The Upgrade product is available to any previous user of Microsoft Publisher 2000 to 2003 or any Office Suite From ffice 2000 to 2007.
Create and Reuse High-Quality Publications That Reflect Your Business Brand
Unless you are starting a new business, you are likely to have an established brand identity for your business, such as a business logo, color scheme, fonts, and business information (your tagline and address, for example). Office Publisher 2007 includes tools to help you efficiently create, customize, and reuse marketing communications materials that reflect your brand identity. Use the collection of intuitive design tools in Office Publisher 2007 to create custom publications. With Office Publisher 2007, you can use your creativity to take your publications further.
• Improved! Choose from a library of hundreds of professionally designed templates. Office Publisher 2007 includes dozens of new templates for popular print, e-mail, and Web publication types such as brochures, postcards, flyers,
e-mail newsletters, Web sites, and more.
• New! Locate, preview, and open Office Publisher 2007 templates from the Microsoft Office Online Template Gallery within Office Publisher 2007.
• New! Apply elements from your brand identity (including colors, fonts, logo, and business information) to all Office Publisher 2007 templates before you start creating your material, for a more relevant getting started experience.
• Improved! Easily categorize, preview, open, and save your newly created publication templates within “My Templates.”
• New! Office Publisher Tasks assist you with common Office Publisher 2007 procedures for creating, publishing, and distribution. Turn to Office Publisher Tasks for help in adding text and images, changing the design, sending your publications as e-mail messages, and compiling your mailing list. Office Publisher Tasks even offer tips for effective writing.
• Improved! Create a Business Information Set that includes your company name, contact information, and logo. If your business has different brand identities for different departments or product lines, you can use Office Publisher to create an unlimited number of business information sets to apply to your publications.
• Improved! Quickly build custom collateral such as a datasheet, directory, or catalog for distribution to a targeted client or client segment using Catalog Merge. The improved Catalog Merge wizard steps you through the process of merging text and photos from a database to create your publication.
• Improved! Choose from more than 100 new blank page sizes when you start creating a publication from scratch, including postcards, booklets, and more.
• Improved! DTP features enable you to further customize your publications using the Office Publisher 2007 collection of intuitive design, layout, and typography tools such as tracking and kerning, multiple master pages, baseline alignment, and more.
• Improved! Design Checker helps you identify and correct any common desktop, commercial print, Web, or e-mail problems before you print or distribute.
Personalize Publications and Marketing Materials for Professional, Targeted Results
• New! Create personalized e-mail publications using the new E-mail Merge. Enhancements to Mail Merge now support sending personalized e-mail publications and enable you to add bookmarks to help readers navigate through an e-mail newsletter, as well as add personalized hyperlinks to direct users to unique online information.
• New! Create, manage, and store a single-client list or data list in Office Publisher 2007 by combining and editing lists from multiple sources, including Microsoft Office Excel® 2007 spreadsheet software, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access 2007, and more.
• New! Use targeted lists from Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. You can identify a target set of clients within Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, save this filter list to an Office Outlook 2007 folder, and access this list from within Office Publisher 2007 to create and distribute targeted, personalized marketing materials.
• New! Office Publisher Tasks assist you with common Office Publisher 2007 procedures for creating, publishing, and distribution. Turn to Office Publisher Tasks for help in personalizing your publication, preparing your mailing lists, preparing your publication for commercial printing, publishing your material, and distributing and tracking your marketing effectiveness.
• New! Manage and track marketing campaigns with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Publisher 2007.
• New! Measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. Improved Office Publisher 2007 integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (available only in Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, Microsoft Office Professional 2007, and Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007) provides new tools to help you easily track marketing materials you send and the responses you receive. For example, you can add tracking codes to your Office Publisher 2007 materials and track client responses and opportunities within Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Improved! Manage broad e-mail campaigns with Office Publisher 2007 and Microsoft List Builder, a powerful fee-based e-mail marketing tool that can help you run an e-mail marketing campaign. List Builder processes opt-out responses and tracks client responses. For more information about Microsoft List Builder, go to www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/services-transition.mspx.
Easily Share, Print, and Publish Your Publisher Publications
Office Publisher 2007 provides new and improved ways for you to easily share, print, and publish your publications.
• New! Publish your Office Publisher 2007 files as Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (the new Windows Vista™ operating system XPS format) for easy sharing and printing.* Set options for online viewing, high-quality printing, or commercial press-ready printing. The press-ready PDF option and Pack and Go improvements make it easier than ever to print Office Publisher 2007 files at commercial printers.
• New! Apply an e-mail template to multipage publications—a newsletter, for example—and distribute it as an e-mail message. You can add bookmarks to help readers quickly browse the e-mail message.
• Improved! The robust e-mail capabilities of Office Publisher 2007 enable your customers to receive e-mail publications that look as you intended, when using many popular e-mail programs and Web-based services.
• Improved! Use Office Outlook 2007 or Outlook Express 6.0 or later to send your Publisher files as e-mail messages, Publisher attachments, or PDF or XPS attachments.
• Improved! Full commercial printing support for larger quantities and higher quality printing makes it easier to take your publications to commercial printers. Office Publisher 2007 includes four-color process and spot color printing support, CMYK composite postscript support, and professional commercial printing tools. An improved Pack and Go Wizard bundles your Office Publisher 2007 files and associated graphics and fonts, as well as a new press-ready PDF file, for transport to a commercial printer.
• The Convert to Web Publication feature enables you to convert print publications for viewing on the Web. Office Publisher 2007 makes it easy to add additional pages, hyperlinks, and a customizable navigation bar, as well as to edit, update, and post your publication for online viewing.