Changes in Office 2010

This section presents a look at the key ideas behind the development of the features you will
find in Office 2010. Working independently or in a group, at your PC or on the road, you’ll
find new tools and techniques that help you create great-looking documents, worksheets,
presentations, and more, and enable you to share your work easily with others. Office 2010 shows that powerful programs don’t have to be difficult to use. Program designers
know that users today need a great variety of powerful, flexible tools, and that it’s important
that those tools and features be easy to find and use. For this reason, you’ll find quick
access to style galleries, themes, and more that help you select professional designs, choose
from color schemes that work, and create a professional look whether you’re creating documents,
worksheets, presentations, notebooks, or database tables.
To help you take your ideas to the next level, Office 2010 offers artistic effects and picture
editing, video editing in PowerPoint, new data visualizations (including sparklines and slicers)
in Excel, and the ability to manipulate fonts professionally in Word. And this is just the beginning—
there’s much more, as you’ll see in the chapters in Part II, “Hit the Ground Running.”
And not only will your output be better, but the whole document creation process is easier,
thanks to enhanced search features, simplified navigation, the contextual spell checker,
translation
tools, and more.