Softpedia
 

NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home > News > Tags > Office 2010

Stories about: Office 2010


More: next 50 >>

Office 2010 Online Product Key Solution

Office 2010 customers that come across issues with the product key for their copy of the productivity suite can turn to an online help utility offered by Microsoft to help them resolve their problems. Office 2010 Product Key Solution is available free of charge, and can help users locate their product keys, provide...

15 November 2011
08:56 GMT

Outlook 2010 Management Capabilities Video Demo

Outlook 2010 is a fully-fledged management tool which spans across not just Windows computers, but also Windows Phone devices. Microsoft has put together a video demo designed to show just what Outlook 2010 is capable of. You can watch it at the top of this article. “See how one busy woman uses Outlook to m...

12 November 2011
06:21 GMT

Free PowerPoint 2010 Skills Builder

The PowerPoint 2010 Skills Builder offers a free collection of training content that users can easily take advantage of. The promise from Microsoft is that they’ll be able to take their presentations to the next level, provided that their starting off with a basic skill set, of course. The free learning res...

4 November 2011
06:38 GMT

15 Free Excel 2010 Videos Available

Users looking to get started with Excel 2010 have a wide range of resources at their disposal not only from Microsoft, but also from third-parties. An illustrative example in this regard is a collection of video tutorials  available free of charge to all customers. According to Kim Spilker, a product manager at ...

29 October 2011
05:40 GMT

Office 2010 SP1 Update Fixes Multiple-Language Installations Upgrade Issue

Customers with multiple-language installations of Office 2010 have come across an issue when deploying Service Pack 1, Microsoft confirmed. According to the Redmond company, the first upgrade to the productivity suite failed to deploy for additional languages of Office 2010 beyond English, even if the resources had b...

24 October 2011
08:38 GMT

Office 2003 Turns 8 This Month, Time Upgrade to Office 2010

In just 10 days, Office 2003 will turn eight. There’s no better present that customers can give themselves the eighth anniversary of Office 2003 than an upgrade to Office 2010, according to Microsoft. Office 2010’s is the Redmond company’s fastest selling release of the productivity suite, with a copy...

11 October 2011
09:50 GMT

Free Office Professional Academic 2010 Upgrades for Students Buying the Home and Student SKUs

Microsoft is offering college students that buy Office 2010 Home and Student edition free upgrades to the Professional Academic 2010 SKU. The Microsoft Office 2010 3 App Bonus back to School Promotion for College Students promotion runs in a variety of markets worldwide, with the software giant detailing the special...

22 August 2011
09:26 GMT

Fix Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Failed Installations

Microsoft has confirmed that there are scenarios in which Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 deployments can fail, with users being unable to resolve the issue themselves. The first upgrade for Office 2010 was released to manufacturing at the end of June 2011, when it also became available for download to customers arou...

5 August 2011
14:01 GMT

Windows 7 and Office 2010 Special Deals - Free Xbox 360 and Free Upgrades

Microsoft has a few special back-to-school deals set up for students buying Windows 7, Windows 7 PCs and Office 2010.In all fairness, customers might have already come across some of the offerings from the Redmond company, some of which aren’t exactly new. Still, free goodies and free upgrades are up for grab...

2 August 2011
02:21 GMT

Office 2010 Update Fixes Installation Failures of Future Updates for the Productivity Suite

Office 2010 users can come across issues when installing updates for the productivity suite. Fortunately, they can turn to a download offered free of charge by Microsoft to help them deal with potential issues. The Redmond company is offering an update designed to decrease installation failures of future Of...

30 July 2011
05:10 GMT

Free Office 2010 Compatibility Tools: Code Compatibility Inspector and Environment Assessment Tool

Two new free tools offered through the Microsoft Download Center are designed to deal with potential compatibility issues in scenarios involving migration to Office 2010 or the adoption of Office 365. Microsoft has already sold in excess of 200 million licenses of Office 2010, but obviously, more customers are yet t...

26 July 2011
05:09 GMT

Free Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver

Office 2010 has been around for quite a while, over a year in fact, but it’s only now that Microsoft is providing customers with a screensaver designed to help them get started using the latest iteration of the productivity suite. Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver is available free of charge from the Mic...

