeting notes (e.g. recurring status meeting), or just a list of work items for the team. Each team member responsible for a particular task can still have the task in their own Outlook and manage it in whatever way they like managing their Outlook tasks. But the task will also sync with the shared notebook if they have it open. So the other team members can see that the task has been done when they review the shared notebook page.

What’s that thing on your to-do list that just stays there? That task you know needs to get done, but it’s just out of your comfort zone or just nags at you.

Or perhaps you want to provide your services for some $$$ to those folks who need some help.

It could be something small like:

Translate a letter
Copyedit that report
Research a company
Re-design your stationary
Update a Web site
Something else……?

With Microsoft’s new Task Market, you can find folks who would be happy to take those assignments on.

How Task Market Works :

Poster: Post a Task
It’s free! Describe your task by filling out a simple form.

Solver: Get Started
Create a profile to describe what you can do. Subscribe to e-mail alerts to get notified when new tasks are posted.

Poster: Find a Match
Review profiles of interested freelancers and give your favorites permission to match with you. The first one to commit starts work.

Solver: Find a Match
When you’re found an interesting task, request the poster’s permission to learn more and work on it. When you want to commit, “Take the task” to begin work.

Poster: Review Solutions
Communicate privately to collaborate on solutions. Pay only when you’re satisfied.

Solver: Solve the Task
Upload solutions and discuss them privately with the poster.

Poster: Make Payment
Pay your Task Solver via PayPal, the most trusted name in web transactions.

Solver: Get Paid
Set up a PayPal Business Account and get paid when the poster accepts your solution.

About Task Market
Microsoft Task Market connects small businesses with skilled freelancers for marketing and other document help such as graphic design, writing and editing, document translation, and creating or enhancing presentations and spreadsheets. By focusing on tasks accomplished using applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access, Task Market makes it quicker and easier for small businesses to get their task done.
Task Market is a “tech preview”, which means the site is in its infancy and still evolving. If you have feedback or suggestions, we would love to hear what you have to say. Send us an e-mail with your thoughts!

Microsoft Task Market Tech Preview does not charge to use the site. Posting a task is free. Task Market also does not charge freelancers who solve tasks; however, PayPal does charge a fee for transactions to their Business Accounts. When you receive money through the Task Market site, you may be subject to PayPal’s fee.

Registration Information
Creating an account on Task Market allows you to post tasks, solve tasks, create a public profile, and subscribe to e-mail notifications to find out about newly-posted tasks. Registering is free and easy, and requires signing into the site with a Live ID account. You will also be asked to choose a username and supply an e-mail address to receive task updates.

Here are the Top 7 Microsoft Employee Bungles using Microsoft Office

1. Opening dangerous attachments. Viruses like Melissa (”I love you!”) were a huge problem at Microsoft. The kicker about it is that everyone acted flabbergasted and incredulous. “What sort of idiot clicks on these things?!” It’s like Hootie and the Blowfish: the best-selling debut album of all time has no fans. Have you ever met a single person who admitted to owning Cracked Rear View? Same with Melissa.

2. Forgetting to include attachments. This is the evil twin of #1: in addition to clicking on harmful attachments, we forget to include useful attachments. So when you see an email with the subject “Foolproof Plan for World Peace — Part Deux,” don’t get too excited. As awesome as the plan probably is, it’s almost definitely not attached to the email.

3. Replying-all to huge mailing lists. Any email to a large alias inevitably results in someone (no doubt a proud Hootie CD owner) replying to everyone. The threads are always the same. Something rather mundane or obscure is sent to thousands of people. Then the fan mail starts pouring in:
“Why am I on this list?”
“Unsubscribe.”
“Please also remove me!”
“Please stop replying to everyone — there are thousands of people on this alias.”
“Me too!”
“SERIOUSLY — STOP REPLYING ALL!”
“Why are you shouting?”
“We never talk anymore.”

4. The most famous of these threads at Microsoft started on a mysterious distribution list called “Bedlam DL3.” 25,000 employees, 15.5 million e-mails, 195 GB of bandwidth, busted network. T-shirts were printed to commemorate the event.

