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It’s not out yet, but you can sign up to receive notices when Microsoft releases the beta version of its new Office 2010 suite.
Some of the New Features.
Will Kelly at Web Worker Daily was able to get a copy of the technical review paper for the new version of office. One of the big changes in the new version of Office is that the typical “file” menu is being changed to something called a “backstage view.” Like “file,” the “backstage view” will have the print, save and other general commands. An appealing feature has to do with co-authoring documents and being able to track one another’s changes easier. Another new feature that looks appealing is a new thread formatting feature in Outlook.
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks.
I have to admit, for many years, I’ve used Corel’s Word Perfect. Practically all the companies I worked with also used Word Perfect, so we all shared documents using that software. Eventually, a lead company switched to Word and we followed suit.
We had a tough time adjusting to Word because the formatting was more complicated than Word Perfect. It took awhile to adjust to Office 2000, and just when we thought we had that figured out, Office 2007 came out. Now that we’ve finally “mastered” it, a new release is coming!
Although we “old dogs” are probably going to be confused as usual with the changes, it looks like the new tricks and features are worth learning.
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I don’t know if this Office 2010 can be a good news or a bad one for us xp users.
Cool! It’s about time Microsoft releases their new version of MS Office anyway. Thanks for relaying the info. Being an MS user, I can’t wait for this one.
I’m sure you’ll laugh at me, but one of the improvements I’ve been waiting for a long time in Microsoft’s Office suite is related to Outlook that keeps opened the original message when you want to Reply or Forward that message, hence one more windows that needs to be closed.
Now It’s been fixed, or at least so they said.
@John Pope, I think that update is really essential. I am also an MS Outlook user and email a lot of people everyday. And with that new reply (closing the original message window) function, it will make my job a lot easier.
Is it true. I am really interested.
I’m looking forward to this release. The thread feature with Outlook sounds awesome, makes managing emails a lot easier. Look forward to a review from you if you can get your hands on it.