Microsoft Office 2000 can be your bridge between traditional business values and the new business environment. For example, competing effectively is as important today as it was before the personal computer, but the tools available have created an environment that requires more speed, collaboration, targeted data analysis, and reliability than ever before.

Office 2000 can help your organization succeed in this new environment because it finally makes the intranet a practical business tool. That's because it enables people to use the productivity tools they're already familiar with to collaborate quickly and easily over your existing intranet infrastructure.

Below is the "big picture" on the business value of moving to Office 2000.

Enhanced Communication and Collaboration
Your teams will be able to collaborate on projects more efficiently:

• Office 2000 builds upon productivity tools people already use every day by adding HTML as a standard file format. This means anyone in your organization can instantly share information with anyone else, no matter where they're located, via your intranet, simply by selecting Save as Web Page for any Office file.
• With Office 2000 you can now collect all of your team's best ideas in one place—holding discussions within files on the team intranet—so users don't waste time dealing with multiple copies of outdated files and weeding through feedback scattered in e-mails and documents.
• With Office 2000, it's easy to convert standard file servers into Web servers—a platform for team collaboration—which means that users no longer need a webmaster or special programming skills to create, manage, and update a dynamic team intranet site.

• With Excel and Access in Office 2000, users can access and analyze data wherever it resides in the organization, which can greatly reduce the dependence on the IT department to produce custom reports.
• With Outlook 2000, the messaging and collaboration client in Office 2000, users have a single, consolidated view of all of their key information—e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, folders, and Web sites—so they stay up-to-date and better informed.

• Office 2000 can easily be customized down to the feature level, which means that IT can now give teams exactly the Office functionality they need, when they need it, and where they need it—no more "one size fits all" installations of Office.
• The applications in Office 2000 automatically repair themselves when a user mistakenly deletes a file or a file becomes corrupted, so users stay more productive with less downtime and fewer support calls.