Overview

Microsoft Excel 2007 is a powerful tool for analysing, sharing, and managing information to help you make more informed decisions. Microsoft Excel 2007 delivers a new, results-oriented interface, PivotTable views that are easy to create and use, enhanced formula authoring, rich data visualisation, 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 SharePoint Server 2007.

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• Office Excel 2007 features a new user interface to help you find powerful tools when you need them - 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’s creating a table or writing a formula, Office Excel 2007 presents the appropriate commands to you within the new user interface.
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• Import, organize, and explore massive data sets within significantly expanded spreadsheets - Work with massive amounts of data in Office Excel 2007, which supports spreadsheets that can be up to 1 million rows by 16,000 columns in size. Now, users will no longer have to work on multiple spreadsheets or in other applications when they need to analyze large amounts of information.
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• Use the completely redesigned Office Excel 2007 charting engine that helps you share your analysis in professional-looking charts - Build professional-looking charts faster with fewer clicks using charting tools in the new user interface. Apply rich visual enhancements to your charts 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.
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• Enjoy improved and powerful support for working with tables - Create, format, expand, and refer to tables within formulae because Office Excel 2007 has greatly improved support for tables. When analyzing data contained in a large table, Office Excel 2007 keeps table headings in view while you scroll.
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• Create and work with PivotTable views—with ease - PivotTable views allow you to quickly reorient your data to help you answer multiple questions. Find the answers you need faster because Office Excel 2007 will help you to create and use PivotTable views more easily.
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• See important trends and find exceptions in your data - Apply conditional formatting to your information more easily. Then, discover patterns and highlight trends in your data using rich visualization schemes like gradients, thresholds, and performance indicator icons.
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• Use Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services to help share spreadsheets more securely with others - Excel Services dynamically renders a spreadsheet as HTML so others can access a spreadsheet stored on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 within any Web browser. Because of the high degree of fidelity with the Office Excel 2007 client, with Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views, all within their Web browser.
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• Help ensure you and your organization work with the most current business information - Prevent the spread of multiple or outdated copies of a spreadsheet throughout your organization by using Office Excel 2007 and publishing business-critical spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007. Control which users can view and modify spreadsheets on the server using permission-based access.
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• Reduce the size of spreadsheets and improve damaged file recovery at the same time - The new, compressed Microsoft Office Excel XML Format offers a dramatic reduction in file size, while its architecture offers an improvement in data recovery for damaged files. This new format provides a tremendous savings to storage and bandwidth requirements, and reduces the burden on IT personnel.
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• Extend your business intelligence investments because Office Excel 2007 provides full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services - Leverage 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.
  
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Minimum System Requirements:

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• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 or later or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or higher) required
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• 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
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• 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
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• DVD drive
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• 1 gigahertz (GHz) and 512 MB of RAM or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
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• 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
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• Minimum 800x600; 1024x768 monitor resolution or higher recommended