Microsoft Office 2010 arrived in the summer of 2010, bringing with itself not only upgraded versions of all of its award-winning productivity apps such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint but also online-oriented addons that finally enabled users from all around the world to directly collaborate in the creation of new documents. However, this great evolution of the Office formula was enabled by the experience that Microsoft Corp. developers gathered during the production of the predecessor Office 2007, who first introduced to the public the new graphical user interface (Fluent User Interface), the wide array of tools and collaboration features. With Office 2007 serving as their base, a new version of this productivity suite managed to become one of the most celebrated suites of document creation, collaborative management, and document workflow optimization on the market, vastly overshadowing any competition.
The core improvements that every user of Office 2010 immediately felt were the additional improvement of the user interface (customizable ribbons finally arrived at all Office apps), faster performance, collaboration mode that allowed multiple users to edit the same document, faster Outlook search, better picture tools, security-focused Protected View sandbox mode, expanded file format support, new Backstage view interface and direct integration with the cloud storage and collaboration platforms OneDrive and SharePoint. Additionally, the launch of the Office 2010 also marked the debut of Office Online, a collection of free web-based versions of Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint.
Microsoft Office 2010 64 bit was the first version of this suite that allows users to purchase not only one of the eight tiers of app bundles (from basic Starter tier to fully-featured Professional Plus) but also to purchase licenses of the individual apps. By late 2011, over 200 million licenses of Office 2010 were sold.
New Features in Office 2010
Microsoft Office features a wide array of features that impacted every app offered in this suite. This includes better hardware-acceleration for an easier showcase of visual elements, font effect enhancements, cropping improvements, background removal, integrated screenshot capture, and a wider array of accessibility options (including support for more languages and better text-to-speech service).
Microsoft Word 2010 64 bit received a great visual and performance upgrade in Office 2010. Usability of the app was increased with more powerful Paste options, new Navigation Pane, Backstage View improvements, ability to natively save/export PDF files, collaborative editing, and ability to simultaneously save documents on local storage and in the cloud. However, some features found in Office 2007 Word were removed – integrated document scanning, startup assistant, diagnostics and various Clip Organizer features, and more.
Excel 2010 become powered with a brand new and optimized calculation engine, new graphing features, filtering options, macro recording chart elements, and the great expansion of the data point in a data series (limited only by the amount of user memory).
All other Office 2010 received a significant improvement in their functionality and UI, enabling home users and businesses of all sized to better optimize their document management and daily workflow.
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