### MS Office Integration Main Features

The main features of the SSA PDM MS Office Integration include:

- Easy access to SSA PDM Document Management operations from the MS Office application through a fully embedded menu and toolbar.
- MS Office documents, worksheets, project plans and presentation files are represented from within SSA PDM, via graphic displays of the file dependency and structure for all projects, using the familiar tree view component.
- All files supported by MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project can be imported into SSA PDM, with automatic updates of links, reflecting the relationships between all types of documents and files. These can be quickly and easily accessed using the SSA PDM document management system.
- File names are maintained for all new MS Office files. They are automatically checked against the SSA PDM database to eliminate redundancy or errors caused by overwriting files.
- Foolproof authorization ensures security and enables monitoring during the entire product lifecycle, based on user access rights and status of the document.
- All files can be vaulted from within the MS Office environment, based on authorization.
- For Word and Excel files, the SSA PDM MS Office Integration allows you to map SSA PDM data into MS Office file properties. For example, you can choose to view the SSA PDM ID of a document in your MS Office file.
- MS Office documents can be linked to Items directly from the Integration. This way, for example, a design document can be easily linked to the Item it describes.

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