Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition

Overview

Microsoft Office XP Standard is designed for users who require only the core desktop productivity tools, integrating productivity innovations throughout its programs to transform the traditional Office suite into a smarter overall work experience. By simplifying productivity, enabling collaboration for everyone, and extending Office beyond the desktop, Office XP Standard streamlines processes and makes it easier for everyone to create and share important information.

Office XP Standard includes the core Office XP programs -- Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• Works with you. Whether you're working on your PC, company intranet or the Web, new context-sensitive smart tags pop up with the options you need -- right when you need them. No digging through menus!
• Hands you tools. Now tasks that once required multiple steps are just one click away. The secret? The new task pane. The bottom line? You'll use more of the software features in Office XP, to get more done in less time.
• Guards your work. Relax. Your work is safe with Office XP because AutoRecover saves it at regular intervals while you work. Prone to sudden power outages? Relax again. Document Recovery is designed to save your PCs work-in-progress.

Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition

Overview

The most significant version of Office ever released, Microsoft Office XP Professional integrates productivity innovations throughout its programs to transform the traditional Office suite into a smarter overall work experience. By simplifying productivity, enabling collaboration for everyone, and extending Office beyond the desktop, Office XP Professional streamlines how people work with information and one another, making it easier for everyone to create, share, and analyze important data.

In addition to the core Office XP programs -- Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint -- Office XP Professional includes Microsoft Access 2002, the Office XP database solution that helps users store, access, and analyze their data.

Benefits

• Works with you. Whether you're working on your PC, company intranet or the Web, new context-sensitive Smart Tags pop up with the options you need -- right when you need them. No digging through menus!
• Hands you tools. Now tasks that once required multiple steps are just one click away. The secret? The new Task Pane. The bottom line? You'll use more of the software features in Office XP, to get more done in less time.
• Guards your work. Relax. Your work is safe with Office XP because AutoRecover saves it at regular intervals while you work. Prone to sudden power outages? Relax again. Document Recovery is designed to save your PCs work-in-progress.

Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition

Overview

Microsoft Office XP Developer is the version of Office designed for professional developers who build and deploy solutions with Microsoft Office XP. Microsoft Office XP Developer includes a professional development environment for building workflow solutions, productivity tools, and printed documentation for quickly building Office XP-based solutions. Microsoft Office XP Developer includes Office XP Professional with the Microsoft FrontPage Web site creation and management tool, as well as the tools to build Office XP-based solutions faster, integrate them with organizational data more easily, and simplify their deployment and management. Microsoft Office XP Developer also includes developer-only versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Exchange 2000 Server.

Benefits

• Easily design workflow processes.

Easily build solutions that automate business processes and enforce business rules using Workflow Designer for SQL Server and Workflow Designer for Exchange Server.

Save development time by visually designing workflow processes that use data from SQL Server 2000 and Exchange 2000 Server.

Develop workflow designs and custom scripts faster in a design environment directly integrated into the professional Microsoft development environment.

• Build professional desktop solutions faster.

Create custom, innovative solutions using the smart tag technology introduced in Office XP. Developers can add intelligence to Office applications and custom solutions by quickly building smart tags using the Smart Tag SDK, which provides all the documentation and code samples to help create smart tag recognizers and actions.

• Simplify deployment and management.

Manage your solutions effectively with source code control from within the VBA development environment with the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe version control system. Visual SourceSafe is included in Office XP Developer and is fully integrated into the VBA development environment.