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Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment.

1. Be more productive with next-generation Microsoft Web technologies.
Enjoy a new level of support for creating and customizing next-generation SharePoint Web sites and technologies. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has deep editing support for the technologies underlying Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology, such as ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.

2. Customize SharePoint sites exactly the way you want.
Choose the format and content of your SharePoint pages with Office SharePoint Designer 2007 — the customization tool for the entire SharePoint family. You can tailor SharePoint sites to your needs and set brand requirements using the latest ASP.NET technology, established Web standards such as XHTML, and cascading style sheets.

3. Easily make or undo changes across entire SharePoint sites.
Make format and layout changes to entire SharePoint sites simply by editing the master page and modifying the SharePoint cascading style sheets. Undo changes to the home page using the Revert to Site Template Page command in Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

4. Maintain control over site customization.
Site administrators and IT managers can control exactly how Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used to help ensure information workers have an IT-managed and -compliant experience. Set up Contributor Settings for each role defined in the SharePoint site, and control access to specific actions.

5. Create workflows to automate business processes.
Automate business processes associated with SharePoint lists and document libraries using the Workflow Designer, a powerful and easy-to-use tool that comes with Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Set up custom workflow conditions and actions, link them to your SharePoint data, and deploy them with a single click, without installing server code.

6. Create interactive Web pages without writing code.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has a full set of tools to help you integrate data into SharePoint pages and present that data using XSLT in SharePoint sites. You can access tools for using XSLT Data Views, List View Web Parts, Web Part connections, ASP.NET controls, and workflow.

7. Integrate business data.
Create views and forms for working with a variety of data sources using tools supported by Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Build SharePoint Web pages that present and edit data coming from SharePoint lists and document libraries, XML files, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Web services, and enterprise systems.

8. Develop sites compatible with a wide range of browsers and Web standards.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has excellent support for creating Web pages based on Web standards such as XHTML and cascading style sheets and meeting Web accessibility requirements for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG and Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d), including built-in compatibility checkers for these standards.

9. Build advanced ASP.NET pages.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 supports creating and editing ASP.NET pages. It provides the same level of support as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for ASP.NET control hosting, property editing, toolbox, and Microsoft IntelliSense technology in Code View.

10. Manage and help protect your site.
Use reports in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to help manage your site by checking for broken links, unused pages, cascading style sheets usage, and master page usage. Site backup and restore features make it easy to save your site to a single file for helping to protect data or moving it to another server running Windows SharePoint Services technology.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, also available as part of Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007, makes it easy for business users to create and distribute impressive marketing materials in-house. Here are the top 10 ways Office Publisher 2007 can help your business connect with customers.

1. Efficiently create high-quality publications that reflect your brand identity.
The new Getting Started experience provides dynamic previews so you can easily create and apply your brand elements to all Office Publisher 2007 templates. First develop your brand identity using custom color schemes, font schemes, your logo, and your business information. Then apply your branding with one click by choosing from an extensive library of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, and e-mail formats.

2. Preview and access high-quality Microsoft Office Online templates from within Office Publisher 2007.
Get more Office Publisher 2007 templates free from Office Online. New capabilities in Office Publisher 2007 help you easily locate, preview, open, and save Publisher templates from Office Online right within the Publisher Catalog. View Office Online templates from within Office Publisher 2007 categories, or use the new Search tool to find just the right template quickly, whether it’s located on Office Online or included in Office Publisher 2007. You can also efficiently categorize, preview, open, and save your templates within My Templates for fast retrieval.

3. Connect with customers by personalizing your publications.
Use enhanced Mail Merge, Catalog Merge, and new E-Mail Merge to create personalized publications for print or e-mail distribution. Merge task pane options guide you through the process of selecting lists, adding text and image fields and personalized hyperlinks, or previewing and completing your mailing. Improvements in e-mail distribution and viewing, including support for sending multipage publications as a single page message, make it easier than ever to create and send publications as e-mail messages. Learn more about the enhanced Mail Merge features of Office Publisher 2007.

4. Convert your publications to PDF or XPS format.
Convert your publication to Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) format.1 With Office Publisher 2007 you can share and print publications in PDF and XPS without additional third-party tools. PDF settings within Office Publisher 2007 include options for creating PDF documents suitable for online viewing, desktop printing, and commercial press.

5. Simplify the process of creating publications with Office Publisher Tasks
Get assistance with common Publisher procedures and simplify the process of creating and distributing publications and marketing materials using new Publisher Tasks. Publisher Tasks include tips for personalizing your publication, preparing your mailing lists, preparing publications for commercial printing, reusing content, working with images, and more.

