Office Groove 2007 allows workers to share any Microsoft Office document within a workspace using the Groove Files tool, SharePoint Files tool or other tools that support file attachments such as the Discussion tool, Meetings tool, and Forms tool. No. Office Groove 2007 supports documents created in the 2007 Microsoft Office release and prior versions, as well as documents created with other software applications.

From an Office Groove 2007 workspace Files tool or SharePoint Files tool, you can initiate a co-review session of a PowerPoint presentation. This allows you and your workspace members to view a presentation together in real time with just one click, perhaps in conjunction with a team meeting. One of the core design goals of Office Groove 2007 is to ship the product with the highest degree of quality and user satisfaction of any Groove release.

Office Groove 2007 features a new tool called Groove InfoPath Forms that allows project teams to import InfoPath forms solutions into a Groove 2007 workspace for the purpose of collecting and aggregating data. The resulting Office InfoPath 2007 XML documents can be exported from the Office Groove 2007 workspace or integrated directly with an enterprise system.

Office Groove 2007 features new integration with Office Communicator 2005 and later. Directly from an Office Groove 2007 workspace or the Groove 2007 Launchbar you’ll be able to view your Communicator contacts and engage those contacts in real time using a Communicator phone call or an instant message. Office Groove 2007 presence awareness in workspaces and the Groove Launchbar matches the look and feel of the Communicator gumdrop icons.

Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that allows teams to share information and work together on project activities-from simple document collaboration to custom solutions integrated with business processes. Teams using Office Groove 2007 work inside collaborative workspaces, which put all team members, tools, and information in one place.

Office Groove 2007 includes the following tools: Files, Discussion, Groove SharePoint Files, Calendar, Meetings, Issue Tracking, Forms, Groove InfoPath Forms, Notepad, Pictures, and Sketchpad. Several workspace templates with custom tools are included and more will be made available for download in the future.

When combined with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007 allows users to easily share, reuse, and connect content from multiple PowerPoint presentations using PowerPoint Slide Libraries. Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides powerful out-of-the-box functionality for creating and managing presentation review and approval workflows, and other types of workflows that can be defined.

Yes. Many individual Office Groove 2007 tools can be customized. In addition, Forms and Groove InfoPath Forms allow team members to design custom tools that can be added to any Office Groove 2007 workspace for the purposes of sharing and tracking data. For very rich enterprise solutions based on Forms or Groove InfoPath Forms, some IT assistance may be required, particularly where there may be a requirement to connect to enterprise systems.

By increasing both team and individual productivity, Office Groove 2007 helps teams complete projects on time and within budget. Because teams using Office Groove 2007 don’t need to meet or hold teleconferences as often, Groove can also help reduce travel and phone costs. Office Groove 2007 can help team members improve the quality of their work because they spend less time coordinating with each other and more time on their own contributions.

Office Groove 2007 will support the following languages when it is released to market: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Portuguese-European, Romanian, Russian, Serbian-Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

The Groove Files tool and SharePoint Files tool allow team members to save their changes to a document as a new version, if desired. Teams wanting strict version control can publish documents from the SharePoint Files tool in Office Groove 2007 to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3.0) document library, where version control can be implemented.

Office Professional Plus 2007 when combined with the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 delivers an expanded set of capabilities that make it easier to deliver better results faster across your organization. Key capabilities include: Document management capabilities that streamline the process of creating, reviewing, and publishing content. Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet publishing capabilities that enable viewing Excel 2007 spreadsheets using a Web browser.

Workspaces. Containers created by information workers to share information and work together on team projects. Tools. Applications added to workspaces by team members for the purposes of sharing and working together on information, both structured (for example, forms) and unstructured (for example, files). Launchbar.

Over time, parts or all of the Fa?ade technology will become available for others to use for their own art, research or industry projects. We have formed a studio called Procedural Arts to own and distribute Fa?ade and its technology. See our technology page.

While the vast majority of features of Groove Virtual Office version 3.1 are available in Office Groove 2007, some features and tools were removed, either because they were not heavily used or because their quality was in need of improvement. Some of these features and tools may return in a future version of Groove or be made available by download at a later date.

Yes. Office Groove 2007 users and Groove Virtual Office version 3.0 or 3.1 users will be able to exchange contact v-cards, view each others presence, and send and receive messages. The information contained on this Web site relates to pre-release software products, and may be substantially modified before the commercial release.

The Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs that they can choose from to best address their business needs. Office PowerPoint 2007 is the interface that enables individuals, teams, and organizations to create and share dynamic presentations in less time than ever before.

If you are running Groove Virtual Office version 3.0 or 3.1, you can upgrade to Office Groove 2007. If you are running Groove version 2.0, 2.1, or 2.5, you must first upgrade to Groove Virtual Office version 3.1 before you can upgrade to Office Groove 2007. You should make a back-up copy of your account before upgrading to Office Groove 2007.

Yes, with almost no exceptions. Please note that although we do not provide FrontPage extensions, FrontPage can be configured to upload your website directly through a standard FTP connection rather then through the extensions themselves.

Team projects and processes span departments, offices, organizations, time zones, and cultural boundaries. In order to maintain business speed and agility, organizations must help teams overcome these boundaries so that productivity and work quality are not compromised. Office Groove 2007 helps teams bridge boundaries by providing a contextual work environment that adapts to the ways they need to work-inside the office and out, online and offline, with internal and external team members.