5. Putting aliases in the “To:” field in order to see who’s in them. To see names on an alias, you can put the alias in the “To:” field of an email and double-click it … if you’re a complete idiot. A friend of mine (”Jimmy”) almost got fired by an executive for doing this. A product that this executive was in charge of was getting cancelled, but her team didn’t yet know it. When Jimmy heard the scoop, he wrote his boss an e-mail that essentially said, “Hey there, so-and-so’s team is getting canned. Here are the only three people worth keeping…” He then proceeded to add so-and-so’s entire team to the “To:” line in order to find out the names of the “only three people worth keeping.” The rest of what happened is left as an exercise to the reader.

6. Projecting a PowerPoint presentation. The amount of time wasted at Microsoft sitting in conference rooms waiting for the presenter to get the slides to work is mind-boggling. Does the projector handle your resolution? Press Fn-F5! Click the little icon in the lower left to resume your slide show. Not that icon! The other one! Oh, the screen saver’s kicked in. Your laptop’s suspending!
Getting instant messages (IMs) during presentations. Once the presentation is going, IM notifications inevitably pop up on the screen. This tends to happen most when you’re presenting in front of hundreds of people. “Yo! How did the [blind-date/colonoscopy/armed-robbery] go?” “Hi, [term of endearment]! I can’t wait to [verb] your [adjective][noun] [now/tonight/again/forever]!” I’m told that the latest version of Office fixes this. Let’s hope so.
Note From the Editor: In 2007 Office system, Desktop Alerts for incoming e-mail messages are turned off by default when you run a PowerPoint 2007 presentation. See Turn Desktop Alerts on or off for more info.

7. Using Excel to cover up Unreal Tournament. Well, I’ve only seen this once, but it’s so eponymous that it deserves to be celebrated. A few years ago, one of my team members frantically maximized Excel as I walked into his office. As I began discussing a technical issue with him, sounds of gunfire, grenades, and general human suffering erupted from his speakers. I had a difficult decision to make while recovering from my brief initial confusion: Do I acknowledge what was already mutually embarrassing and awkward, or do I ignore the obvious? I decided to conduct our technical discussion with the idyllic calm of a wartime correspondent. To his credit, I now know that should push come to shove, my team member could calmly discuss a spec during Armageddon without batting an eyelash.

As you can see, Microsoft employees are often just as befuddled as everyone else. It would blow your mind if you could hear how frequently basic Office tips are shared in my hallway at work. Spend a day here, and you’ll find it impossible to believe that we’re all Office mavens marching lockstep towards a streamlined plan for world dominion.

Then again, Office 2007 is far easier to use. I’m impressed by the many improvements in its user interface. So in a funny way, perhaps we’re no longer as harmless as we used to be. World dominion may be within our grasp after all.

If we could only remember to attach our plan in email…

Customers worldwide use Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta in 11 languages as an on-ramp to Web-based storage and sharing.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that only six months after public availability, the beta release of Microsoft Office Live Workspace has reached the 1-million-customer sign-up milestone.

Office Live Workspace beta (http://workspace.officelive.com) is the free, Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. The Workspace beta was among the first entries in the new wave of online services that embody Microsoft’s software-plus-services vision previewed last fall. In just six months, it has achieved significant interest from consumers, schools and universities globally, and has added 11 languages and 20 new features such as multi-file upload, activity panels and improved Firefox support.

“The pace at which people are signing up for the beta tells us that they are looking for ways to resolve the complexities of their work, school and home projects through a range of choices,” said Kirk Gregersen, director of consumer and small-business product management for Microsoft Office. “It takes companies years to attract a strong customer base such as this. We’re excited about Office Live Workspace growth and innovation yet to come.”

Office Live Workspace Beta Celebrates Its Half-Birthday

Keeping up with the fast pace of innovation, Office Live Workspace beta has grown since its introduction six months ago on March 3, 2008. Based on customer feedback, many new and notable features have been added to the service:

• Activity panel. The activity panel shows all the activity in a Workspace at a glance.

• Notifications. People can receive e-mail notifications about changes made to their Workspace or documents.

• Direct links. People can bookmark a Workspace or a Workspace item via a unique URL in a browser window.

• Multi-file upload. Users can upload several files simultaneously by simply dragging and dropping from their desktop.

• Improved sharing. Sharing functionality includes an easier user interface and auto-completion of e-mail addresses.

• Firefox support. With the Office Live Update 1.2, improved support for the Firefox Web browser includes an “edit button” for Office documents and the ability to upload multiple files through that browser.

Originally launched worldwide in English, Office Live Workspace beta is now available in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Traditional Chinese, bringing the total number of languages to 11.