6. Combine lists within Office Publisher 2007 for targeted mailings.
Using improved Mail Merge, you can create, manage, and store a single customer list in Office Publisher 2007 by combining and editing customer lists from multiple sources, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access, and more.

7. Save time by reusing your work.
Several new and improved features help you make the most of the time you invest in your work. Save time and effort by storing frequently used text and graphics in the new Content Library to use in other Publisher publications. Or, quickly reuse content from one publication type, such as a multipage newsletter, by placing it into an e-mail template or Web layout for online distribution. Use the improved Save as Picture feature to save publication elements for reuse in other programs. You can also insert your existing text and graphics from other programs into your Publisher publications.

8. Build custom publications from a database.
Use the improved Catalog Merge to automatically build a publication by merging pictures and text from a data source (such as Excel or Access). Create custom publications of varying complexity, ranging from a datasheet to a sophisticated catalog.

9. Fine-tune your publications with powerful, intuitive design tools.
Whether you’re starting from a template or a blank publication, you can further customize and refine your publication using the rich collection of intuitive design, layout, typography, and graphics tools available in Office Publisher 2007. You can adjust tracking and kerning, create and apply multiple master pages, adjust grids and guides, use baseline alignment, insert images from a scanner or digital camera, recolor and crop images, and more. Before printing, publishing, or distributing your publications, be sure to run the improved Design Checker to quickly identify and correct potential commercial printing, Web, or e-mail problems.

10. Effectively manage and track your marketing campaigns.
Improved Office Publisher 2007 integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (available in Office Small Business 2007 and Office Professional 2007) provides new tools for managing and tracking Marketing Campaigns. Create your print or e-mail collateral in Office Publisher 2007 and use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager to easily track marketing materials you send and the responses you receive. Learn more about Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances; keep project teams aligned; and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.

Key reasons for using Office Project Standard 2007 include:

1. Effectively manage and understand project schedules.
Set realistic expectations with project teams, management, and customers using Office Project Standard 2007 to build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets. Understand the schedule with features such as Task Drivers for tracing the source of issues, Multiple Level Undo for testing scenarios, and Visual Cell Highlighting for automatically shading the tasks affected by a change.

2. Get productive quickly.
The Project Guide, an interactive step-by-step planning aide, helps you quickly master the project management process. Customizable for different methodologies, this tool walks you through creating a project, assigning tasks and resources, tracking and analyzing data, and reporting results. Intuitive toolbars, menus, and other features enable you to quickly master project management fundamentals.

3. Leverage existing data.
Office Project Standard 2007 integrates smoothly with other Microsoft Office system programs. Build projects with a few keystrokes by converting existing task lists in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Outlook into project plans. Resources can be added to projects from Microsoft Active Directory or from a Microsoft Exchange Server address book.

4. Build professional charts and diagrams.
Analyze and report Project data in professional reports and charts by using the Visual Reports engine, which generates templates for Visio diagrams and Excel charts based on Project data. You can share templates you build with other users. Or you can choose from a list of customizable, ready-to-use report templates.

5. Effectively communicate information.
Easily present information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders. You can format and print one-page schedules or other reports. Use the Copy Picture to Office Wizard to smoothly export Project data into Microsoft Office Word for formal documents, Office Excel 2007 for custom charts or spreadsheets, or Microsoft Office PowerPoint for crisp presentations.

6. Gain greater control of resources and finances.
With Office Project Standard 2007, you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust their assignments to resolve conflicts over allocations. Control finances by assigning budgets to projects and programs. Improve your cost estimates with Cost Resources.

7. Quickly access the information you need.
You can group Project data by any predefined or custom field. This saves you time by consolidating data so you can quickly locate and analyze specific information. Easily identify changes between different versions of a project—thus, efficiently tracking scope and schedule changes.

8. Track projects according to your needs.
A rich set of predefined or custom metrics helps you track data (percent complete, budget versus actual, earned value, and the like) relevant to your needs. You can track project performance over the project lifespan by saving project snapshots in up to 11 baselines.

9. Customize Office Project 2007 to your needs.
Tailor Office Project Standard 2007 specifically to your project. Choose custom display fields that integrate with your project schedule. Modify toolbars, formulas, graphical indicators, and reports. XML, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and Component Object Model (COM) add-ins facilitate data sharing and creation of custom solutions.

