What’s new?
Where
Office 2010 is concerned, asking “what’s new” is fraught with danger: there’s
just so much. Indeed, so many new features are there, that we’ve highlighted
some of the best in a whole separate article: 15 Best Office 2010 Features. It
doesn’t cover all of them, but they’re our favourites and go to prove that
Office 2010 has plenty to offer over the somewhat divisive Office 2007. If you
want a slightly more digestible idea of what Office 2010 entails, we suggest
you start there.
If you
were one of those who didn’t take to Office 2007, chances are you weren’t too
keen on its new Ribbon interface. In which case we have bad news for you: it’s
everywhere in Office 2010. However, while it’s something of an acquired taste
for those used to the toolbars of previous Offices, given time it’s easy to
appreciate how much more efficient and intuitive the ribbons are. It helps, of
course, that Microsoft has fine-tuned ribbons extensively, while also offering
more flexibility so you can customise them to suite your needs. Also of great
benefit is the quick access toolbar (also customisable) in the top left corner,
which gives you access to common functions (e.g. save, undo, redo etc.),
leaving the ribbon to deal all those context sensitive bits.
Another
addition that spans every application in Office 2010 is Backstage View. This is
essentially the ‘File’ tab as seen in Office 2003 et al and, unlike Office 2007
and the Office 2010 Technical Preview, it’s actually labelled as such, rather
than as the ‘Office Button’ seen in both of those. This piece of semantics
should help people migrating from Office 2003, but Backstage View itself is a
massive improvement on the ‘File’ tab of old as it presents a consistent,
unified appearance for many of the functions that are universal to all the
applications. Particularly beneficial are the printing options, where you can
change the page properties, preview the outcomes and execute print jobs all
from one screen. This is also where you can manage permissions for collaborative
documents, an area that’s much enhanced in 2010.
Collaboration
also brings us neatly onto another new aspect of the Office experience: Office
Web Apps. Though one could conceivably use the Web Apps – which comprise
versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote – as alternatives to the real
thing, they’re really meant to complement the desktop Office suite. Here you
can easily access and edit your documents remotely, while also sharing them
with those who mightn’t have access to a full version of Office. More
impressions on the Office Web Apps can be found later in the review.
One other
important development in the world of Office is the presence of a 64-bit
version. For various reasons it does lack one or two features of Office 32-bit
and Microsoft recommends most users stick with 32-bit, but what it does bring
is a lifting of the file size limitations that might have hampered power users
when using Excel or Access. In time it might bring further benefits.
Download
Links :
32-bit :
Part 1 : link
Part 2 : link
64-bit :
Part
1 : link
Part 2 : link
Pass :
www.top2download.com
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