“One in a Million” Shares His Story

Customers all over the world are finding that Office Live Workspace beta provides a central place for easy, immediate document sharing. People are using the Office Live Workspace beta to track and communicate health status to family members and to doctors; share ideas and research among a small group of clergy; and plan a wedding or family reunion. Twelve Live@edu universities and colleges across the U.S., including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and Vanderbilt University, were early adopters of the Office Live Workspace beta. Students, faculty members and administrators all enhanced sharing and collaboration within the classroom among student teams and extracurricular projects. Approximately 72 percent of the students that piloted Office Live Workspace beta reported that they plan to continue using the service, and 89 percent would recommend the service to a friend.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 helps people create and share professional-looking content by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Here are the top 10 ways Office Word 2007 can help you create professional-looking content faster.

1. Spend more time writing and less time formatting.
The Office Fluent user interface presents the right tools when you need them, making it easy to format your documents quickly. Now you can find the right features in Office Word 2007 to make your documents communicate more effectively. Using Quick Styles and Document Themes, you can quickly change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout the entire document to match your preferred style or color scheme.

2. Communicate more effectively with SmartArt diagrams and new charting tools.
New SmartArt diagrams and a new charting engine help you create great-looking content with 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects.

3. Quickly assemble documents using Building Blocks.
Building Blocks in Office Word 2007 can be used to assemble documents from frequently used or predefined content such as disclaimer text, pull quotes, sidebars, cover pages, and other types of content. This will help ensure you don’t spend needless time recreating content or copying and pasting between documents; it also helps ensure consistency across all of the documents created within your organization.

4. Save as PDF or XPS directly from Office Word 2007.
Office Word 2007 offers you a choice for sharing documents with other people. You can convert your Word documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without the addition of third-party tools to help ensure broad communication with users on any platform.1

5. Publish and maintain blogs directly from Office Word 2007.
You can now publish blogs directly from Office Word 2007. You can configure Office Word 2007 to link directly to your blog site, and use the rich Word experience to create blogs with images, tables, and advanced text formatting features.

6. Master your document review processes using Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
With built-in workflow services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and track document review and approval processes from within Office Word 2007 to help accelerate review cycles across your organization without forcing people to learn new tools.

7. Connect your documents to business information.
Create dynamic Smart Documents that update themselves by connecting to your back-end systems using new document controls and data bindings. By using the new XML integration capability, organizations can deploy intelligent templates to assist people in creating highly structured documents.

8. Remove tracked changes, comments, and hidden text from your documents.
Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector to help ensure that sensitive information doesn’t escape when your documents are published.

9. Use the tri-pane review panel to compare and combine documents.
Office Word 2007 makes it easy to find out what changes were made to a document. A new tri-pane review panel helps you see both versions of a document with deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly marked.

10. Reduce your file sizes and improve corrupt file recovery.
The new Ecma Office Open XML Formats offer a dramatic reduction in file size as well as improvement in recovery for damaged files. These new formats provide a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduce the burden on IT personnel.

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 drawing and diagramming software makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a glance. Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity. Use the wide variety of diagrams in Office Visio 2007 to understand, act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and processes throughout your enterprise.

Office Visio 2007 is available in two stand-alone editions: Office Visio Professional, and Office Visio Standard, which has the same basic functionality as Office Visio Professional but includes a subset of its features and templates. Office Visio Professional 2007 includes advanced functionality, such as data connectivity and visualization features, that Office Visio Standard 2007 does not.

Here are the top 10 reasons to use and upgrade to Office Visio 2007.

Visualize, explore, and communicate your systems, resources, processes, and the data behind them.
Effectively visualize, explore, and communicate your processes, resources, systems, and the data behind them with the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007. Find recently used templates and documents quickly using the new Getting Started window. Easily determine which template to use by viewing enhanced thumbnail previews. With Office Visio Professional 2007, open sample, data-connected diagrams from the new Samples category in the Getting Started window to get ideas for creating and designing your own diagrams.

1 Be more productive by integrating diagrams with information across sources.
Integrate data with diagrams to combine disparate sources of complex visual, textual, and numeric information. Data-connected diagrams provide visual context for data and create a complete picture of a system or process. More easily link diagrams to data from a variety of data sources by using the new Data Link functionality in Office Visio Professional 2007. Associate all the shapes in a diagram with data using the new Automatic Link Wizard.

