What's New in Microsoft Office 2000

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The following features in Office 2000 make it even easier to create Web, e-mail, and print documents.

Click-n-type. In Page Layout view, you can move the cursor anywhere on a page, double-click, and then start typing. This simplifies complex document layout.
Collect and paste. Gather information from multiple sources and place up to 12 items on the Microsoft Office Clipboard at a time.
Font Visibility. The font name now appears in the font menu exactly as it will appear in your document.
Personalized menus. Commands that you use most often are prominently featured on the menus. Menus are easily expanded to reveal all commands.
Open and save your Microsoft Office documents. With the improved File Open and File Save dialog boxes, you can see more files at one time and access them faster in every Office program. You can use the new Places Bar to get to the folders and locations you use the most, click History to see the last 20-50 documents and folders you have worked with, and then click the Back button to easily return to folders you have recently visited.
The Clip Gallery. When you use the Clip Gallery, you can organize pictures into custom categories, assign keywords to pictures, drag images into your Office documents, and leave the Clip Gallery open in a smaller window while you're working on your documents. The Clip Gallery can also store sounds and movies. If you use a picture, sound, or movie often, you can add it to the Clip Gallery for easy access.
Troubleshooting. You can fix problems with non-critical files (such as fonts and templates) by clicking Detect and Repair on the Help menu. This command reinstalls files that are missing or corrupted. Problems with essential files and registry entries are automatically detected and fixed when you open your Office program.

Tables. Create nested tables (tables within table cells), floating tables (text wraps around a table), arbitrarily positioned tables including side-by-side tables, and integrated header rows (header rows integrated with the outside border).
Table resizing. In-table row resizer you can adjust any row's height directly in your table by dragging the row border up or down, just as you adjust column widths. If you hold down ALT while you drag the column border, the new vertical ruler shows you the exact row height.
Table move handle. You can use the mouse to move your table to another position on the page.
Table resize handle. You can change the size of the entire table while maintaining the same row and column proportions.
Hyphenation. Hyphenation works with documents written in many languages. When a different language is detected, hyphenation is done correctly for that language.
Thesaurus. Word 2000 has a new thesaurus developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Right-click a word, point to synonyms, and then you can select a word from the synonyms list.

See-Through View. When you select cells with colored text, the color remains the same instead of appearing in an inverse color scheme.
Euro currency symbol. Additional number formats are available with the euro currency symbol.
Four-digit date. Additional number formats with four-digit dates.
List AutoFill. Microsoft Excel 2000 automatically extends formatting and formulas in lists, simplifying this common task.
Display units. If your chart values consist of large numbers, you can make the axis text shorter and more readable by changing the display unit of the axis. For example, if the chart values range from 1,000,000 to 50,000,000, you can display the numbers as 1 to 50 on the axis and show a label that indicates that the units express millions.

PivotTable features
Lay out reports directly on worksheets. After you click Finish in the PivotTable and PivotChart Report Wizard, blue outlined drop areas appear on your worksheet and the PivotTable toolbar displays a list of the fields from your source data. You can lay out the PivotTable report directly on the worksheet by dragging the fields from the toolbar to the drop areas.
PivotChart reports. The new PivotChart report brings the power of PivotTable reports to your charts. PivotChart reports are interactive, with field buttons that you can use to show and hide items in a chart.
Indented formats. You can specify that a PivotTable report appear in an indented format - similar to traditional banded or formatted database reports - which makes a large or complex PivotTable report easier to read.
PivotTable AutoFormats. You can use PivotTable AutoFormats to display indented and no indented PivotTable reports, and you can set PivotTable print options to set page breaks and repeat row and column labels for PivotTable reports that appear in an indented format.
Display and hide items in fields. Row and column fields now have field drop-down arrows. Click the arrows to display and select from a list of available items. The list provides a quick way to show and hide items in fields.
Data selection and formatting. You no longer have to use PivotTable selection when you format a PivotTable report. Formatting that you apply by using regular Excel selection is retained when you refresh or change the layout.
Interactive PivotTable list component for Web pages. You can make a PivotTable report available on a Web page as a PivotTable list, which is a component that lets users interact with the data in the Web browser. Users can also refresh the data, change the layout, and select different items for display.
Web Queries. You can create and run queries to retrieve data that is available on the World Wide Web. You can either select an entire Web page or specify a table on a Web page to retrieve. Excel 2000 provides several sample Web queries that you can run.
Refreshable text import. Data from text files can now be brought into Excel in the same way that you create other database queries. Formatting and formulas are retained when you open the file as refreshable.

