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Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Stuart Turton
Microsoft Office 2010 screenshots
Microsoft has unveiled the first details of its forthcoming Office 2010 suite. Read our news story to find out what you can expect, and scroll down for a sneak peek at the changes. You can also read our complete preview here. Remember to click the image for the full-size view.
Square ribbon
After the complete visual overhaul of Office 2007, it’s not surprising Microsoft’s playing it a little more conservative with Office 2010. The controversial ribbon remains and has been rolled out across all applications including Outlook, but it’s now blockier – bringing it in line with the design of Windows 7.
Outlook conversation view
One of the biggest, and possibly most helpful, changes to Outlook is the introduction of the conversation view, already so beloved to Gmail users. Conversation view groups related emails under their subject line, simultaneously cleaning up your inbox and making the thread easier to follow.
Collaboration
Word 2010 offers the ability for multiple users to collaborate on a single document. When you open the document Word will ask you to confirm the changes made by other users, with a pane allowing you to keep track of who’s editing the document and the changes they’re making.
Word picture editing
Microsoft has added a range of new picture editing tools to Word 2010, allowing you to trim and add special effects including saturation and watercolours to images without needing to resort to additional photo-editing software.
Powerpoint video editing
Recognising the large part videos play in PowerPoint demonstrations, Microsoft has bulked out its presentation software with basic video-editing tools allowing you to quickly whip that video into shape.
Cut and Paste preview
The new Cut and Paste Preview option provides a live preview of what a document or spreadsheet will look like when content is pasted in, and give users greater control over formatting options.
Customisable Ribbon
Microsoft’s one concession to the Ribbon haters is the ability to customise which buttons appear, though the feature is still not confirmed for the final version.
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July 13th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
…but but but, can PowerPoint incorporate BOTH a landscape and portrait setting in the same slideshow yet?
July 13th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Oh yeah, can users rearrange the Quick Access Toolbar by dragging the icons around instead of the retarded way of going into the Options/Customize area? I mean the brain fart of having a horizontal bar being re-arranged by a vertical selection was priceless.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I’ve been using a preview of office 2010 for a couple of months now, and so far it has been the best version of office yet..
July 13th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
tomax7- No, you can’t just drag QAT tools around, probably to stop you doing it accidentally.
Simon Jones
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July 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
thank for you post wait new post from you
July 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
It’s just another shuffle around of features and making some of the less intuitive things into a button for numpties.
Like the conversation view. Outlook already had the ability to group by subject (definitely did in OL2k and probably in 97 and 98), and from the screen shot it appears that MS have ignored proper threading. Even the crudest email clients from 15 years ago could do that, but OL looks like the vies is about as sophisticated as Youtube comments (with the content to match, no doubt).
Will all images manipulated with Word just look gaudy, as the picture shown does? What is wrong with using a real picture editing package? Oh, is it that they require the user to learn a little and read some instructions maybe? The only way MS can increase its office user base now is to dumb things down to pick up the bottom half of society – the kind of people whose VCR would always flash 12:00 because they were scared of pressing any buttons or reading the manual!
No doubt the video editing will be awful – it looks like you can cut out a bit, and maybe add some pointless perspective effect…. you know how websites made with Frontpage stand out a mile? It looks like MS have recreated this, but with video.
Lets be honest too – video and MS means WMP and DRM. And codec hell! Using this will be bad, but supporting it will be worse.
Another feature where the product is being dumbed down is cut/paste preview. Has undo been removed from office 2010 or something? Why on earth would you need to preview a cut or a paste if there is an undo feature? I don’t think any version of office I have ever used hasn’t had that! Shit, Claris Works on my Amiga in’t day had that.
From here it looks like another pointless make over, with maybe one or two issues solved that should never have occurred in the past – standard operating procedure for MS to convince people to upgrade. I have learnt to avoid proprietary products, MS’s especially, when will others do the same?
Proprietary software maker’s business interests sooner or later will always come into conflict with the user’s needs at some level. By using Free software you can free yourself from these shackles.
Until then though, those who understand this can get rich supporting the use of proprietary products by those who don’t grasp the concept (and will no doubt deny the above occurs).
The MS shills will be very active around the promotion of a new version of office too.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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July 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Hopefully with the conversation view they will store your sent email (your replies) with the conversation in the inbox instead of the outbox (which is stupid.)
