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FEATURES- Microsoft Excel Home & Student 2007
       Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful spreadsheet program that
        you can use to analyze, communicate, and manage information to help
        you make more informed decisions.
       Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool for analyzing, sharing, and
        managing information to help you make more informed decisions.
        Office Excel 2007 delivers a new, results-oriented interface,
        PivotTable views that are easy to create and use, enhanced formula
        authoring, rich data visualization, and a much faster way to create
        professional-looking charts and tables. Share and manage
        spreadsheets that contain sensitive business information using
        Excel Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
* Analyze and Communicate Information
   Analyze information with Office Excel 2007 to gain insight and make more
   informed decisions using powerful organization and visualization tools
   presented in an easy-to-use interface. Communicate your analysis in
   professional-looking charts and spreadsheets that are much easier to
   create.
    - Results-oriented user interface. Find the tools you want when you
      need them using the new Office Excel 2007 results-oriented interface.
      Based on the job you need to accomplish, whether it is creating a
      table or writing a formula, Office Excel 2007 presents you with the
      appropriate commands.
    - Import, organize, and explore massive data sets within significantly
      expanded spreadsheets. Office Excel 2007 supports spreadsheets up to
      1 million rows by 16,000 columns in size eliminating the need to work
      within multiple spreadsheets or other applications you need to
      analyze large amounts of information.
    - Improved and powerful support for working with tables. Office Excel
      2007 has improved support for tables allowing you to create, format,
      expand, and refer to tables within formulae. When analyzing data
      contained in a large table, Office Excel 2007 keeps table headings in
      view while you scroll.
    - See important trends and find exceptions in your data. Apply
      conditional formatting to your information more easily. Discover
      patterns and highlight trends in your data by using rich
      visualization schemes like gradients, thresholds, and performance
      indicator icons.
    - Create a PivotTable faster to organize your information around many
      different criteria. Summarize, reorient, and find the answers you
      need with PivotTable and PivotChart views that are much easier to
      create and use in Office Excel 2007.
    - Extend your business intelligence investments--Office Excel 2007
      provides full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis
      Services. Use the flexibility and the new cube functions in Office
      Excel 2007 to build a custom report from an online analytical
      processing (OLAP) database. You can also connect to external sources
      of data more easily using the Data Connection Library in Office Excel
      2007.
    - Formula AutoComplete helps you write the proper formula syntax the
      first time, every time. The Formula AutoComplete feature in Office
      Excel 2007 expedites authoring formulas, from writing functions and
      completing arguments to referencing named ranges and tables within
      formula.
    - Page Layout View helps you build reports quickly. Use the Page Layout
      View in Office Excel 2007 to quickly apply a consistent, professional
      style to your spreadsheet, including the ability to edit headers and
      footers, select predefined cell styles, and incorporate Microsoft
      Office art and integrated graphics.
    - Communicate your analysis in professional-looking charts. Build
      professional-looking charts faster with fewer clicks using charting
      tools in the new Office Excel 2007 user interface. Apply rich visual
      enhancements to your chart, such as 3-D, soft shadowing, and
      transparency. Create and interact with charts the same way,
      regardless of the application you are using, because the Office Excel
      2007 charting engine is consistent in Microsoft Office Word 2007 and
      Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
* Share Spreadsheets and Business Information with Others
   Office Excel 2007 makes sharing spreadsheets and business information
   easier. Integration with Excel Services and the new Microsoft Office
   Excel XML Format can provide a more efficient exchange of information.
    - Use Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services to more securely share
      spreadsheets with others. Excel Services dynamically renders an
      Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet as HTML so others can access a
      spreadsheet stored Office SharePoint Server 2007 within any Web
      browser. Because of the high degree of fidelity with the Office Excel
      2007 client, people can use Excel Services to navigate, sort, filter,
      input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views, all within
      their Web browser.
    - Save as XPS or PDF for easier sharing. Convert your spreadsheet to
      XML Paper Specification (XPS) or Portable Document Format file (PDF)
      to create a fixed version of your file for easier sharing.
    - New Excel XML Format enables a more efficient exchange of
      information. Reduce the file sizes of spreadsheets and improve their
      interoperability with other data sources by using the new Microsoft
      Office Open XML Formats.
    - Create business dashboards from spreadsheets and share them within a
      portal. Track the key performance indicators of your business using
      browser-based dashboards that can be created from Office Excel 2007
      spreadsheets, Excel Web Access, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
    - Take advantage of the Excel calculation engine in other applications.
      Use the Excel Services Web services application programming interface
      (API) to integrate server calculation of Office Excel 2007 files into
      other applications.
* Manage Business Information More Effectively
   Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services enable spreadsheets to be managed
   and controlled on a server to help protect important business
   information and help ensure that you are working with the most current
   data.
    - Centrally manage sensitive information by publishing spreadsheets to
      Office SharePoint Server 2007. Help ensure the members of your
      organization are working with the most current business information.
    - Connect to external sources of information using the Office Excel
      2007 Data Connection Library. Quickly connect to and import
      information from external sources of information like databases and
      line-of-business (LOB) systems using the Data Connection Library.
      Using Office SharePoint Server 2007, your organization's IT staff can
      set up and manage trusted Data Connection Libraries that permit
      people to more safely connect to external data sources without
      assistance.

REQUIREMENTS- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or later or
                Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) required.
              500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher; 256 megabyte (MB)
                RAM or higher; DVD drive; 1 gigahertz (GHz) and 512 MB of
                RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook
                2007 with Business Contact Manager.
              2 gigabyte (GB) necessary for install; a portion of this disk
                space will be freed after installation if the original
                download package is removed from the hard drive.
              Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 or higher recommended
              Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or
                greater, for download and activation of products.
              Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with service packs, Microsoft
                Exchange Server 2000 or later required for Outlook 2007
                users. To install Outlook 2007 with Business Contact
                Manager, you will need to first install Outlook 2007.
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