Getting Started with Microsoft Office 2010
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Getting started with Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Corporation Published: May 2010 Author: Microsoft Office System and Servers Team ([email protected]) Abstract This book provides an overview of the Microsoft Office 2010 suites and information about how to get started with Office 2010. The audience for this book includes IT generalists, IT operations, help desk and deployment staff, IT messaging administrators, and consultants. The content in this book is a copy of selected content in the Office 2010 Resource Kit technical library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303401(office.14).aspx) as of the publication date. For the most current content, see the technical library on the web. This document is provided “as-is”. Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. Some examples depicted herein are provided for illustration only and are fictitious. No real association or connection is intended or should be inferred. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Access, Active Directory, Backstage, Excel, Groove, Hotmail, InfoPath, Internet Explorer, Outlook, PerformancePoint, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Silverlight, Windows, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server, and Windows Vista are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. ii Contents Getting help................................................................................................................................. iii Exploring Office 2010..................................................................................................................3 Office 2010 suites........................................................................................................................ 3 Comparisons of Office 2010 editions.................................................................................................3 What's new for IT professionals in Office 2010............................................................................3 Licensing and volume activation........................................................................................................3 Office 2010 64-bit editions.................................................................................................................3 Security changes............................................................................................................................... 3 Office Customization Tool changes....................................................................................................3 Application virtualization....................................................................................................................3 Additional resources.......................................................................................................................... 3 SharePoint Workspace 2010 overview........................................................................................3 Overview of the Office user interface in Office 2010....................................................................3 Backstage view.................................................................................................................................. 3 Ribbon............................................................................................................................................... 3 Quick Access Toolbar......................................................................................................................... 3 User interface differences in Office 2010 from earlier versions of Microsoft Office......................3 Table of differences............................................................................................................................ 3 Product and feature changes in Office 2010...............................................................................3 Changes in Office 2010...............................................................................................................3 What’s new........................................................................................................................................ 3 What’s changed................................................................................................................................. 3 Insert Clip Art task pane and Clip Organizer................................................................................3 HTML editor................................................................................................................................. 3 Legacy brightness and contrast...................................................................................................3 Language Preferences................................................................................................................3 What’s removed................................................................................................................................. 3 Insert Clip Art task pane and Clip Organizer................................................................................3 Symbol input add-in: East Asia versions of Office 2010..............................................................3 InterConnect................................................................................................................................ 3 Office Startup Assistant...............................................................................................................3 Office Diagnostics........................................................................................................................ 3 Document workspaces................................................................................................................3 Support for Microsoft XML Parser 5............................................................................................3 iii Migration considerations....................................................................................................................3 Changes in Access 2010.............................................................................................................3 What’s new........................................................................................................................................ 3 Share a database on the Web.....................................................................................................3 Export to .pdf and .xps.................................................................................................................3 Connect to a Web service as an external data source................................................................3 Backstage view........................................................................................................................... 3 What’s changed................................................................................................................................. 3 Backward compatibility between Access 2010 and Access 2007................................................3 Enhanced security....................................................................................................................... 3 Support for SQL Server 2008 data types.....................................................................................3 What’s removed................................................................................................................................. 3 Calendar control (mscal.ocx).......................................................................................................3 Microsoft Replication Conflict Viewer..........................................................................................3 Snapshot file format.....................................................................................................................3 Data access pages...................................................................................................................... 3 Lotus 1-2-3, Paradox, Jet2.x, and Red2 IISAM...........................................................................3 Migration considerations....................................................................................................................3 VBA settings migration................................................................................................................3 Changes in Excel 2010................................................................................................................3 What’s new........................................................................................................................................ 3 In addressing user needs...................................................................................................................3