14 July 2011
10:01 GMT

100 Million Office 2010 Licenses Sold

Microsoft has sold in excess of 100 million licenses of Office 2010 since the latest iteration of the productivity suite hit commercial availability. The first statistics related to the commercial success of Office 2010 were made public at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. For the past year or s...

12 July 2011
08:42 GMT

Office 2010 SP1 RTM Fixed Issues List Available

Microsoft released the first service pack for Office 2010 at the end of June 2011, and the company is also providing additional information about the changes that the upgrade brings to the table. I already offered Softpedia readers insight into the evolution of Office 2010 Service Pack 1 RTM, but there are more reso...

4 July 2011
05:02 GMT

Office XP Dies on July 11, 2011

After making Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 available for download to all users, Microsoft is gearing up to kill one of the productivity suite’s predecessors, Office XP. Per the software giant’s official support lifecycle, Office XP has less than 10 days of life left. The Redmond company confirmed th...

2 July 2011
06:51 GMT

Insight into the Office 2010 SP1 Evolution

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is now available for download, and Microsoft provided a bit of insight into the evolution that this upgrade introduces. Customers looking to download and install Office 2010 SP1 Build 14.0.6023.1000 RTM might as well know what the release has to offer. As is the case with all service pack...

29 June 2011
06:53 GMT

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM Available for Download – Build 14.0.6023.1000

The first major upgrade for Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing and is now available for download to end users. Both Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2460049) 32-bit Edition and Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2460049) 64-bit Edition went live on the Microsoft Download C...

29 June 2011
02:49 GMT

Office 2010 Record Uptake and Customer Satisfaction on One-Year Anniversary

Microsoft has a number of reasons to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Office 2010, including record levels of customer uptake and satisfaction, that is, in addition to the productivity suite’s first birthday, of course.Although no actual sale numbers were released, the software giant continues to say that...

16 June 2011
04:15 GMT

Download Ribbon Customization for Office 2010 Visio, Project and InfoPath

Resources offered free of charge by Microsoft are designed to streamline the personalization process of the graphical user interface of various Office 2010 components. There are no less than three downloads up for grabs from the software giant: Ribbon customization for InfoPath 2010 - Favorites tab; Ribbon customiza...

14 June 2011
06:56 GMT

Download Free Microsoft Analytics for Twitter Office Excel 2010 Add-in

With social networks becoming an increasingly relevant source of data, a new free tool from Microsoft allows Office users to explore Twitter right in Excel. The Microsoft Analytics for Twitter add-in is currently live on the Microsoft Download Center, and up for grabs free of charge. The add-in delivers just what i...

10 June 2011
05:56 GMT

Express Deployment Tool for Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials, Office 2010 – OEM Only

Preinstallation and deployment can be streamlined and speeded up for a range of Microsoft technologies, including the company’s main cash cows, with the help of a tool offered by the software giant. The Express Deployment Tool plays nice with Windows 7 and Office 2010, but also with additional software product...

9 June 2011
02:36 GMT

Disable Office 2010 Hyperlink Warning Messages Automatically

Provided that users know what they’re doing and can easily identify and keep away from potentially dangerous links they can go ahead and disable the hyperlink warning messages in both Office 2010 and Office 2007. The warning messages are designed to act as an extra security mitigation, informing users of the r...

20 May 2011
06:07 GMT

What’s New in Office 2010 SP1 RTM

Starting at the end of June 2011, customers running Office 2010 RTM will be able to kick their copies of the productivity suite up a notch with the first upgrade released by Microsoft. At Tech-ED 2011 US, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 SP1 is right on track for general availability next month. “All lang...

17 May 2011
06:01 GMT

Office 15 Evolves with Metro UI, New Features Revealed in Build 15.0.2703.1000 Leaked Screenshots

Unlike Windows 8, which is approaching the Beta development milestone, Office 15, the successor of Office 2010 is still in the early stages of development. Office 15 reportedly reached Milestone 2 in March 2011, while Windows 8 is a tad more advanced, with the Windows team already at work on M3. But just as it was ...

17 May 2011
03:39 GMT

Download Office 2010 SP1 RTM at the End of June 2011

Customers currently running Office 2010 RTM will be able to download and deploy the first upgrade for the productivity suite by the end of next month. At the same time, Microsoft plans to start offering Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM via Automatic Updates later this summer. “SP1 is expected to be availa...

