Office 2010 you now have the option of saving

In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft Office 2010 is now shipping.  The Business and Profession version includes Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, Access 2010, Publisher 2010 and OneNote 2010.
PCM Courseware has already begun working on courseware for this new version.  Courses will be released in the coming weeks.  All new orders will include the Office 2010 courses upon their release.
You can purchase Microsoft Office 2010
I had a feeling that 2010 wasn’t going to be an upgrade to Office like what Windows 7 is to the Windows family. Having said that, Office 2010 Technical Preview does show some promising upgrades. In between giving my exams I did find some time to play around with the leaked version of Office 2010 & found some improvements over Office 2007. One of the biggest additions to Office 2010 will be its online collaboration capabilities I wrote about & we have some proof of that in the current Preview build. Here are some noticeable improvements in the technical Preview build:
Office 2010 Screen capture
Office 2010 background Removal
I found this to be a good addition as a feature. Every time you download a document from the internet & open it, Word 2010 will open it in a ‘Protected mode’ that won’t allow you to edit the document unless you enable editing of the document. Screen shot:
Office 2010 Protected View
You can edit which file types are to be opened in the protect mode from the Trust Center panel. Screenshot:
I gotta admit, I love ‘Smart Art’. It’s right up there amongst the best features in Office & in Office 2010 there are new templates added. Existing categories have new templates & there’s a new category as well. Screen shot:
Office 2010 Smart Art
As I had talked about co-authoring a document & collaborating over the Internet will be one of Office 2010’s USPs, the ‘Protect Document’ option under ‘Review’ in Office 2007 has now been renamed to ‘Restrict Editing’ & a new tab titled ‘Block Authors’ has been added. Screen shot of the option in Word 2007 & Word 2010 side-by-side:
Office 2010 Author permissions
Office 2010 has introduced a huge a change in the document options that are presented to you under the Office button. One of biggest pains was the meta-data that can be added in a document. Quick access to permissions, document meta-data under document info. With Office 2010 you now have the option of saving your document to a SharePoint location as well. Screen shot:
Office 2010 Word 2010 Backstage
Office 2010 Word 2010 Print Backstage Options