Office Ultimate 2007 will give people working at home access to the full lineup of 2007 Microsoft Office applications so they can create, find, manage and share information across boundaries using the toolset they're familiar with at the office.

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 provides people at home or work with a comprehensive toolset to gather and consolidate virtually any type of information, which they can easily share with others across geographical or organizational boundaries to deliver better results faster. Here are the top 10 ways Office Ultimate 2007 can help you.

– Get better results faster with a new streamlined user interface.

Office Ultimate 2007 has an improved user interface to help you create documents faster, more easily, and more intuitively. Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with commands that present the right tools when you need them.

– Create high-quality documents you can be proud of.

Office Ultimate 2007 has improved picture, charting, and graphics tools to help you produce better-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations more quickly. A large library of standard charts, quick formatting tools, and SmartArt diagrams make it easy to include rich and stunning visuals and charts.

– Preview your changes quickly.

Office Ultimate 2007 makes it easier to format your Microsoft Office documents with Live Preview. You can quickly preview proposed changes to your document while youre working on it without having to repeatedly search through layers of menus. By “test-driving” your proposed formatting, you can save time and experiment more easily.

– Collaborate easily with colleagues, partners, and customers—with one program.

No more switching tools when you need to work with people outside your organization. With Microsoft Office Groove 2007, you have a rich, security-enhanced collaboration environment in which teams can work together regardless of location or organization.

– Work effortlessly anywhere—online or offline.

Office Groove 2007 stores all your workspaces, tools, and data right on your computer—theres no need to connect to the corporate network to access information. You stay productive whether youre working in the office, at a customer site, on the road, or from home.

– Visualize key data trends using conditional formatting.

Office Ultimate 2007 features highly visual conditional formatting in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 with new data bars, more colorful gradients, and icons so you can format data based on specific rules and easily identify key data trends with visual cues.

– Organize your tasks and communications in one place.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 features a new To-Do Bar for organizing tasks, appointments and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. You can also view tasks on the calendar alongside your appointments. Tasks not completed roll over to the next day and accumulate until completed.

– Keep your e-mail more secure and reduce electronic junk mail.

Office Ultimate 2007 includes an enhanced junk e-mail filter in Office Outlook 2007 to help reduce electronic spam and protect against potentially harmful attachments. Office Outlook 2007 also includes security enhancements to help prevent "phishing," a fraudulent e-mail attempt to trick you into providing financial or personal information.

– Manage notes and information in one place.

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather notes and information, powerful search capabilities so users can find what they are looking for quickly, and easy-to use-shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively.

– Help ensure broader distribution of your documents and presentations.

New support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) file formats helps ensure broader distribution of your documents with others.1 Convert your files to PDF or XPS for sharing with users on any platform.