Microsoft Office 2000: First Impressions Web Integration Ben Durbin
Information Sharing and Collaboration Collaboration and the ability to share information quickly are vital to business success. Office 2000 delivers great new tools for the Web that enhance your personal productivity and the productivity of your workgroup. One new popular Web development tool that is now paired up with Office is FrontPage 2000. Let's take a look at some other ways that the web now enhances productivity in Office 2000.
Universal Document Viewing With Office 2000, you can save Office documents in HTML file format and retain the fidelity of your native Office file format. By saving as HTML, you ensure that anyone with a Web browser can view your documents. Editing those documents is not a problem either because Office 2000 allows you to open them back into the original Office program without losing any of the rich functionality of the Office File Formats.
Save to the Web In order to aid simple publication of your Office documents--Microsoft has added new dialog boxes that help to save your documents as easy as saving them to your hard disk or to a file server.
Web Themes Business users are now creating Web pages to serve many different purposes on the Internet or for their team's intranet. To make this easier, Microsoft has introduced over 30 new design themes in Office 2000. These themes come with graphical backgrounds, bullets, and other design elements that make creating Web pages in Office as straightforward as creating documents.
Web Discussions Members of a workgroup can collaborate on projects across intranets and the Web in threaded discussions that you can insert in any part of a document and view in a Web browser.
Outlook 2000 Microsoft's email client has also been upgraded. Outlook 2000 brings to you a faster, plus easier to use and manage email client. In its latest version you can keep your daily tasks, take notes and keep a list of your contacts, without having to worry about losing old email, contacts, or settings. Outlook 2000 has accomplished this by implementing new import wizards that will easily and effectiviely retrieve your old email, contacts and settings.
Outlook Web Shortcuts When Web page links are sent to you in email, they can be opened directly within the view pane in Outlook, giving you a quick look at your business information. Likewise, with the Enhanced Outlook Bar, you can host links to commonly visited Web pages, documents, and even applications in the Outlook toolbar.
