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February 1, 2010 • Vol.7 Issue 2 Page(s) 47 in print issue
Tools For Success Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007

Your Future Office. The release of Microsoft Office 2010 is just around the corner, and you can take Office’s new interface and features for a test drive by pointing your browser to www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx and downloading a free Office 2010 beta.

Microsoft’s Office Home and Student 2007 ($149.95; www.microsoft.com) is an all-inclusive tool-set that the whole family can use to create projects and complete daily tasks. The software suite comprises Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. While Word handles word processing, PowerPoint offers presentation tools, Excel manages spreadsheets, and OneNote organizes note taking.

All For One, One For All

Faced with a variety of daily goals, each family member can use Office Home and Student 2007 to complete a multitude of projects. With Word, a student can write research papers, while Mom can compose a family newsletter to send to relatives. Both can use PowerPoint to create lively presentations with their projects, complete with photos, text, and music. Using Excel, a teen can log how many hours of driving practice she’s earned, and Dad can track the family’s spending budget. And everyone can use OneNote to type, draw, and share notes and ideas for school, work, and more.

Affordable Features

With so much to accomplish using Office Home and Student 2007, it’s likely multiple family members will want to use the software at the same time on their own computers. Fortunately for consumers, each copy of the software includes three licenses. This allows your family to share the suite and install it on the home office PC, your daughter’s laptop, and your son’s desktop. And by installing Office Home and Student 2007 on up to three systems, you’ll spend as little as $50 per PC to equip your entire household with Office.

Get the very affordable Office Home and Student 2007 and give your family members all the tools they need to accomplish their creative goals every day.

If You Need To Take Care Of Business

In lieu of Office Home and Student 2007’s OneNote 2007, Microsoft’s Office Small Business 2007 ($449.95) offers two additional applications for the business-minded—Outlook 2007 and Publisher 2007.

With Outlook, small-business owners can email clients, schedule meetings, manage a calendar and daily tasks, and keep track of important contact information. Publisher 2007, meanwhile, provides tools to create marketing materials, such as a company newsletter, that can be distributed via print, Web, or email.

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