Microsoft Office xp product Guide

Feature	Description	How to Access
Office Web Components	A variety of improvements have been made to the Excel Web Components, such as support for loading native Excel files, support for named ranges, multiple worksheets, wrapped texts, and the ability to publish entire workbooks with interactivity to the Web. The Excel PivotTable® component offers conditional filtering on a range of expressions for filtering data. Finally, Office XP extends the object model for the components that allow developers to build custom solutions that deliver data to the browser.	Within and Excel spreadsheet select Save as Web Page from the File menu. Check the “Add Interactivity” option and save. Open up the HTML page and manipulate the data.

Deployment, Management, and Administration

With every release of Office, a key consideration for organizations is how easy the product is to install, maintain, and support. With the new tools introduced in Office 2000, administrators could easily customize their Office applications at a very granular level and easily deploy them to the groups that needed them. Office XP makes some key improvements on those tools and offers a number of new tools that help administrators more easily deploy, manage, and administer Office.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Intelligent Setup	When upgrading from a previous version of Office, Setup analyzes a user’s current configuration and intelligently installs the same components.
Custom Installation Wizard (CIW)	A variety of improvements have been made to the Custom Installation Wizard. These include the ability to remove files at the time of installation (e.g., outdated add-ins), set security levels for each application, and customize Outlook in a variety of new ways.	Install the CIW from the Office Resource Kit. Walk through the wizard to customize Office.
Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW)	This feature gives administrators the ability to maintain and configure Office XP after it has been installed. Among the options available to the administrator is the ability to add or remove files, programs, or components of an installation. Administrators also have the ability to change settings for a given install and to change Outlook configuration settings. The Custom Maintenance Wizard options mirror those of the Custom Installation Wizard.	Install the CMW from the Office Resource Kit. Walk through the wizard to customize Office after it has been installed.
Save My Settings Wizard	With this wizard, users can save their settings directly to a file or up to the Web (using Microsoft Passport for authentication) where they can easily access them and apply them to another machine. Users no longer have to recreate their settings on a second machine (such as a machine at home) or a new machine. In addition, this feature saves time for administrators who can quickly move settings from machine to machine.	From the Start Menu, select Programs>Microsoft Office Tools> Save My Settings Wizard. Walk through the steps to save your settings.
Setup from HTTP	Office XP can now be installed directly from a Web Server instead of just from a file share on the organization’s network. This includes installation support from HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.	Create an administration Image on your Web Server. Create a link to setup.exe on a Web page.
Policy Support	Policy support for new features includes improved respect for system policies. Office XP provides added policy support for a majority of the new Office XP areas of functionality (where appropriate). Administrators can now set policies that control the various Office security settings (such as being able to turn on/off VBA support) and Office Task Panes (such as turning it on/off or adding new links)	The policy templates are available as part of the Office Resource Kit.
File Format Compatibility	The file formats are backward-compatible with Office 2000 and Office 97 (with the exception of Access 97). Users of Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97 can seamlessly share documents with one another.
International Support	A variety of International improvements have been added to Office XP. These include independent setup for each language (which makes it easier to add or remove specific languages), a new Multi-Language Pack setup wizard, and automatic detection of Operating System language settings Furthermore, FrontPage will now be available in 26 languages (15 were available with FrontPage 2000), and includes support for bi-directional character sets and Unicode. This means that users can be in FrontPage and create content in whatever language they have installed on their system.
Support for Windows Terminal Server	Office XP has made a variety of improvements on its interaction with Windows Terminal Server. For example, installation is made simple because administrators can simply run setup when installing Office XP rather than needing a custom transform. Furthermore, certain complex graphics such as menu fading and smooth scrolling are turned off automatically when a user is connected to a remote machine. This creates an improved application performance for the user.

