Microsoft Office 2010 – Whats new?

Recent data confirms that more than 1 billion PCs worldwide have Office software installed, making it the most widely used productivity suite in the world. The launch of Microsoft Office 2010 has only added to this number, and for Pentland has resulted in an influx of training requests to ensure organisations are up-skilled to use it to it’s full potential. So what exactly is it? And what is different?

The first and significant difference is the way you can buy the product. Traditionally, the software would come as a set of CDs that you would have to insert into your PC and manually install. Now, for the first time, you can download the software from Office.com using the new click-to-run technology, which has you up and running in a matter of minutes. And it gets better.  If your PC is brand-new, it is likely to have been pre-loaded with Office 2010, and using a purchased product key card you can simply activate it on your system.

Secondly, and based on valuable input taken from customer feedback throughout its development cycle, Microsoft has made considerable enhancements to help users do the following:

Create great-looking documents and presentations.
Express creativity in PowerPoint 2010 presentations with new video and photo editing features. Add extensive text effects and table formatting options in Word 2010. Reveal important trends in data with Sparklines in Excel 2010. OneNote 2010 makes everything you need simple to find, organise and share.

Connect and work together more simply.
Advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Outlook 2010 and the new Outlook Social Connector help people stay productive and in touch with personal and business networks.  Work with others more efficiently using new co-authoring in Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010.  Deliver presentations over the Web with new PowerPoint Broadcast Slideshow.

Get things done from virtually anywhere.
With Office 2010 and the Office Web Apps — the online companions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — people have the freedom to save documents directly from Office 2010 to Windows Live SkyDrive, then view, edit and share those documents in the cloud.  The Office Web Apps preserve the look and feel of Office documents, so valuable content and formatting are not compromised while moving between the PC, phone and browser.

Office Mobile 2010 also is available from Windows Phone Marketplace for all Windows Mobile 6.5 phones.  People using Office Mobile 2010 can perform lightweight editing of Office documents and take notes on the go, or work on Office documents stored on their phone or attached to an e-mail.

Today, Office 2010 is available in 10 languages, but this will soon expand to a whopping 94 languages!

Make sure your company is at the fore-front of the revolution by contacting us today to arrange your training.