OFFICE 2007 SOFTWARE

Administrative Templates for system programs

 

Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values, creating detailed reports helping achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime.

 

Captions Language Interface Pack translation solution using tooltip captions to display results. (Code Cultures)

 

Community Clips recorder for creating help videos

 

Creative Commons Add-in embeds a Creative Commons license into a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel document.

 

Deploying & Managing Office 2007 in the Enterprise provides information to design, customize, and deploy Office 2007

Equation Number Manager supplements built-in equation editor & bibliography manager

 

Help Tab links to online training tailored to new users

 

Learning Essentials for Educators & Students 

 

• Educators create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies
• Students use templates with project assistance to coach them through a variety of assignments

Live Meeting 2007 Add-in performs conferencing tasks directly from Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio

 

Microsoft Translator Add-in translates words, sentences or a full document

 

Office Live Add-in  installs menu options to Open & Save documents located in Office Live Workspace directly from Word, Excel, & PowerPoint

Office Update Inventory Tool checks computer(s) for the status of Office updates

 

Open XML Format converters Administrative Template for modifing the default behavior of the Word, Excel, & PowerPoint 2007 Open XML Format converters. (KB926054)

 

OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in opens and saves OpenDocument format (ODF) files; along with a command line translator providing batch conversions

 

Open XML Theme Builder simplified user interface for creating custom XML themes, defining the look and feel of documents created within PowerPoint, Excel, & Word

 

"Save as" PDF & XPS Add- in exports & saves to PDF / XPS formats. It also allows sending email attachment in the PDF / XPS formats in a subset of these programs. (PDF & XPS components available separately)

 

Search Commands add-in helps find commands, options, wizards and galleries in Word, Excel & PowerPoint

 

SQL Data Mining Add-ins – Excel Table Analysis Tools & Data Mining Client, & Visio Data Mining Templates

 

Stockxpert professional, royalty-free, high-res JPG images available for purchase either per image or subscription. (From MSDN)

 

Storyboard Designer – diagram (model) and generate documentation for a storyboard scenario

Theme Builder creates "consistent look" document themes.

 

Works 6–9 File Converter open, edit, and save files in the Microsoft Works file format versions 6, 7, 8, & 9

 

ACCESS 2007 

Access Developer Extensions to deploy & manage solutions built on Access

 

Access Runtime distribute applications to users without a full version of Access

 

Marketing Projects Sample Database tracks time-sensitive deliverables & vendor status for projects

 

Sample Database Templates for Personal, Business, & Education

 

EXCEL 2007

Chart Advisor provides an alternate approach for creating charts based on predefined rules

 

Financial Calculators for home mortgage, home equity, auto loan, 401K, simple loan, savings, credit card payoff, & mortgage payments

 

NodeXL template for viewing and analyzing network graphs

 

OLAP PivotTable Extensions extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. (From TechNet)

 

Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists Add-in synchronizes data in a table with a list on a SharePoint site

 

Treemapper Add-in generates a treemap visualization of any hierarchical data in Excel, or from a CSV or XML file. Based on the Data Visualization Components from the Treemapper Group.

Web Data Add-In captures Web pages as a data source

 

XLL Software Development Kit contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, and sample projects to guide you in developing Excel 2007 XLLs.

 

ONENOTE 2007

Calendar Add-in gives a view of all of your notes, allowing viewing by when they were created or modified. A preview pane allows you to view your notes. (From MSDN & MSDN)

 

Calendar/Planner Powertoy create’s a custom calendar, by selecting a start date and # of days

 

Canvas – navigate & edit notebooks by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content

 

Export Outlook Notes to OneNote.

 

Favorites PowerToy 1 or 2 works like Internet Explorer’s “favorites” by saving the paths and locations of your OneNote Notebooks. (From MSDN & MSDN)

 

Image Rotator PowerToy rotates ink or drawings

 

Learning Styles Pamphlet provides an overview of how educators can use OneNote to complement students’ learning styles in the classroom

 

Windows Journal to OneNote Importer.

