By the end of the summer, Office 2010 will be installed on PCs in labs and classrooms across the University. We’ll offer sessions in each of these applications over the summer so that you may familiarize yourself with them. Watch the Technology Training Calendar for upcoming sessions. If you want to have a copy of Office 2010 installed on your computer, please contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@umw.edu or 540-654-2255 to have a ticket entered for you. UMW Faculty and Staff may license a copy of Microsoft Office to use at home. More information is available on the Microsoft Office Work at Home page.
Some of the enhanced capabilities that you’ll find in Office 2010 include:
- All applications now share the common Ribbon interface.
- The Ribbon has been tweaked.
- The Office button in the upper-left corner of the screen has been redesigned; it’s now a small, unobtrusive rectangle rather than a large circle.
- When you click the Office button, it brings up what Microsoft calls Backstage View. Backstage is essentially one-stop shopping for information about documents and common tasks you can perform, such as saving and printing files.
- When you paste in content, you can now preview how it will look depending on your paste choice
- The applications include enhanced photo editing tools.
- There is a radical change to Outlook’s interface. Improved message handling is a feature of Outlook.
- Word 2010 includes and enhanced search interface, enabling you to search across charts, tables and other content.
- Basic video editing tools are built directly into PowerPoint
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