Software

• Software makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information
• Provides a wide range of templates, including business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams
• With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape

Using Office Visio 2007, create professional-looking diagrams that communicate a wealth of information you can share with a broad audience. View larger.

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

Quickly Find and Use New Templates
Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals and lets you create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web. You can also save time by quickly accessing templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window.

Use the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007 to better understand complex processes, resources, and systems. View larger.

Get Inspired by Sample Diagrams
If you're not sure how to best display your important data, Visio 2007 can help by making it easy to find new sample diagrams. Simply open the new Getting Started window and use the new Samples category. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.

Display Data Attractively in Diagrams
The Data Graphics feature lets you display data attractively in diagrams, and you can choose from a number of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape. You also have the option of easily refreshing data in diagrams, thanks to the new Refresh Data feature. If data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task pane.

Using Office Visio Professional 2007, visually explore data by using diagrams to identify issues and exceptions. View larger.

Connect Shapes Without Drawing Connectors
You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to build interesting diagrams--Visio 2007 gives you the tools to connect shapes without drawing connectors. The new AutoConnect functionality connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you--all with only one click. In fact, when you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Identify Trends and Issues
One of the benefits of creating diagrams is that you can more readily identify trends and issues and then act on them. First, you might choose to make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Then it's a snap to visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and exceptions, and then act on them. Finally, you can analyze, drill down into, and create multiple views of business data to gain insight into it. Thanks to all these options, Visio Standard 2007 gives you the power to revolutionize the way you present information to colleagues and clients, which can positively affect productivity and your bottom line.

• Software makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information
• Provides a wide range of templates, including business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams
• Gives you the option of saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options

Using Office Visio 2007, create professional-looking diagrams that communicate a wealth of information you can share with a broad audience. View larger.

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

Quickly Find and Use New Templates
Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals and lets you create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web. You can also save time by quickly accessing templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window.

Get Inspired by Sample Diagrams
If you're not sure how to best display your important data, Visio 2007 can help by making it easy to find new sample diagrams. Simply open the new Getting Started window and use the new Samples category. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.

Display Data Attractively in Diagrams
The Data Graphics feature lets you display data attractively in diagrams, and you can choose from a number of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape. You also have the option of easily refreshing data in diagrams, thanks to the new Refresh Data feature. If data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task pane.

Connect Shapes Without Drawing Connectors
You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to build interesting diagrams--Visio 2007 gives you the tools to connect shapes without drawing connectors. The new AutoConnect functionality connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you--all with only one click. In fact, when you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Use the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007 to better understand complex processes, resources, and systems. View larger.

Identify Trends and Issues
One of the benefits of creating diagrams is that you can more readily identify trends and issues and then act on them. First, you might choose to make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Then it's a snap to visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and exceptions, and then act on them. Finally, you can analyze, drill down into, and create multiple views of business data to gain insight into it.

Reach a Broader Audience
The Theme feature in Visio 2007 makes it easy to format the colors and effects (text, line, fill, shadow, and connector formatting) in an entire diagram with a single click. It even uses the same color palette as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs so that you can design professional-looking Visio diagrams that match your presentations and documents. New 3-D Workflow shapes, which were designed with the new Theme feature in mind, command attention, while the option to save in PDF or XPS file format can help you reach a broader audience. You can even view Visio diagram attachments from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Automatically Connect Diagrams to Data Sources
With the new Data Link functionality, Visio 2007 gives you the option of automatically connecting diagrams to data sources, such as Excel 2007 spreadsheets or Access 2007 databases. You can also save time associating data with shapes by using intuitive new linking methods, which populate each shapes' properties (also known as shape data) with data values. For example, you can link all the shapes in a diagram to rows of data from connected data sources by using the new Automatic Link Wizard.

Effectively Track Reports
Visio 2007 also gives you the flexibility to generate reports directly from within Microsoft Office Project and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server that track project tasks, owners, roles, responsibilities, and depict complex project ownership structures. And it's no problem to add new details as they become available because Visio 2007 automatically modify the reports as project information changes.

