Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010 Comparison to Previous Versions

MICROSOFT OFFICE HOME AND STUDENT 2010 VERSION COMPARISON
Success starts at home with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010, programs that work together smoothly to help you accelerate homework and household tasks.

ADD IMPACT, ENERGY, AND EFFICIENCY TO EVERY PROJECT
Easy-to-use design tools, customizable templates, color schemes, font styles, and analysis tools in Microsoft Office 2010 applications help you create persuasive presentations, memorable documents, and outstanding class projects.
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KEY:   = Feature included  = New or improved in Office Home and Student 2007  = New or improved in Office Home and Student 2010

Features	Office Student & Teacher 2003	Office Home & Student 2007	Office Home & Student 2010
New and Improved! Picture-Editing Tools Edit photos without using additional photo-editing programs. Make adjustments to your images using Color Saturation, Color Tone, Recolor, Sharpen and Soften, and Brightness and Contrast. Add an artistic flair with effects such as photocopy, marker, line drawing, glass, pastels, and more. Or, use the crop and remove background features to display exactly what you want to show for every picture.
Improved! Text Effects Add formatting effects such as shadows, reflections, and bevels directly to document text as easily as applying bold or underline. You can still spell-check text that uses text effects or even add text effects to character, paragraph, list, or table styles.
Improved! Customizable Ribbon The enhanced Ribbon is available across Office 2010 applications so you can access more commands quickly. Customize or create your own tabs on the Ribbon to personalize the Office 2010 experience to your work style.
New! Backstage View Get easy, organized access to tools that were previously spread across several locations. For example, all print options, including Print Preview, are now combined on one effortless Print tab. Find commonly accessed commands when opening or finishing a document, such as creating, opening, and saving files; defining document properties; and sharing your content.
Improved! Additional SmartArt Graphics Create professional-quality diagrams as easily as typing a bulleted list. Office 2010 adds dozens of additional SmartArt layouts for even more choices to help you display your important information most effectively.
New! Insert Screenshots Take screenshots in your other open windows directly from Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. Or, select from a gallery of available screenshots automatically populated by your open windows.
New! Preview Paste Options Preview various Paste Options using Paste with Live Preview, and determine how your content will look before actually pasting.
New! Recover Unsaved Versions of Your Office 2010 Documents Accidentally close a file without saving? No problem. Office 2010 applications let you recover draft versions as easily as opening any file. And, for previously saved files, you can view up to five AutoSaved versions of your files as you work, right from Backstage View.
New! 64-Bit Support for Office 2010 Take advantage of the 64-bit version of Office 2010. Excel 2010 64-bit, for example, harnesses the power of 64-bit machines to create and manage even bigger, more complex spreadsheets.
New! Excel Sparklines Get a visual summary of data using tiny charts that fit within a single  cell near its corresponding values.
New! Excel Slicer Quickly and intuitively drill down into large amounts of data using new Slicer functionality, and enhance your PivotTable and PivotChart visual analysis by filtering large sets of data.
Improved! Excel Conditional Formatting New options let you quickly visualize and comprehend data. Find more styles, icons, and data bar options as well as gradient fills with borders and solid fills to make it easier to add more visibility to your values.
New! Excel Equation Editor Create and display math equations with a rich set of equation-editing tools.
Improved! Excel Charting performance Improved performance and increased charting limits allow more data points in a series.
New! PowerPoint Embed Videos from Your Files Videos that you insert from your files are now embedded by default so you don’t have to manage additional files when sharing with others.
New! PowerPoint Video Editing and Formatting Edit and format embedded videos right from within PowerPoint. Trim your video; add bookmarks to key points in the video, and then trigger animation to begin when bookmarks are reached; set a preview image for your video using the Poster Frame feature; add fades; or, apply video styles and effects that are retained while the video plays.
New! PowerPoint Audio Editing Edit embedded audio files right from within PowerPoint. Trim audio, add bookmarks, and apply fades.
New! PowerPoint Insert Video from Web Site Insert videos that you have uploaded to a Web site into your presentation.
Improved! PowerPoint Slide Transitions Captivate audiences with exciting special effects, such as high-quality 3-D effects, that look just like graphics you’d see on TV.
Improved! PowerPoint Animations Bring presentations to life by adding realistic motion to stationary objects. Using PowerPoint 2010, it’s easier than ever to access and customize your animations.
New! PowerPoint Animation Painter Format multiple animations as you would use the Format Painter tool to format text and objects.
New! PowerPoint Presentation Sections Easily organize and navigate through your slides by dividing your presentation into logical sections.
Improved! Word Navigation Pane The improved Navigation Pane (formerly called the Document Map) transforms the document navigation experience, enabling you to browse your document by headings or reorganize document contents with a simple click and drag.
New and Improved! Word Find Experience Search for text or browse objects directly from the improved Navigation Pane. See all results easily with automatic highlighting, or browse a summary of results in the new Search Results pane and just click to access any individual result.
New! Word OpenType Typography Add a new level of sophistication to your documents by using typography features available in many OpenType fonts, including stylistic sets, ligatures, number forms and number spacing, and OpenType kerning.