AutoFit text. If you have a few extra lines of text that do not fit in a text placeholder, Microsoft PowerPoint automatically resizes the text to fit.
New normal view. The new normal view simultaneously displays the slide, outline, and notes views in their own adjustable panes, so you can see everything at once.
Native table tools New native table tools let you create and format tables within PowerPoint. Use the Draw Table tool much the same way you use a pen to draw a table - just click and drag to draw the table boundaries and cell partitions. You can now make individual cells any height and width you want.
Graphical bullets New graphical bullets add extra flair to your slides. They can be used to replace the standard font-based bullets. A large selection of bullets is included, and you can import your own custom-made bullets as well.
Numbered lists Numbered lists are now supported in PowerPoint. When you change the order of items in a numbered list, PowerPoint automatically renumbers the list for you.
Handout options Your handout options have been expanded. Now you can print two, three, four, six, or nine slides on a page in either horizontal or vertical orientation.
Better voice narration Narrations can now be recorded and edited one slide at a time, giving you greater flexibility when preparing your soundtrack.
New design and content templates A wide variety of new designs are available for you to apply to your slides - including a number of animated templates with preset animation.
PowerPoint introduction The PowerPoint tutorial introduces the features and helps you create your first presentation.
More AutoShapes Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 contains six new AutoShape categories to help you create diagrams of Web sites, networks, office layouts, and more.
Graphics and objects PowerPoint 2000 makes using graphics on Web pages easy. Graphics for Web pages are automatically stored in GIF, JPEG, PNG, or Vector Markup Language (VML) format. Even after you save your presentation as a Web page, you can still edit graphics and objects when you open your Web page in PowerPoint.
Scanner support You can scan a picture directly into PowerPoint from most TWAIN-compatible scanners and digital cameras.
Animated GIF pictures PowerPoint supports the playing of animated GIF pictures to add motion to your presentations.
Projector Wizard The Projector Wizard automatically sets and restores the correct screen resolution for the projection system that you are using. Most popular projection systems are supported.
Improved laptop support New laptop support disables any screen saver or power-saving mode while you are giving a presentation, preventing unwanted interruptions.
Presentation broadcasting With presentation broadcasting you can schedule and give a slide show over the Web, complete with audio and video. Broadcast presentations can be saved on a Web site for future playback.
Dual HTML output format You can publish your Web presentations to take advantage of the more advanced Web browser features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, while preserving compatibility with Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0 and later.
Round-trip HTML You can save a presentation as a Web page and reopen it in Microsoft PowerPoint, without losing any of the formatting or contents.
Navigation bar in Web presentations The outline pane is automatically converted to a table of contents to navigate through a Web presentation.
Customizable Web pages Quickly change how PowerPoint generates and formats Web pages through the Web Options dialog box (Tools menu, Options command, General tab, Web Options button). For example, you can customize where graphics and other supporting files are stored, and specify what format graphics are saved in for use on Web pages. Whenever possible, the options are shared across all Microsoft Office programs. Use design templates to create Web pages with a professional look. Without saving your file, you can quickly preview your Web page in your browser with the Web Page Preview command (File menu).
Automatic file and link management PowerPoint automatically manages companion files, such as graphics. When you create a Web page, all supporting files are stored in a file folder with the same name as the main .htm file. When you save your presentation to a new location, PowerPoint checks the links and repairs those that aren't working.

Save as HTML. All of your formatting (except versioning and passwords) will be preserved when you save documents as HTML files.
Web Page Wizard. Word 2000 provides a wizard for creating professional-looking Web pages and multi-page Web sites.
Browser compatibility. People often create Web pages that are not viewable in older browsers. To make sure others can view your pages, Word 2000 allows you to turn off features that are not supported in older browsers.
Web Page Preview. From Word 2000, you can preview Web pages in the default browser, even without saving the pages first.
Themes. Themes have been created and coordinated between Microsoft Office 2000 Professional and the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool. This makes it easy to create consistent-looking Web pages.
Web Queries. You can create and run queries to retrieve data available on the World Wide Web. You can either select an entire Web page or specify a table on a Web page to retrieve. Excel 2000 provides several sample Web queries that you can run.
Create documents for the Web. Excel 2000 provides fast and easy methods for creating Web pages by building on the tools and features you are familiar with. Now you can seamlessly move Excel data to a Web server as interactive spreadsheets and charts. If you want to add graphics or text, or move the published or saved items around on the Web page, you can open your Web page in another program, such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000 or Microsoft Access, and then edit the data on the Web page.
Use the interactive PivotTable list component for Web pages. You can make a PivotTable report available on a Web page as a PivotTable list, which is a component that lets users interact with the data in the Web browser. Users can also refresh the data, change the layout, and select different items for display.
Customize your Web pages. You can quickly change how Microsoft Office 2000 generates and formats Web pages by using the Web Options dialog box (Tools menu, Options command, General tab, Web Options button). For example, you can customize where graphics and other supporting files are stored, and you can specify what format graphics are saved in for use on Web pages. When possible, the options you set are shared across all Office programs.
Manage your files and links. Office programs automatically manage companion files, such as graphics. When you create a Web page, all supporting files are stored in a file folder that has the same name as the file. When you save your file to a new location, Office 2000 checks the links and repairs those that aren't working.
Create an international presence. If you create Web pages for international use, Office 2000 saves files by using the appropriate international text encoding so that users on any language system can view the correct characters.
Use graphics and objects. Office 2000 makes using graphics on Web pages easy. Graphics for Web pages are automatically stored in GIF, JPEG, or PNG format and are also saved in Vector Markup Language (VML). Even after you save your file as a Web page, you can still edit graphics and objects when you open your Web page in an Office program. Office 2000 automatically generates alternative text for graphics based on an image's file name.
Keep Office-specific formatting. You can use features that aren't supported on the Web, such as line colors and character effects, in all of your Office files. When you save a file as a Web page, default colors and other formatting options that aren't supported on the Web are stored with the file. When you open your file in your Web browser, these features will not appear. However, when you reopen your Office file in your Office program, you can still view and edit this formatting.