| Microsoft Office, the flag bearer of Microsoft, has a long history of successes and tradition of always introducing the news features in its newer versions, but after now, it appears the Microsoft has decided step into the complete Cyber-based World. | |
| Though the Office 2007 had many online tools but Office 2010 version has totally changed the scenario has managed to introduced many options which are completely adopted the Internet base technology. | |
| I noted the following 10 most prominent features, which make the Office 2010 a very attractive one for the users: | |
| 1: Office Web Applications | |
| Web version of Office 2010 will be working in browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari and iPhone based browsers), where advanced functions will be powered by Silverlight technology, helped by SkyDrive to host the online files at free web apps with no change in their structure. | |
| 2: Collaboration Features | |
| Now, Office 2010 users, specifically Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote, can collaborate with other users easily (two or more people can work on a project simultaneously and in real-time), collaborating via the web browser or desktop. | |
| 3: Instant Sharing with PowerPoint | |
| PowerPoint 2010 has a tool which allows you to invite other users on the net to see your slideshow. The app will send them a link to click, launching the web version of your presentation within their browser. | |
| 4: Video & Image Editing | |
| Many office applications, specifically, Word and PowerPoint, will include an image editor and a video editor as well, so that changes may be made in both types of files, directly, within the app while feeling no need for an additional program/software. | |
| 5: Excel Sparklines and Slicers | |
| Sparklines, a new feature in Excel 2010, gives you a visualized snapshot of a data trend over time, i.e. cell-sized charts can be added to tables to show trends or they can be drawn from rows and columns to give visual picture of data whereas slicers also deliver visualizations. | |
| 6: Search & Navigation in Word | |
| With improvement to WordArt and Text Effects, new navigation and search results can be viewed as section headings, thumbnail previews or as excerpts while Navigation Pane has replaced Document Map, working in the same manner, like Adobe PDF files. | |
| 7: Outlook 2010 – More Social, Smarter, and Efficient | |
| Outlook 2010 has the same Ribbon UI like other Office apps but new ‘Recipients Pane’ adds info about the people in a message pulling data from Active Directory, SharePoint and Office Communicator. Calendar Groups can arrange meeting times with ‘Schedule’ viewing horizontal slices of several calendars to set time. ‘Mail Tips’ gives option to ’re about’ something done stupidly and can fight data leaks by. Conversation view is a new default which helps you to summarize messages. | |
| 8: Office Backstage | |
| Backstage pops-up a window-like view, with new tasks like saving and printing files and configuring preferences. | |
| 9: Paste Preview | |
| A new ‘paste preview’ function gives you a preview of different formatting options, i.e. how your document will look like before you paste in new content into the existing one. | |
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| Office Stack will make it easier for business users to work with Office files on SharePoint even though they are out the office and offline. It is synced with your PC for offline use and your documents can be shared right from Start Menu or a Windows folder just like any locally stored file. | |
