Microsoft Office XP redefines the relationship between people and software by delivering a new set of experiences that provide a smarter way of working. Office XP delivers a personal experience, simplifying the way you work; a collaborative experience, helping your team work easily together; and an extended experience, enabling you to continually integrate additional services into Office and access information anytime.

This edition includes the following applications:

• Microsoft Word 2002
• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
• Microsoft Access 2002 
• Microsoft FrontPage 2002
• Microsoft Publisher 2002

A Dozen Reasons to Upgrade:

• Get Information When and Where It's Needed. Context-sensitive smart tags provide speedy access to relevant information by alerting you to important actions—such as formatting options for pasted information, formula error correction, and more.

• Accomplish More in Less Time. New task panes put the tools you need just a click away, helping you find files and format content quicker than ever.

• Access and Analyze Information Easily from the Web. Add data—such as stock tickers, weather updates, or news flashes—to your spreadsheets and databases, and automatically keep them up to date.

• Express Ideas in Powerful, Compelling Ways. Create professional-looking documents with enhanced formatting, editing, review, and Web integration features. Use new speech recognition to dictate text, direct formatting changes, and navigate menus.

• Spend Time Creating, not re-creating. Document Recovery gives you the option to automatically save your current document, spreadsheet, or presentation at the time an application stops responding, so you don’t lose a moment’s work.

• Compare and Merge Changes Easily. Send for Review streamlines the feedback process for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint, giving the author full control over which comments and revisions to accept or reject.

• Manage All Your e-mail in One Place. Microsoft Outlook makes it easy to send and receive e-mails from multiple accounts, including MSN Hotmail. You can also send and receive instant messages with MSN Messenger—all within a single view.

• Work Together, Wherever You Are. Microsoft Share Point Team Services allows the seamless sharing of information between Office XP applications and your team Web site. Team members can upload documents, participate in discussions and surveys, and add content such as announcements and events.

• Coordinate Schedules and Activities Easily. Manage all appointment and task reminders in a single, consolidated Reminders Window. Outlook makes it easy to resolve scheduling conflicts—you can quickly review your group’s schedule and allow others to propose alternate meeting times.

• Use the Robust Office Platform to Meet your Business Needs. IT pros and developers can create customizable smart tags that give users access to context-sensitive information.

• Experience Improved Reliability and Security:
  
  Recover your documents. In the event of an error, Office XP keeps a backup of your work, giving you the chance to save and recover it so you don't lose valuable time or data.
  Protect from virus attacks. Powerful new antivirus tools help IT pros control team security settings to help prevent virus attacks, thereby avoiding costly downtime.

• Simplify Deployment and Control:
  
  Reduce downtime during deployment. The Office Profile Wizard saves personal computer settings to a file or on the Web—create them once, and instantly apply them to any computer, anywhere.
  Customize desktop configurations. IT pros can use the Custom Installation Wizard to customize security settings and Outlook profiles, eliminating unnecessary features or applications.
  Control your environment after initial deployment. Administrators can use the new Custom Maintenance Wizard to make changes, and update user profiles without a full redeployment.

Features:

• New context-sensitive Smart Tags
• New task panes
• New Outlook condenses all your personal and professional e-mail into one central location - even Web-based e-mail
• Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access , FrontPage, and Publisher

System Requirements
To use Office XP, the recommended system configuration is Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on a computer with a Pentium III processor and 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM.

• Computer with a Pentium 133-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
• Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 (SP6) or later, or Windows 2000 or later
• 245 MB of available hard disk space with 115 MB on the hard disk where the operating system is installed [Users without Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) require an extra 50 MB of hard disk space for System Files Update].
• CD-ROM drive
• Super VGA (800×600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device
• RAM requirements depend on the operating system used:

  • Windows 98, or Windows 98 Second Edition
    24 MB of RAM plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office program (such as Microsoft Word) running simultaneously
  • Windows Me, or Microsoft Windows NT
    32 MB of RAM plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office program (such as Microsoft Word) running simultaneously
  • Windows 2000 Professional
    64 MB of RAM plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office program (such as Microsoft Word) running simultaneously

Additional Items or Services required to use certain features:

• For multimedia and sound:
  • Accelerated video card or MMX processor for improved graphics rendering
• For speech recognition (available for U.S. English only):
  • Pentium II 400-MHz or higher processor
  • 128 MB of RAM or more
  • Close-talk microphone and audio output device
• Microsoft Exchange Server, Internet SMTP/POP3, IMAP4, or other MAPI-compliant messaging software required to use e-mail
• Exchange Server required for certain advanced collaboration functionality in Outlook
• Collaboration features compatible with Office 97 or later
• Some Internet functionality may require Internet access and payment of a separate fee to a service provider; local or long-distance charges may apply
• 14,400 or higher-baud modem
• Graphics tablet recommended for handwriting-input features
• Microsoft Windows Media™ encoder-compatible video camera for broadcasts including video; Microsoft Exchange Chat Server to enable chats during live broadcasts; Microsoft Windows Media Server to enable multicasts of live broadcasts to more than 10 audience members
• 100 MB of additional hard disk space for installation of Office XP Media Content
• 50 MB of additional hard disk space for each additional language interface installed.