Upgrading to Arabic Office 2000 will give you the power to communicate your ideas effectively, achieve more in less time, and stay on top of your information. This document discusses the types of tasks that you do today using your current version of Arabic Office, and shows how with Arabic Office 2000, you can do the same work much faster and with more professional results.

The Arabic Office 2000 installation wizard automatically detects your previous version of Arabic Office and can completely remove it regardless of which version you have. Then you pick which Arabic Office 2000 features you want to install. If you try to use a feature that you haven't installed yet, Arabic Office 2000 will configure it for you automatically. Install on Demand features save hard drive space, because you install only the features you need when you need them.

To keep your installation of Arabic Office 2000 running smoothly, Self-Repairing Applications search for missing or corrupted files and repair them automatically - so you can focus on your work, not your software. Because Arabic Office 97 and Arabic Office 2000 programs (except for Access) have the same file formats, after upgrading, you can still share files with the people you work with, even if they are still using a previous version.

Benefits:

Most documents today are not created from scratch. They are created by pulling information from many existing sources: documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, and the Web. In previous versions of Office, collecting information from multiple places was a somewhat tedious process of constantly switching programs, copying and pasting information one piece at a time. To save you time with this common task, Office 2000 Collect and Paste lets you copy up to 12 items into the Office clipboard and then paste them either one at a time in any order or all at once.

Copy up to 12 pieces of information, then paste them in, either one at a time all at once.In Word 2000, another timesaver is Click and Type. With Click and Type, you can position text anywhere on the page without having to create complex tabs or do special formatting. Simply position the cursor where you want the text to go, double-click, and start typing. Now it's easy to center-align titles, create indented paragraphs, or create a single line with text in different places.

When choosing fonts for your document in Office 2000, what you see is what you get (WYSIWIG). The WYSIWIG Font Menu, available in all Office 2000 applications, allows you to preview fonts before you choose them. No more trial and error trying to get the look you want. Now it's quick and easy to select the best font, even if you don't know its name.

Office 97 Font Menu, Office 2000 WYSIWYG Font Menu.Preview fonts before you choose them with the WYSIWIG Font Menu in Office 2000. The Office Clip Gallery comes with thousands of new images and is even easier to use. You can now drag and drop images from the gallery directly into your Office documents. With Clip Gallery Live, you have free access to download over 10,000 photographic images, sounds, motion clips, and pieces of clip art.

And if you still can't find the perfect image, you can create it yourself. Microsoft PhotoDrawÖ 2000 business graphics software, the newest member of the Office family, combines image editing, scanning, and illustration tools in one easy-to-use program that works just like Microsoft Office. Now you can create custom, eye-catching graphics, which you can reuse in any Office application.

PhotoDraw optimizes and saves graphics in the appropriate format for the Web, print, and presentations to create a unified look for all your communications. For example, you can design your company's logo in PhotoDraw, and then use it in your Web site built with the Microsoft FrontPager Web site creation and management tool, on a catalog created in Microsoft Publisher, in a fact sheet created in Microsoft Word, and in a Microsoft PowerPointr presentation.

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 combines photo-editing and drawing tools in one streamlined application. If you need to create more complicated layouts than what's possible using a word processor, the Microsoft Publisher 2000 desktop publishing program gives you all the tools you need. Professionally designed templates and color schemes allow you to easily create, customize, and publish your own newsletter, flyers, business cards, and more.

Share Documents with Anyone
Office 2000 not only makes it easier to create and manage your documents, but makes it easier to share them too.

When you upgrade to Office 2000, you don't have to worry about whether someone can open your Office document, as you did when you upgraded to Office 97, because there are no differences between the file formats of Office 97 and Office 2000 applications, with the exception of Microsoft Access. This means you can share documents with people using Office 97 and still take advantage of the new features of Office 2000 yourself.

