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Microsoft Office Word 2007 helps you produce professional-looking documents by providing a comprehensive set of

tools for creating and formatting your document in a new interface. Rich review, commenting, and comparison

capabilities help you quickly gather and manage feedback from colleagues. Advanced data integration ensures that

documents stay connected to important sources of business information.

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Share documents confidently

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Office Word 2007 provides editing and reviewing tools for creating polished documents more easily than ever before.

      
 

A new, results-oriented interface presents tools to you when you need them, in a clear and organized fashion:

Save time and get more out of the powerful Word capabilities by selecting from galleries of predefined

styles, table formats, list formats, graphical effects, and more.

 Word eliminates the guesswork when you apply formatting to your document. The galleries of formatting

choices give you a live visual preview of the formatting in your document before you commit to making a

change.

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Office Word 2007 introduces building blocks for adding preformatted content to your documents:

When you are working on a document from a particular template type, such as a report, you can select from

a gallery of preformatted cover pages, pull quotes, and headers and footers to make your document look

more polished.

If you want to customize the preformatted content, or if your organization often uses the same piece of

content, such as legal disclaimer text or customer contact information, you can create your own building

blocks that you select from the gallery with a single click.

 
        

 

New charting and diagramming features include three-dimensional shapes, transparency, drop shadows, and other

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When your company updates its look, you can instantly follow suit in your documents. By using Quick Styles and

Document Themes, you can quickly change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout your document

to match your preferred style or color scheme.



   

The following are some new features of the spelling checker:

The spelling checker has been made more consistent across the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs.

Examples of this change include:

Several spelling checker options are now global. If you change one of these options in one Office

program, that option is also changed for all the other Office programs. For more information, see

Change the way spelling and grammar checking work.

 In addition to sharing the same custom dictionaries, all programs can manage them using the same

dialog box. For more information, see Use custom dictionaries to add words to the spelling checker.

The 2007 Microsoft Office system spelling checker includes the post-reform French dictionary. In Microsoft

Office 2003, this was an add-in that had to be separately installed. For more information, see Change the

way spelling and grammar checking work.

An exclusion dictionary is automatically created for a language the first time that language is used.

Exclusion dictionaries let you force the spelling checker flag words you want to avoid using. They are handy

for avoiding words that are obscene or that don't match your style guide. For more information, see Use

exclusion dictionaries to specify a preferred spelling for a word.

The spelling checker can find and flag some contextual spelling errors. Have you ever typed a mistake

similar to the following?    In Office Word 2007, you can enable the    


   option to get help with finding and fixing this type of mistake. This option is available when

checking the spelling of documents in English, German or Spanish. For more information, see Choose how

spelling and grammar checking work.

You can disable spelling and grammar checking for a document or for all documents you create.

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When you send a draft of a document to your colleagues for their input, Office Word 2007 helps you efficiently collect

and manage their revisions and comments. When you are ready to publish the document, Office Word 2007 helps

you ensure that any unresolved revisions and comments aren't still lurking in the published document.

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Office Word 2007 makes it easy to find out what changes were made to a document. When you compare and

combine documents, you can see both versions of the document ² with the deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly

marked in a third version of the document.

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Before you share your document with other people, you can use the Document Inspector to check the document for

hidden metadata, personal information, or content that may be stored in the document. The Document Inspector can

find and remove information like comments, versions, tracked changes, ink annotations, document properties,

document management server information, hidden text, custom XML data, and information in headers and footers.

The Document Inspector can help you ensure that the documents you share with other people do not contain any

hidden personal information or any hidden content that your organization might not want distributed. Additionally, your

organization can customize the Document Inspector to add checks for additional types of hidden content.

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You can help provide assurance as to the authenticity, integrity, and origin of your document by adding a digital

signature to the document. In Office Word 2007 you can either add an invisible digital signature to a document, or you

can insert a Microsoft Office Signature Line to capture a visible representation of a signature along with a digital

signature.

The ability to capture digital signatures by using signature lines in Office documents makes it possible for

organizations to use paperless signing processes for documents like contracts or other agreements. Unlike

signatures on paper, digital signatures provide a record of exactly what was signed and they allow the signature to be

verified in the future.

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Office Word 2007 supports exporting your file to the following formats:

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formatting and enables file sharing. The PDF format ensures that when the file is viewed online or printed, it

retains exactly the format that you intended, and that data in the file cannot be easily changed. The PDF

format is also useful for documents that will be reproduced by using commercial printing methods.

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enables file sharing. The XPS format ensures that when the file is viewed online or printed, it retains exactly

the format that you intended, and that data in the file cannot be easily changed.

For more information, see one of the following articles:

Save a file in PDF format

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Office Word 2007 uses a separate file format (.docm) for macro-enabled documents, so you can instantly tell whether

a file is capable of running any embedded macros.

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Before you share a final version of a document with other people, you can use the )
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the document read-only and communicate to other people that you are sharing a final version of the document. When

a document is marked as final, typing, editing commands, and proofing marks are disabled, and people who view the

document cannot inadvertently change the document. The )
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Now more than ever, when computers and files are interconnected, it pays to store documents in files that are slim,

sturdy, and supportive of a wide variety of platforms. To meet this need, the Microsoft Office system achieves a new

stage in its evolution of XML support. The new XML-based file format enables Office Word 2007 files to be smaller,

more robust, and deeply integrated with information systems and external data sources.

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The new Word XML format is a compressed, segmented file format that offers a dramatic reduction in file size and

helps ensure that damaged or corrupted files can be easily recovered.

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In your business, you create documents to communicate important business data. You can save time and reduce the

risk of error by automating the process of this communication. Create dynamic smart documents that update

themselves by using new document controls and data binding to connect to your back-end systems.

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The Document Information Panel makes it easy to view and edit document properties while you work on your Word

document. The Document Information Panel displays at the top of your document in Word. You can use the

Document Information Panel to view and edit both standard Microsoft Office document properties and properties for

files that are saved to a document management server. If you use the Document Information Panel to edit the

document properties for a server document, the updated properties will be saved directly to the server.

For example, you may have a server that keeps track of a document's editorial status. When you put the finishing

touches on a document, you can open the Document Information Panel to change the document's editorial status

from Draft to Final. When you save the document back on the server, the change in editorial status is updated on the

server.

If you store document templates in a library on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server, the library might

include custom properties that store information about the templates. For example, your organization may require you

to categorize documents in the library by filling in a Category property. Using the Document Information Panel, you

can edit properties like this directly within the Word environment.

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2007 Microsoft Office system provides improved tools for recovering your work in the event of a problem in Office

Word 2007.

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Microsoft Office Diagnostics is a series of diagnostic tests that can help you to discover why your computer is

crashing. The diagnostic tests can solve some problems directly and may identify ways that you can solve other

problems. Microsoft Office Diagnostics replaces the following Microsoft Office 2003 features: Detect and Repair and

Microsoft Office Application Recovery.

For more information, see Diagnose and repair crashing Office programs by using Office Diagnostics.

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Office Word 2007 has improved capabilities to help avoid losing work when the program closes abnormally.

Whenever possible, Word tries to recover some aspects of the state of the program after it restarts.
For example, you are working on several files at the same time. Each file is open in a different window with specific

data visible in each window. Word crashes. When you restart Word, it opens the files and restores the windows to the

way they were before Word crashed.

For more information, see Avoid losing work when an Office program closes abnormally.

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