Using Office Visio Professional 2007, visually explore data by using diagrams to identify issues and exceptions. View larger.

Share Diagrams With Others
Visio 2007 gives you the option of saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options. On intranets and extranets, anyone who's using Visio Viewer with Windows Internet Explorer can view the diagrams from within Internet Explorer. Additionally, shared workspace functionality supports collaboration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Visio diagrams saved on a Windows SharePoint Services sites can be opened directly in Visio 2007 from the site, and even checked in and out from within Visio 2007. Specifically, when a diagram is opened from a Windows SharePoint Services site, Visio 2007 opens a Shared Workspace task pane that contains all of the information in the workspace, including other files, members, tasks, and links.

Easy Collaboration
With the Track Markup feature, multiple people can collaborate on the same Visio diagram. Generally used for reviewing a diagram and incorporating feedback, Track Markup helps make each reviewer's contributions clear to other reviewers and to the person who eventually incorporates the revisions in the diagram.

Customize and Extend Visio 2007
You have the option of extending Visio 2007 programmatically or by integrating it with other applications to fit your industry-specific scenarios or unique organizational requirements. Visualize custom solutions with Visio 2007 diagrams, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), data flow, and Microsoft Windows user interface diagrams, by using templates in the Software and Database category. The Visio 2007 software development kit (SDK) includes extensive samples, tools, and documentation to simplify and speed up development of custom applications. The SDK provides a set of reusable functions, classes, and procedures for the most common Office Visio 2007 development tasks and includes support for a broad range of development languages, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft Visual C++.

Visio Drawing Control
Using the Visio Drawing Control, developers can embed and program the Visio drawing environment in custom applications. This opens up new opportunities for solution integration, making it easy to include the power of Visio 2007 in any smart client application. Because the Visio Drawing Control can be integrated with the host application's UI, developers can take advantage of Visio drawing functionality as a smooth part of their application without having to develop similar functionality themselves. In addition, you can control several new features in 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. Each of these features has an associated application programming interface (API) that makes it possible to control the feature programmatically and new objects and members associated with it in the Visio object model.

Thanks to all these options, Visio 2007 gives you the power to revolutionize the way you present information to colleagues and clients, which can positively affect productivity and your bottom line.

• Student version intended for student and educational use only
• Quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles; compose and publish blogs directly from within Word
• Format your references automatically by selecting a predefined style guide, including APA, MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and others

Use Quick Styles in a Word document to easily choose and apply a new style. View larger.

The new tri-pane review panel of Office Word 2007 enables you to quickly compare or merge two versions of a document and helps identify moved text and tracked changes within tables. View larger.

You can use the Document Inspector to remove comments. View larger.

The new user interface of Office Word 2007 enables you to create documents more quickly than ever because it presents the right tools when you need them. View larger.

Office Word 2007 enables you to digitally sign your documents, so readers know they haven't changed since they left your hands. View larger.

Licensing Restrictions
Please note that this version of Microsoft Word 2007 is for non-commercial, non-commercial location, educational use only. This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students.) You can install this edition on up to three PCs in your home and this product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing or installations). You may not transfer your usage rights to another individual or allow them to install the program at another location. You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user. Finally, Microsoft provides only installation support for this product.

Ideal For Students
Word 2007 is full of tools and capabilities that can help improve the quality of your academic work. With this software you can type and organize lecture or research notes, create and edit professional-looking reports and papers, effortlessly add endnotes and footnotes, and import graphs and charts from other applications. Easy to use and navigate, Word 2007 helps you keep all your school-related documents in one place so you can store, revise, and review them whenever you need to.

Gather Information, Create Documents, and Communicate Effectively
Rich review, commenting, and comparison capabilities help you quickly gather and manage feedback from classmates and instructors, and advanced data integration helps ensure documents stay connected to important sources of information. With Word 2007 you can create professional-looking documents effortlessly; spend more time writing and less time formatting, all while communicating more effectively than ever.

