Microsoft Office 2010

Every few years, Microsoft refreshes its industry leading productivity Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery suite and gives the millions of consumers and businesses that run older versions of the software a difficult choice: pay for an upgrade or stand pat? With the recent release of Office 2010, Microsoft has upped the ante with a variety of new features, ranging from video editing and online conferencing in PowerPoint to better copy and paste options in Word. Office 2007 owners and users with more basic needs may find this suite to be a less-than-compelling upgrade sony battery, but overall Office 2010 is a strong package.

Slightly Updated Interface

If you don't look at Office 2010 and its Sony PCGA-BP2V predecessor side-by-side, you could be forgiven for confusing the two. The most obvious visual difference is the replacement of the light blue wallpaper and accents that surround your documents with a light gray background. During briefings, Microsoft reps told us that users found the blue to Sony VGP-BPL9 be distracting.

The other major visual difference you'll notice is the addition of a File menu tab to the ribbon. This tab replaces the Office logo that appeared in the upper left corner of Office 2007 applications. Where the Office logo revealed a pull-down Sony VGP-BPS13 menu with save, open, and print options in Office 2007, the File tab opens Backstage View, a new feature in Office 2010.

Backstage View

Click the File tab in any Office 2010 application and you'll be transported to a new screen called the Backstage area. On this screen Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery, you'll see a variety of options for printing, sharing, or saving your document in various formats.

The Backstage menu is essentially a full-screen version of the file menu that appeared as a simple drop-down in Office 2007. While Microsoft touts Backstage as a helpful feature that allows users to discover more of its output options, we found it Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R51E Battery somewhat annoying to have another screen appear on top of our documents when we wanted to do something as simple as saving or printing with the default options intact.

Of course, power users can avoid the Backstage view by hitting keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl + S to save or Ctrl + P to print. If you don't use keyboard sony vgp-bps13/b shortcuts and you really want to avoid Backstage, you can add all the options as custom buttons on the Office ribbon. However, even then most of the buttons will transport you to part of the Backstage view. For example, if you add a print button to your tabs, it will take you to the Backstage print menu before you can start outputting your document.

If you want to do something more complex than a simple print/save/open operation, the Backstage view offers an attractive interface that makes it much easier to perform these tasks. Our favorite backstage views include the Save & Send menu, which carefully explains the pros and cons of each sharing format; the Print menu, which automatically shows a large preview of your document; and the Info tab that appears when you first click on the File tab, Sony VGP-BPS9/S Battery which displays a ton of useful information about your document.

On the Backstage Info tab, you can not only see valuable information such as the battery word count and last modified date in Word, but also revert to earlier versions of a document, check for accessibility and sharing problems with your file, and set permissions that limit access to it.

The Office Ribbon

The ribbon menus (undoubtedly the most controversial feature of Office 2007) are back in force, with a couple of interesting differences. While Dell GD761 Battery the names of the menu tabs and their default contents remain nearly identical in all the applications

, you now have the ability to customize the ribbon to your heart's content, adding your own tabs or removing the default ones.

If you want to maximize your screen real estate by having fewer icons good battery and more of your content above the fold, you can easily minimize the ribbon by right-clicking on it and selecting Minimize Ribbon.