Office Home and Student 2010 features and benefits

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 gives you the essential tools you need to complete school and household projects efficiently.

Ready-to-use templates in Word and PowerPoint 2010 equip students to create outstanding schoolwork, with rich visual effects and media-editing features that help them express their ideas creatively. Excel 2010 gives you the spreadsheet tools the pros use to simplify working with data, from tracking expenses to creating a household budget. And there’s OneNote 2010 for household projects, a catch-all spot for organizing notes, files, and resources in one easy-to-access place.

• Build a budget and track expenses right out of the box with ready-to-use templates in Excel 2010.
• Get insights from your data more quickly with easy-to-use analysis tools like Sparklines and Conditional Formatting.
• Visualize your budget instantly with colorful charts and graphs that are a breeze to create.

• Create a OneNote 2010 notebook to organize resources for any project, from a home remodel to a major purchase decision.
• Collect a full spectrum of materials and media in one easy-to-access place: documents, text, videos, audio, screen clippings, and more.
• Find exactly the piece of information you need with simple tagging and search functions.
• Make Internet research more efficient with Linked Note Taking to save Web pages and other online resources to your notebook with just a click.

• Create professional-looking documents, from school reports to family newsletters with built-in design templates in Word 2010.
• Communicate your ideas visually with dozens of customizable SmartArt® graphics.
• Make title pages and headings more dynamic with effects like glow, reflect, and shadow you can apply directly to text.
• Locate the page or section you need easily with the improved Navigation Pane.

• Add eye-catching visual effects and a range of media to class presentations—from video to audio and photos—with PowerPoint 2010.
• Make slides more memorable with photo-editing features that let you crop, colorize, and add texture to your images.
• Insert and edit videos right in your presentation and add stunning creative effects with the video editor.
• Add a professional touch with broadcast-quality slide transitions.
• Share presentations with classmates online using Broadcast Slide Show.*

• Create documents and then easily upload them to the Web using Windows Live SkyDrive, and access them from most any Web browser.
• Access your documents even when you’re away from home with Office Web Apps.
• Edit your report, newsletter, or presentation online with Office Web Apps that give you the Office experience you expect.
• Share your online documents with others to make working together with classmates and family members easier.

* An appropriate device, Internet connection, and Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari browser are required. There are some differences between the features of the Office Web Apps and the Office 2010 applications.

Top 10 reasons to try Office Home and Student 2010

Easy-to-use features in Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010 help you to work efficiently whether you’re tackling homework or the household budget.

Edit photos from within your documents.

Enhance the visual impact of your documents or presentations with easy-to-use Picture Editing tools that let you crop, control brightness and contrast, sharpen or soften and add artistic visual effects without leaving Word or PowerPoint 2010.

Put your presentation in motion with PowerPoint.

Edit videos right in PowerPoint 2010, breaking longer clips down into shorter segments or reducing file size to make your presentation portable, then dial up the visual impact by adjusting color, adding new video effects and incorporating new dynamic slide transitions and animations.

Access, edit, and share from virtually anywhere with Office Web Apps.

Get things done when you’re away from the office, home, or school by creating documents in Office 2010, then posting them online to access, view, and edit with Office Web Apps from virtually anywhere you have Internet access.*

Organize all of your information in a single place in OneNote.

Create a digital notebook in OneNote 2010 to capture and share text, images, video, audio — all your thoughts, ideas and important information in a single, easy-to-access location.

Make presentations from virtually anywhere in PowerPoint.

Broadcast your PowerPoint 2010 presentation through a Web browser to an audience of one or 100 — even if they don’t have PowerPoint — with Broadcast Slide Show.

Navigate and organize your documents more easily in Word.

Find the information you need faster and more easily in Word 2010 with a summary of search results that gives you one-click access to what you’re looking for, and an improved Navigation Pane that provides a visual outline of your documents to browse, sort, and find what you need quickly.

Add dimension to data with charts, graphs, and SmartArt® graphics.

Illustrate your ideas with compelling visuals in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint 2010 by using improved charting tools to make intuitive, dynamic charts and graphs, and SmartArt graphics.

Go to the source from your notes in OneNote.

Place OneNote to the side of your screen to have it constantly available for note-taking or references while researching on the Web through Windows Internet Explorer, reviewing a document in Word or creating a PowerPoint slide. When you need to remember where your ideas came from, the Linked Notes feature enables you to jump right to the source of your information with just a click.

Find the features you need fast and personalize your Ribbon.

The new Microsoft Office Backstage™ view lets you save, share, print and publish your documents with just a few clicks, and an improved Ribbon lets you access your favorite commands quickly and customize or create tabs to personalize the experience to your work style.

Analyze information quickly in Excel with improved features.

Use Sparklines in Excel 2010 to create small charts that make it easy to highlight trends in data at a glance, and improved Conditional Formatting to highlight specific items in your data set with just a few clicks.

*An appropriate device, Internet connection, and Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari browser are required. There are some differences between the features of the Office Web Apps and the Office 2010 applications.

System Requirements

¹ 2 GHz processor or faster and 1 GB RAM or more recommended for OneNote Audio Search. Close-talking microphone required. Audio Search not available in all languages.

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