New Interface and Tools
Together with a new, streamlined, results-oriented interface, Word 2007 gives you the tools you need to create professional-looking content. You can add Building Blocks of predefined content and reduce the errors associated with copying and pasting frequently used content, while the Quick Styles function saves you time by helping you format text and tables throughout your document. And to make sure you documents are consistent, Document Themes apply the same colors, fonts, and effects.

Add Building Blocks to an Office Word 2007 document to increase efficiency and reduce errors. View larger.

Professional-Looking Documents
SmartArt diagrams and a new charting engine help you add a professional look to documents, while shared diagramming and charting with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet software and the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation graphics program help ensure a consistent look across your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Compose and publish blogs directly from within Word and complete your blog posts with pictures, rich formatting, spelling checker, and more. When it's time to publish your blogs, you can do so directly from Word to many common blog services including Office SharePoint Server 2007, MSN Spaces, Blogger, TypePad, Community Server, and more.

Display Important Information
Word 2007 offers a variety of tools and functions to help you to express and display important information. For instance, the Equation Builder helps you construct editable, in-line mathematical equations using real mathematical symbols, prebuilt equations, and automatic formatting. Live word count keeps track of the number of words in your document as you type, and is always in view in the new user interface. In addition, typographic capabilities offer improved bulleted and numbered lists, numbered list styles, and new fonts designed to improve on-screen reading. To help keep you organized, Citation Manager and Reference Builder give you the ability to add references, footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents, tables of figures or tables of authorities. You can also format your reference automatically by selecting a pre-defined style guide, including APA, MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style, and others. There's even a Contextual Spelling Checker helps you avoid common mistakes and misuse of similarly spelled words.

Editing and Reviewing Tools
Word 2007 provides editing and reviewing tools that help you create professional documents faster than ever before. Live visual previews, predefined style galleries, table formats, and other content and other options are always at your fingertips. To help minimize time wasted re-typing, take advantage of new Building Blocks designed specifically for the addition of frequently used content to your documents. You can even create your own Building Blocks to simplify the addition of custom text, such as legal disclaimer text or other frequently used materials. For that professional touch, select from a predefined gallery of cover pages, pull quotes, headers, and footers.

High-Impact Graphics
Word 2007 helps you communicate more effectively with high-impact graphics. New charting and diagramming features include 3-D shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other effects to help you create professional-looking graphics that result in more effective documents. Quickly apply a new look and feel to your documents using Quick Styles and Document Themes to change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout your entire document to match your preferred style or color scheme.

Keep Your Documents Safe and Secure
Word 2007 offers the Document Inspector feature to help you detect and remove unwanted comments, personally identifiable information, hidden text, or other information from the document so that private information stays that way. You can also add digital signatures to a document to help others verify that content has not been changed since it was published, or add a new signature line to prompt other Word users for their signature. Additionally, the Reading Mode offers you an immersive, full-screen reading experience that makes online reading easier, reducing the need to print the document. And because quality editing depends on the ease of viewing text, new navigation controls and typography display improvements make the reading experience better than ever.

Quickly Compare Two Versions of a Document
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. This feature is especially helpful for those drafting several versions of a long paper or presentation.

Convert Your Word Documents
With Word 2007, you can share documents in Portable Document Format file (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) format without using third-party tools. XML support facilitates smaller, more robust documents and deep integration with information systems and external data sources. Because Office Open XML Formats are compressed, segmented file formats, they offer a dramatic reduction in file size and help ensure damaged or corrupt files can be easily recovered.

• Easy-to-use software gives you the tools you need to create great-looking presentations
• PowerPoint Slide Libraries let you repurpose slides from existing presentations stored on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects that grab attention

Create powerful diagrams using the new, rich formatting tools in Office PowerPoint 2007. View larger.

Save time creating content and help ensure your presentation is up to date using PowerPoint Slide Libraries. View larger.

Help ensure that your presentation does not change after it leaves your hands by using a digital signature. View larger.

Use Office PowerPoint 2007 to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations. View larger.

