MS Office 2000 Professional Overview

Personal productivity and user assistance
The Office 2000 suite includes features integrated into all of the programs. This makes
the programs easier to learn and use. Office 2000 also conforms to your habits and
preferences to increase your personal productivity.
• Microsoft Office Profile Wizard. A utility that captures preferences and settings
made to Office programs, which can then be copied to other machines. Office
2000 takes special care to accommodate Windows Terminal Server with the
Roaming User Profiles.
• Intelligent Install. Determines the optimal installation based on existing Office
settings and available machine resources. A Custom Installation Wizard also
allows system administrator or technology coordinators to create custom
installations on an individual, departmental, or institutional level.
• Self-repairing applications. Checks all essential files and registry entries at
startup and then, if missing or corrupted, reinstalls them in the background,
requiring less maintenance for technology specialists.
• Backward compatibility. Office 97 can open files built in Office 2000.
• Customizable Alerts. Allows network administrators or technology coordinators
to supplement built-in alert dialogs with school or university-specific
information by inserting links to existing intranet information or assistance sites.
• Updated File Open/Save dialog box. The most commonly used dialog boxes in
Office, File Open and File Save, now have a Places bar which contains icons for
places you often store files such as the My Documents folder and the Desktop.
• Collect and Paste. With the extended Microsoft Office Clipboard, you can
gather up to 12 items from different sources and paste them into any Office
document either individually or all at once.
• Virus Protection and Security. The new Microsoft Office Antivirus utility allows
third-party virus protection vendors to directly scan Office documents before
they are loaded. With Office 2000, authors can digitally sign their documents,
certifying that they are virus free. Such signed documents open in Office
without the virus warning. If the documents are changed at all, Office recognizes
this and alerts you.
• Quick file switching. Each open Office document is represented by its own icon
on the Windows taskbar, making switching among a group of open documents
much easier.
• URLs in Command Bars, including the Outlook Bar. One or more icons in the
Command Bar can be links to Web pages so you can create links to class or
department Web pages, or pages you are using for research.
• History folder. This folder, found in the File Open dialog box, contains links to
recently opened files.
In and Out of the Classroom with Office 2000 Professional
Office 2000 Overview