PowerPoint Home and Student 2007 [Full Product, Academic, Boxed Win32]

Get better results with a redesigned user interface - PowerPoint has a redesigned user interface with a new look and feel to make creating, presenting, and sharing presentations an easier and more intuitive experience

Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams - easily create relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams from within PowerPoint

Custom Layouts - define and save your own custom slide layouts, so you no longer have to waste valuable time cutting and pasting your layouts onto new slides or deleting content on a slide with the layout you want

Apply a consistent look and feel - Document Themes help you change the look and feel of your entire presentation with just one click

Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects - you can now manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements with tools readily available through the streamlined user interface and contextual menus

Communicate with users across platforms and devices - ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XML Paper Specification (XPS) and PDF for sharing with users on any software platform

Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery - the new, compressed Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format offers a dramatic reduction in file size, while also offering an improvement in data recovery for damaged files

Use Microsoft Office Groove 2007 for real-time review sessions - using Groove, you can initiate a live review of a PowerPoint presentation within a Groove workspace

Help protect the private information in your documents - detect and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information using the Document Inspector, to prepare your presentation to be shared with others

Share your PowerPoint presentations More securely you can now add a digital signature to PowerPoint presentations to help ensure that the contents are not changed after it leaves your hands, or mark a presentation as "final" to prevent inadvertent changes

Get better results faster with a redesigned user interface

Create powerful, dynamic SmartArt diagrams

Easily reuse content with PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries

Communicate with users across platforms and devices

Use custom layouts to assemble presentations more quickly

Accelerate your review processes using PowerPoint 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007

Uniformly format your presentations with Document Themes

Dramatically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new SmartArt graphics tools and effects

Add more security to your PowerPoint presentations

Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time.

When upgrading from Microsoft Office 2003 to the 2007 release you should not need to upgrade your hardware, although you may need to upgrade to a supported operating system. When upgrading from Microsoft Office 2000 or Office XP to the 2007 release you will need to ensure that your hardware and operating system meet the minimum 2007 Microsoft Office system requirements.

We highly recommend you evaluate your computer before installing 2007 Microsoft Office system products to verify your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements.

2007 Microsoft Office system programs are supported on Windows Vista Beta 2 (when available), and not earlier versions of Windows Vista. The 2007 Microsoft Office system programs client is a 32-bit application and runs on a Windows 64-bit platform (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) via WOW64.

Computer and processor - 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher

Memory - 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher

Hard disk - 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive

Drive - CD-ROM or DVD drive

Display - 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor

Operating system - Microsoft Windows(R) XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server(R) 2003 with SP1, or later operating system

Other:

Certain inking features require running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later; speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device; Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services

Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality

Connectivity to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality

Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply)

Additional - actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.