First Look: Microsoft Office 2010

FirstLook: Microsoft Office 2010 covers changes in Office 2010 and showsyou how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way youwork today. If you have downloaded the Office 2010, here is the bookfrom Microsoft that covers Office 2010 in detail.

FirstLook: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chaptersof early content, organized like so:

PartI, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes inOffice 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the newfeatures to fit the way you work today. Chapter 1, “Welcome toOffice 2010,” gives you a play-by-play introduction to newfeatures; Chapter 2, “Express Yourself Effectively andEfficiently,” details the great feature enhancements and visualeffects throughout the applications; and Chapter 3, “Work Anywherewith Office 2010,” explores the flexibility factor by presenting aset of scenarios that enable users to complete their work no matterwhere their path takes them.

PartII, “Hit the Ground Running,” focuses on each of the Office 2010applications in turn, spotlighting the key new features and showinghow they relate to the whole. These chapters provide a how-to guidefor many of the top features you’re likely to use right off thebat, and they offer inspiring ideas on how to get the most from yourfavorite applications.

PartIII, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big pictureand provides examples to help you think through interoperability. Howoften do you use the various Office applications together? Customerresearch shows that people often don’t realize how well theapplications work together as a complete system—which means theymight be laboring over items they could easily incorporate fromsomewhere else. This part of the book provides examples forintegrating the applications and explores Office 2010 security andtraining opportunities, as well.