Office Home and Business 2010 features and benefits

Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 has the tools you need to stay connected and productive — at home, the office, and on the road.

With powerful e-mail, scheduling, and task list tools in Outlook 2010 you can access virtually anywhere, you’ll always be in touch. With rich media editing and visual effects in Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010, you’re ready to create professional-looking reports and presentations that command attention. Manage finances smoothly with the data analysis tools the pros use in Excel 2010. And with OneNote 2010, you have a place to collect notes, research from the Web, documents, and other resources to organize projects for home and work.

• Ready-to-use templates in Excel 2010 help you jump right in to create a business budget or track personal expenses.
• Gain insight from your data quickly with Sparklines, Slicers, and other powerful analysis tools.
• Visualize your information with colorful 3-D charts and graphs you can create in just a few clicks.

• With OneNote 2010, you have a convenient spot to organize your important resources, from meeting notes and customer information to home remodeling plans.
• Create a OneNote notebook to collect a full spectrum of materials and media: documents, text, videos, audio, Web page clippings, and more.
• Find exactly what you need with simple tagging and search functions.
• Make Internet research more efficient with Quick Filing to save information from Web pages and other resources to your notebook with just a click.

• Transform your ideas into memorable presentations in PowerPoint 2010 using a range of media, from high-quality video to audio and photos.
• Take full creative control with easy-to-use photo-and video-editing features and dramatic visual effects.
• Easily broadcast your presentation to customers across town or across the globe.

• From business reports to family newsletters, Word 2010 gets you up and creating quickly with ready-to-use templates for almost any project.
• Add visual interest to your text with dramatic effects like shadow, reflection, and 3-D.
• Choose from an impressive array of customizable SmartArt® graphics that help you highlight important messages in just a few clicks.

• Outlook 2010 gives you e-mail, calendar, and task list tools that work together, helping you stay connected to your people and projects more efficiently.
• Manage e-mail from multiple accounts all in one inbox, so you never miss a message.
• Add appointments to everyone’s calendar with a click using the Group Scheduling function.
• Exchange e-mail with your team and customers even when you’re away from the office using Outlook Mobile 2010 on your smartphone.*

• Office Web Apps work with Office programs to help you access and share your documents flexibly, whether you’re at home, the office or on the road.
• Save your Office files directly to the Web using Windows Live SkyDrive, which lets you access them from almost any Web browser.
• Edit and review your reports or presentations online with Web Apps that give you the Office application experience you expect virtually anywhere you are.
• Share your documents online to make working together with customers and coworkers more efficient.*

* An appropriate device, Internet connection, and supported Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari browser are required. Some mobile functionality requires Office Mobile 2010, which is not included in Office 2010 applications, suites, or Web Apps. There are some differences between the features of the Office Web Apps, Office Mobile 2010, and the Office 2010 applications.

Top 10 reasons to try Office Home and Business 2010

Edit pictures from within in 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 2010 or PowerPoint 2010.

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 Home and Business 2010, then posting them online to access, view, and edit with Office Web Apps from virtually anywhere you have Internet access.*

Find the features you need fast and personalize your work experience.

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.

Manage customer information more efficiently in OneNote.

Create a digital notebook in OneNote 2010 to capture and share all your information — from text and images to video and audio — in a single location, and use shared notebooks to work more effectively with others. Place OneNote to the side of your screen to have it constantly available for note-taking or references while researching on the Web through Internet Explorer, reviewing a document in Word 2010 or creating a PowerPoint 2010 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.

Analyze finances at home and work in Excel with improved features.

Use Sparklines in Excel 2010 to create mini-charts that make it easy to highlight trends in expenses at a glance, Slicers to dynamically segment and filter PivotTable data to display precisely what you need, and improved Conditional Formatting to highlight specific items in your data set with just a few clicks.

Track and manage e-mail conversations easily in Outlook.

Save time and take control of your e-mail with Conversation View in Outlook 2010, a feature that lets you condense, categorize, and even ignore lengthy e-mail exchanges with a single click.

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.

Customize your e-mail to speed up communication in Outlook.

Use Quick Steps in Outlook 2010 to create and save custom multi-step tasks that you can execute with a single click, including: reply with a meeting request, move to a specific folder, create a new e-mail to a group list, and more.

Make presentations from virtually anywhere in PowerPoint.

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

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 and SmartArt graphics to make intuitive, dynamic charts and graphs.

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