16 May 2011
11:30 GMT

Fuzz Testing Essential in Bulletproofing Office 2010

Microsoft will not be releasing any security patches for Office 2010 this month. And the latest iteration of the Office suite being “ignored” for the May 2011 Patch Tuesday is somewhat of a trend, considering just how few security bulletins the software giant released to patch vulnerabilities in Office 2...

6 May 2011
09:28 GMT

Download Ribbon Hero 2 for Office 2010 - Clippy's Second Chance

  The fun and innovative training game that Microsoft built around the new Ribbon / Fluent GUI in Office 2010 and Office 2007 has evolved to the next level. Customers running either Office 2010 or Office 2007 can now download Ribbon Hero 2, the successor of Ribbon Hero launched over a year ago, in January 2010...

26 April 2011
10:16 GMT

Office 2010 File Validation Now Available for Office 2003 and Office 2007

Microsoft is backporting a security mitigation from Office 2010 designed to protect users from malformed documents to Office 2003 and Office 2007. Announced back in December 2010, the Office File Validation feature is now generally available for Office 2003 and Office 2007, according to Modesto Estrada, Office progr...

13 April 2011
10:21 GMT

Get Ready to Download Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM This Summer

Microsoft is preparing to release the first upgrade for Office 2010. Service Pack 1 should be made available for download in the coming months according to the software giant.A specific launch deadline wasn’t provided, but the promise is that customers running Office 2010 will be able to upgrade to SP1 RTM som...

7 April 2011
07:50 GMT

Office 2010 - Record 24 Million Copies Sold

Microsoft confirmed that the strong momentum of Office 2010 is holding steady. According to statistics offered by the Redmond company, one copy of Office 2010 is being sold every second. Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Division product management group underlines that Office 2010 ...

24 March 2011
09:51 GMT

Office 2010 STAMP and DAISY Accessibility Add-ins Available for Testing

Two new resources offered free of charge by Microsoft are designed to increase the accessibility of Office documents for people with sight or hearing disabilities. The Redmond company announced the immediate availability of STAMP, the Subtitling Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint and Save as DAISY for Office 2010, ...

18 March 2011
07:46 GMT

Windows Embedded Compact 7 Office Viewers Released

New resources available for download from Microsoft are designed to make it easier for customers running the evolution of Windows Embedded CE to use Office documents. Less than a month ago, the software giant launched Windows Embedded Compact 7, the successor of Windows Embedded CE, which is now available worldwide....

18 March 2011
07:22 GMT

Microsoft Offers March Madness Outlook Calendar

Microsoft is offering a free resource designed to help customers keep track of the games in the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Throwing Outlook users a free “assist,” the software giant has put together a new calendar designed to help them dribble their way through March Madness without miss...

15 March 2011
09:35 GMT

Office Web Apps Available Worldwide in Over 190 Countries

In just nine months after launch, Office in the Cloud is now available worldwide in over 190 countries. Office Web Apps are designed as the online companions of the desktop Office 2010 productivity suite, with the two working better in tandem for users, but neither a replacement of the other. Available free of charg...

10 March 2011
07:24 GMT

Download Office 2010 from Amazon.com

Microsoft has now made it even easier for customers to buy the latest iteration of its productivity suite. The Redmond company partnered with Amazon.com to have the online retail giant offer copies of Office 2010 not only for purchase but also for download. Previously, the software giant had allowed customers to bu...

10 March 2011
07:00 GMT

Microsoft: Office 2010 Is the Most Secure Version of Office Yet

Office 2010 is not only the fastest selling version of Office in history, but also the most secure iteration of the productivity suite yet, according to Microsoft. The Redmond company has made available for download a whitepaper designed to detail the security features and enhancements packed into Office 2010. The &...

8 March 2011
04:58 GMT

Office 15 Reaches Milestone 2 (M2), Reportedly

Reports indicate that Microsoft has already compiled Office 15 Milestone 2, although there is no official word from the Redmond company confirming this. Obviously, following the finalization of Office 2010, Microsoft has started working not only on the first service pack for the current versions of the productivity ...

4 March 2011
13:31 GMT

Download Free Office 2010 Migration Guides in 37 Languages

Customers embracing Office 2010 that needed a little help have been able to access migration guides from Microsoft free of charge for quite some time now. The only caveat with the resources was the fact that they only came in English, and as such could be of use to those familiar with the language. This is no longe...