10. Get Office Project 2007 assistance when you need it.
Office Project Standard 2007 provides a wealth of assistance to novice and experienced users. It includes a robust Help search engine, smart tags, and wizards. Further enhancements include online access (requires Internet connection) to training courses, templates, articles, and more.

Note Internet service provider fees and connect-time charges may apply.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations while integrating security-enhanced workflow and ways to easily share this information.

Here are the top 10 ways that Office PowerPoint 2007 helps users increase productivity and improve collaboration.

1. Get better results faster with the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.
The redesigned look and feel of the Office Fluent user interface makes creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. Rich features and capabilities are presented in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and enables people to achieve the results they want more quickly and easily.

2. Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams.
Easily create high-impact and dynamic workflow, relationship, or hierarchy diagrams from within Office PowerPoint 2007. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram, or modify and update existing diagrams. It’s easy for users to take advantage of rich formatting options with new contextual diagramming menus.

3. Easily reuse content with Office PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries.
Wish there was a better way to reuse content from one presentation to another? With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, you can store presentations as individual slides on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and easily repurpose the content later within Office PowerPoint 2007. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert can remain synchronized with the server version, so your content is always up to date.

4. Communicate with users across platforms and devices.
Help ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XPS and PDF files for sharing with users on any platform.1

5. Use custom layouts to assemble presentations more quickly.
In Office PowerPoint 2007, you can define and save your own custom slide layouts so you no longer have to waste valuable time cutting and pasting your layouts onto new slides or deleting content on a slide with your desired layout. With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, it is easy to share these custom slides with others so that your presentations have a consistent and professional look and feel.

6. Accelerate your review processes using Office PowerPoint 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
With built-in workflow capabilities in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate, manage, and track review and approval processes from within Office PowerPoint 2007, enabling people to accelerate presentation review cycles across the organization without requiring them to learn new tools.

7. Uniformly format your presentations with Document Themes.
Document Themes enable you to change the look and feel of your entire presentation with just one click. Changing the theme of your presentation not only changes the background color, but also the colors, styles, and fonts of the diagrams, tables, charts, shapes, and text within your presentation. By applying a theme, you can be confident that your entire presentation has a professional and consistent look and feel.

8. Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new SmartArt graphics tools and effects.
You can manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in richer ways than ever before. Office PowerPoint 2007 makes these tools readily available through the streamlined user interface and contextual menus, so that in just a few clicks, your work can have greater impact.

9. Add more security to your PowerPoint presentations.
You can now add a digital signature to your PowerPoint presentations to help ensure their contents are not changed after they leave your hands, or you can mark a presentation as “final” to prevent inadvertent changes. Using content controls, you can create and deploy structured PowerPoint templates that guide users into entering the correct information, while helping to protect and preserve the information in the presentation that shouldn’t be changed.

10. Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time.
The new, compressed Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format offers a dramatic reduction in file size while also offering an improvement in data recovery for damaged files. This new format provides a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements and reduces the burden on IT costs.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management to help you save time, improve sales and marketing, and deliver better customer service. Organize and manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place. Track leads and opportunities throughout the sales cycle. Easily create, personalize, and track direct marketing campaigns in-house. And centralize your project-related information so you can stay organized and monitor tasks with automated reminders.

1. Manage all your contact, prospect, and customer information in one place.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager enables you to organize and manage all customer, contact, and prospect information — including contact information, e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents — in one place so that you can effectively manage your sales opportunities and activities and provide better service to your customers.

2. Manage sales leads and opportunities more effectively.
Manage your leads and prospect information in a single place so you can easily identify and follow up on opportunities throughout the sales process.

3. Easily manage marketing campaigns from concept to delivery.
Step-by-step tools walk you through the process of creating, distributing, and tracking personalized marketing campaigns.

4. Get a dashboard view of your key customer and prospect metrics.
The fully customizable dashboard provides an overview of your important information to help you make decisions and prioritize tasks.

5. Forecast sales and analyze data using flexible reports.
Choose from an array of customer, lead, and opportunity reports, then sort and filter information to help get a complete picture of your sales pipeline.

6. Customize your contact, prospect, and customer information.
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers additional options to help you tailor customer and prospect information to your needs.

7. Keep your project information in one place.
The Business Project feature helps you track, view, and access all your project-related information in one place, including Office Word documents, Office Excel spreadsheets, activities, e-mail messages, meetings, notes, and attachments.

8. Share information easily with multi-user access.
Provide employees with more secure multi-user access to customer, lead, and opportunity information.

9. Track customer and financial information together with Microsoft Office Accounting.
When you use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager combined with Office Accounting 2008, you can access customer financial history. Track billable time on your Outlook calendar and send it to Office Accounting 2008 for customer invoicing.

10. Stay in touch while you’re offline.
Go on the road with confidence, knowing you have access to your vital customer contact information. View and enter information in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager from your laptop or Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC, and synchronize your data when you return.

Office Outlook 2007 helps users better manage their time and information, connect across boundaries, and help remain safe and in control. Here are the top 10 ways that

1. Instantly search all your information.
Having problems finding the information you need? Use Office Outlook 2007 to search for keywords, dates, or other flexible criteria to locate items in your e-mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks to save valuable time. Instant Search in Office Outlook 2007 is fully integrated within the interface so you never have to leave Outlook to find the information you need.

2. Easily manage your daily priorities and information.
Check your priorities for the day by looking at the To-Do Bar where your flagged mails and tasks are clearly laid out. The To-Do Bar also connects tasks you may have stored in other Microsoft Office programs like Project, OneNote, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology. Finally, the integration of the To-Do Bar items on the calendar helps you easily schedule and block off time to follow up on items.

3. Get better results faster with the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.
Office Outlook 2007 has redesigned the look and feel of the messaging interface to make composing, formatting, and acting upon information an easier and more intuitive experience. You now have all of the rich features and capabilities of Outlook in an accessible and streamlined location, making it simple to navigate your options.

4. Connect with people easily and effectively.
New Office Outlook 2007 calendaring functionalities provide easy ways to share your calendar with anyone within or outside of your organization, giving your important contacts immediate access to your information. You can create and publish Internet calendars to Microsoft Office Online, add and share Internet calendar subscriptions, e-mail calendar snapshots, or even send a customized electronic business card to one of your clients, making it easy to communicate with anyone.

5. Increased collaboration and functionality with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Office Outlook 2007, used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2007, offers a rich and complete Outlook experience. Users benefit from a new scheduling assistant that automates time-consuming calendaring tasks, the ability to schedule and customize out-of-office communications, and managed folders that facilitate compliance needs. Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 also combine to deliver a new level of secure collaboration, offering multiple messaging approaches with enhanced security that are easy to use and reassure users they can be confident in the security of their messages.

6. Manage your shared information and content in one interface.
Office Outlook 2007 provides you a rich interaction with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology at any time. You can connect Windows SharePoint Services documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information to Office Outlook 2007, giving you a central place to manage your information. Additionally, you have full editing capabilities, so that any changes you make to this information stored in Office Outlook 2007 will be reflected on the server version.

7. Enjoy new measures that help keep you safe from junk e-mail and malicious sites.
Office Outlook 2007 has taken new measures to help keep you safe from junk mail and “phishing” Web sites. To help protect you from divulging personal information to a threatening Web site, Office Outlook 2007 has an improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn you about threatening content within an e-mail message.

8. Send text messages from Office Outlook with one easy click.
Outlook Mobile Service is a feature of Outlook that enables you to send and receive text and picture messages between Office Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. Outlook Mobile Service also enables you to forward Outlook e-mail, contacts, appointments, and tasks to yourself or other people as text messages. You can even set Office Outlook 2007 to automatically send e-mail, reminders, and your daily calendar as text messages right to your mobile phone.

9. Organize your information in new, rich ways.
Using Color Categories in Office Outlook 2007, you can easily personalize and add categories to any type of information — e-mail, calendar items, contacts, or tasks. Color Categories give you a simple, visual way to distinguish items from one another, so it’s easy to organize your data and search for information.

10. Manage all your communication in one interface.
With Office Outlook 2007, you can now read and manage your Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and blogs right from within Office Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this information. Using the integrated support for RSS feeds in Office Outlook 2007, you no longer have to leave Outlook to read the latest world news, catch up on your favorite sports team, or remain up to date on interesting blogs. It’s easy to get started adding these subscriptions using the built-in home page in Office Outlook 2007 provided by Office Online.

With Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, you can create rich, dynamic forms that teams and organizations can use to gather, share, reuse, and manage information — improving collaboration and decision-making throughout your organization. Office InfoPath 2007 can help you gather information more effectively. Here are the top 10 ways Office InfoPath 2007 can help you extend the effectiveness of your business processes.

1. Deploy InfoPath forms as Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail messages.
With Office InfoPath 2007, you can deploy forms as Outlook e-mail messages, so colleagues can complete forms without leaving the familiar Outlook environment. After you’ve collected the information in Office Outlook 2007, you can export it to a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet or merge the data back to a single InfoPath form.