Integration with Exchange 2000

Organizations can take advantage of a variety of benefits associated with using

Office XP and Exchange 2000 together. One of the key benefits of the Office XP tight integration with Exchange 2000 is that users can take advantage of the Exchange Web Storage System, which enables them to store and work with files located on their Exchange Server. Below are just some of the key product integration points between Office XP and Exchange 2000.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Save/Open from Exchange	Documents can be saved directly from Office applications into the Web Storage System using the File/Save As dialog box. Documents can also be easily retrieved from Exchange 2000 directly into Office using the File/Open dialog box. This enables Office users to use the security, replication, accessibility, powerful application, and workflow capabilities of Exchange as a store for Office documents. Office users can now store e-mail messages, tasks, documents, or spreadsheets in a single folder. They can access this folder from any client, including the Windows Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express, or a Web browser.	From any Office application select Save from the File menu. Browse to your Exchange 2000 server and save.
Document Properties	The Web Storage System allows custom properties such as document author, workflow recipient, or description to be stored with each item in the database. This provides powerful opportunities for rich viewing, indexing, searching, and organization of information. Any number of properties can be stored with each item, and the set of properties can be different for each item. This feature takes on new importance as Office documents are stored in the server. Office users can use the power of Outlook to view, sort, search, and manage shared and personal documents with the same tools they currently use for their e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Because Office documents and other document types such as MIME-encoded messages are stored in the Web Storage System, their properties are automatically made available to search, view, and index.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Built-In Content Indexing and Search	The Web Storage System includes built-in indexing for high-speed, accurate, full-text searches, enabling users to find content quickly and easily. Users of Outlook can search for documents in the Web Storage System as easily as they search for e-mail messages today, increasing their productivity. Users can use the same Outlook search interface they have become accustomed to, but the queries are significantly faster. Furthermore, users can find matches in documents both attached to e-mail messages and stand-alone, rather than only in messages. All content in the Web Storage System is indexed, including messages, stand-alone documents, contacts, tasks, calendar items, and collaboration data.
Support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)	Web DAV is a new HTTP-based protocol that people can use to collaborate seamlessly on documents over the Web, regardless of their authoring tools. With Web DAV, users can perform basic remote file operations (for example, copy, move, and delete) across the Web. The support for Web DAV in Exchange 2000 enables Office documents to be stored directly into Exchange Server, facilitating working with and searching for important Office files.
Integration With Microsoft FrontPage	FrontPage can be used to edit and manage Web applications hosted on the Web Storage System. For example, Web-based custom forms can be created in FrontPage 2000 and hosted by the Web Storage System. Using the native dialog boxes in FrontPage, developers can open a Web page directly in the Web Storage System, edit it using the familiar FrontPage tools, and then run the application in a browser directly from the Web Storage System.

Integration with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (formerly known as Tahoe)

Organizations can take advantage of a variety of benefits associated with using Office XP and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (Microsoft’s new document management server) together. These benefits allow users within the organization to share information with others more easily as well as search and manage documents more effectively. Because Tahoe is based on the same “engine” as Exchange 2000, Office users can take advantage of the Web Storage System. Below are just some of the key integration points between Office XP and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Digital Dashboard Support	Users can easily create Digital Dashboards to access their important information from Office or the Web right from within Outlook version 2002.
Document Discussions	Users can insert and reply to a discussion on a document or Web site. By default, discussions are not displayed within a document, but can easily be expanded for viewing purposes.
Document Subscriptions	Office users can subscribe to documents and folders, and they can even search and categorize their subscriptions. Readers or authors can express interest in a particular document, folder, search, or category and be notified (via SMTP mail or through a central Web site) when there has been a change. Notifications can fire immediately or be batched within a particular interval.
File Menu Additions	The file menu in Office applications is enhanced to allow documents to be checked in, checked out, and submitted for publication without ever leaving Office. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server document libraries are directly visible and navigable in the Office 2000 Open/Save dialog boxes.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Property Promotion	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server synchronizes Office document properties set inside a document with those in the document profile. If a document contains an “author” property, that value is promoted to the document profile. If a document profile is edited, it is updated in the underlying document.
Collaboration Toolbar	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server servers are valid Collaboration Servers within the Office 2000 collaboration toolbar.
Document Versioning	Edited Office documents are tracked so that previous versions can be retrieved. Versioning is used for two reasons—audit and recovery. Audit is used to find out who changed a document, when it was changed, and what was changed. Recovery is used when a user wants to revert to a previous version of a document.
Document Profiling	Document Profiling allows users to associate attributes with their Office documents, making them easier to find, organize, and act on. These profiles can be configured on a per-folder basis, and profile requirements can be set for each folder.
Document Retrieval	Once Office documents are placed into a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, they can be retrieved based on content, location, key words or phrases, document profile, and attribute information. All versions of a document can be retrieved. Furthermore, users who do not have access to a document or do not have access to a draft document do not see it returned in search results.

Feature	Description	How to Access
Single Check-in/Check-out	Authors and editors can reserve their Office documents for editing. When checked out, the document cannot be updated. Office Document locking with check-in and check-out can be configured on a per-folder basis.
Drafts	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server draft-support feature ensures that Office documents are not seen until they are ready to be seen. Office documents that are created as “drafts” can be shared by a set of authors, but are not visible to readers. When a document is ready to publish, it is made visible to users by an explicit “publish” operation. Once an Office document is published, readers can navigate to it via categories or find it by using the Search function in the portal. An updated version can be prepared without overwriting the published version until the update is ready to go.
Publishing Approval	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server allows customers to establish a simple procedure for publishing their Office documents. “Approvers” can be set for a folder, determining who has permission to make documents available to readers. An author can submit a document for publication to an approver who examines the document to decide whether to publish or reject the document. Several different models for publishing are supported.

Microsoft Office XP Product Guide