Office 2010: New features

I’ve been using the Office 2010 Technical Preview and the Beta for quite some time now. In this post, I share 10 new features in Office 2010 that I like.

1. Video Editing features in Powerpoint

   You can now easily trim a video (i.e. play only a section of a video) or transform it in Powerpoint, without the need for any third-party tools.

   Right click on video, choose Trim Video.

   

   Choose Start and End points for the video.
   

   Transform the video using any 3D/bevel option.

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   You can also add a reflection on your video!
   

   Run the presentation, the video plays as trimmed and automatically transformed/rendered as you selected, and the reflection also changes depending on the motion in the video!
    

2. Insert Screenshot

   You can now insert a screenshot of any application that is currently running on your PC without having to hit PRINT SCREEN.

   

3. Ribbon Interface in Outlook
   
   
4. Conversation view in Outlook

   Makes it easy to group messages with the same subject (conversation). Also makes it easy to ignore or trash “conversations” with one click. 🙂

    

5. Artistic Effects

   Can even make your clipart and photographs look like oil paintings, pastels, pencil sketches and more.

   

6. Protected View
   For documents that originated from the Internet.

   

7. Show/Hide the Office Ribbon (toolbar)
   You can minimize the Office Ribbon when you need some extra space by clicking the show/hide button marked in red.

   

8. Backstage View
   This has replaced the Office menu. When you click the File tab, you are taken to a “Backstage”, where you can view and control properties for the document.

    

9. Social Networking capability in Outlook

   Leverages functionality from SharePoint and Exchange Server and displays photographs and social networking information for all individuals involved in an email conversation.

   

    

   

    

10. Smart tags in Outlook

    Lets you quickly see ways in which you can interact with a user (instant messaging, phone numbers, email),  his picture, profile, organizational information, etc. Very handy – and fully integrates with Office Communicator and SharePoint.

    

    

    
    
    

There are lots of other new features in Office 2010, this is just a preview of 10 features that I like. To get updates from my blog, subscribe with RSS or subscribe by email or get Windows Live Alerts.