What to look for on retail shelves. The Office 2010 Professional box has a small box saying ‘1 Year Technical Support included’. As in the past, the Academic edition is limited to qualified academic users only. The Product Key Card is labelled ‘for 1 preloaded PC only’.
Prices for Office 2010 have been announced with a new twist that looks cheaper but isn’t and upgrades dropped entirely. Microsoft has announced some of the US retail prices for Office 2010 and there’s a new way to buy which looks cheaper but isn’t. Boxed Product This is the standard
How to easily make appointments with other people using Outlook. Outlook has some great features for making appointments and sharing those details with others. The main features can be used by anyone to setup dinner, movies or any personal event. Outlook lets you create an appointment in your calendar then
Excel 2010 changes function names like STDEV and VAR partly for Microsoft’s own benefit. Excel 2010 has revamped all the Standard Deviation STDEV and VAR functions with the old version ‘deprecated’ or demoted. There is now STDEV.S and STDEV.P for the sample and population versions of the function. STDEV and
Microsoft says people can test ‘Office in a browser’ so why doesn’t it work? Microsoft says people can test ‘Office in a browser’ so why doesn’t it work? If you have a Windows Live login you can go to Skydrive.com and try out Microsoft’s new ‘Office Web Applications’ which are
In a rare capitulation to customer demands, the File menu returns to Office 2010 – sort of. There’s one immediate and noticeable difference in the latest Office 2010 beta – the return of the File menu. In Office 2007 the old file menu was replaced by the Office button, the
or in Word 2010 for that matter? Select All will choose the entire contents of the Word document, text, images, the lot. It’s on the Home tab, Editing block, Select then choose ‘Select All’. Quite likely the Select All option is ‘buried’ because most users will use the keyboard shortcut ‘Ctrl
The most noticeable changes in Office 2010 are in Outlook and, sad to say, they aren’t all for the best. Some early notes and first impressions based on the most recent beta release of Outlook 2010. The most noticeable changes in Office are in Outlook 2010 and, sad to say,
You can try out Visio 2010 now. The Visio 2010 beta is now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390821.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. You’ll also need to download the Enterprise CAL edition
From: Microsoft Q&A: Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Productivity Group at Microsoft, discusses what is new in the public beta and what developers can expect from the upcoming release of Office 2010 and related products. Earlier this year Microsoft introduced the technical preview program for Microsoft
You can try out Office 2010 now, here’s how. Office 2010 beta versions are now available. MSDN users can get it from the MSDN web site. The rest of us can go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx to get a copy. You need to register first. Product Activation A product key (a ‘MAK
Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. Today some Windows Live users will be able to try Office web apps. What Microsoft calls a ‘select group’ of SkyDrive users will be able to try the web application versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. SkyDrive,
See a video preview of Office 2010 web applications for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft has released a video showing some features from the upcoming Office Web Applications In the Word web application you can see images and tables in a web based version of a Word document. Excel web
Microsoft is asking for more people to test Office 2010 and especially the web applications. Microsoft has opened up a page where you can apply for entry to the Office 2010 beta and also the Office Web Applications. Go here. Strictly speaking your applying for ‘early notification’ of the upcoming
We all know Microsoft Office is coming to the browser – but what is it called? An important part of Office 2010 will be a complementary release of some Office features accessible your web browser. Various names have been floating around but we’ve been assured the official name is: Office
One big thing to beware of when you see an Office 2010 demo. The Office 2010 hype is about to start in earnest and from the Microsoft demos we’ve seen so far there’s one big gotcha. Microsoft loves showing off new features, they do not make clear is the full
Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’
A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical
Microsoft says they are ‘entering’ Technical Preview, two months after it actually happened. You have to hand it to Microsoft, if they can’t announce something new, they announce something old knowing most people won’t realize any different. We were amazed, but not really surprised, to see Microsoft announce that Office
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called
From: Microsoft Microsoft showcases new product capabilities and announces Office Web applications will be available to nearly half a billion people at launch. Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Access A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of PPT. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. These sneak peeks into the Office
A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. A look at the ribbons and menus in the next version of Excel. We’ve already looked at Word 2010, OneNote 2010 and Outlook 2010 plus the new look Office button menu. Click on any image to see
New names and bundle changes Among all the first looks at Office 2010 programs we’ve been posting at Office-Watch.com there has been some other Office 2010 news. Office loses its Groove (Frankly we’re surprised not to have seen this headline somewhere) Groove in Office 2007 becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010. Microsoft