Most people today share documents by e-mail. In previous versions of Office, to send someone a document that you were working on, you first had to save it, then launch an e-mail application, create a new message, and finally attach the file. Office 2000 saves you all these steps by including the e-mail functionality of the Microsoft Outlookr messaging and collaboration client in all the Office applications. Now you just click the new Office E-mail button on the toolbar of any Office 2000 application to e-mail your document. It's sent in HTML format so any recipient can view it.

You can now send e-mail from any Office 2000 program.More and more people are sharing documents using the Web. With Office 2000, you can share documents with people on the Internet or company intranet as easily as you would save a document to your local hard drive today. With Web Folders, you don't need to have any special Internet skills to post a file to your intranet or Internet Service Provider where anyone can access them. You can now save documents directly to a Web server from inside all the Office programs.

And you no longer need to know HTML to create great-looking Web pages. With Save As Web Page in Office 2000 all your Word documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations can be saved as high-fidelity HTML, retaining all the formatting and graphics of the original document. Because anyone with a Web browser can view HTML files, you can now share information with anyone, anywhere-regardless of what software they use.

If you want to create a complete Web site, the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're experienced or new to Web development. You can use FrontPage to create your own personal or business Web site. And because it works like the rest of Microsoft Office, FrontPage 2000 is easy to learn and use.

Office 2000 also makes it possible for you to work with others on your personal or business documents in real time, even if you are not in the same place. All you need is an Internet connection and you can schedule real-time meetings, and work together and make changes to the same Office document. Plus, Office 2000 makes it easy to share your calendar and contact information right over the Internet through support for the vCard and iCalendar standards.

Find and Organize Your Information
Office 2000 helps you effectively manage all your information, like documents and e-mail. Now you can keep all your information in one place, so you spend less time looking for things and more time being productive.

To make it easy to find the files you need, the File Open/Save dialog box, the most commonly used dialog box in all of Office, has been completely redesigned in Office 2000. The Outlook Bar-style Places Bar gives you one-click access to the places where you store documents most often

The Office 2000 Open/Save dialog box provides quick access to folders you use most. One of the icons on the Places Bar, the History Folder, points to all the Office files you've accessed recently. So even if you don't know where you saved the last document you worked on, you can still find it easily.

To manage all of your personal information such as e-mail, schedules, and tasks more effectively, Outlook 2000 includes new tools that help you stay top of your in inbox, get through your to-do list, and make sure you're always in the right place at the right time.

Outlook Today, for example, provides in one window a summary of upcoming meetings, tasks, and the number of new e-mail messages. View your appointments, tasks, and messages from one Outlook Today page. Another new feature, the Organize Tool, keeps you on top of your ever-expanding inbox. Now, with one tool you can set rules that file incoming messages automatically, filter out junk mail, and apply unique colors to predefined messages so they stand out. Then apply those rules to instantly clean up information that already exists. You can also select different views to sort your messages by priority, who sent the message, or other criteria you choose.

In previous versions of Office, you had to use different programs to access your e-mail, browse for files, and surf the Web. With Outlook 2000, you have quick access to all the information you need, all in one place. The Outlook Bar can now store links to any file, folder, or Web page. Web pages open up right inside Outlook, so you can keep an eye on your inbox even when you're on the Web. Browse Web pages without leaving Outlook.

Manage, Analyze, and Report on Data
Microsoft Excel 2000's streamlined spreadsheet creation tools and enhanced analysis tools give you better ways to analyze data and find solutions. Whether you are an expert or a novice, Excel 2000 will help you work more efficiently, with better results.

When working with a range of cells in Excel 2000, you can now see how your changes look without having to deselect highlighted cells. The new See-Through View lightly shades selected cells rather than showing them in inverse colors, so you can make formatting changes and immediately see if you've achieved your desired results.