 

MakeSubpage PowerToy takes the the currently selected page(s) and makes them a subpage(s). (From MSDN)

 

Media Fine Tuner Powertoy for taking notes while recording audio, allows "moving" the start time of the notes you typed and aligning them with "where" in the audio you want the note to play

Merge Pages PowerToy merges selected pages together by "selecting the pages you want to merge and click the merge toolbar button."  (From MSDN)

 

Notebook Cleaner & Privatizer PowerToy prepares a "shared" notebook for distribution

 

Printout Manager take slides decks printed to OneNote and break them up into one slide per page

 

Outlook To OneNote PowerToy adds the capability of sending yourself email with a certain SUBJECT keyword and have Outlook automatically create a new page in OneNote’s Unfiled Notes section when that mail item arrives. Outlook then deletes the email

 

Project Gutenberg: ImportText PowerToy imports "Project Gutenberg" texts into OneNote

 

ReadOnly Selection Add-in makes the currently selected section ReadOnly

 

"Search and Replace" PowerToy.

 

Send to Mobile sends selected pages from different OneNote notebooks to your Mobile device

 

Send to OneNote – RightClick file(s) s& elect "Send To OneNote”

Sort Pages & Sort Sections PowerToys 

 

Sudoku  (game)

 

Table of Contents PowerToy creates list of most recently changed pages

 

Table Sum Powertoy sums columns of a table & adds new row to the bottom (ignoring non-numeric values)

 

Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes Powertoy assigns Outlook tasks to others during meetings

Template Manager Powertoy manages your customized OneNote templates

 

TextImporter PowerToy – navigate to a folder and import all the TXT files. It creates a new section with the name of the folder, as the section name

 

THE PowerToy (Text, Highlighted, Extractor) – highlighted text from the current page is copied to a new page.

 

Web Exporter Plug- in exports OneNote notebooks as an interactive web site

Word Count counts the number of words on a page

OUTLOOK 2007 

AutoArchive Add-in to help getting to "Inbox Zero"

 

Business Contact Manager: Database Admin Tool allows hosting the database on a computer on which Business Contact Manager is not installed

 

Business Contact Manager for: Smart Phones & Pocket PCs synchronizes business contacts and a subset of your communication history to Windows Mobile 5 & 6 Pocket PC devices

 

Calendar Printing Assistant for printing & customizing calendar information

 

ClearContext Personal Add-in to organize & manage your email (From MSDN)

 

Communicator Add in – view & interact contact lists from Office Communicator 2007

 

Defrost Outlook helps troubleshoot "freezing" issues

 

Email Loss-Detection Add-in address the problem of email loss by alerting users of email sent to them that has been delayed or lost

 

Email to Appointment Macro creates an appointment from an email message

 

Email Prioritizer helps manage email overload with a “do not disturb” button

 

FBLook integrates Facebook into Outlook allowing updating your Facebook status, see your friend statuses and see the number of new requests without opening the browser or any other applications. (From MSDN)

 

FedEx QuickShip Toolbar creates & tracks shipments, get rates, schedule pickups, and locates the closest FedEx location. (From 10.Net)

 

Flickr4Outlook – directly access your Flickr services and insert images into your email

 

Forgotten Attachment Detector prompts for outgoing emails with missing attached files

 

HTML and CSS Validator checks for valid/supported HTML before sending HTML-based e-mail

 

Junk Email Reporting Tool reports junk email to Microsoft to help improve the effectiveness of their filtering technologies

 

MapLook Add-in shows the addresses of contacts in Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth

 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online enables access to the same data through Outlook as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

 

MultiMap Add-in allows fast and simple insertion of maps to meetings, contacts and emails. (From MSDN)

 

Outlook Mobile Manager prioritizes messages and makes smart decisions about "when" to send email. OMM also sends calendar reminders, task reminders, and an Outlook Today style daily summary all to your wireless device

 

OutTwit Add-in integrates sending & receiving messages directly to Twitter. (From Channel 10 & MSDN)

