Office 2010 Beta Available Now 2

[TonyJollans]

For those of you interested, the public Beta of Office 2010 was announced at PDC yesterday.

I suspect the servers will be pretty busy, but it is available here.

I'll let you read the hype for yourselves. The big visible change is that the Ribbon is everywhere, along with a new 'backstage' area behind a "File" tab on the Ribbon, which replaces the Office button. There are also some improvements to things that didn't really work fully in 2007 - the new graphics and charting in particular.

Of course there are some new bits and pieces, some of which you will like and some of which you won't. The biggest changes, really, come in the area of collaborative working and integration with various clouds - it all seems a bit nebulous to me but Microsoft seem to think that's the way the corporate world is moving (and they may be right).

There are security changes (aren't there always?) - you will receive security prompts for more files than you did (particularly those from the internet), but individual documents can now be trusted so that once you have said you trust a particular document, you don't have to keep on saying so every time you open it.

VBA moves to version 7 but the significant changes are all to do with 64-bit versions and the only thing you may see on 32-bit versions is the new Type of LongPtr, which is almost the same as a Long (on 32-bit versions).

Finally, Microsoft have made significant efforts to improve performance, and it seems to have paid off.

Anyway, take a look for yourselves, and enjoy!

Enjoy,
Tony

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[kjv1611]

individual documents can now be trusted so that once you have said you trust a particular document, you don't have to keep on saying so every time you open it.

THAT sounds like a life saver to me.

I NEED to test this out, sounds great from your post. Maybe I'll get time next week.

Thanks for reminding me - I had already forgotten since reading about it just yesterday.

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[SkipVought]

Tony,

Thanks for the VALUABLE heads up and brief review.

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

 

[strongm]

Wonderful - we can customize the ribbon and even add macros without having to resort to 3rd party add-ins or Visual Studio ...