Excel 97 Cell Selection Excel 2000 See-Through View
The new See-Through View in Excel 2000 lightly shades selected cells instead of inverting the colors as was done in previous versions. When you're working with lists, the new List AutoFill feature automatically applies the formatting and formulas of adjacent cells to any new rows or columns you add to your worksheet. For example, in the picture above, if you add a new row for "Parkas" under "Shoes," that row will inherent the formatting and formulas of the rows above it.

PivotTabler dynamic views offer powerful, visual representations of your data. But in previous versions of Excel, only experienced users were able to take advantage of this feature. In Excel 2000, a new interface and automated Wizard lets users of all abilities make use of PivotTable views to easily find answers hidden in their data.

If you want a more visual representation of your data than you could get in previous versions, Excel 2000 offers a new analysis tool, PivotChartÖ dynamic views. Now you can add and remove fields and pivot and filter data on a chart the same as you do on a PivotTable. Because PivotChart and PivotTable views are linked, they are updated in tandem as you change or move fields.

Schedule Meetings and E-mail Team Members
Office 2000 gives you new tools to quickly schedule group meetings and communicate with project members. When sending e-mail and scheduling meetings, you no longer have to type in the same e-mail addresses over and over again, as you did in previous versions of Office. With Outlook 2000, you can create Personal Distributions Lists and send e-mail or meeting requests to groups of people just by typing in a single name.

Personal Distribution Lists can consist of Contacts from one or more Contacts folders and the Microsoft Exchange Server Global Address List. You can schedule a meeting with an entire distribution list, then click the PLUS SIGN next to the distribution list to expand it and view the free/busy information for each member individually. You can choose which members of the list to invite or omit.

The enhanced Meeting Planner in Outlook 2000 can automatically detect the next available time that all invitees are free. When you schedule meetings with your team in Outlook 2000, the enhanced Meeting Planner has the tools you need to complete the task efficiently. Use AutoPick to automatically identify the next time all invitees are free and automatically select an available conference room from a distribution list of several rooms.

Track Important Contacts and Relationships
Outlook 2000 improves the contact management features of earlier versions of Outlook by making it easier to find and track the people you work with, so you can make the most of your relationships. With Outlook 2000 you can easily maintain an electronic paper trail of your activities with people. Contact Activity Tracking creates a complete record of all e-mail messages, phone calls, tasks, appointments, and documents associated with each contact. You get a consolidated list of your interactions, which you can view, group, sort, and filter.

Keep track of all e-mail, tasks, appointments and documents related (linked) to each contact with Contact Activity Tracking. If you need to make a call, use QuickFind Contact to quickly find a contact, no matter where you are in Outlook. Just type in their name, partial name, or location and Outlook will bring the contact right up. If you want to visit your contact, click Display Map of Address to view a map showing their exact location, which you can print out and take with you on the road.

You can now use Mail Merge from Outlook Contacts to easily send customized letter, faxes, or e-mail to any of your contacts, without having to switch into Word as you did in previous versions. Take advantage of the powerful sorting and filtering capabilities of Outlook so you can target your mailing to exactly the right people. For example, you can create a view that contains only your contacts from a particular state or province and then send a custom e-mail message or a fax just to them.

Create Presentations with Less Work
If you've worked with the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation graphics program before, you'll notice something different right away when you open PowerPoint 2000: Tri-Pane view, the new default view in PowerPoint 2000. Tri-Pane view combines the outline view, slide view, and notes page view of previous PowerPoint versions, letting you work on all aspects of your presentation in one place. Having your entire presentation available in this way saves you time, because you're not constantly switching back and forth. Seeing the whole outline of your presentation while you work helps you stay focused on the points you are trying to get across, so you get better results.

Tri-Pane view combines the outline view, slide view, and notes page view of PowerPoint 97. In PowerPoint 2000, as you add bullets, text is automatically resized to fit so your content doesn't "fall off" the slide. AutoFit Text changes the line spacing, then the font size-and then both. This means that you don't have to spend time trying to make the text fit; Office 2000 does it automatically.

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