   Microsoft Office 97 Intranet Product Enhancement Guide: New
                 Features in Microsoft Office 97

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Overview of New Features in Microsoft Office 97

Office 97 seamlessly integrates Web technologies to make the
promise of the Web relevant to today's businesses. Office 97
provides innovative tools for finding information, publishing
documents, and collaborating interactively with others.

                    | Feature  | Description

  New  | Integration with Internet Explorer  | Users of Internet
 Explorer 3.0 or later can seamlessly browse Microsoft Office 97
                           documents.

New  | Web Find Fast  | Users can perform full-text searching of
        Office and HTML documents on a company network.

  New  | Hyperlinks  | Users can connect Office documents with
 hyperlinks to other Office documents or sites on the Internet.

New  | Web toolbar  | A common toolbar provides standard browser
  functionality in all Office 97 applications so users can move
                easily between linked documents.

 New  | Opening from or Saving to a URL  | Office 97 gives users
the flexibility to open and then save files residing not only on
    the corporate network, but also on Web servers accessible
                  through HTTP or FTP servers

    New  | Save as HTML  | Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel,
  Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word now provide builtin
     support for viewing, creating, and saving files as HTML
                           documents.

  Improved  | Office Viewers  | Viewers allow users to view or
    print documents regardless of whether they have the Office
 application in which the document was created. Microsoft Excel,
  PowerPoint, and Word viewers are available at no cost directly
               from http://Microsoft.com/office/.

  New  | Shared Files  | Multiple users can work collaboratively
           on Microsoft Excel files at the same time.

New  | In-place comments  | Like electronic yellow sticky notes,
   comments can be added to a file in Word, Microsoft Excel or
  PowerPoint without altering the original text. Comments appear
  when users pause the mouse pointer over the commented text.

     Improved  | Change tracking  | Word and Microsoft Excel
  automatically highlight, color-code, and identify changes made
 by other users, so multiple users can see what has changed in a
                     document or worksheet.

   Improved  | Document merging  | In Word or Microsoft Excel,
 users can easily consolidate changes made to multiple copies of
   a document or worksheet back into the original. This allows
  users to share documents and worksheets even when they are not
                    connected over a network.


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