The benefits of Office 2010

Office 2010 provides the best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser.  For your people, it means helping them work in a way that's faster and easier - whether they're on the road, in the office, working solo, or as part of a team.  For IT, it means leveraging a set of smart, security enhanced, easy-to-integrate tools that work with what you have now, so you can grow your business instead of your budget.

1. Office 2010 delivers the ability to use Office across the PC, phone and browser, delivering anywhere access.

• Office Web Apps are online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that let you review and make light edits to documents from a supported browser. Feel confident with your data since document formatting and content is maintained when edits are done in the browser and because the Web Apps can be hosted on premises, running on SharePoint.
• SharePoint Workspace 2010 lets you keep your important SharePoint documents and lists available offline and automatically syncs only the changes, so you get them fast even over a low bandwidth connection.
• Office Mobile enables co-workers in different locations to share, edit, and comment on documents with their smartphones, using a familiar Office experience best suited to mobile devices.

2. Office 2010 keeps security in mind while helping people work better together through collaboration without compromise.

• Co-authoring enables simultaneous editing to reduce the administrative work that can come from team collaboration; security is not compromised since the information can be hosted on premise.
• Conversation View, Clean Up and Ignore in Outlook 2010 can remove duplicate information and act like a "mute button" for your inbox.
• Mail Tips in Outlook 2010 give users important information before they hit "send" to avoid unnecessary, embarrassing or even damaging e-mail.
• Broadcast Slide Show allows you to present a slideshow directly from PowerPoint 2010 to anyone who can access a Web browser, by hosting the content on premises through SharePoint with the Web Apps or through a free service provided over the Internet.

3. Office 2010 provides tools that help people bring ideas to life.

• PowerPivot for Excel 2010 allows you to quickly calculate data sets of hundreds of millions of rows from multiple sources at lightning speed which can eliminate the need to spend money on additional BI tools.
• Sparklines save real estate on-screen by charting trends in a single cell right next to the corresponding data.
• Photo and video editing tools in PowerPoint 2010 can trim a video clip, turn a color film into black & white, add artistic effects to photos and more without the need for expensive third-party tools.
• Microsoft Office Backstage™ view gives everyone quick access to important operations such as viewing document information, saving, printing, and sharing; it's extensible, so it can be customized to surface commands or workflow operations that are most important to people in your organization.
• Ribbon toolbar is now in all applications, enabling your team to find the commands they need most to ultimately deliver better results faster.

4. Office 2010 was designed with performance, security and manageability in mind, making it the practical platform for IT.

• Maximize performance across the hardware you already own, while also positioning you for future hardware investments such as 64-bit chips, advanced graphics cards, and multi-core processors.
• The Trusted Documents and Protected View features of layered defense combine to first determine the trustworthiness of a document and then, if not trusted, open for viewing in a protected sandbox for users to view before enabling.  This tiered approached to document security is new in Office 2010.
• Backstage view, Web Apps, and application services such as Excel Services help users connect to important business information and services, without leaving their familiar Microsoft Office environment.  to increase participation in server investments and reduce training costs.
• The Accessibility checker scans documents for issues that will impact users with disabilities and helps eliminates errors before they can cause harm to the business to help maintain compliance.