Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 is an outstanding package that allows you to write documents, create presentations, manage your emails and analyse data. Here we present you the demo version of the Home and Business edition which includes five different programs. These are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneNote.

Microsoft Office 2010, a popular and feature-rich productivity suite

As a suite Microsoft Office 2010 encompasses the basic three applications every office productivity suite is considered to have nowadays, being a word processor, a spreadsheet solution and a presentation application. Elsewhere on Winportal you can find Microsoft Word, the most popular word processor, Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet solution that became a de facto standard, and Microsoft PowerPoint, the classic when it comes to creating presentations, all described in detail. The same goes for what started as an email client and now has become a personal information manager (PIM) used by millions, called Microsoft Outlook. The last application bundled in this suite is called Microsoft OneNote, it’s a practical solution that can capture text, images and videos, and it also allows you to write down your thoughts and ideas as notes.

Besides the traditional features such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functionality and others, new in the Microsoft Office 2010 suite is the fact it is more role-based than its predecessors, it includes support for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, a built-in screen capture tool, new SmartArt templates, a background removal tool and author permissions. There’s also letter styling, new text and image editing effects, clipping functionality, live collaboration functions, the Outlook social connector allowing you to receive updates from the connected social networks right into Microsoft Outlook, at the time of writing supporting Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and others.

It might also be interesting to note that this Microsoft Office 2010 edition features a viewer for Visio and furthermore, if you use the modern Windows 7 operating system, Office applications also have functional jump lists facilitating access to recent items.

More than 20 years from its first release to Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office was first announced at the end of the eighties, being a product that bundled the classic products Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years it evolved and provided an ever tighter integration, nowadays providing you with a similar ribbon interface and a common spell checker, among other features across these applications. Microsoft Office 2010 supports the following operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

Conclusion about Microsoft Office 2010

Especially when not working on the latest Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2010 might be just the version of this renown office productivity suite you need. It will give you all the basic applications you might need to elaborate text-based documents, spreadsheet calculations with graphs and powerful presentations, as well as the personal information manager Outlook for handling email, appointments, contact data, now equipped with a social connector.