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The Outlook Social Connector gives you a people-centric view of your company, including messages, meeting schedules, attachments, and SharePoint activities such as the posting of status updates. And because it can be connected to popular social networking sites, you can also get news from customers, prospects, and partners.

Send a calendar snapshot to others via e-mail, view multiple calendars at once, and take advantage of the Meeting Scheduling Assistant to make it a breeze to organize a meeting with others.

Now when you receive a meeting request, a preview of your calendar helps you better understand how the request affects your calendar without you leaving your inbox. Also, Schedule View(Office Standard 2007), Group Scheduling Tools, and Team Calendar make it easy to see what you and your colleagues are scheduled to do, making it easier to schedule meetings.

Connect multiple Exchange mailboxes in a single Outlook profile so you can easily access and manage your accounts in a single location.MailTips give users important information before they hit “send” to avoid unnecessary, embarrassing, or even damaging e-mail.

OneNote 2007 helps teams share information by publishing OneNote notebooks on SharePoint sites and allowing simultaneous editing.

Working with others in a shared notebook is now even easier and more flexible with automatic highlighting of unread changes, related features such as Find by Author, and more. Additionally, when you store your shared notebook online, you can simultaneously edit that notebook with others using both OneNote 2010 and OneNote Web App.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 makes staying in touch with colleagues easier. Instant messaging and audio or video conferencing are accessible from a single screen. Presence technology makes it possible to start a conversation by simply clicking a person’s name in a Word document or Outlook e-mail message.

Your favorite instant messaging application has an improved, expanded reach. See presence and a new contact card for your friends and colleagues and easily initiate a conversation directly from within select Office 2010 applications. With Office Communicator, you get additional tools, such as the ability to initiate voice calls without ever leaving your work.

With Office 2007 Visio , you can now communicate more effectively and reach a wider audience with your diagrams.

Save Visio diagrams in PDF and XPS file formats     Easily share your Visio diagrams with everyone, including people who don’t have Microsoft Office, by saving your diagrams in the following formats:

• Portable Document Format (PDF)    PDF is a fixed-layout electronic file format that preserves document formatting and enables file sharing. The PDF format ensures that when the file is viewed online or printed, it retains exactly the format that you intended, and that data in the file cannot be easily copied or changed. The PDF format is also useful for documents that will be reproduced by using commercial printing methods.

• XML Paper Specification (XPS)     XPS is an electronic file format that preserves document formatting and enables file sharing. The XPS format ensures that when the file is viewed online or printed, it retains exactly the format that you intended, and that data in the file cannot be easily copied or changed.