10 things your users need to know about Office 2010
Aug 10, 2010 Whitepapers
Even if your users are familiar with the Office 2007 interface, they’re going to have questions about Office 2010 features and functionality. This list will help them find some of the answers on their own.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
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10 things your users need to know about Office 2010
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Microsoft launches Office 2010
Jun 18, 2010 News
Microsoft released the consumer version of Office 2010 this week. Among some of the interesting new features are Office Web apps, which let you work on documents from the Internet, and Outlook’s Social Connector.
With Social Connector, you can see your friends’ social-networking profiles and status updates from within Outlook. There are also easier ways to manage your inbox. For example, you can view e-mails by conversation; doing so consolidates all e-mails with the same subject. The Ignore button automatically deletes all e-mails related to a particular conversation. The Clean Up button deletes redundant messages, so you keep only the latest message, with all prior threads, in your inbox.
Microsoft offers 25GB of free online storage, via its cloud-based SkyDrive service, to users with a Microsoft Live ID. Once you’re in SkyDrive, you’ll find Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote (Microsoft’s notes application). You can do light edits of documents you store there, as well as share them with others, and you don’t need the full version of Office 2010 to do so.
A new PowerPoint feature also emphasizes sharing. With its broadcasting feature, you can create a presentation, then share it with others via a temporary Web address.
Microsoft left the ribbon interface intact, but replaced the “globe” icon with a more traditional File tab. Once you click that option, however, you arrive at a new Backstage view, which places Save, Open, Send, and Print functions on one page.
Here's a rundown of prices for Office 2010: The Office Home and Student version is $150, and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Office Home and Business adds Outlook for $280; if you also want Access and Publisher, you’ll need to shell out $500 for Office Professional. You’ll also find it on sale at Amazon and Newegg (Home and Student, $130; Home and Business, $240).
We’ll be taking a closer look at Office 2010 over the next few weeks. Keep an eye here for more details.
—Donna Tapellini
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SSuite Office – FileWall 3.0 (Windows)
Jun 5, 2010 Internet
SSuite Office – FileWall is a secure client-server database to archive all your sensitive documents in one place. Features available in SSuite Office – FileWall are full search capabilities, administrator and user level access, create multiple categories on different security levels, view unique log file history for each document on user access, full version control of all documents or files imported into the database, enhanced document compression for a more efficient and smaller database, and full document control for importing, exporting, and adding new documents to the database
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SSuite Office – FileWall 3.0 (Windows)
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Gifts for Dad: Frame your father
Jun 18, 2009 News
The Ipevo Kaleido R7
We’ve got the perfect digital picture frame for the office or study. Ipevo’s Kaleido i7 R7 ($200) exhibits that perfect combination of looks, technology, and usefulness.
It’s shaped like a tiny LCD monitor, so it’ll look cool on a desk at home or in the office. There’s 512MB of memory built in, among the most generous in the frames we’ve looked at, so if you don’t feel like dealing with memory cards, you can store plenty of pics right in the frame.
There’s also a built-in Wi-Fi connection, so you can share photos from Picasa or Flickr. There’s also a remote control. The downside: The frame’s widescreen aspect ratio makes picture-viewing problematic, adding black bars to the sides or top and bottom if the photo wasn’t taken in 16×9 format. —Donna Tapellini
