Microsoft Office XP

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Overview

Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5, 2001. It has received three service packs during its lifetime. Mainstream support for Office XP ended on July 11, 2006, with extended Support scheduled to end on July 12, 2011.

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Microsoft Office XP was released in conjunction with Windows XP, although the latter was not launched until October of the same year. Despite their naming similarities, Office XP is compatible not only with Windows XP, but also with Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6a), Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is not compatible with Windows 95 as Office 2000 is the last supported version. flexible keyboards

It is also the last version with support for Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0. hp compaq nx6110 notebook

The individual components within Office XP are assigned the "2002" suffix rather than "XP," e.g., Word 2002 and Excel 2002.

Features

An example of the Office icon and splash screen from PowerPoint XP

Microsoft Office XP, released in 2001, is a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes.

Safe Mode: This feature allows applications such as Outlook to start when they might otherwise fail. Safe Mode enables Office to detect and either repair or bypass the source of the problem, such as a corrupted registry or a misbehaving add-in.

Smart tag: New technology delivered with Office XP. Some smart tags operate based on user activity, such as helping with typing errors. These smart tags are supplied with the products, and are not programmable. For developers, though, there is the ability to create custom smart tags. In Office XP, custom smart tags could work only in Word and Excel.

Product Activation: Office XP incorporates product activation technology to prevent software piracy. This feature is also implemented in Windows XP (and later versions of Windows and Office).

Speech and handwriting recognition are features new to Office XP, shared among all Office applications as well as Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. The speech recognition feature encompasses two different functions, Dictation and Voice Command. Dictation provides users the ability to dictate words that will be transcribed into typed text in an Office program, while Voice Command is used to invoke menu options and commands via voice. Handwriting recognition allows users to enter text by writing instead of typing.

Text Services Framework support: Office XP, specifically, Word 2002 supports the Text Services Framework making it possible for services implemented using TSF to be used in Word. Office's speech recognition, handwriting recognition and tablet PC ink support and ink correction are such services.

Clipboard functionality has been greatly improved. The clipboard now stores up to 24 items and is located in the task pane. The Clipboard task pane also displays a thumbnail view of a copied item, whether it consists of text, numbers, or a graphic.

A major change to the Office XP application environment is the introduction of task panes. A task pane is a multi-purpose windowpane that appears on the right side of the window of an Office application. A task pane is basically used to house a number of features that were formerly controlled using dialog boxes, such as opening a new file or inserting clip art into an application document.

Office XP sports a streamlined, flatter look compared to previous versions of Microsoft Office. It was designed to be used in combination with Windows Whistler's Watercolor theme, which was abandoned in favour of Luna when Windows XP was released.

Components

Word 2002

Excel 2002

Outlook 2002

PowerPoint 2002

Publisher 2002

Access 2002

FrontPage 2002

Project 2002

Visio 2002

Editions

The component products were packaged together in various suites. Some of these editions were available as retail packages in either full or upgrade versions, others as full OEM versions for inclusion with new PCs, and still others as volume license versions that required no activation. All editions provided the core components of Word, Excel, and Outlook, and all editions except the Small Business edition provided PowerPoint.

Table of Editions

Programs and Features

Standard

Small Business

Professional

Professional Special (upgrade)

Developer

Licensing

Retail and Volume

OEM

Retail and OEM and Volume

Retail

Retail

Excel

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Word

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Outlook

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PowerPoint

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Access

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Publisher

No

Yes

OEM only

Yes

No

FrontPage

No

No

Volume only

Yes

Yes

Developer tools

No

No

No

No

Yes

See also

Comparison of office suites

List of office suites

External links

Office XP Solution Center

Downloads for Office XP - Downloads - Microsoft Office Online

References

^ Office XP version number

^ Service Pack 3 latest release date

^ Microsoft press release March 2001

^ Office XP support ends

^ Microsoft press release 4 April 2001

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Microsoft Office

Office suites

Windows

95  97  2000  XP  2003  2007  2010 (upcoming)

Mac OS

98  2001  X  2004  2008  2011 (upcoming)

Applications

Desktop

Access  Communicator  Entourage  Excel  Excel Viewer  Groove  InfoPath  InterConnect  OneNote  Outlook (Outlook Connector  Add-ins)  PowerPoint  PowerPoint Viewer  Project  Publisher  SharePoint Designer  Snapshot Viewer for Access  Visio  Word  Word Viewer

Server

Communications Server  Forms Server  Groove Server  PerformancePoint Server  Project Server (Project Portfolio Server)  Office SharePoint Server (Excel Services  InfoPath Forms Services)

Online

Live Meeting  Office Live  Office Online  Office Web Apps  Outlook Web Access

Mobile

Office Mobile

Office tools

Clip Organizer  Graph  Equation Editor  Picture Manager  WordArt

Discontinued

Accounting  Binder  Data Analyzer  Document Imaging  Document Scanning  FrontPage  Liquid Motion  Mail  Office Assistants  PhotoDraw  Photo Editor  Schedule+  Vizact  Web Components

Related

Microsoft Works  MapPoint  Microsoft SharePoint  Windows SharePoint Server

Technologies

Information Bridge Framework  Object Linking and Embedding  Office Open XML  Office XML formats  Smart tags  Visual Basic for Applications  Clippy

History of Microsoft Office

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