With improved menus and tools, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities, new time and communication management tools, and more reliability and security, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or at work.

Create High-Quality Documents

New features and improvements include:

• Results-oriented menus and tools make it easier to find and use product features.
• More stable bullets and numbers help to consistently format documents.
• Enhanced text effects and diagram and graphics galleries provide more formatting choices.
• Office Styles create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs

Work with Enhanced Reliability and Security Features

New features and improvements include:

• Junk e-mail filter helps to significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
• Anti-phishing tools alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
• Document recovery tool helps retrieve Microsoft Office system documents after a system crash.
• Document Inspector detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find Commands and Help with Ease

New features and improvements include:

• Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
• The Help system offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet; larger, more informative tooltips provide help about commands.
• Menus and commands are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize Your Time and Communications

New features and improvements include:

• A flexible search tool helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
• A To-Do Bar brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail correspondence into one place.
• E-mail color categories help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
• An RSS aggregator offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007.

From http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/suites/standard/overview.mspx, 14/05/06