 

Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals. (Support Docs 2007 Compatibility, How to, & Troubleshooting)

 

Pro Photo Shoot Add-in allows photographers to add details of the client & equipment for a photo shoot appointment in Outlook.  (Never Forget a Lens Again)

 

RemindMe Add-in sends email (with location & meeting subject) whenever a reminder is shown

 

SMS Add-in enables sending SMS text messages through most GSM mobile phones connected to your PC

 

Snip IT emails selected text in Internet Explorer to "any" email client (Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook & Yahool)

 

Thread Compressor removes unnecessary emails, and leaves the original intact, so you can keep the last mail in each branch of a thread, and remove all the others

 

TwInbox – Twitter Add-in

 

Xobni Add-in helps you search and organize your inbox

 

POWERPOINT 2007

pptPlex tour slides as a zoomable canvas tour.

 

VISIO 2007

Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads Active Directory configurations using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange 200x Server topology.

 

Educational Shapes for Chemistry, Mathematics, & Physics

 

CONNECTORS:

Exchange Server diagrams an Exchange Server site topology, including sites, servers, and connections for an organization

 

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer lets you view the results of an MBSA scan in a clear, comprehensive Visio 2007 network diagram

 

Near Real Time Monitoring of Disk Space displays the results of server monitoring. This enables integration with the service management solution SCOM 2007. The connector helps to view the results of monitoring servers as a clear, comprehensive Visio network diagram

 

Rack Server Virtualization provides the capability to pull the rack-server data from Excel or user

 

SQL Servers is a tool for IT administrators who require constant interactions with the users for the installations of the SQL server in any IT infrastructure. (Users Guide)

 

System Center (SCOM & SCCM) Add-In allows IT professionals to visualize data from the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) by generating the diagrams for each machine configured for it. The Add-In allows filtering of data, automatic generation of diagrams and an automatic refresh of the associated data.  (System Center-User Guide PDF)

Export To XAML Add- in creates XAML directly without being forced to compiling the source. (From MSDN)

 

IconSet Builder provides custom Icon Sets used in Data Graphics diagrams. Upload your images, then copy the resulting shape into your diagram or template

 

SoftGrid Stencils (From TechNet)

 

Helper Add-in Tool simplifies automating common Visio tasks

 

Shapes for Microsoft CRM 3.0 (Microsoft Premier Partner)

 

Software & Database Shapes for Visio Standard: Express-G, Object Role Modeling (ORM), Jackson, and Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) notations.

 

Stencil Containing Shapes for Exchange Server 2007 Icons for Exchange 2007 server roles, networking, telephony and Unified Messaging objects, Active Directory and directory service objects, client computers and devices, and other Exchange organization elements.

 

Stencils for MOSS Architecture Diagrams (From MSDN)

Stencils For OpsMgr 2007 (From MSDN)

 

Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 used for creating SharePoint Site Structures and architecture

 

3rd Party Visio Stencils (From MSDN)

 

VISIO VISITOOLS ADD-ONS:

 

• VisiClean – Removes unused masters to help reduce .VSD file size
• VisiExam – Examine Visio diagrams for inconsistencies and errors, and fix them automatically
• VisiNotes – Adds 3 long text note fields to each of your shapes 

 

VISIO TEMPLATES: 

• Audit Process – Cross Functional Flowchart template enables users to create data linked dynamic drawings
• Business Travel Plan illustrates the critical information for business travel including flights, hotels, & car rentals

• EDUCATION TEMPLATES

Classroom Seating Chart shows several classroom workspace set-ups, and stores important student information with each shape

 

High School Curriculum Plan designed to assist with planning a goal-driven integrated curriculum

 

Historical Cause & Effect shows an example of the events that result in a single effect. Causes are arranged in categories resulting in a depiction of relationships and hierarchy of events

 

Periodic Table of the Elements – the elements with a color legend

 

School Calendar – school related events are posted; teachers customize the calendar posting classroom related events and deadlines

 

