Not in Home and Student edition.
Dunno .... I was "presented" a copy of Office Professional 2007 - in 2007 - when I attended a Home Ideas Exhibition, and was chatting to the girl looking after some computer exhibitor, turned out that I ( yes, me !! ) knew more about some aspects of Vista - which I had only recently purchased with a new laptop - than she did, and as a reward she gave me the latest, then, Office 2007 ( I'd learned to make Vista look like Win 98, and reject all the useless visual stuff, which she'd never heard of )
I have for years installed an old copy of Word 97 that I held, on every new computer, laptop, netbook etc ( about 5 in total over the years ) because I know it and am happy with it, but when I bought this last laptop I couldn't locate it in the Very Safe Place that I have presumably stored it, so reluctantly cracked open my Office 2007, still unused 7 years later, and as already described, my Man Wot Does installed Word 2007 and Outlook.
I hate Word 2007 as vigorously as I hate Windows h'eight, far too many options that I don't understand and will never use, Word 97 was more than sufficient. Maybe I should have gone for Libre Office or similar, but I'm learning to cope - slowly.
Same with Outook, what was wrong with Outlook Express, which morphed into Windows Mail, then Windows Live Mail - until I dumped it all and went to Thunderbird, now dumped on the advice of my Man Wot Does, as described in my original post.
All these "improvements" may be well and good for them wot wants them, I don't. it's like being forced to buy a ex[ensive camera with an f1.2 lens and a 4000th/sec shutter to to be able to photograph a jumping black cat in a coal cellar, then using it all the time at f16 and 250th/sec on the beach!!
Just my 'apporth, and thanks BOAC for the heads-up on the preview pane stuff, sounds .... ???? ..... as if it might be OK ? ( pays y'money and takes y'choice I guess.)
Thread drift - Photography. I started with 12"x10" glass plates in a brass and mahogany camera with a black cloth over my head, reluctantly moved down to a 4"x5" Speed Graphic, then a 120 roll film Super Ikonta, then a 35mm Leica, and now of course something digital by Canon, so I guess all progress isn't bad !
Thanks for the advice, great Forum.