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Joe Wainer
Joe WainerUpdated a year ago

Important note: Microsoft Office 2010 is no longer available.

The Download button for this program will redirect you to the latest Office version. Also you can find the Premium version and create your best work with Office 365.

A solid final version

I tested both the Technical Preview and the Beta version released months ago, and happily I've found a bunch of new features and improvements in the final version. For starters, the Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business pack includes five apps, namely Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. If you need to test more Office apps, you can try Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus instead.

Leaving changes aside, the truth is that Microsoft Office 2010 has pretty much the same features we already saw in the Technical Preview. The context menu in Word, for example, has been greatly improved and lets you see changes in real time as you browse through the different options. You can now add videos to your PowerPoint presentations, remove redundant messages from conversations in Outlook and insert small color charts inside cells in Excel spreadsheets. There are also tools to translate text, take and use screenshots, and apply special effects to the images you use in your documents. What's more, Microsoft Office 2010 now lets you save your documents on SkyDrive and share them online in just two clicks.

Regarding performance, Microsoft Office 2010 seems to be as fast and light on system resources as the Technical Preview. There's a significant improvement in the time the suite apps take to launch, and how they behave when working on your documents.

A few changes to keep in mind

As regards appearance, all the Microsoft Office 2010 apps have been slightly modified. They still keep the "ribbon" interface – in a much clearer, almost minimalist style – but the Office button has been renamed to "File" and now shows a different pane. Not only does it include direct access to all document-related tasks, but also shows detailed information about the document you're currently working on.

Smooth and sleek

In all, Microsoft Office 2010 is an excellent productivity suite with great new features that make it easier and more comfortable to use, and also turn it into an even more professional solution for daily work tasks.

Easy to use and highly useful

Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business lets you fully test the new, long-awaited version of the world's most popular productivity suite.

PROS

  • Enhanced design in the 'ribbon' interface
  • Support for videos in PowerPoint
  • Lots of improvements in Outlook
  • Translation and screen capturing tools
  • Faster and lighter on system resources
  • Lets you share documents online in SkyDrive

CONS

  • None so far

Program available in other languages


Microsoft Office 2010 for PC

  • Paid

  • In English
  • V 2010
  • 3.3

    (34351)

User reviews about Microsoft Office 2010

  • Shahid khalil

    by Shahid khalil

    thank you
    very much

  • Md Rajib

    by Md Rajib

    use to very good. I like this microsoft office 2010. and update softwere.

  • Vincent  Nyirongo

    by Vincent Nyirongo

    it is a wonderful package with user friendly attribute and is faster and easy to use

  • bright amos

    by bright amos

    best one i have ever used fast smooth and reliable and its was good users use

  • Mercy Orange

    by Mercy Orange

    easy to use and convey our thoughts through this ms office.

  • Loretta Blair

    by Loretta Blair

    There's no separation of pages. You can't see the entire page. The pages are chopped. Can't put headings on the paper or page numbers


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