United States Map Stencil – 50 states & whole U.S. shapes

• Factory Floor Assembly Plan follows the path of a product being manufactured.  The work flows from the machine shop to the pre-paint area, to the paint shop & finally to the packaging station
• Fault Tree Analysis – FTA diagrams are used to provide a graphical representation of the events that might lead to a failure so that the failure can be prevented
• Help Desk Flow – Call volumes, wait times, & resolution rates are tracked at each point in the process.  The diagram flows from left to right & top to bottom.  Not every caller will experience each of the steps, if a problem is resolved by a Level 1 technician, then the caller does not progress to the Level 2 technician.
• HVAC Controls – Simple Heating, Ventilation, & Air-conditioning control diagram
• Insurance Claims by State – map of the US with the individual states shaded to represent insurance losses for the previous year
• Investment Analysis Report – Year to date summary of the funds in the account covering account balances and performance, & comparing it to S&P 500 returns
• Loan Consolidation Process – Shows overall status & details of each department
• Military Organization Chart details commanding officers and their direct reports including: information of name and title. (Stencil Military Uniforms Samples)  
• Network Equipment Rack – Server room floor plan showing locations of the equipment racks & room locations of computer equipment.  Corresponding pages show a front view of the network equipment racks & details of the computers on the racks

NETWORKING STENCILS:

Emcor Enclosures Shapes

10 Series and ESQ Products
FP1 Products

FP2 Products

KRONE Network Equipment

 

Juniper Networks Shapes

DX Series
E320 Products
ERX Products
IC Products
IDP & ISG Products
J Series Products
M120 Products
M160 Products
M20 Products
M320 Products

• Office Communications Server 2007 Stencil – icons for server roles & components to create diagrams of Office Communications Server topologies
• Office Move Plan – Provides a timeline, PERT charts, Gantt charts, a layout of the new office space & an inventory report to ensure items end up in their correct locations on moving day
• Office Space Planning – Overhead view of an office layout.  Each office & cubical is shown with detailed information on the occupant: Office #, Occupant, Department, Title & Phone
• PC Assembly Process Flow shows parts of the PC being assembled.  The boxes of a standard flowchart have been replaced with the detailed PC parts to show manufacturing companies can replace the boxes with parts diagrams
• Sarbanes-Oxley Pivot Diagrams creates data linked dynamic drawings
• Service Manager Shapes & Templates
• Spider Chart used by management consultants to show clients how an organization compares with those in similar companies
• Supply Chain Analysis shows part of the Supply Chain of a motorcycle manufacture used to analyze the costs & time associated with shipping parts & sub assemblies between suppliers & manufactures
• Value Stream Mapping – Review a value steam map for the fictional KSoda company (i.e. shows # of shifts, uptime, & inventory hours each process has.)
• WBS Modeler improves the project planning process by generating Project Plans from a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using a graphical representation of elements

 

WORD 2007

Article Authoring used to enhance the authoring of scientific & technical articles, including support for the National Library of Medicine XML format

 

Audio Control Macro controls audio via keystrokes & ribbon toolbar icons

 

AutoHistory provides a local history for documents

 

Baseball Add-in tracks games right inside the home tab of the Word Ribbon, showing the score, inning, & base situation for games in progress, by pulling data from a MSN sports web service. (From MSDN)

 

Bibliography Style Sheets for an IEEE formatted bibliography

 

BibWord Extender for BibWord bibliography style templates

 

Chemistry Add-in tool for the authoring and rendering of semantically rich chemistry information in Word 2007 documents.

 

Databinding Toolkit stores custom XML parts & create data-bound content controls. (From MSDN)

 

Flickr4Word directly access Flickr services

 

Math Add-in adds computational and graphing capabilities to the Equation Tools Word Ribbon

 

MathML Stylesheet creates HTML documents with embedded MathML as well as OMML (From MSDN)

 

Math Worksheet Generator creates a worksheet of practice problems.

