Families using Microsoft® Office XP, Office 2000 or Office 97 on their home computers now can surpass the traditional computing experience with the benefits offered by Microsoft Office Personal Portfolio 2002 and Microsoft Personal Collection 2002. As the cornerstone of Personal Collection, Personal Portfolio offers families more than 600 helpful templates for Word, Excel, the PowerPoint® presentation graphics program and the Outlook® messaging and collaboration client by giving them creative suggestions, options and ideas to personalize any task. Portfolio and Collection will help consumers complete personal projects, as well as those for school or a club, quickly and affordably. Programs included in Personal Collection 2002 offer new templates and organizational tools from Microsoft Office Personal Portfolio 2002; more thorough research functionality from Microsoft Encarta® Encyclopedia Standard 2002; a personal-finance tracking system from Microsoft Money Standard 2002; and the ability to creatively edit, use and share photos via Microsoft Picture It!® Photo 2002.