Office 2010 Review: Microsoft Office 14 Technical Preview Invites Sent Out!
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Today I got my hands on Office 2010, not the leaked version but the official technical preview from Microsoft and I am pretty pleased from what I see.
This version of Office 2010 Professional includes Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, Publisher 2010 and Access 2010.
I’ve been playing around quite a bit, created a few documents and presentations, I will get to Excel later my formulae and macro writing skills are gone rusty anyway.
From what I’ve noticed so far I think office 14 is much sleeker and offers some smart new features that will enable users to create some eye catching and professional documents and presentations with just a few clicks.
Office 2010 is now available in both, 32 and 64 bit versions. Here is how to sign-up to get an invite for Office 2010 Technical Preview.
One of the things Office 14 does is lets you preview almost everything you do before you do it. For example if you want to paste something you’ve copied from somewhere else, it lets you do a paste preview in different formats to see what it looks like before you paste.
That was just one of the things, here are a few changes and features you will notice once you start using Office 2010 aka Office 14
Loading Screens: The first thing you will notice the moment you launch any office application is that the static loading screens are replaced by nice looking dynamic screens which show you the Add-ins being loaded, etc.. These screens are much like the ones Adobe uses for its applications like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc..
Backstage View: This view is one stop shop for all your document related things like printing, distribution, managing versions, etc..
Most of these options where available on the similar panel in office 2007 but Backstage view makes them easier to find and more useful.
Screenshots: To an extent Office 14 eliminates the need to install a separate application to take a screenshot. All of the Office 14 applications are loaded with functionality which are capable of taking screenshots of all the applications currently running.
Text Effects: Users can add effects like bevel, glow, reflect and shadow to the text. Office 14 offers a lot of text based effects and animations to make a document look pretty and stand out of crowd.
Following are few of the effects that can be added to the text with a few clicks.
Video options in PowerPoint: Microsoft added trimming and other smart functionality to the Videos that are added to your presentations in PowerPoint. Users can add border effects, mute videos, add loop, etc to the videos…
The features I am mostly looking forward to was the Office on Web which is not yet available with Office 2010 Technical Preview.
Online Office is THE most important addition to the features and options available in this version of the office suite. It is important because competitors like Google are quickly capturing the online office space and extending their lead which might pose a threat to Microsoft if they don’t come out with a decent solution for its existing users.
I think overall it’s a great enhancement over its previous version. To upgrade or not-to-upgrade certainly depends on the type of work you get out of your existing office suite.
If you often feel that office 2007 is lacking some advance features then Office 14 might help you however if you have been using previous versions of Office since years and still in the process of exploring its features then, seriously, you can live without an upgrade.
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Nothing beneficial for most businesses - no reason to upgrade/purchase -
Like Vista - all bling - no function.
If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have -
1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers.
2. Full OLE support for pictures in access - umm wasn't that functional with Office XP - why take that out? Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database? Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code. Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution?
3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don't want to learn the new menu bar. You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar. Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I'm one person and most of my clients don't like it so prefer to stick with office 2003. MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.
I really don’t like the new ribbon interfaces. Microsoft is shooting themselfs in the foot over this new creation.
I still prefer free alternative office suites. There is no reason anymore to pay for an office suite these days. They have all the functionality that any general user may need.
And to make things even better for alternative office suites is that they have not converted their interfaces to a ribbon mess.
I tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes the software very small and efficient. [www.ssuitesoft.com]