With the release of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft has focused its suite of products to meet the ever-changing needs of its end users. Using Office 2010, you can share information seamlessly with an individual in the office next door or around the world, and access information anywhere, anytime using mobile devices. Office 2010 includes new graphic and video editing and creation tools to enable you to create visually stunning presentations and documents. Office 2010 provides increased flexibility for analyzing and storing data, managing e-mail messages and contacts, and customizing the interface the way you want it.
This course explores key new features and enhancements in the 2010 releases of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. These new and enhanced features include Office Backstage, Live Preview Paste, Sparklines, Slicers, graphic and video creation and editing tools, PowerPoint Broadcast Service, screenshot capture and clipping tools, Web Apps and Office Mobile.
Office 2010 New Interface – Word and Excel
Within the two Microsoft Office Suite releases available since Office 2003, Microsoft has implemented a number of functionality and interface changes and introduced several new features. The overall Office interface has been changed substantially with the introduction of the Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2007, and collaboration and anywhere access to Office files is a major theme in the Microsoft Office 2010 release.
This course examines the new features and enhancements of Microsoft Office 2010, focusing on the perspective of Microsoft Office 2003 users who are migrating to Microsoft Office 2010. It outlines the significant interface changes that apply to all Office applications, including the Ribbon and the Office Backstage view, and it covers significant new features and enhancements in Word and Excel 2010. These features include Live Preview Paste, Open file format, and the Protected view available for Office 2010 documents, and features such as enhanced graphics support, Quick Styles and document comparison tools in Word, Sparklines, Slicers, and Pivot Table enhancements in Excel.
Office 2010 New Features for PowerPoint, Publisher and Access
Since the release of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite of products, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access have all undergone significant changes – both to the interface and the range of available features. The Fluent User Interface (UI), now available in all products in Office 2010, gives a consistent look and feel across applications.
PowerPoint 2010 aims to make presentation creation more efficient and presentations themselves more visually impressive. Publisher has undergone similar changes, enhancing the creation of high-quality publications. Access 2010 simplifies database creation, makes data accessible from any location, and provides enhanced navigation controls for accessing data. This course covers the new features of PowerPoint 2010, Publisher 2010, and Access 2010 including changes to the interface and key functional improvements and enhancements.
Office 2010 Web Apps and new Publisher and Mobile Features
Office 2010 enables you to access your files from anywhere using a phone, or a Web-enabled computer or device. Office Web Apps and Office Mobile are two of the features that help to provide this access. Office Web Apps are online extensions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote that allow you to view and edit files stored in Windows Live SkyDrive, on your organization’s SharePoint implementation, or on SharePoint Online. The Office Web Apps can also be used to create documents, presentations, workbooks, and notebooks within a browser.
Office Mobile allows you to use your phone to access several of the Office applications, and allows you to access and edit documents, presentations, and workbooks. Office Mobile also provides additional support for common mobile phone features, such as touching and flicking. Publisher 2010 allows you to create high-quality publication materials, such as brochures and newsletters.
This course introduces the new Web Apps for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. It also explores the new features and enhancements to the Office Mobile products, such as enhanced editing, increased font support, PowerPoint’s new Presentation Companion, and Outlook conversations, as well as the introduction of SharePoint Mobile. In addition, this course covers the new features and enhancements in the interface and workspace, image editing, text formatting, printing, and sharing in Publisher 2010.