July 13th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Does Powerpoint 2010 allow save as AVI with all the timings so we don’t have to use PowerPoint Viewer as well as avoid screen capture software/extra packages when it could easily be added. Not the best DVD but would allow community groups an easy way of creating informative slideshow DVDs.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 both had conversation views, albeit 2003’s was a bit clunky.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
anon: I use Linux as my only desktop OS, and using free software means people have the freedom to pay whoever they want for software without getting harassed by arrogant pricks like you. You are right that many features can already be done, but that is the standard Linux argument: “You can do it, you just need to do X and Y and Z, and then do W and Q”. People don’t want to do that, they want it to be easy so they can get real work done. So seriously, grow up and put your energy into improving the usability of open-source software so that it can be used by “the bottom half of society”- aka normal people who don’t waste their lives in their basement bitching about a company because it tries to be profitable.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Anon – Re: Paste Preview
No, MS have not removed the ability to undo, they’ve just made it unnecessary in this case – removing a step and making users more productive. You can just run your mouse pointer over the three or four different paste options, seeing what each will do, before you click the one you want.
John Dooley – Re: PowerPoint save as video
Yes, PowerPoint 2010 allows you to record a presentation to video, complete with narration, pointer movements, etc.
Sheldon – Re: Outlook Conversation View
You’ve always been able to save your replies in the folder containing the email to which you are replying (except the Inbox) – Its an option. You just have to remember to file your mail before you reply. Yes, I know it is a restriction but it means your Inbox only contains incomming mail, not a mixture of incomming and outgoing.
The new Conversation View finds email with the same subject in ALL folders so it doesn’t matter that replies are in a different folder to the incomming messages.
Simon Jones
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July 13th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
[...] and PowerPoint 2010, with Outlook certainly looking to be the greatest beneficiary. And finally, a gallery of screenshots shows off all the new interface touches in Office 2010, including Outlook’s conversation [...]
July 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
…ok how about Outlook not hiding the Appointment reminder icon (not under frequently used ones)? Excel showing page break (dotted lines) at first launch and not after Page Layout or Print Preview?
July 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
…Oh yeah, being able to email ONE sheet in Excel, like 2003.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Or open Excel in two windows without adding %1?
July 14th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Tomax7
Not sure what you mean about Outlook hiding the Appointment Reminder icon.
No, Excel doesn’t show page breaks by default.
To email one sheet from a workbook, copy and paste that sheet into an email or into a new Workbook and send that.
Excel has always had strange window handling since the change from MDI (multiple document interface) to the New SDI (single document interface) in Office 2000. PowerPoint 2010 now behaves like Word in having totally separate windows but Excel still has multiple child windows inside one parent despite showing all children on the Task Bar. So, you still have to use View | Arrage All to see multiple workbooks at once.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 14th, 2009 at 9:59 am
interesting, the “square” ribbon looks very similar to the implementation of the ribbon in office 2008 for mac…
glad they’ve finally brought outlook up to spec tho with the ribbon.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Oh no, what’s gonna be broken about this one?
There’ll be problems, most likely some sort of compatibility issues – bet none of this stuff just works properly with other products – for example, how well will HTML emails from Outlook render in, say, Thunderbird or other more advanced email clients. Or the other way around? Will Outlook render properly formated CSS/HTML? I will be so happy if it does. I don’t expect it will though.
I dread every release from MS these days, I just know that I am going to have to fix something, somewhere.
July 14th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Will Outlook finally allow custom week numbers (wk 1 for me is the 20th July)?
Will powerpoint allow embedding of video (ie no need to have the video file along with the ppt) how often have we seen duff powerpoint presentations where the video won’t work. Yes, I know you can embed it if its a flash video.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
dark haired lord
No, you don’t get custom week numbers in Outlook 2010.
Yes, when you embed a video in SharePoint 2010 the video file is actually put inside the pptx file. Video and images can also be compressed to allow sending by email.
Simon Jones
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July 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
hmm,
still no custom weeks. Sure this would be a doddle to do but no, not this year!
July 14th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
dark haired lord
Have you asked for it?
