Different Sets of Applications
Microsoft Office 2007’s “Small Business” edition was the most popular and seemingly suitable version of Office for small businesses as it included Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Publisher, programs with functionality ranging from word processing to presentation development to graphic design. Office 2010 does not have a “Small Business” edition; rather, it has “Home and Business” and “Professional” editions for businesses or individuals wishing to purchase four or fewer retail licenses. However, the most significant difference between the application set of 2007’s “Small Business” edition and 2010’s “Home and Business” edition is that “Home and Business” does not include Publisher, a desktop publishing application used by many businesses to design simple marketing materials. If upgrading to Office 2010, businesses that wish to use Publisher must purchase 2010’s “Professional” edition, a higher-end edition that comes with a much higher price tag. Office 2010 “Standard” and “Professional Plus” editions for volume licensing (5 licenses or more) both include Publisher as well as Access, Microsoft’s database program.
Microsoft provides the following charts on their Office website that are useful in comparing the different editions of Office 2010: “Which Suite is Right for You?” (for retail licenses) and “Compare suites available through Volume Licensing” (for volume licenses). A chart comparing the editions of Office 2007 can be found in the Wikipedia article “Microsoft Office 2007”.
Enhanced, Customizable Interface
Like Office 2007, Office 2010 also has the “Ribbon Interface”, but 2010 enhances the Ribbon by giving the user the ability to create custom tabs for the tools they use most often. Also, opposed to Office 2007, the Ribbon interface is now included in all the Office applications, further enhancing consistency and usability. The “Office Button” that seemed to cause confusion among some users of Office 2007 was replaced with a menu button that leads to a full-window file menu, known as “Backstage View”, created to increase accessibility of file management and printing options.
Handling of Large-Scale Data Sets
Office 2010 comes with a 64-bit version (Office 2007 was available in only 32-bit) that allows it to handle massive amounts of data. If your job involves projects that require the manipulation of millions of lines of data, the Office 2010 version of Excel is built to do just that.
More Graphic Options
If your organization would benefit from applications that can produce graphically-rich documents, Microsoft has enhanced its graphic options in almost every one of the Office 2010 applications, including advanced photo and video editing tools, the most attractive tool being the image background removal tool as well as a new range of text and image editing effects like “glow” and “bevel”.
New “Safety Features”
If you regularly share or download documents, Office 2010 has a new safety feature that spreads a colored banner at the top of a downloaded document and requires users to click a button before Word will unlock the file for editing, providing an extra layer of safety when opening documents downloaded from the Web or sent via e-mail.
These are only a few of the many enhancements made to Microsoft Office that come with version 2010. 3D can assist you in determining whether or not these enhancements would be of value to your business. To find out more, call our office at (360) 671-4906, send us an email at info@3dcorp.us, or visit our website at http://www.3dcorp.us/.
References:
“Which Suite is Right for You?”, “Compare suites available through Volume Licensing”, office.microsoft.com; “Microsoft Office 2007”, “Microsoft Office 2010”, wikipedia.org; “Microsoft Office 2010”, pcmag.com
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