Ontology Recognition "solution accelerator" works in two ways: background scanning & direct tagging

 

Open XML Translator provides a bridge between the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format (ODF) to Open & Save ODF documents in Word

 

Open XML to DAISY XML Translator translates from Office Open XML to DAISY XML format

 

Redaction Add-in allows marking sections of documents for redaction (marked text is replaced with a black bar that cannot be converted back to text)

 

UOF Add- in provides interoperability between the UOF & Open XML formats in both directions; benefiting millions of people who live in China
 

Word 2007 Templates

 

XAML Generator add-in converts the Office Open XML (WordprocessingML) to XAML

 

OFFICE 2007 DEVELOPMENT

Data Connectivity Components Driver allows non-Microsoft Office applications to read data from Office 2007 system files such as Access (mdb and accdb) files & Excel (xls, xlsx, and xlsb) files. Connectivity to SharePoint Services and Text files is also supported.  

 

Icons Gallery Add-In – this Excel worksheet adds a group to the developer tab with icon galleries of built-in icons available for reuse in your solutions

 

IMsoDocExporter Header File enables use of the IMsoDocExporter, exposing document data (rendering & document structure) used by the "Save as PDF" & "Save as XPS" Office 2007 add-ins. Provided for developers to test this interface to provide alternate add-ins for PDF or XPS or to provide an add-in for some other fixed-format document format. (From MSDN)

LINQPad interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language. (From MSDN)

 

OPML Blogger’s List: Office 2007 Development Bloggers or use in RSS feeds (60+ Office-related blogs)

 

Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference Code Samples & Redistributable Installer accompanies the Auxiliary Reference documentation. It contains 3 sample projects: a header file, & a redistributable installer that 3rd-party calendar rebasing tools can use to programmatically update calendars displayed incorrectly due to Daylight Saving Time.

 

Outlook 2007 Sample Add-ins: Rules, Travel Agency, & Prepare for Meeting – 3 samples in both C# & Visual Basic .NET versions demonstrating many new & enhanced features of the Outlook object model. (From MSDN)

 

Outlook 2007 Sample Add-in: Ribbon Extensibility is available in both Visual C# & Visual Basic .NET versions, is a learning tool to understand how to customize the Ribbon for Outlook Inspector windows. (From MSDN)

 

Office 2007 Security Guide provides prescriptive Group Policy setting & security configuration recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers

 

Setting Up a Development Environment includes 4 code samples used with the MSDN Article.

Software Development Kits: documentation, code samples, "How to" articles, & programming references to customize & integrate with Office 2007 programs with other applications for enterprise project management

 

• Project 2007 SDK
• Visio 2007 SDK

SQL Server 2005 "Data Mining" Add-ins takes advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics in Excel 2007 & Visio 2007. (ReadMe, Data Mining Community)
 

• Table Analysis Tools Add-in for Excel provides tasks that leverage SQL Server 2005 Data Mining under the covers to perform powerful analytics on your spreadsheet data
• Data Mining Client Add-in for Excel allows full data mining model development lifecycle within Excel 2007 using either spreadsheet data or external data accessible through SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services instance
• Data Mining Templates Add-in for Visio – render & share mining models as annotatable Visio 2007 drawings

Visual Studio Code Snippets for the Office Fluent UI includes Visual Basic and C# code snippets for use when customizing Excel, PowerPoint, & Word.

 

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office 2007 System creates new application-level add-ins for the Office 2007 system. Use managed code to customize task panes and the Ribbon in the Office 2007 system applications.

 

Visual Studio Tools for the Office System Power Tools – developer tools that provide additional functionality useful in Office-based development.

 

OFFICE 2007 VIEWERS

Access 2007 Snapshot Viewer – view report snapshots without the standard or run-time versions of Access 97 – 2007

 

PowerPoint 2007 Viewer – view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 – 2007

Visio 2007 Viewer – view drawings & diagrams created with Visio 5.0 – 2007  (visViewer – Visio Viewer Wrapper)

 

Word 2007 Viewer – View, print & copy Word documents, without Word installed