Re-Designed Interface
PowerPoint 2007 features a redesigned user interface with a new look and feel to make creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. You can now enjoy all of the rich features and capabilities of PowerPoint in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and helps you achieve the results you want more quickly and easily. PowerPoint offers a wealth of options that can help improve your business so you can create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams as well as relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram or modify and update existing diagrams. This new version also makes it easier than ever to take advantage of rich formatting options with the contextual diagramming menus.

PowerPoint Slide Libraries
Wish there were 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 SharePoint Server 2007 and easily repurpose the content later from within PowerPoint. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert can remain synchronized with the server version to help ensure your content is always up to date. You can also use the Slide Libraries to share custom layouts with others so that your presentations always look sharp and professional.

Document Themes For a Consistent Look and Feel
Make sure your presentations command attention with just one click by using Document Themes to help you change the style of your entire presentation. Change the background color as well as the colors of diagrams, tables, charts, and fonts--even enhance the style of bullet points. By applying a theme, you can be confident that your entire presentation has a consistently professional look and feel.

New Tools and Effects
Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects that grab attention. You can now manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. 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.

Effectively Share Presentations
Significantly improve the way you and your team members share and process information by communicating with users across platforms and devices. First, you can help ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XML Paper Specification (XPS) and PDF, which lets you share with users on any software platform. Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time by using the new, compressed Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format, which provide a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduces the burden on IT personnel. You can also fully interact with information stored in SharePoint Services anywhere, anytime. For added convenience, any changes you make to the presentation saved in Outlook will be reflected on the server version when you reconnect to your network.

Apply the Right Protections to Your Presentations
With PowerPoint 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007, you can send a presentation to your team for review or create a formal approval process and collect signatures on that presentation, making collaboration a smooth and easy process. You can also help protect the private information in your documents by detecting and removing unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector. For added peace of mind, add a digital signature to your presentations to help ensure that their content remains the same after they leave your hands, or mark a presentation as "final" to prevent inadvertent changes. Finally, 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 cannot be changed.

• Upgrade available on these qualifying applications: Microsoft Access 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Access 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; and any Microsoft Office XP suite
• PowerPoint Slide Libraries let you repurpose slides from existing presentations stored on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects that grab attention

Create powerful diagrams using the new, rich formatting tools in Office PowerPoint 2007. View larger.

Save time creating content and help ensure your presentation is up to date using PowerPoint Slide Libraries. View larger.

Help ensure that your presentation does not change after it leaves your hands by using a digital signature. View larger.

Use Office PowerPoint 2007 to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations. View larger.

Re-Designed Interface
PowerPoint 2007 features a redesigned user interface with a new look and feel to make creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. You can now enjoy all of the rich features and capabilities of PowerPoint in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and helps you achieve the results you want more quickly and easily. PowerPoint offers a wealth of options that can help improve your business so you can create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams as well as relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams. You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram or modify and update existing diagrams. This new version also makes it easier than ever to take advantage of rich formatting options with the contextual diagramming menus.

PowerPoint Slide Libraries
Wish there were 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 SharePoint Server 2007 and easily repurpose the content later from within PowerPoint. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert can remain synchronized with the server version to help ensure your content is always up to date. You can also use the Slide Libraries to share custom layouts with others so that your presentations always look sharp and professional.

Document Themes For a Consistent Look and Feel
Make sure your presentations command attention with just one click by using Document Themes to help you change the style of your entire presentation. Change the background color as well as the colors of diagrams, tables, charts, and fonts--even enhance the style of bullet points. By applying a theme, you can be confident that your entire presentation has a consistently professional look and feel.

New Tools and Effects
Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects that grab attention. You can now manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. 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.

Effectively Share Presentations
Significantly improve the way you and your team members share and process information by communicating with users across platforms and devices. First, you can help ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XML Paper Specification (XPS) and PDF, which lets you share with users on any software platform. Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time by using the new, compressed Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format, which provide a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduces the burden on IT personnel. You can also fully interact with information stored in SharePoint Services anywhere, anytime. For added convenience, any changes you make to the presentation saved in Outlook will be reflected on the server version when you reconnect to your network.

