Features:

• Begin composing attractive, professional documents in no time at all with Word 97
• Compose spreadsheets that track your important financial numbers more easily with Excel
• Design attractive animated slideshows and make your business idea noticed with Powerpoint 97
• Create powerful databases for better information management with Access 97

Microsoft Office 97 brings together the world's best-selling productivity applications in a unified work environment, making it easy to organize your information and tasks. Office 97 helps you improve your performance by providing unparalleled consistency between applications, such as common commands, menus, and toolbars, so you can get your work done faster and better than ever before. Office 97 now includes Microsoft Outlook--a powerful new desktop information manager. Outlook keeps your e-mail messages, appointments, contacts, tasks, and access to your documents in one place. And it's tightly integrated with all Office 97 applications, making it easy for you to organize, view, and share the information you work with every day.

Bring the power of the Internet to your PC. Revolutionary new Web technology built right into Office 97 helps you quickly author exciting, multimedia Web pages directly from your Office 97 applications without having to learn HTML. Add hyperlinks to other Office documents for easy navigation from document to document--whether they are on your hard drive, your company intranet, or even the Internet. And easily share information and collaborate with others using powerful, advanced workgroup features.

Office 97 is intelligent software that's designed to help you get powerful results quickly. Innovations such as the new Office Assistant give you advice, help, and tips while you work. Even more Microsoft IntelliSense features, such as Spell It in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint and the background grammar checker in Word, which find and fix common spelling and grammatical errors with the click of a mouse, all vastly simplify your everyday work. And Office 97 also takes advantage of new Microsoft IntelliMouse functionality, which streamlines on-screen navigation of your documents.

Microsoft Office 97 provides all the tools you need to get organized, get connected, and get your job done in new and better ways.

System requirements:

• Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later with Service Pack 5, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or later with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later
• 486 or higher processor
• 8 MB RAM to run single Office application on Windows 95 (12 MB to run Access); 16 MB RAM to run single Office application on Windows NT Workstation
• 121 MB hard disk space for typical setup
• CD-ROM drive
• VGA or higher resolution video adapter (SVGA 256-color recommended)
• Mouse or compatible pointing device