Office XP Standard includes the core Office XP programs—Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook®, and PowerPoint®.

Key Benefits

Office XP Standard for Students & Teachers is a special offer created by Microsoft to provide students and teachers of K-12 and higher education institutions with the opportunity to purchase Office software at a substantially discounted price - nearly 70% off retail list price. 

• This product is for noncommercial, educational use only.
• This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students.)
• This product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing.
• You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user.

Smart Tags		Microsoft Office Smart Tags are a set of buttons that are shared across the Office applications. These buttons appear when the user needs them (such as when a user makes an error in an Excel formula, when Word automatically corrects a user’s action, or when a user pastes some data) and gives the user the options they need to change the given action or error.
Task Panes		Office XP applications give users easy access to their important tasks in a single integrated view. From the Task Pane, which appears on the right side of the screen, users can perform searches, open or start a new document, view the contents of the clipboard, format their documents and presentations, or even access translation and template services via the Web. Note: Different Task Panes are associated with specific applications. Each individual application’s Product Guide highlights the Task Panes unique to the given application.
Paste Options Smart Tags		Multiple paste options allow users to decide whether they want to paste their data as they originally copied it, change the style so that it fits the style of the document they are pasting the data into, or apply specific characteristics to the data, based on the content.
AutoCorrect Options Smart Tags		This feature provides an easy mechanism for users to control and modify automatic behavior that takes place within the Office applications. Users can undo an auto correction, choose to not have that correction take place in the future, or access the AutoCorrect Options dialog box without needing to search for it under the Tools menu.
File New (Task Pane)		As part of the Task Pane, creating a new file or opening an existing file is made simpler. Not only can users quickly open a new file from within the task pane, but they can also create a new document from a template that lives on the Web, create a new document from an existing document, or get a list of their most recently used templates or documents.
Speech		Office XP increases user productivity by supplementing traditional mouse and keyboard execution with voice commands. Users can dictate text, make direct formatting changes, and navigate menus using speech and voice commands. Note: Speech is currently available for U.S. English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese languages.
Handwriting		Office XP enables users to take handwritten notes on their handheld device and upload their notes as text directly into their Office applications. Users can also write directly in Word XP and keep the document in handwriting or convert it to typed text. Furthermore, East Asian users will be able to handwrite characters in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and Word will automatically convert it to the correct typed character.
Office Document Imaging		The new Office Document Imaging functionality, which takes advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, enables users to scan multi-page documents, view those documents, and reuse that text in their Office applications. Furthermore, users can locate their imaged documents at a later time using the full text search capabilities built into Office.
Streamlined User Interface		Office XP has a new look and feel that improves the user’s Office experience. This includes removing visually competing elements, visually prioritizing items on a page, increasing letter spacing and word spacing for better readability, and defining foreground and background color to bring the most important elements to the front.
Compress Pictures		The Office XP Compress Pictures feature enables users to compress images within their Office files. Users can select the intended use of the file (Web, print, screen display, etc.) and designate whether one or all images in the file should be optimized. The images are then shrunken and compressed in a manner that minimizes the size of the image without minimizing the visual quality of the image.
Office E-mail Introduction		Microsoft Office E-mail contains an introductory field, which enables users to enter a short introduction at the top of the message when sending mail from an Office application. This eliminates the need to change the body of the document the user is sending.
Ask A Question		Office XP enables users to type a question without launching the Answer Wizard or the Office Assistant. Even if the assistant is turned off or hidden, the question is answered in an Answer Wizard balloon.
Context Sensitive Smart Tags		In previous versions of Office, Word and Excel were smart enough to recognize URLs and e-mail names and assign links associated with these items. Users could then activate the items by clicking on them. Word XP and Excel XP extend this functionality to include information from Microsoft Outlook® or the Web, including names, dates, addresses, phone numbers, places, and stock symbols. Because these Smart Tags are extensible, organizations can create their own.
Search (Task Pane)		As part of the Task Pane, the new search capabilities of Office XP make it simple to find text in a document. Users can also find files or folders—regardless of where they are stored—without needing to leave the document they are working on. Furthermore, users can index the files on their machine. The result is faster and more comprehensive searches.
Save to MSN		Using MSN™ Communities, users can save their documents to a file cabinet on the Internet, which can be private or public. This allows users to easily share files on the Internet without ever leaving Microsoft Office. MSN Communities uses Passport as its authentication mechanism.
Office Template Gallery		Provides hundreds of professionally designed templates on the Web that can be accessed and edited directly within Office.
Media Gallery		Thousands of clip art images, sounds, photos, and animations are available on the Web and can be accessed from Office XP applications. The Clip Gallery Live is updated monthly so that users can constantly extend their design possibilities.
My Data Sources		A new folder in the My Documents folder keeps track of the data sources that users have previously accessed. This enables users to quickly find a connection to a database or other data source without having to spend time searching for it.
Document Recovery		Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint give users the option of saving their current files at the time an error occurs in an application. As a result, users spend less time recreating their documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations.
Application Error Reporting		In Office XP, the applications can automatically report any errors that occur directly to Microsoft or the user’s corporate IT department. This gives Microsoft (or organizations) the data needed to further diagnose and correct these errors as well as to provide users with direct access to workarounds or other information on the error.
Application and Document Recovery		This provides a safer method for shutting down an application that is not responding. Users can choose to shut down a non-responding application while initiating recovery of the document. They can also report the problem to Microsoft or their corporate IT department at the same time.
Repair and Extract		Microsoft Word and Excel can automatically invoke this corrupt-document repair and recovery functionality in the event of an error or a failure to load a file. Users can also invoke this functionality by choosing Open and Repair from the File Open dialog box (the drop-down menu to the right of Open).
Auto Recover		Automatic recovery has been added to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Publisher. Users can choose how often files are automatically saved. If an error occurs, the recovered file is opened, and users have the option of discarding the file, saving it over the original, or saving it as a separate file.
Safe Mode		Office XP can recognize common problems associated with booting up an application and can automatically run the appropriate work-around. This enables the user to launch the application in the event of a boot-related error, thus preventing unnecessary downtime.
Digital Signatures		Office XP gives users the ability to digitally sign entire documents. This enables users to know if a document has come from a trusted source as well as if the document has been altered from its original state.
Single Security Tab		The security options for each application are now available under a single tab under Tools>Options. This makes it easy for users to access their security options without having to go to multiple locations.
Visual Basic for Applications Installation Options		Administrators and/or users have the option of removing Visual Basic for Applications from Office installations on a user, group, or organization-wide basis.
Send for Review		Office understands each user’s specific role in the review cycle and gives each user the tools needed to successfully collaborate on documents. When a document is sent for review (from the File > Send To menu), the correct reviewing tools are automatically turned on for others to review. Furthermore, when the document is sent back, users can merge the changes back into the original document.