Microsoft Office XP is an office suite createdand distributed by Microsoft for Windows operating system. Releasedon March 5, 2001, it is the successor to Office 2000 and thepredecessor to Office 2003, and was known as Office 10 in the earlystages of its development cycle. Despite the “XP” branding, OfficeXP does not require Windows XP or higher; rather, “XP” was amarketing term for its era.
Here are some key features of “Microsoft OfficeXP”:
Microsoft Office XP, released in 2001, is a major upgrade withnumerous enhancements and changes.
– Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access
– Safe Mode: This feature allows applications such as Outlook tostart when they might otherwise fail. Safe Mode enables Office todetect and either repair or bypass the source of the problem, suchas a corrupted registry or a misbehaving add-in.
– Smart tag: New technology delivered with Office XP. Some smarttags operate based on user activity, such as helping with typingerrors. These smart tags are supplied with the products, and arenot programmable. For developers, though, there is the ability tocreate custom smart tags. In Office XP, custom smart tags couldwork only in Word and Excel.
– Product Activation: Office XP incorporates product activationtechnology to prevent software piracy. This feature is alsoimplemented in Windows XP (and later versions of Windows andOffice).
– Speech and handwriting recognition are features new to Office XP,shared among all Office applications as well as Internet Explorerand Outlook Express. The speech recognition feature encompasses twodifferent functions, Dictation and Voice Command. Dictationprovides users the ability to dictate words that will betranscribed into typed text in an Office program, while VoiceCommand is used to invoke menu options and commands via voice.Handwriting recognition allows users to enter text by writinginstead of typing.
– Text Services Framework support: Office XP, specifically, Word2002 supports the Text Services Framework making it possible forservices implemented using TSF to be used in Word. Office’s speechrecognition, handwriting recognition and tablet PC ink support andink correction are such services.
– Clipboard functionality has been greatly improved. The clipboardnow stores up to 24 items and is located in the task pane. TheClipboard task pane also displays a thumbnail view of a copieditem, whether it consists of text, numbers, or a graphic.
– A major change to the Office XP application environment is theintroduction of task panes. A task pane is a multi-purposewindowpane that appears on the right side of the window of anOffice application. A task pane is basically used to house a numberof features that were formerly controlled using dialog boxes, suchas opening a new file or inserting clip art into an applicationdocument.
– Office XP sports a streamlined, flatter look compared to previousversions of Microsoft Office. It was designed to be used incombination with Windows Whistler’s Watercolor theme, which wasabandoned in favor of Luna when Windows XP was released.
Installer Size: 330 MB
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