Microsoft Office 2010: Briefly Explained (heavy on the details, light on the tech)

From @Macnamara_MB
Following my post last week, giving a brief overview of Office 2010, as promised here is the follow up for those who are less technical but still want their IT to work to its optimum.

To start, system requirements for running Office 2010 are as follows:
 Office 2010 will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions

 Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista and Windows 7

 You don’t need to replace hardware that is capable of running 2007, it will support Office 2010. Like Windows 7 has demonstrated, we realise that taking advantage of the hardware you already own is just as important as supporting all the new technology coming out.

Microsoft 2010 consists of 5 core programs; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook.

Each of these core programs specializes in manipulating different data. Word manipulates words, sentences and paragraphs; Excel manipulates numbers; PowerPoint manipulates text and pictures to create a slideshow; Access manipulates data, such as inventories and Outlook manipulates personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers.

So what’s new?

1. You can embed videos in your presentations (PowerPoint).

2. Quick steps in Outlook (email) i.e reply & delete

3. Document printing made easy (no new window)

4. You can now save Office documents to the Cloud

5. Built in PDF writer (word)

6. Broadcast slideshows within PowerPoint (share option)

7. PowerPoint now includes powerful video editing features

8. Distribute your slides as video (option “share”, create “video”)

9. Built-in screen capture (word) (option “insert” then “screenshot”)

10. Outlook gets social (There’s a green add button that lets you “add that person to your online social networks from Outlook” but the service isn’t live yet)

Important: Before installing Office 2010

 If you are installing Office 2010 beta for the first time, the default settings will upgrade your existing copy of Microsoft Office. You can however, customise this setting and, install Office 2010 alongside an older version of Office.

 If you already have Office 2010 Technical Preview on your computer, make sure you completely uninstall this edition before attempting to install Office 14 beta. In case you still have trouble installing Office, use the clean-up utility tool to remove all traces of the previous version of Office from your system.

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