Apply the Right Protections to Your Presentations
With PowerPoint 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007, you can send a presentation to your team for review or create a formal approval process and collect signatures on that presentation, making collaboration a smooth and easy process. You can also help protect the private information in your documents by detecting and removing unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector. For added peace of mind, add a digital signature to your presentations to help ensure that their content remains the same after they leave your hands, or mark a presentation as "final" to prevent inadvertent changes. Finally, 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 cannot be changed.

• Upgrade version available to those who have Microsoft Visio Standard 2000-2002 or Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003
• Provides a wide range of templates, including business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams
• With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape

Using Office Visio 2007, create professional-looking diagrams that communicate a wealth of information you can share with a broad audience. View larger.

This upgrade version of Visio Standard 2007 is available to those who have one of the following qualifying applications: Microsoft Visio Standard 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003.

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

Quickly Find and Use New Templates
Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals and lets you create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web. You can also save time by quickly accessing templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window.

Use the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007 to better understand complex processes, resources, and systems. View larger.

Get Inspired by Sample Diagrams
If you're not sure how to best display your important data, Visio 2007 can help by making it easy to find new sample diagrams. Simply open the new Getting Started window and use the new Samples category. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.

Display Data Attractively in Diagrams
The Data Graphics feature lets you display data attractively in diagrams, and you can choose from a number of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape. You also have the option of easily refreshing data in diagrams, thanks to the new Refresh Data feature. If data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task pane.

Using Office Visio Professional 2007, visually explore data by using diagrams to identify issues and exceptions. View larger.

Connect Shapes Without Drawing Connectors
You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to build interesting diagrams--Visio 2007 gives you the tools to connect shapes without drawing connectors. The new AutoConnect functionality connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you--all with only one click. In fact, when you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Identify Trends and Issues
One of the benefits of creating diagrams is that you can more readily identify trends and issues and then act on them. First, you might choose to make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Then it's a snap to visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and exceptions, and then act on them. Finally, you can analyze, drill down into, and create multiple views of business data to gain insight into it. Thanks to all these options, Visio Standard 2007 gives you the power to revolutionize the way you present information to colleagues and clients, which can positively affect productivity and your bottom line.

• Work with over 2,500 ready-made designs
• Type anywhere on the page -- even on a curve
• Select from dozens of texture fills, ranging from woods and plastics to stones and marbles

• Upgrade version available to those who have one of the following qualifying applications: Microsoft Visio Professional 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003; Microsoft Visio Standard 2000-2002; and Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003-2007
• Provides a wide range of templates, including business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams
• Gives you the option of saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options

Using Office Visio 2007, create professional-looking diagrams that communicate a wealth of information you can share with a broad audience. View larger.

This version upgrade of Visio Professional 2007 is available to those who have one of the following qualifying Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003-2007.

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

Quickly Find and Use New Templates
Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals and lets you create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web. You can also save time by quickly accessing templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window.

Get Inspired by Sample Diagrams
If you're not sure how to best display your important data, Visio 2007 can help by making it easy to find new sample diagrams. Simply open the new Getting Started window and use the new Samples category. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.

Display Data Attractively in Diagrams
The Data Graphics feature lets you display data attractively in diagrams, and you can choose from a number of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape. You also have the option of easily refreshing data in diagrams, thanks to the new Refresh Data feature. If data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task pane.

Connect Shapes Without Drawing Connectors
You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to build interesting diagrams--Visio 2007 gives you the tools to connect shapes without drawing connectors. The new AutoConnect functionality connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you--all with only one click. In fact, when you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Use the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007 to better understand complex processes, resources, and systems. View larger.

Identify Trends and Issues
One of the benefits of creating diagrams is that you can more readily identify trends and issues and then act on them. First, you might choose to make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Then it's a snap to visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and exceptions, and then act on them. Finally, you can analyze, drill down into, and create multiple views of business data to gain insight into it.

