In the West, not much new

In the West, not much new

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 (DVD-ROM)

Customer Review

The new Office 2010 version has the version number 14 and is the successor of version 12. Number 13 was omitted deliberately, for obvious reasons. On board are Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, a program for electronic notes.

First, it is striking that the installation takes much longer, even under a modern processor and 4GB of RAM, as the previous version. Soon it becomes clear why: be installed one month valid trial versions of MS Access and MS Publisher, and Outlook of 2010.

Users who have installed Office 2007 version do - like me - a crucial mistake when the primarily offered "upgrade" - click option. Then not only Word 2010, Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 is installed together with OneNote 2010, but also the old Outlook replaced by a however only 1 month valid trial version of Outlook 2010 2007.
Now upgrade of mail programs are always tricky, especially if you have accumulated several thousand mails. Downgrades are Reborn. Although the program can uninstall easily and reinstall Outlook 2007 without any problems again, but then the program reports before every start that the data file was created with a newer version. So if you do not want to click away permanently this message that needs to create a new profile - it all under command, the existence, probably fallen into oblivion settings and account details.

Another unpleasant innovation is reflected in the following: In Windows 7, the preview is no longer available. The program announces that due to an error in the Office preview the file can not be displayed. Is a workaround, though every week tens of MB of data to be shoveled onto the hard disk, not in sight - the only way to use the function is to run the program in Windows XP compatibility mode, which, however, the program, the beautiful Aero View robbed. This error is certainly unpleasant, if you have stored more specifically related files and a certain look for - for the flagship the word processing market more than strange.

Not quite durchblickt I have the header functions - if you do not even want to start a new page a new section, it is - especially when different has designed even and odd pages, often at a presentation of the old header on the new section or even on all odd or even pages that follow. In this point, the work with the control character oriented WordPerfect program was simple - because you could find and remove the corresponding control characters.

Really weird but it is when you try to open very old Word files. Over the years, numerous files have different versions of Word (ranging from 2.0 in the early nineties, about 6.0 - Interestingly, there was never versions 3.4 and 5 - to Word 97) accumulated. If you want to open all old files, ie those created with Word 2.0, the program displays an error message and verwiest to a Knowledge Base article. Even after repeated attempts to release these files to the security settings according to the instructions in this article, the opening of the files was not always possible, however. I am well aware that when you open documents created with other difficulties, but that the most widely used word processor on the market, own, though 20-year-old data is no longer read, seems so, as if you were a once acquired language again completely unlearn. For the leader among word processors simply unacceptable.

In all programs the big Office button has been replaced by "Start" - a bit of a way back to Office 2003 and earlier. In itself not a bad idea, but again getting used to if you've worked with Office 2007 - now it closes in a hasty action equal to the whole program.

Were installed numerous online features to store about the files on Skydrive - well, for the one who's needs. The average user is still reluctant to share a file from his computer hand.

The understood by Microsoft as a competitor to Adobe's PDF XPS is supported - but it does not look as if the format would prevail in the market. PDF is too dominant. The programs can also save PDFs, but not change - this special software is required. When saving PDFs but one should not forget that to choose among options available ISO 19005 format, since some programs do not cope with younger PDFs. Fortunately, you are returned to the old "Save" and no longer "Publish" in Office 2007 when converting to PDF again, which seems much more plausible.

It was striking to me that Word and Excel need much longer to start than the previous versions. Outlook no longer on board, which is a shame - hardly anyone will be ready to the amount of 150, for a few new features - Spending for the mail program.

Truly pioneering innovations there's not - productivity gains while working are not expected. Microsoft is apparently strayed after years of fruitless attempts it again to implement a dictation - that would really be a further step forward was.

The main innovations are noticed only when importing and designing graphics - here was really improved. Here corrections with Sharpen, Blur, 3D effects, etc. are possible now. Now it's also possible to compress images - how well the feature is then when printing, I could not test.

Too difficult, because connected with a lot of "fine-tuning" is still creating illustration directories and tables of contents - here much ergonomics was given away. As has been several versions not fundamentally changed. The Auto Format Options or the Apply formatting to specific sections does not always harmless.

Little changes, visit Excel - you can now create charts for individual lines - well, who needs it. Again, we find throughout the new "Backstage" area, which has replaced the huge Office Button.

Not by looking, I have to mind, rather than the default to install 32-bit, 64-bit - to install version. Allegedly go not more macros from previous versions.

With PowerPoint I do not work, so I can not report on it. In OneNote me no changes are ever noticed.

All in all: a mixed Presentation - 3 stars.

TOP !!!! 33 Rank: 5/5
December 12
used in RTL-SDR Rank: 4/5
November 29
A little disappointed 72 1 Rank: 2/5
October 29
Functional but ... 4 Rank: 3/5
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