Office XP Professional is the most complete solution for customers, offering exciting new features in:

Word version 2002,
Excel version 2002,
PowerPoint version 2002,
Outlook version 2002,
Access version 2002,

XP is short for "experience.
Microsoft Office Smart Tags are a set of buttons that are shared across the Office applications.
These buttons appear when the user needs them (such as when a user makes an error in an Excel formula, when Word automatically corrects a user's action, or when a user pastes some data) and gives the user the options they need to change the given action or error.
Task Pane, which appears on the right side of the screen, users can perform searches, open or start a new document, view the contents of the clipboard, format their documents and presentations, or even access translation and template services via the Web.
Speech - Office XP increases user productivity by supplementing traditional mouse and keyboard execution with voice commands. Users can dictate text, make direct formatting changes, and navigate menus using speech and voice commands.
Handwriting - Office XP enables users to take handwritten notes on their handheld device and upload their notes as text directly into their Office applications. Users can also write directly in Word XP and keep the document in handwriting or convert it to typed text.
Office Document Imaging functionality, which takes advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, enables users to scan multi-page documents, view those documents, and reuse that text in their Office applications.
Office XP enables users to type a question without launching the Answer Wizard or the Office Assistant.
In Office XP, the applications can automatically report any errors that occur directly to Microsoft or the user's corporate IT department. This gives Microsoft (or organizations) the data needed to further diagnose and correct these errors as well as to provide users with direct access to workarounds or other information on the error.
Office XP gives users the ability to digitally sign entire documents.
This enables users to know if a document has come from a trusted source as well as if the document has been altered from its original state.
Excel now supports Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Users can load and save generic, well-formed, and spreadsheet XML directly into Excel. Furthermore users can query XML spreadsheets from the Web and thereby analyze important Web data.
Access users can easily import or export XML schema and data documents into and out of Access. Users can automatically import the XML tables or access advanced options to customize the import.
File formats are backward-compatible with Office 2000 and Office 97 (with the exception of Access 97). Users of Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97 can seamlessly share documents with one another.
Office XP enables teams to share information and work together more effectively. Office XP gives users an easy way to review, compare, and merge documents with others via e-mail without changing anything about the way they do things today.
Scheduling meetings, sharing information on the Web, and improving response time are all customer concerns and Office XP delivers unique ways to facilitate the coordination and communication with team members both inside and outside of a user's organization.

System & Other Requirements Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or greater, or Windows 2000 or greater. On systems running Windows NT 4.0, the version of Internet Explorer must be upgraded to at least 4.01 with Service Pack 1
Super VGA (800x600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors.
The recommended system is Windows 2000 Professional on a computer with a Pentium III processor and 128MB of RAM. Pentium 133 MHz or