The New Microsoft Office 2010 User Interface

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Welcome to the New User Interface in Microsoft Office 2010. Microsoft has continuously tried to improve the Software products it releases, and there are some interesting New Features available in all their Office 2010 Products.

The User Interface has had some changes, although they are not as drastic as when we went from Office 2003 to Office 2007. The main change in the User Interface, is that the Microsoft Office Button has been replaced by the Files Tab, and clicking on the File Tab introduces us to the New and Greatly improved Backstage View.

In backstage view, you are exposed to a whole slew of file type commands. The Save and Send Command, gives you a bunch of choices, the coolest one being Save to Web. This option gives you the ability to Save to your Windows Live Sky Drive. (Please see the article on Sky Drive on my Blog). Microsoft gives you 25 Giga Bytes of free storage in the Cloud!! How cool is that, for you can have acces to all your files from any Internet Connected PC anywhere in the world!! No more flash drives.

Microsoft Office 2010 - the New Version of Office!!

Office 2010 is the New Version of Microsoft Office that has been scheduled for release next year. Microsoft has done it again, thanks to pressure from Google.

Facing potential challenges from Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting its 'three screens strategy' which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop.

As a direct response to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out a LITE, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The web-based versions of these products have fewer features than their desktop cousins but still give users basic tools to edit and change documents, and collaborate.

Innovation is back, and there are things that are just plain cool in this suite. Watch how Microsoft has improved copy and paste features. In Outlook 2010, watch how Microsoft has added so many new features. (Office 2010 movies)

The Backstage View in Microsoft Office 2010 applications is accessed when you click the Office Button. Each application in Office 2010 has a different coloured Backstage View. Microsoft included Backstage to help people use more of the Tools available outside their documents. This includes tasks such as printing, and saving files.

PowerPoint 2010, has several new features added to it, including the ability to edit images and video from within PowerPoint. The image editing tool is similar to a simple basic version of Photoshop, and the video editing tool is similar to a basic version of iMovie. Also Microsoft has added a Web-Ex like live sharing feature with other users.

Word 2010 has enhanced features to create professional quality documents, and some excellent collaboration features. The Web Version of Word 2010, maintains the exact fidelity of the document in a Browser. This feat was accomplished with JavaScript. In the browser, documents retain the same look and feel as in the desktop. The browser version still has the “ribbon user interface,” where you can change fonts, size, formatting, styles etc.

Excel 2010, can now run in the browser, and just like PowerPoint you can publish your spread sheets to the browser. The browser version has less features than the desktop version, but has more features than Google spread sheets.

Outlook 2010, has some nifty new features, including the Ribbon Interface, which has now been extended to all Microsoft Office 2010 products including OneNote. I will be discussing more details of all Office 2010 product at a later date.