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Microsoft Office 2010 Compare
Microsoft Office is matter of a big arrangement. Of course, there are some pretty nice free office suites available these days. But if you’re creating documents for use in the professional world it is difficult to get by without them. Businesses almost globally use Office, and it’s hard to tell how your stuff will look without having an original copy and training of Microsoft Word yourself. Office 2007 made some major changes to the Office out looking. Microsoft introduced the ribbon concept which one may find while learning Microsoft Excel, which replaced the older interface that relied on a traditional combination of small icons and expandable text menus. Although the ribbon interface can be a bit confusing at first, it starts to become clear quickly, and works well.
Microsoft has not done a lot
to change the ribbon interface. It’s a bit re-organized, and the entire
application has an off-white appearance rather than the blue
appearance of Office 2007. The biggest change to the ribbon is an addition –
Outlook now has the ribbon interface. It is also possible to minimize the
ribbon interface by clicking on an arrow icon in the upper right hand corner of
your Office window style. The biggest interface difference that most people will find
is the new File button that replaces the big, round Office button found in the
2007 edition. While the old Office button was a gussied-up file menu, the
new File button looks like a ribbon interface tab. It opens up a full-screen
display that includes both file options (save, print, etc.) and options to
display recently opened documents, detailed document information, and more.
As you might want,
comprehensively detailing the many changes made between Office 2007 and Office
2010 would take more space than we have available here. The changes above are
the ones that I feel the average user are most likely to notice or find
beneficial. The reason we came here, however, was to determine if Office 2010
is better than Office 2007 and worth an upgrade. In terms of “better than”
Office 2010 offers clear advantages over the 2007 edition. The web application
support alone is a big deal, never mind the more subtle changes.
Upgrading is not free, so
you’ll have to think yourself what you use Office for. The core functionality
of creating documents, spreadsheets and slideshows has not significantly
changed. The new edition of Office isn’t more intuitive, either. Users who
don’t ask a lot from Office are unlikely to receive much benefit from upgrading
to 2010. The main appeal of Office 2010 is to those who use Office for most of
their working day, these users will appreciate the new features and subtle
tweaks.
