Microsoft Office 2010 Overview
Microsoft Office 2010 offers you rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work at work, home or school on your computer, from a Windows Mobile-based Smartphone or via a Web browser. Quickly and creatively grab your audience’s attention and inspire them with your ideas by using enhanced and easy-to-use tools, customizable templates, color schemes, and photo-editing capabilities. With a new co-authoring experience, you can work with people from different locations at the same time. And by offering more ways to access your files from almost anywhere, Office 2010 puts you in control of getting things done according to your schedule. Simplify your tasks and create amazing results with Office 2010 — wherever life takes you.
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Top 10 new ways to deliver impactful results using Office 2010
EXPRESS YOUR IDEAS MORE VISUALLY
With Office 2010, you can easily create powerful visuals and apply professional-looking designs to photos and text, and to videos in PowerPoint. From new and improved picture-editing effects such as saturation and watercolor to video editing and formatting capabilities such as trimming, fades and reflections, Office 2010 opens up a world of design options to give life to your ideas.
ENJOY THE FAMILIAR OFFICE EXPERIENCE ON THE WEB
With Office Web Apps, you can take advantage of greater flexibility when working in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. That’s because you can access your work at any time from a Smartphone or computer with an Internet connection.2 Create amazing documents using Office 2010 and then easily post them online so you can share your work with others from across town or around the world. It’s convenient and easy.
MANAGE LARGE VOLUMES OF E-MAIL WITH EASE
The Conversation View in Microsoft Outlook 2010 improves the tracking and managing of e-mail conversations while saving valuable inbox space. Compress your long e-mail threads into a few conversations that can be categorized, filed, ignored or cleaned up within a few clicks.
CONNECT, SHARE AND ACCOMPLISH MORE WHEN WORKING TOGETHER
Now you can get more done when working in groups. The co-authoring experience with Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010 lets you work on a file with multiple people simultaneously from different locations.2 Brainstorm ideas, control versions better and meet deadlines faster — it’s a snap with Office 2010.
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An appropriate device, Internet connection, and Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari browser are required. Some Requires either Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live account. Office Web Apps will be available through Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 are required.
mobile functionality requires Office Mobile 2010, which is not included in Office 2010 applications or Web Apps.
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Windows Live at a later date during Technical Preview and will have limited functionality at this milestone.
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CREATE POWERFUL DATA INSIGHTS AND VISUALS
With new data analysis and visualization features in Microsoft Excel 2010, you can easily track and highlight important data trends. For example, the new Sparklines feature delivers a clear and compact visual representation of your data with small charts in a cell. The new Slicer feature lets you filter and segment your PivotTable data in multiple layers so you can spend more time analyzing and less time formatting.
QUICKLY COMMUNICATE AND SHARE INFORMATION
Communicate with the right person the right way through presence information and integrated communication choices. With Office Communicator, presence is available in Office 2010 applications so users can see the availability of an individual and easily initiate conversations through instant messaging or audio and video calls while co-authoring in Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 or reading e-mail in Outlook 2010.3
GET THINGS DONE FASTER AND EASIER
DELIVER MORE COMPELLING PRESENTATIONS
With PowerPoint 2010, you can effectively engage your audience by embedding and personalizing videos within your presentation. The embedded video file can be customized by adding video triggers and styles directly within PowerPoint 2010, saving you time and money.
STORE AND TRACK ALL YOUR IDEAS AND NOTES IN ONE PLACE
The Microsoft Office Backstage view replaces the traditional file menu, helping you quickly get to operations such as save, share, print and publish with just a few clicks. The enhanced Ribbon is available across all Office applications so you can access more commands quickly and create custom tabs to personalize the Office experience to your work style.
With OneNote 2010, you get the ultimate digital notebook for storing, organizing and sharing your text, photos, and video and audio files. New features such as version tracking, highlighting and Linked Notes give you more control over your notes so you’re always on top of the latest changes and sources of your information.
ACCESS YOUR WORK ACROSS DEVICES AND PLATFORMS
Office 2010 gives you a familiar and intuitive experience across PCs, Smartphones1 and various Web browsers so that you have the freedom to use the system from more locations and on multiple devices.
This information is about pre-release software and therefore is subject to change. It is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. More information about Microsoft Office 2010 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010.
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An appropriate device, Internet connection, and Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari browser are required. Some Requires either Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live account. Office Web Apps will be available through Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 are required.
mobile functionality requires Office Mobile 2010, which is not included in Office 2010 applications or Web Apps.
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Windows Live at a later date during Technical Preview and will have limited functionality at this milestone.
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