10 February 2011
05:34 GMT

Office 2010 on Windows 7 Slates

With the number of Windows Tablet PCs available on the market bound to increase throughout 2011 and beyond, users will certainly come across scenarios that they didn’t have to deal with on laptops, netbooks or desktop PCs. Running the Office productivity suite on a Windows 7 slate is just such an example, and ...

9 February 2011
11:51 GMT

Now in 150 More Countries, Office Web Apps Internationalization Nears Completion

The promise from Microsoft is that next month, the services designed to extend Office 2010 into the Cloud will reach global availability. Meanwhile, the Redmond company has made an immense leap forward in terms of internationalization by opening up Office Web Apps to users in an additional over 150 countries on top ...

4 February 2011
09:39 GMT

Free Office 2007 and 2010 Chemistry Add-in for Word 1.0

Microsoft is making it easier for Office users to include mathematical content into their documents, but also to create and share chemical information via Word. In addition to the Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word, customers now have available for download the Chemistry Add-in for Word (Chem4Word). Playing nice...

2 February 2011
06:03 GMT

Office 15 Might Sport New Components over Office 2010

Just as it is the case for Windows 8, Microsoft has yet to share any plans related to the next major iteration of its office productivity suite. However, there are indications that the Redmond company is thinking about growing the product with the addition of new components. According to Mary-Jo Foley, the software...

31 January 2011
05:51 GMT

Deploying Office 2010 on 140,000 Desktops

Office 2010 was intensely dogfooded (tested internally) at Microsoft during the development stage, as is the case with additional pre-release products from the company. Microsoft IT allows third-parties to get insight into the process of planning, testing and deploying the latest Office suite via a showcase which ca...

28 January 2011
05:05 GMT

Microsoft Reports $19.95 Billion Revenue for Q2 2011

Strong uptake for products such as Windows 7, Office 2010 and Kinect for Xbox 360 have catapulted Microsoft’s revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 to a total of $19.95 billion. The Redmond company reported operating income of $8.17 billion, as well as net income and diluted earnings per share of ...

28 January 2011
04:07 GMT

More Free Office Downloads from Microsoft: Office 2011 and Office 2010

Windows users have been able to grab free downloads of Office 2010 since the productivity suite’s commercial launch. Not the same was the case with Office customers running the product on Apple Mac machines. Office for Mac 2011 hit general availability in October 2010, but it’s only now that Microsoft is...

26 January 2011
16:51 GMT

Deploy Multiple Office 2010 SKUs on the Same PC

Microsoft is allowing customers to deploy multiple Office 2010 SKUs on the same PC in scenarios in which they need components present in one edition of the productivity suite but not in the one they are currently running. Side-by-side and Uninstall-install are the two methods that the Redmond company recommends for ...

26 January 2011
14:01 GMT

Office 2010 Resource Kit Updated

An updated version of the Office 2010 Resource Kit was made available by Microsoft earlier this month. IT professionals familiar with the resource already know that the download is offered free of charge with additional resources designed to streamline the adoption of Office 2010. Released in mid-2010, Office 2010 ...

24 January 2011
03:58 GMT

File Validation from Office 2010 to Office 2003 and Office 2007

In mid-December 2010, Microsoft announced that it was planning to backport a piece of the security evolution of Office 2010 to two of the productivity suite’s predecessors. In order to increase the level of protection enjoyed by customers running Office 2007 and Office 2003 when opening documents problematic, ...

12 January 2011
10:17 GMT

Win Xbox Kinect Prizes on Excel’s 25th Anniversary by Sharing Your Experiences

When Microsoft first introduced Excel 25 years ago, the solution was designed to offer customers data processing capabilities ahead of anything else. Obviously, Excel has evolved consistent over the past quarter century, and although number crunching functionality is still at its core, the modern Office componen...

12 January 2011
09:07 GMT

Almost 16 Million Office 2010 Copies Sold in 6 Months

While it certainly doesn’t come close to Windows 7 in terms of uptake, Office 2010 is indeed enjoying its fair share of market success, having earned the crown of Microsoft’s fastest selling productivity suite to date. At the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft ...

7 January 2011
09:51 GMT


More: next 50 >>

WindowsGamesDriversMacLinuxScriptsMobileHandheldNews

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE   |   ROMANIAN FORUM