Reach a Broader Audience The Theme feature in Visio 2007 makes it easy to format the colors and effects (text, line, fill, shadow, and connector formatting) in an entire diagram with a single click. It even uses the same color palette as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs so that you can design professional-looking Visio diagrams that match your presentations and documents. New 3-D Workflow shapes, which were designed with the new Theme feature in mind, command attention, while the option to save in PDF or XPS file format can help you reach a broader audience. You can even view Visio diagram attachments from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Automatically Connect Diagrams to Data Sources
With the new Data Link functionality, Visio 2007 gives you the option of automatically connecting diagrams to data sources, such as Excel 2007 spreadsheets or Access 2007 databases. You can also save time associating data with shapes by using intuitive new linking methods, which populate each shapes' properties (also known as shape data) with data values. For example, you can link all the shapes in a diagram to rows of data from connected data sources by using the new Automatic Link Wizard.

Effectively Track Reports
Visio 2007 also gives you the flexibility to generate reports directly from within Microsoft Office Project and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server that track project tasks, owners, roles, responsibilities, and depict complex project ownership structures. And it's no problem to add new details as they become available because Visio 2007 automatically modify the reports as project information changes.

Using Office Visio Professional 2007, visually explore data by using diagrams to identify issues and exceptions. View larger.

Share Diagrams With Others
Visio 2007 gives you the option of saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options. On intranets and extranets, anyone who's using Visio Viewer with Windows Internet Explorer can view the diagrams from within Internet Explorer. Additionally, shared workspace functionality supports collaboration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Visio diagrams saved on a Windows SharePoint Services sites can be opened directly in Visio 2007 from the site, and even checked in and out from within Visio 2007. Specifically, when a diagram is opened from a Windows SharePoint Services site, Visio 2007 opens a Shared Workspace task pane that contains all of the information in the workspace, including other files, members, tasks, and links.

Easy Collaboration
With the Track Markup feature, multiple people can collaborate on the same Visio diagram. Generally used for reviewing a diagram and incorporating feedback, Track Markup helps make each reviewer's contributions clear to other reviewers and to the person who eventually incorporates the revisions in the diagram.

Customize and Extend Visio 2007
You have the option of extending Visio 2007 programmatically or by integrating it with other applications to fit your industry-specific scenarios or unique organizational requirements. Visualize custom solutions with Visio 2007 diagrams, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), data flow, and Microsoft Windows user interface diagrams, by using templates in the Software and Database category. The Visio 2007 software development kit (SDK) includes extensive samples, tools, and documentation to simplify and speed up development of custom applications. The SDK provides a set of reusable functions, classes, and procedures for the most common Office Visio 2007 development tasks and includes support for a broad range of development languages, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft Visual C++.

Visio Drawing Control
Using the Visio Drawing Control, developers can embed and program the Visio drawing environment in custom applications. This opens up new opportunities for solution integration, making it easy to include the power of Visio 2007 in any smart client application. Because the Visio Drawing Control can be integrated with the host application's UI, developers can take advantage of Visio drawing functionality as a smooth part of their application without having to develop similar functionality themselves. In addition, you can control several new features in 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. Each of these features has an associated application programming interface (API) that makes it possible to control the feature programmatically and new objects and members associated with it in the Visio object model.

Thanks to all these options, Visio 2007 gives you the power to revolutionize the way you present information to colleagues and clients, which can positively affect productivity and your bottom line.

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• Get better results faster with a redesigned user interface. Office PowerPoint 2007 has a redesigned user interface with a new look and feel to make creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience. You now have all of the rich features and capabilities of PowerPoint in a streamlined, uncluttered workspace that minimizes distraction and helps you achieve the results you want more quickly
• Help ensure your content is up to date. With PowerPoint Slide Libraries, you can easily repurpose slides from existing presentations stored on a site supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Not only does this cut down the time you spend creating presentations, but any slides you insert from the site can be synchronized with the server version

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