2. Reduce manual data reentry by letting Office Visio 2007 keep diagrams up-to-date for you.
No need to worry about data in Visio diagrams being out of date. Using Office Visio Professional 2007, easily refresh data in diagrams by using the new Data Refresh feature, or schedule Office Visio 2007 to automatically refresh the data in the diagram at fixed intervals. Easily deal with data conflicts that may arise when data changes by using the new Refresh Conflicts task pane.

3. Visualize and act on complex information by displaying data in diagrams.
Visualize data in diagrams with Office Visio Professional 2007 so you can easily understand the data and effectively act on the results. Display data in any diagram as text, data bars, icons, and color-coding—all using the new Data Graphics feature in Office Visio Professional 2007.

4. Explore data and easily track trends, identify issues, and flag exceptions with PivotDiagrams.
Visualize and explore your business data in hierarchical form showing data groups and totals by using the new PivotDiagram template in Office Visio Professional 2007. Drill down into complex data, display data using Data Graphics, dynamically create different views of data, and better understand complex information. Insert PivotDiagrams into any Visio diagram to provide metrics and reports that help you track the progress of a process or system. Connect to a variety of data sources—including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project 2007, and Microsoft Office Excel 2007—to generate PivotDiagrams. More effectively track and report on resources and projects managed in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Project 2007 by generating visual reports from those programs in PivotDiagram form.

5. Create diagrams faster by letting Visio connect shapes for you.
Using new AutoConnect functionality, let Office Visio 2007 automatically connect, distribute, and align shapes in diagrams for you—all in one action. Just drag a shape onto the drawing page and position it over one of the blue arrows that appear on a shape that is already on the drawing page; Visio does the rest.

6. Communicate complex information with new templates and shapes.
Visually communicate in more ways with new and enhanced templates and shapes in Office Visio 2007. For example, in Office Visio Professional 2007, diagram IT service processes with the new ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template, or create diagrams based on Lean Methodology and visualize more-efficient manufacturing processes with the new Value Stream Map template. And, more easily find information on working with new and existing Visio diagram types in the new Office Visio 2007 Help window. Use it to easily search the entire Microsoft Office Online Web site directly from within Visio for answers to your questions, tips and tricks, and more templates.

7. Effectively convey information with professional-looking diagrams.
Design professional-looking Visio diagrams by choosing a color or effect (text, fill, shadow, line, and connector formatting) for an entire diagram by using the new Theme feature. Choose from the built-in themes included with Visio, or create your own custom themes. Office Visio 2007 uses the same built-in themes as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. So, if you apply the same built-in themes in your Visio diagrams that you use in your Microsoft Office Word documents and Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, they all match, making it much easier to use the files with one another. Also, design more dynamic workflows with the enhanced 3-D Work Flow shapes that were designed with the new built-in Visio themes in mind.

8. Communicate using diagrams and share them with a broad audience.
Provide cost-effective access to valuable organizational data by making it available through secure diagrams that are easy to share using Office Visio 2007, view in Windows Internet Explorer when you have the free Visio Viewer installed, or preview in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Adjust security and privacy settings for all 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, including Visio, at the new Trust Center. And, for audiences who don’t have Visio or Visio Viewer, save diagrams as Web pages, JPG files, or GIF files. Even save Visio diagrams in PDF format and in the new Microsoft XPS file format to make them more portable and reach broader audiences.

Note 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.

9. Customize Office Visio 2007 programmatically and create custom data-connected solutions.
Easily extend Office Visio 2007 programmatically or by integrating it with other applications to fit your industry-specific scenarios or unique organizational requirements. Develop your own custom solutions and shapes, or use those from Visio solution providers. Visualize your custom solutions with Visio diagrams, such as data flow and Windows user interface diagrams, by using templates in the Software and Database category of Office Visio Professional 2007.

10. With Office Visio Professional 2007 and the Visio Drawing Control, create custom data-connected solutions that make it easy to connect to and display data in any context. You can control several new features in Office Visio 2007 programmatically, including connecting to a data source, linking shapes to data, displaying linked data graphically, connecting shapes to one another automatically (AutoConnect), monitoring and filtering mouse-drag actions, and applying theme colors and theme effects. You can find more information on all new developer-related features in Office Visio 2007 on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and in the Visio 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK).