Get better results faster with improved menus and tools.

Office Home and Student 2007 has improved menus and tools to help you create documents faster, easier, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with menus and commands that present the right tools when you need them.

Easily find the help you need to get started.

Office Home and Student 2007 is easier to use, thanks to an improved Help system that provides tooltips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates.

Have better control and predictability when formatting documents.

Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents with more stable and predictable bullets, numbers, and tables. Also, new Microsoft Office Themes helps ensure a consistent appearance between the documents you create in Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, reducing the effort of working across the programs you use the most.

Create high-quality documents you can be proud of.

Office Home and Student 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents and presentations more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and live previews make it easy to visualize and apply professional-looking formatting changes.

Visualize key data trends using conditional formatting.

Office Excel 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting with new data bars and more colorful and gradual fills that you can use to format data based on specific rules, making it easier to identify key data trends.

Easily create and save custom slide layouts for use in later presentations.

Office PowerPoint 2007 helps you to create presentations with ease using prebuilt and user-defined custom slide layouts. With the new custom layout feature you can quickly create the precise layout you envision without being bound by one of the prepackaged, standard layouts. You can then save your custom layout for use in future presentations.

Organize your notes and information in one place.

With Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, you can gather, manage, and search almost any type of information—typed text, audio, video, digital handwritten notes, digital hand-drawn diagrams and pictures, graphics and photos from the Web, and information from other applications, including Microsoft Office system programs—in one place.

Improve the way your tables and spreadsheets look and print.

Office Excel 2007 has greatly improved support for tables, so you can create and format tables with greater ease. Use the improved Page Layout view with inline headers and footers to see where your spreadsheet might be cut when printed and to help ensure a more consistent output.

Remove private information from the documents you want to share.

Detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector. With just a few clicks, you can automatically detect and choose to remove sensitive information from your documents.

Ensure broader distribution of your documents and presentations.

New support for Portable Document Format file (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others. Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform.