Microsoft Office 2010 RTM Released

Microsoft has updated its Product list with its latest Office 2010 suite. You can now Preorder your copy from Microsoft's Website. A good news is it is available in 64bit version too.




Three Office Versions are available for Pre-order as Suite.
1. Office Home and Student 2010 -
2. Office Home and Business 2010
3. Office Professional 2010


But you may also prefer to buy Standalone versions of your favorite programs. Following programs are available as Standalone for Purchase.

1. Word 2010
2. Excel 2010
3. Outlook 2010
4. Powerpoint 2010
5. Access 2010
6. OneNote 2010
7. Publisher 2010
8. InfoPath 2010
9. Project professional 2010
10. Visio Professional 2010
11. Visio Premium 2010
12. SharePoint Workspace 2010

So what is new in Office 2010?


Ribbon

The ribbon tool bar(Hate it? No way. Ribbon toolbar is here to stay)  has been tweaked. The Office Button on the Upper right corner has been redesigned to a unobtrusive rectangle than a large round button.


BackStage View

The Menu which you get once you click the office menu is officially called as "The BackStage View" by Microsoft. This Menu has been improved to a greater level to help you easy access to printers, Recent files etc. The info tab in the menu is particularly useful for easier use.


Paste Preview
Paste preview is one feature which can be very useful while working on documents especially when the pasting operation is used. You can preview the result of the Pasting before even doing it so that you can decide whether to paste the content with the formatting or without it. This seems to be a simple function at the first glance but I bet this is a time-saver at occasions.


Photo Editing Tools

Microsoft has enhanced the Ribbon to accommodate photo editing capablity. Now Select a Picture and you will have options to Sharpen, Soften, Change contrast and saturation, Crop etc., from the ribbon. Though some features were available in Office 2007, they are now been enhanced to serve you better.


Enterprise Functionalities


Microsoft has strengthened the communication between Office and its Communication server products. Collaboration is made easier in Office 2010. You can know the status of your colleague in your office with whom you collaborate.


Changes in Outlook 2010


Outlook is one program whose interface is changed radically. Outlook now gets a Ribbon toolbar which has many functions for easy access. Apart from that the look remains the same for outlook. Outlook's Message threading feature( A feature to list out related conversations) which was very difficult to access previously is made very simple. All you have to do now is to right click an email and select Find Related and then go to Messages in this conversation. From the list that shows up you can sort, arrange or remove the conversations.


Email handling has been improved considerably in outlook.Of course you have some shortfalls with this version. You don't get support to Social Networking sites by default.


Word 2010
Though there is not much change in Word, Find function has got a makeover so that now you can search charts, footnotes, etc. A Search Pane opens in the Left side window from where you can narrow your search.
There is a new tool now to take a screen capture and insert it to Word.


And not much change is done in excel as well.


PowerPoint and Videos


Now in 2010 you get features to edit and enhance video within PowerPoint. Though it is not as powerful as a professional Video editing tool, it helps you at times. You can also embed videos from online video sites like youtube onto your presentations.


Final Note


Office 2010 may not have great new features that you expected from Office 2K7. But it is definitely a next step in Office productivity tools that is available.


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