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March 2010 - Office 2010 Team Blog

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  • Make Informed Decisions On The Go With Excel Mobile 2010

    In our previous post entitled “ Mobility in Office 2010 ” we briefly described the office applications available on your phone that would keep you productive on the go. In this post we will deep dive into Excel Mobile 2010, which supports over 100 of the formula functions available in Microsoft Excel 2010. In addition, its support for creating and displaying all of the common chart types brings the visual experience on the phone closer to that on the desktop. In this post, we will see how Excel Mobile...
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  • Accessing your Office files from any computer with Windows Live SkyDrive

    Hello, my name is Rich Grutzmacher. I am a Program Manager on the User Experience team. As Clay wrote in his post , we created the Backstage view to provide a location for Office's OUT features (i.e., the things you do to the whole file, rather than the changes you make to the content within it). One of the new and exciting Backstage features in Office 2010 is the ability to save your files directly to Windows Live SkyDrive from within the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote desktop applications...

  • Office 2010 Assessment & Planning

    Today, over on the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Team Blog we announced the availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Beta. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an assessment and planning tool targeted at IT Professionals to help them begin the deployment process. The tool inventories your current environment and assesses the readiness of those computers for migration to the new technology, in this case Office 2010. MAP is an agentless...
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  • Lots of Office Team Blog Updates!

    It’s been a busy few weeks for many Office product team blogs so we wanted to take a step back and highlight some recent posts you might be interested in. Over on the SharePoint Team Blog Tim McConnell made a post discussing the core accessibility investments and design details incorporated into SharePoint 2010. His post Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 discusses the adoption of WCAG 2.0 with a AA goal, integrating ARIA, and delivering the most usable experience yet, in addition to touching on InfoPath...

  • Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access

    In a previous mobile blog post , we briefly introduced our supported mobility scenarios in Office 2010. Those mobility functions rely on support from SharePoint 2010 mobility. Today’s post describes how to setup your SharePoint server environment so you can take advantage of mobile access. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 includes support for using feature phones to access documents, lists, calendars on SharePoint 2010, performing people and document searches and receiving SMS alerts on SharePoint content...
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  • Get Office for Today or Tomorrow

    Today’s post is just a quick status update to keep everyone in the loop on the progress Office 2010 is making, as well as to provide finalized details for our Office 2010 Technology Guarantee. Starting today, consumers who purchase and activate Office 2007 will be able to download Office 2010 at no additional cost when it becomes available in June 2010. All you need to be eligible for this program – Office 2010 Technology Guarantee – is the following: Purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office...

  • Look Up Information From Your Phone

    A few weeks back we went through an overview of mobility scenarios in the post Mobility in Office 2010 . Today’s post describes how to search and look up information on SharePoint web sites with your mobile phones. There are various investments in SharePoint 2010 focused on enabling mobile experiences, including using Smartphones and feature phones to access documents, lists, calendars on SharePoint 2010, performing people and document searches, and receiving SMS alerts on SharePoint content. These...
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