Microsoft have the huge success with it’s strategy of offering free Windows 7 upgrade for every Windows Vista copy sold with computer last year. Microsoft will run similar program again, but now with Office 2010. The newest version of the most popular office suite in the world, Office 2010 will be released by June 2010 worldwide.
The program, known as Office 2010 Technology Guarantee is valid from March 5th, 2010 until September 30th, 2010 for each copy of these Office 2007 version.
* Office Home and Student 2007
* Office Small Business 2007
* Office Professional 2007
* Office Publisher 2007
The upgrade process will be fulfilled through online download with no additional cost. Head to www.office.com/techg for more information about the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program.
The new Office 2010 Beta has been released since November 2009, but not everyone eager to download and using it. After all, it is just productivity tool, not some kind of new operating system, ROM for smartphone or even games.
To create an awareness among Malaysian and encourage user to download and test this application suite, Microsoft Malaysia has setup website specially for that purpose. Offi2010 website links with Microsoft website to provide every information related with Office 2010.
To sweeten the promotion, a brand new HTC HD2 smartphone will be given away each month to anyone that submit the best feedback or testimonial. That means you have to download and try it out in order to give ‘true’ feedback, correct?
If the notebook image on the website (above is the screen shot) is to be believed and I understand it correctly, a notebook also will be given away as the grand price. It is pretty good deal, because what you need to do is just download it, test it ‘kaw-kaw‘ and submit feedback about your experience using Office 2010.
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In Office 2010, there are a lot of shortcuts to assist you execute any function or move from one menu to another. This is going to be very handy in case if you’re without a mouse or you’re on the go and need to use Office to get work done. Here is the basic of shortcuts in Office 2010.
Press ‘Alt’ key to display the shortcuts. Press ‘Alt‘ key again if you want to hide it. Just to show you how to move to other tabs, for instance, you’re currently at ‘Mailing’ tab, so to move to ‘Home’ tab, press ‘H’ key. There you go!
Now you’re at Home screen. By default, what you see in the screen shot below is the functional (my own term) shortcut which is used to execute any functions. For instance, to bold the font, press ‘B‘ key and so on.
Meanwhile, above screen shot is navigational (my own term) shortcut, which will be used to move from one tab to another.
From functional shortcut, press ‘ESC’ key to switch to navigational shortcut. Functional shortcut is now invisible, what you see now are navigational shortcuts as shown in the screen shot below. Notice the difference?
Pressing ALT or ESC key or click your mouse button anywhere in the Office document will hide the shortcut. Easy right??
One of the exciting features offered in Office 2010 is the ability to write blog post and then publish it directly to your blog. This is extremely helpful if you’re not alway connected to internet and want to publish the blog post whenever internet connection available even in a brief. Here is how you can do it.
1. To create a new blog post, go to File >> New >> Blog Post
2. If that is the first time you’re trying to create a new blog post, it will prompt you whether you want to register it now or later
3. If you choose to register now,the next step would be choosing the blog type.
4. Enter the blog URL as well as user name and password.
5. Here is the main post editor page where you’ll draft your post. Here you can retrieve article , create new category and etc.
Anytime you’re ready to publish the post, hit the publish button. Interestingly, you can publish it as final or just as a draft which provide the flexibility when you want the post should be published.
6. You can manage your blog account from the editor, modify, add or delete new account from it. You can set which account should be default account as well.
Talking about productivity tools, one can never forget Microsoft Office on desktop and Google Docs on web. They’re competing product that invade each other turf (Google with Gears that allow Google Docs to go Offline, and Microsoft with it’s Office Web Apps) but surprisingly ‘close’ thanks to OffiSync.
OffiSync is an Office extension that ultimately allow you to save your Office documents to Google Docs & Google Sites, and at anytime open it back from within Microsoft Office. It is also collaboration tools (via Google Docs) that allow multiple editing with changes update done automatically, but the later is not so relevant if you’re the only one who using it. But whatever it is, it is a must have application if you use both of them.
Here is how OffiSync works for you.
1. As Office extension, OffiSync is accessible from your Office application screen shot from Office 2007). No hassle of opening other application in order to upload/download the copy of your files. It is also compatible with Office 2010 Beta.
2. Save/Open Office Documents To/From Google Docs/Microsoft Office just like they are inside your computers!
3. Sharing is caring, and here how you can show your generousness. To start collaboration, an invitation email to the participants must be send beforehand. Recipients who receive the invitation opened the document and start editing via Google Doc.
Other than that, you can email, copy link as well as open the document online.
Here is how invitation email looks like
