Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student (Disc Version)

Office 2010 is to Office 2007 what windows was to Vista.

The biggest change is the addition of the web applications. Its not a direct competitor to Google docs but it will allow you a much easier way to share documents, as well as making your documents easier to access. The second change i notice is that the ribbon is back and it includes the "File" option and a new feature called the "backstage view." What Backstage View does is incorporates the commonly used actions in one place. Isn’t that great? No more of those dialog boxes with the tabs.

You still have the open, save and print, but now you have templates as well for your new documents, print layouts, and options for sharing your work. You get all of this without dialog boxes and tabs. Everything is now easily accessible for you. Now the other new feature they offer is that the ribbon is customizable so you can organize it according to what your needs are. there is also a paste preview so you can switch between the paste option so everything is formatted the way you like.

Now lets talk about the changes in PowerPoint. Now you can edit video in PowerPoint directly. You can trim the video, add effects, fades and even triggers for animations for the presentation. You can now add effects and edit images without the use of third party applications. The changes in word are new nifty "Navigation Pane," which replaces your old documents map.

It's corporation with changes in design will make for major changes in productivity and your ease of use. This allows for you to quickly rearrange your documents. For example a document with several headings/sections will have a list of all the headings used in the navigation pane. The headings are live, so you can drag them up or down, thus rearranging the document. It also incorporates most of the functions that used to be available in the "Find" dialog box but now they are all visible so you don't have to go digging through several menus to find the option that you need.

Most of the changes in Excel deal with very large datasets. There is a new PowerPoint add-in which works great if you are dealing with a very large dataset that does not fit in one Excel spreadsheet. PowerPoint pulls the data from multiple sources (several Excel spreadsheets for instance) to analyze it. Overall this is one well planned and executed upgrade that essentially takes all the promises of Office 2007 and makes them a reality. Yes, some things are different, and it will take some getting used to; but, once you realize the improvement in efficiency you'll agree that the changes are mostly for the positive. The only thing that I truly wish had changed but didn't is that this version does not include Outlook. That is available in the Home and Business version.
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