Posts Tagged ‘ Office 2010 ’
Microsoft Outlook 2010 screenshots
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
There’s little doubt that Outlook is the most physically changed of all the applications: in particular, Outlook 2010 now has the Ribbon properly integrated into its interface. Here, we take a quick-fire tour of the new-look.
Tags: Microsoft, Office 2010, Outlook 2010, Ribbon
Posted in: Microsoft Office 2010, Software
Microsoft Outlook 2010 screenshots: Backstage view
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
We’ve already given a more general introduction to Microsoft Office 2010’s Backstage view, but Outlook 2010 deserves a special mention.
Above is the first screen to meet you when you click File, the Info screen. This makes it much, much easier to change settings than the horrible meandering mess that was Outlook 2007 and predecessors.
Microsoft Office 2010 screenshots: Backstage view
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
If there’s one thing you’re bound to notice when using Office 2010, it’s the Backstage view. This is a unified set of commands and information that relates to the particular file you’re working on.
For example, forget pressing <Ctrl+P> and getting that boring old print dialog (shown right for comparison).
Instead, you’ll get something that looks an awful like the below, complete with an automatic print preview and an overview of all the settings. That not only looks nicer, it also makes it far easier to pick up mistakes (printing in portrait when you meant to print in landscape, for instance, or choosing A4 when you wanted A3).
Microsoft Office 2010 screenshots: Accessibility Checker
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Part of the Backstage view, Microsoft has built in a handy little checker that will reveal which parts of your Excel, Word and PowerPoint files will cause problems for people with disabilities such as impaired vision. For example, it will tell you if pictures lack Alt text, highlight headings that are too long, and point out if the document doesn’t use heading levels in a logical way.
Microsoft Word 2010: inserting screenshots
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
This is one of those features I just happen to like: the ability to insert a screenshot quickly and easily into a document. So, you’re writing a report or some technical documentation. All you need to do is head to the Insert tab and click on the Screenshot button sitting in the Illustrations area. If you have a multitude of other applications open, you’ll see a screen rather like this:
You then just select your chosen screenshot and it’s inserted painlessly into the open document.
Microsoft Word 2010 screenshots: Text Effects
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Microsoft Word has long offered artistic effects to add to your headings, but we welcome the new Text Effects as they make them easier to apply and also don’t convert them into some fancy graphical format – which means you can search on the words, just as with any text within your document.
The effects themselves won’t have Adobe Illustrator users fainting in awe, but they’re strong enough to add a bit of impact to newsletters or even the funkier company report. As ever, use sparingly.
Microsoft Office 2010 screenshots
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
There were many good reasons why Microsoft Office 2007 earned a place on the PC Pro A List, but if we were to boil it down to one then it would be the Ribbon. While not everyone welcomed the new interface, it made it much easier for the vast majority of users to create professional-looking documents. And quickly. Microsoft Office 2010 would always struggle to have the same impact, but there are a number of nice new features that make this the best version of Office 2010 yet.
Microsoft Office Web Apps review: first look
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
We’ve been looking forward to getting to grips with the Office Web Apps ever since the first, highly impressive demos at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) almost a year ago.
But do the limited apps on offer in the technical preview live up to the promise of those well-polished demos? We find out.
Tags: excel, Office 2010, Office Web Apps, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word
Posted in: Microsoft Office 2010, Software
Microsoft’s Office Web Apps dilemma
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Microsoft finds itself in between a hard place and a particularly large chunk of stone with the impending launch of its Office 2010 Web Applications.
Make them too good, and Microsoft risks slaughtering one of its two biggest cash cows (Office and Windows being the products that keep Steve Ballmer in sharp suits). Water them down too much, however, and Microsoft runs the risk of powerful rivals such as Google or Adobe making vast improvements to their own online Apps and stealing Microsoft’s lunch.
It’s a problem Microsoft is clearly conscious off. It’s bravely decided to give consumers and small businesses free access to the Office Web Applications via Windows Live, even if they haven’t bought a copy of the client software.
Office 2010 Applications & Editions
Monday, July 13th, 2009
The, invitation only, Office 2010 Technical Preview has finally started and Microsoft have released details of which applications are going to be available in which editions of the Office suite.
As the information is a little difficult to take in, I thought I’d do a quick summary table.

The main changes are the reduction of the number of editions from eight to five and the fact that the Small Business Edition (which had more applications than Standard Edition) is retired and replaced by the new Home & Business Edition (which has fewer applications than Standard Edition). Another change is that Standard Edition is only going to be available through Volume Licensing.
Some very good news is that all editions will now carry OneNote. Hooray!
Update: Just for clarification, the spot against Web Apps in the table above is the right to run the new Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote web based applications on your own server hardware. Everyone will have access to the Web Apps free through Office Live or through a hosted subscription service.
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