• 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 styles, table formats, list formats, graphical effects, and more.
  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.
  
  
• By using Quick Styles and Document Themes, you can quickly change the appearance of text, tables, and graphics throughout your document to match your preferred style or color scheme.

• 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 marked in a third version of the document.
  
  
• By using the built-in workflow services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate, manage, and track document review and approval processes from within Word. This integration makes it easier to accelerate review cycles across the organization without requiring people to learn new tools.
  
  
• When you are pressed for time, it is easy to forget that what you don't immediately see in your document may be visible to public eyes. Comments, tracked changes, and metadata — such as the author or editing history — are easy for you to overlook, but potentially embarrassing if they remain in your document. Now you can use the new Document Inspector feature to quickly and easily remove comments, tracked changes, metadata, or other information from your documents.
  
  
• Office Word 2007 streamlines the process of digitally signing your document and makes digital signatures easy to see. That way, people who read your document know it hasn't changed since it left your hands.
  
  
• If you want to electronically publish your document exactly as it appears when it is printed, you can use Office Word 2007 to save your document in Portable Document Format (PDF) format or XML Paper Specification (XPS) format, without requiring additional third-party tools.
  
  
• Office Word 2007 uses a separate file format (.docm) for macro-enabled documents, so you can instantly tell whether a file is capable of running any embedded macros.

• Now more than ever, when computers and files are interconnected, it pays to store documents in files that are slim, sturdy, and supportive of a wide variety of platforms. To meet this need, the Microsoft Office System achieves a new stage in its evolution of XML support. The new XML-based file format enables Office Word 2007 files to be smaller, more robust, and deeply integrated with information systems and external data sources.
  
  
• The new Word XML format is a compressed, segmented file format that offers a dramatic reduction in file size and helps ensure that damaged or corrupted files can be easily recovered.
  
  
• In your business, you create documents to communicate important business data. You can save time and reduce the risk of error by automating the process of this communication. Create dynamic smart documents that update themselves by using new document controls and data binding to connect to your back-end systems.
  
  
• If you use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to manage your document processes or custom file properties, you can work with the server-based information directly within Word:
• For example, you may have a server that keeps track of a document's editorial status. When you put the finishing touches on a document, you can open the Document Information Panel to change the document's editorial status from Draft to Final. When you save the document back on the server, the change in editorial status is updated on the server.
• If you store document templates in a library on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) server, the library might include custom properties that store information about the templates. For example, your organization may require you to categorize documents in the library by filling in a Category property. Using the Document Information Panel, you can edit properties like this directly within the Word environment.

Migrating to Microsoft Office 2007