1. MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 BETA PREVIEW JIM CROWLEY

2. GENERAL INFORMATION Release June 2010 Less versions StarterHome and StudentHome and OfficeProfessionalProfessional Plus Word x – limitedxxxX Excel x – limitedxxxX PowerPoint xxxX OneNote xxxX Outlook xxX Access xX Publisher xX Sharepoint Workspace X InfoPath X

3. WEB BROWSER VERSIONS Applications Excel PowerPoint OneNote Word Available through Business Microsoft SharePoint Server Windows Live Available later this year

4. NEW VERSION FOR WINDOWS MOBILE 6.5

5. OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGES The Ribbon Has made it to all applications Expanded and deeper functionality Quicksteps Paste Preview Enhanced typography

6. OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGES Improved photo video editing Photo Effects Video Trim Fades and transitions

7. OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGES Backstage Replaces File menu and Office button Full screen options for Opening Saving Permissions Printing Sharing

8. BACKSTAGE

10. WORD Image background removal tool Lots of new text effects Minimal changes

11. EXCEL Lots of performance improvement and better statistical calculations PivotTables add dashboard for exploring results More color coded results Moderate changes

12. POWERPOINT Video editing within the application Video borders Show merging New transitions, as always with a new version Moderate changes

13. OUTLOOK Ribbon everywhere Improved and powerful Conversation view Cleanup Conversations Social Connector can tie in to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr Contact cards show up in lots of places Groups of users with shared calendars Great changes

14. ONENOTE Ribbon Screen snipping allows copying to a section or just to the clipboard Linked notes to any Office documents Audio and video recording Moderate changes

15. PUBLISHER Huge benefits from the Ribbon Moderate changes

16. ACCESS What changes? Minimal changes