Review: Office 2007 a Worthy Successor

February 1, 2007 Review: Office 2007 a Worthy Successor (AP)

In this undated handout photo provided by Microsoft, a screen from Microsoft Powerpoint, part of the Office 2007 suite of programs, is shown. (AP Photo/Microsoft)

(AP) -- With each update to its Office suite, Microsoft Corp. has piled on features aimed at boosting users' productivity and goosing sales of the world's most widely used collection of programs for handling documents, spreadsheets, e-mail and presentations.

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