As with all features like this, it is balancing act between how many people want it, how badly they want it and how much it would cost to develop, test and support. With small features the deciding factors are usually number of requests and cost of testing.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 14th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Simon. The appointment reminder is that little alarm clock used as visible reminders by administrative support staff to know of their managers meetings. One has to add it via Custom/Fields/All Mail Fields, meaning it wasn’t under Frequently Used Fields choices. Someone at MS thought this wasn’t an important item obviously to include it as a default setting, or at least within the FUF list. I had more than one secretary get upset over the loss of that till I showed how to get it back.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
tomax7
OK, you want to add the Reminder column to a list of appointments in a calendar.
Yes, the reminder column is now on the list of Frequently Used Fields in the calendar.
I don’t often use lists in the calendar, prefering the Day/Week/Month views and viewing multiple calendars side by side or overlaid.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I’d like to hear more about the webified versions of these apps. How do they sync with the offline versions? Is there a versioning component built in to Office now?
Looks like some nice progress has been made.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
…Simon, that’s just it, the Reminder is NOW in the frequently used fields, why was it removed in the first place.
That was an arbitrary question, not towards you.
Oh, is auto-complete still missing? That’s another bone-headed move by MS Office. You know, start typing an email or an address and the little tool tip pops up, hit enter, and it fills the rest of the line out.
Having it no longer available in Office 2007 got a lot of my clients hot under the collar.
One HR lady had 30 emails she used on a daily basis and love auto complete. Please don’t mention Quick Links. Big waste of drop down space. Can one resize the boxes in 2010?
Meaning if one has 10 quick links, one would have to constantly scroll up and down for it.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
…guess I should get the beta version myself and test these things out. But easier having someone else do it
July 15th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Tomax7
Auto-complete of email addresses in Outlook 2007 worked the same way as it did in previous versions – it would suggest peoples names as you typed but only from the nickname list (the list of people you’d emailed before). This isn’t anything to worry about as your contact folders (those marked as Outlook Address Books) are searched for any remaining names when you move to the body of the message. (Press Ctrl+K to force the names to resolve.) You just type people’s names and let Outlook worry about their email addresses.
However, Outlook 2010 now suggests names directly from the Contacts lists as you type. It also builds a “Suggested Contacts” folder of people whos addresses you type directly. You can then drag those “Suggested Contacts” into your “Contacts” folder and add more details when/if you want to. (Your old nicknames file is imported to the “Suggested Contacts” folder when you upgrade.)
What do you mean by “Quick Links”? I don’t recognise that term.
There will be a wider, public, Technical Preview of Office 2010 starting in September or October.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
…sorry Simon, I was referring to Autocomplete for all of the Office products, as in Word. Yes Outlook does it in the address area but not in the Body.
Sorry as well, Quick Parts, not links, again in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Ah, OK.
AutoComplete works in the body of Outlook 2007 (and 2010) messages just as it does in Word documents. It is just slightly restricted because it uses a different template (not Normal.dotx) so it can’t use the same *formatted text* AutoComplete list as standard Word documents. All templates share the same *plain text* AutoComplete list. I’m not sure why *formatted text* auto complete entries are stored on a per-template basis but they are in Office 2007. I’ll check if it is still the case in Office 2010.
I agree that it is an extra step to insert fields in a Word document because they are under the Insert | Quick Parts button but I think that was so people might start to use the new “Content Controls” (accessed from Insert | Quick Parts | Document Property) instead of fields. Content Controls give two way synchronisation allowing you to type in the control in the document and so set the property or set the property and so affect the document content. Content Controls are great for standard document properties but even better when used with SharePoint document libraries or XML data packets. (Note – Insert | Quick Parts only exists in Word, not Excel or PowerPoint because neither of those applications knows about Fields or Content Controls.)
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 15th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
…right you are about Quickparts only in Word, my mistake in grouping them all together as a statement. Just a bit frustrated with something that was useful (auto complete) being removed.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
To John Dooley:
In fact we do not need to wait for 2010 to save our presentations to AVI video or even burn to DVD. If we Google PowerPoint to DVD(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=PPT2DVD&aq=f&oq=), we can find a PPT converter which helps us to do this.
However, we still expect to using such Powerful Office 2010.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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September 15th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Also, this doesn’t work for Office 2007 sending from Word to PowerPoint. I know there is an Customized toolbar add-on, but it doesn’t work. I keep getting an error message about a text convertor not installed for this file type.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Does PowerPoint 2010 support different video formats e.g. flv, mov, mpeg4 etc.
FLV would be an obvious choice so that youtube videos could be embedded.
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 am
Really Good!Thanks for sharing!
PowerPoint to DVD
http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com