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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
Go beyond documents
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
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.
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
effects.
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
The spelling checker has been made more consistent across the 2007 Microsoft Office system programs.
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
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
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
The spelling checker can find and flag some contextual spelling errors. Have you ever typed a mistake
similar to the following? I will see you their. In Office Word 2007, you can enable the Use contextual
spelling 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
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.
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 — with the deleted, inserted, and moved text clearly