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Archive for the ‘Office 2010’ Category

I recently came across a site that offers free reference guides for Office and each of the Office applications. The guides are packed with shortcuts and other quick reference information. They are available for download in pdf format from FREE Quick References

If you are interested in understanding a little bit of the rational behind the Fluent User (Ribbon) Interface that Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 and how the look and feel will be changing with Office 2010, have a look at this article Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Office 2010: Visuals and Branding.

I’m looking forward to spending quality time over the next few weeks with the Office 2010 Beta release. There are some pretty exciting features in the wind. Stay tuned for more.

Big news last evening from the Office 2010 Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering Blog: in the two weeks since the public release of the Office 2010 beta more than a million people have downloaded it. There is a lot of excitement out there about this new Office release. See for yourself by downloading your own copy from http://www.microsoft.com/2010/ Remember, however, that this is a beta release so follow the installation instructions carefully

Wondering what’s coming in the next release of Office? Check out the Office Team Blogs. Start with the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog to get an idea of features the various Office applications share in common and how they will look in 2010. One particularly interesting new development is the Backstage. This article tells you what has happened to file operations and other features found on the Office Button Menu in ‘07 and on the File Menu in ‘97 – ‘03. The article not only illustrates the Backstage but also explains the rationale that led the development team to this approach.

While you are on the Engineering blog site, look for team blog links for each of the Office Application team on the right side of your screen.

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While an actual release date is still to be announced, the next version of Office and Access are looking pretty exciting. For an overview of what’s coming in Access, have a look a the Access team blog.