2. Extend business processes beyond the firewall.
Office InfoPath 2007 and InfoPath Forms Services make it easy to extend forms solutions beyond your firewall because you can complete forms using many different Web browsers and mobile devices.

3. Easily convert Microsoft Office Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to InfoPath forms.
By converting Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to InfoPath form templates, you can build data integrity, improve version control, and add structure to information gathering by converting legacy documents to rich InfoPath form templates.

4. Make complex form design easier.
Office InfoPath 2007 helps people build forms with a simple drag-and-drop interface and provides support for prebuilt template parts and shared data connections.

5. Create PDF or XPS records of your form data.
With the addition of a free plug-in, you can create a Portable Document Format file (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS) version of your completed InfoPath form for archival and records management.1

1 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.

6. Master your forms workflow using Office InfoPath 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Use the integrated workflow management tools in Office SharePoint Server 2007 to drive information-gathering processes efficiently.

7. Design a single form for Web browsers and Office InfoPath 2007 clients.
Office InfoPath 2007 includes a design checker to help ensure consistency for forms deployed to InfoPath Forms Services.

8. Enhance protection of important information in InfoPath form templates.
Office InfoPath 2007 includes support for information rights management to help protect forms from inappropriate usage and distribution.

9. Centralize forms management for the entire organization.
InfoPath Forms Services of Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables organizations to centrally manage electronic forms by providing access to only those users who have a secure connection.

10. Develop advanced forms solutions with Office InfoPath 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Build InfoPath forms solutions by creating InfoPath projects hosted within Visual Studio 2005, so developers can build solutions using managed code and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Office Communicator 2007 is a unified communications client that helps people be more productive by enabling them to communicate easily with others in different locations or time zones using a range of different communication options, including instant messaging (IM), voice, and video. Integration with programs across the 2007 Microsoft Office system — including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Groove, and SharePoint Server — gives information workers many different ways to communicate with each other via a consistent and simple user experience.

Rich presence integration.
Immediate, visual representation of presence makes it easy to reach the person you need. By simply looking at a contact name, you can see whether a person is available, in a meeting, or out of the office and determine the best way to communicate with them. If a contact you need is not available, you can tag them to receive notification when their status changes.

Let others know the best way to contact you.
While presence is set automatically based on your Outlook calendar, computer activity, and whether you are on a call, you can also choose to set your status manually and/or add a custom message to control how and when others contact you. You can control who can see your information by assigning contacts to groups. For instance, you can create a list of preferential contacts who are allowed to reach you even if your status is set to Do Not Disturb.

Immediate access to all your contacts.
You have immediate access to all the contacts from the corporate directory and your Outlook contacts. You can also add e-mail-enabled Corporate Distribution Groups without having to recreate them manually in your contact list. In addition, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 provides support for adding contacts from public instant messaging services such as Windows LiveT, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo!.1

Multi-select contacts for single click conferencing.
With Office Communicator 2007, you can initiate a multi-party conversation using IM, phone, or video by selecting multiple contacts at once. Select multiple names in your Contact List and right click to choose an option such as Send an Instant Message or Start a Conference Call.

Choose the communication method that most suits your needs.
Use Communicator 2007 to start an IM session and add audio and video as the situation demands. Switching between different modes of communication and bringing more people into the conversation is easy through the intuitive interface, one-click actions, and presence information.

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Access files from anywhere

Access documents from almost any computer with a Web browser
No more flash drives—documents are there when and where you need them
Password-protected sharing; you control who can view and edit your work

Work with programs you know

Save over 1,000 Microsoft Office documents in one online place
Open and save files from familiar programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Outlook

How much does Microsoft Office Live Workspace cost?

It’s free. No purchase or credit card information is required. Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta may eventually include advertising, but we’re still testing different designs. At some point, we may also offer additional features or services at a charge.

What is a workspace?

A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.

Who is it for?

Anyone who uses Microsoft Office can benefit from this service. If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the following questions, this service is for you:

Do you save information on a flash drive or send yourself documents via e-mail to work on later?
Do you need to access work files when away from your office?
Do you need to access school documents when away from your desk (at the library, home on break, etc.)?
Do you share documents via e-mail and then manually merge all the comments later?
Do you use e-mail to coordinate and share information with your sports clubs, PTA, study group, etc?
Are you planning an event and coordinating with multiple people or vendors?