Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document Microsoft's publicly pink-slipped office assistant Introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar Product Description Microsoft Office XP's empowering document design tools, integration of voice recognition functionality, and impressive network- and Web-based sourcing capabilities should be enough to convince those interested in saving time and consolidating effort to take the leap. In keeping with Microsoft's much-ballyhooed .NET strategy, Office XP introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey. Smart tags beckon underneath recognized objects like misspellings or symbols, offering a stock quote here, a synonym there, or "Would anyone care to configure my auto-correction list?" The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar, and acts like an open tool chest pulled up alongside each application in the suite, providing readily configured searches for information or multimedia files. Putting up a team Web site that tracks projects and serves as an information hub requires only the use of one of the included templates, ready to be customized and uploaded to the server. The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document. Outlook now features a color-coded calendar and easier meeting management, along with instant messaging and variable e-mail account access. All user system errors can be tracked globally, and then network security settings modified remotely while anti-virus and debugging IT resources are diverted accordingly. Amazon.com Microsoft Office XP Professional puts the features you need within easyreach at all times. New and improved tools in Access allow you to build andmanage lists and databases, or analyze information from databases such asMicrosoft SQL Server. New context-sensitive smart tags pop up with optionsyou need--right when you need them. No digging through menus. Tasks thatonce required multiple steps are just one click away with the new taskpane. The new version of Outlook in Office XP Professional condenses all yourpersonal and professional e-mail into one central location, even your Web-based e-mail accounts like Hotmail. With AutoRecover, your work is saved at regular intervals while you work. PowerPoint includes animation effects and custom slidetransitions. An editable print preview assures that your printed slides and documents come out right the first time. Office XP Professional also includes Word 2002 and Excel 2002. Glorified tweaks here and there will only deceive those that they will. Unless your Office Suite is 97 or earlier, don't lend ears to all the hypes you hear. Most of the "improvements" attributed to Office XP are just over-advertised tweaks that only make the software a bit more user-friendly AND NOT more powerful. Compared to Office 2000, Microsoft has put up fewer applications for more money: Office 2000 Professional has every application Office XP Professional has PLUS the Publisher and the Small Business Customer Manager. Also, there is this restrictive activation tinge in XP, which implies that if you have a desktop at home, and a laptop for your on-the-move runs, you may have to pay allover again in order to have identical software on your two machines. Fighting piracy is a good deed, but Microsoft must not compel millions of honest customers to pay for her anti-piracy pursuits. All users of Windows 95 (or earlier versions) beware! Office XP will only run on Windows 98 (or later versions). I gave Office XP a fair trial, and I have to say that this program *looks* good. The interface was slick, the program responsive (even with a Pentium III 450) and the crash recovery a godsend. It should be noted that the program did not play nice with programs by Adobe, however. .pdf creation macros caused Microsoft Word to crash each and every time I exited the program. Adobe DTP programs such as PageMaker and InDesign could not easily import files saved in Office XP, even though they are not substantially different from Office 2000 files. These were the only problems, however. Removing the faulty macros solved the crash problem, and saving XP files as rtf files allowed me to import without losing any of the formatting. So, on the whole, very good. However, is it worth the amount of money required to upgrade, let alone buy the full version? The answer is no. I saw no reason whatsoever to upgrade from Office 2000 SR-1a. XP's Product Activation was also a nuisance. Microsoft clearly did not price this upgrade for me, and so I can't purchase, nor really recommend this version. If you want a good Office suite, and want a better deal, download StarOffice 5.2 from [...]. The program is free, and it's fully compatible with Office 2000. Best, James I have Microsoft Office 2000 and was in the process of buying/upgrading to Microsoft Office XP, until I noticed that I would have to buy 4 different programs for my family's 4 separate computers. My wife has her own computer, my daughter has her own computer I have mine, and we have a laptop we all use collectively when we travel. So with Microsoft's new licensing policy it would cost me a small fortune to keep those in my family using the XP version. On top of that... we tend to stay on the cutting edge of the latest hardware available, (I build and upgrade my own systems), so I would be susceptible to going to Microsoft with my hat in hand explaining why I need clearance to reinstall THEIR program again on my computer. I know the runaround this involves, plus I don't like the idea of having to play this game with a product I have paid for! It is demeaning to say the least. Microsoft can keep their programs (I was going to purchase Microsoft Front Page and found similar restrictions), and I will be sure to keep their "Big Brother" mentality in mind when I purchase software in the future. This new licensing policy is sure to hurt their sales and is sure to open up opportunities for other software companies not so anal about licensing. Microsoft can stick this (and their other programs) up their hard drive, because it's not going on mine! First, count me among the people pleased with the fact that Microsoft Office - and, in particular, Word - has become the de facto standard for document creation. Does anyone remember what life was like before...when we all wasted copius amounts of time sending and re-sending each other incompatible documents? Why anyone would yearn for those days is beyond me. Feature-wise, I agree that the programs that comprise Office suffer by trying to be all things to all people. In the excellent book 'Microsoft Secrets,' I recall reading that extensive user testing revealed that the typical user of Word only made use of around 10% of its capabilities. So, in general, you're paying for a lot of bloat that you'll never access and never care about. The problem with being Microsoft, of course, is that you've got to appeal to a *very* broad audience. That's because the 10% I use may be completely different than someone else's 10%. So, with that in mind, let me tell you about two great things in XP version of Word that I make use of on a continuous basis that you ought to know about. First, there's the 'Track Changes' capabilities. Yes, this has always been present to some degree, but it got a major overhaul in XP. Now, when you turn the 'Track Changes' mechanisms on, Word shrinks the size of the entire text of the document (temporarily) and reflects all add, change and delete activity in an extensive right-hand margin. What this does for you is that you get all your tracking, while maintaining the flow and readability of the proposed new version of the overall document. You really have to see this in action to appreciate just how much this improves the process. The other feature to point out is the sheer power and scope of Word XP's multi-language capabilities. I write many documents in Spanish and I am frankly blown-away by my ability to set the 'Language' spellcheck option to any a number of regional Spanish settings (e.g., Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, to name just a few of the many options). Then, as I'm writing, Word catches every little nuance for me - it checks all the many verb forms, even when attaching direct and/or indirect pronouns. Every skipped or misplaced accent is flagged for my attention. In short, using Word XP can dramatically improve your secondary language skills. I'll talk about PowerPoint briefly - over the years, Microsoft has made it easier to manipulate and put together compelling presentations. In earlier versions, I always felt like I was locked into not much more than bulletized lists. Now, working in combination with Microsoft's built-in Design Gallery Live (and aided immeasurably by Google's Image search), you can piece together compelling visual scenarios *exactly* as you envision them, with no encumbrance from PowerPoint. One final point is that you should always pair any Office product with a copy of Adobe Acrobat (the PDF *writer*, not just the reader). With Acrobat, you can remove any hint of incompatibility with anyone in the world, regardless of desktop platform, version, etc. Just convert any of your Word, PowerPoint or Excel files into a PDF and you've guaranteed yourself unfettered readability throughout the planet. Read more ›
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Mar 30, 2004.. Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements.
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Microsoft Office XP is an office suite created and distributed by Microsoft for Windows operating system. Released to manufacturing (RTM) on March 5, 2001 and ..
Describes how to obtain Office XP service packs. Service packs contain security enhancements and improvements in stability and performance. The latest ..