Office 2010 includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Some key new features include a redesigned ribbon interface consistent across applications, improved paste preview and photo/video editing tools, new chart types in Excel, and online versions of Office apps with 25GB of free cloud storage. The installation process is straightforward and allows upgrading from Office 2007. Overall, Office 2010 provides streamlined interfaces and collaboration features for most common productivity tasks.

1. What’s New in Office 2010? Eastside Technology Committee Barry B Hensiek

2. Office Versions 2003 Released Nov 2003 Introduced InfoPath (for data forms) and One Note Outlook was significantly updated 2007 Released Jan 2007 (along with Vista) Introduced the “Ribbon” and the “Office Button” Introduced Groove and Sharepoint

3. Office 2010 - What’s Included? Retail Versions Home and Student Word Excel Power Point One Note Home and Business Outlook Professional Access Publisher

4. Office 2010 - What’s Included? Volume Licensing Versions Standard Word Excel Power Point One Note Outlook Publisher Web Apps (limited) Professional Plus adds Access, InfoPath, Sharepoint Workspace, Communicator and more robust Web Apps

5. Office 2010 – What’s New? The Ribbon is back! Redesigned and streamlined Consistent across applications, including Outlook The “Office Button” reengineered as the File tab Basic file commands – open, save, etc Document info (properties) Recent docs New docs from templates Print Save and send – to the Web, by email, to Sharepoint Help Options

6. Office 2010 – What’s New? Paste Preview – an improvement to the old copy-and-paste Photo and Video editing tools in some applications

7. Excel Not much change from 2007 Added: Sparklines Cell-sized charts to get a quick graphical visualization of specific data

8. Word Navigation pane Headings view Pages overview Search New text effects New tool: insert screenshots

9. PowerPoint New themes Easier animations Video editing and control Easy embedding of on-line video (You Tube) But, you need an internet connection to play it

10. Outlook The Ribbon Better mail handling Right-click a message to access “Quick Steps” Customizable message tasks (move to, forward to, set a meeting with mail recipients) Mail Tips (works only with Exchange) Warns of too many mail recipients, sending a message with confidential information Message threading Arrange mail by conversation Better search for “related emails” Clean-up a conversation – delete quoted text

11. Web Apps Free, online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote Docs stored on SkyDrive for easy retrieval, sharing 25GB of free storage with a Hotmail account or Windows Live ID Create docs online, or on the desktop, and easily move from one to the other

12. Installation Easy, typical, Office installation. Upgraded my Office 2007 install with no problems Automatic activation if selected and connected. Windows update found no updates for Office 2010 Option to continue to set up online applications Continues 2007’s docx file format

13. Should You Upgrade?