office 2010 - your views?

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_Jimlad_

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Hey all, picked up a work copy today and just installed, it looks and feels a lot faster on boot up and general use, i see there is a 64bit flavour, was that the case prior to this version?

however i only use the basic excel and word in general, so be interested to see how others find it?
 
I was only using 2007 for a short while before I upgraded.
Opening the apps is a little faster than 2007 and much faster than 2003.

I'm struggling to get used to the ribbon, but I'm getting there.

I wasn't aware of a 64bit & 32bit version of 2007, but I'm using the 64bit 2010 on Windows 7 x64 and I've not looked back yet
 
yeah seems great, fail to see how either 2007 and 2010 can be fully used by all users in a company sense, some of the old girls struggle with 2003 :D
 
I actually find it a little slower to open than 2003, but its a complete non-issue. Any add-ins slow the launch down by a lot.

The package itself is brilliant and Publisher is now part of Office Standard which is even better.
 
new features over 2007 and 2003 for that matter, that 99.9% of us will never use... Am keen to see the performance increase on the 64bit , and as for the OP no, 2007 was only ever 32-bit..
 
used it for a week now on my office comp, does not do anything office 2003 can do (anyhting that I use anyway) jsut runs a bit slower...
 
All: I Love the new syle print preview system much slicker than the old style.



Excel: Like how I can filter field from the menu quicker instaed of having to goto Text Filters then Begins with...

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PDF creation, had some issues with this being very poor on Excel 20007 with complicated sheets, anyone know if it's getting better?

Outlook: How it previews my calnder in the email that invites me to a meeting, very useful everyone loves that feature the most here.

Still on Excahnge 2003 atm so not really using it to its full potential, exchange 2010 soon *crosses fingers*


Keen to get cracking on what Project, Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint have to offer over 2007.
 
One of the Outlook features is centralized archiving. Again you need Exchange 2010 for this. Basically instead of archiving to a users computer [where said archive can go missing and be a pain to restore if it wanders off or user changes machine] it actually creates a second mailbox and archives the emails there.

Obviously this makes your Exchange larger, but to be honest I would rather have a bit less free diskspace than the headache of making sure everyone keeps their archive.pst safe! Can't wait to try it out - just need to convince someone to upgrade :p
 
been using Office 2010 since mid-april, and the Beta before that.

my impression has been extremely positive - the applications open lightning-quick and native x64 execution is always appreciated.

where Excel 2007 would choke down and simply refuse to open with some of the extremely large datasets i was working with, Excel 2010 worked like a trooper and allowed full access to the data... even if it did take a while :D
 
Looking forwards to getting some hands-on time with this, all the training I've been doing for work has peaked my curiosity. I like how they've started integrating outlook into social networks to make it more "home user" friendly. Can anyone explain what the ribbon actually is?
 
Devrij said:
Can anyone explain what the ribbon actually is?
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The main feature of the "ribbon" is that it is context-sensitive i.e. it changes its content depending on what you are doing/what you have selected at that particular moment. So for example, if you select a clipart image the picture tools will populate the ribbon.

Some people don't like it, but I find it far more organised and I have discovered things that I didn't know were there in 2003 purely through using the ribbon.
 
Muffin` said:
Still on Excahnge 2003 atm so not really using it to its full potential, exchange 2010 soon *crosses fingers*
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Did you have to do anything to get Outlook 2010 working with Exchange 2003? I tried 2010 a few weeks ago and found that I couldn't send any emails. Eventually tracked it down to needing a registry key changing on the server but as it's a corporate server the bods who run Exchange wouldn't make the change.
 
I haven't had an issue connecting to Exchange 2003 on my company server - though I connect via Outlook Anywhere - don't know if that makes a difference.

What registry key needed changing?
 
Really enjoying it - been using it since beta. It's interesting how they've utilised what used to be third-party plugins (such as facebook integration, etc.) the one thing I really like in Outlook is the contacts - well to be more precise the map button! As daft as it sounds I find this really useful.



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