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MS Office Suite offers some serious benefits for business, especially work at home, and passive income businesses. The different elements of this office suite have gone far beyond the Business Contact Manager, which probably is the only tool that will currently separate you from your money.

This is the first suite that offers to put powerful tools into the hands of small businesses.

Word

Word now has all the kerning tools needed to create a bookshelf quality book. Up until now, business owners could create an ebook in Word, but it would never qualify for print through www.lulu.com or www.booksurge.com. Even if it did, it would never be purchased by a bookstore.

Now, kerning tools, line spacing, and other layout tools are easy to access, easy to use. And, the fonts can be easily embedded. The thing that makes this version of Word so good is that the tools are easy to access. There is no reason why work at home business owners need to take a MS Word course to learn how to use these features.

Publisher

One magazine company actually tossed their copy of Quark and are now using Publisher to lay out their *newstand quality* magazine. At one time, the thought of using publisher for book layout or web design was enough to make purists ROFL (Roll On Floor Laughing Guts Out!). Now, publisher is standing up and demanding its due.

A call to an offset printer, asking if they will accept publisher in an Adobe PDF will be met with instant acceptance.

Publisher as a web design tool is every bit as good as FrontPage. There are no extensions involved, making it easier to use. There is still coding issues, but no more than FrontPage or Dreamweaver have.

Again, the new layout make it easy to use without even addressing the tutorial. Many of the built in templates make it simple to get started.

MS MySql

Yes, there is now a tool to help business owners manage their server based Mysql databases without learning any coding.

PowerPoint

This site has many new features. It is still not in league with Macromedia but it can make a *better than average* elearning site. This will make it easy to offer free tutorials, selling tools, and problem solving devices to increase sales. It is even good enough to create marketable products.

The PowerPoint has the ability to create a good ecourse. It is a little more awkward than Macromedia, but the entire presentation can be converted to flash.

Most impressive is the phishing prevention tools.

This was implemented to strengthen the remote meeting tools. That is right. It is possible to send out a PP Presentation, and have everyone use the forms and collaboration tools to facilitate a meeting without anyone needing to reschedule.

This has power for everything from ecommerce, to hiring, to business management, to marketing.

Overview

Combined, this new suite has been designed to help ebusinesses collaborate, work together, in a way that may spell the end to the cubicle filled offices of today. The opportunities are endless. One magazine company uses the new office suite to disband their office. Now they can hire globally, using resources from around the world to give them an edge over larger companies.

Before buying secondary software for communication, presentations, and ecommerce applications * take another look at MS Office Suite. This is not just a *new* version of the old thing, like the last suite. MS has really addressed the Internet and Ecommerce businesses in this version- to *our* satisfaction.