ORGANIZE AND SEARCH YOUR NOTES AND INFORMATION
OneNote 2010 gives you the ultimate place to store and share your thoughts, ideas, and information. Capture text, images, video and audio notes, along with copies of content that you create in other programs. Create and manage multiple notebooks easily with a host of tools designed for easy organization and quick access to your content.
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Features	Office Student & Teacher 2003	Office Home & Student 2007	Office Home & Student 2010
OneNote Digital Notebook Capture notes and information from various sources (for example, typed text, audio and video recordings, digitally handwritten notes, diagrams, web clippings or research, computer files) on the same page.
New! Linked Notes Take notes while working in a Word 2010 document, a PowerPoint® 2010 presentation, or in Internet Explorer. Notes link automatically to the page you’re working on in the other application.
New! Dock to Desktop Dock OneNote to your desktop to easily take notes while working in other applications.
Improved! Notebook Navigation Bar An improved notebook navigation bar offers the tools you need to easily organize and jump between your notebooks.
Improved! Search Navigation Improved search shows you results as you type, and a new ranking system learns from past choices, prioritizing notes, pages, page titles, and recent picks so you can get to your information faster and easier.
Improved! Page Tabs Create multilevel subpages, collapse subpages, and even drag and drop to create subpages. Additionally, a floating New Page icon enables you to create a new page exactly where you want it.
New! Quick Filing OneNote 2010 helps save you time by eliminating the need to organize information after the fact. With quick filing, you can easily pick a notebook to send your notes to as you insert them from multiple sources, including documents, web pages, and email messages.
New! Format Painter The feature you know from other Microsoft Office applications is now available for your notes. Just click on Format Painter to copy the formatting of selected text, and then click into another paragraph to apply your formatting.
New! Automatic Text Wrapping Access notes more easily while working in narrow window spaces, such as when using the new Dock-to- Desktop view. OneNote 2010 automatically displays your notes wrapped to the window width.
New! Ribbon New to OneNote 2010, the Ribbon replaces traditional menus and toolbars. A fresh, highly visual layout of the commands, grouped logically in tabs, helps you find the features you need fast. The new Ribbon is also customizable to meet your personal work style.
New! Backstage The Backstage View replaces the traditional File menu to let you share, print, and publish your notes with just a few clicks.

WORK TOGETHER MORE EFFECTIVELY

Communication and sharing are essential elements for any collaborative project. And when it comes to working with others, you want to focus on the task as opposed to the processes. Office 2010 provides new and enhanced features to help you work better together on your projects and more efficiently share your work with others. They’re simple and hassle-free so you can get your work done with less effort and better results.
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Features	Office Student & Teacher 2003	Office Home & Student 2007	Office Home & Student 2010
Improved! OneNote Shared Notebooks Working with others in a shared notebook is now even easier and more flexible with automatic highlighting of unread changes, related features such as Find by Author, and more. Additionally, when you store your shared notebook online, you can simultaneously edit that notebook along with others using both OneNote 2010 and OneNote Web App.
Improved! OneNote See What’s New New content is highlighted when working with multiple users on a shared notebook. Highlighting provides you with a distinct view of new changes since you last opened the shared notebook.
New! OneNote Find by Author Improve teamwork and simplify working with others by instantly seeing who added new information in a shared notebook.
New! OneNote Page Versions OneNote preserves earlier versions of each page as different people make changes. If someone changes content inadvertently, you can view the change history and undo changes at any time.
Improved! OneNote Wiki Linking With wiki linking, you can easily reference and browse through related content such as note pages, sections, and section groups within a notebook. Generate links to new content so everyone using the same notebook is automatically pointed to the right place.
New! PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show Instantly broadcast your slides to a remote audience who can view your presentation online even if they don’t have PowerPoint installed on their computer.
New! PowerPoint Create Video Share a high-quality version of your presentation with virtually anyone by making a video of that presentation.
New! PowerPoint Co-authoring Work with other people editing the same presentation, at the same time with Windows Live.
Improved! PowerPoint Record Slide Show UUse powerful recording functions to record narration, laser pointers, and animation timings for playback during your slide show.
New! Word Co-authoring Work with other people editing the same document, at the same time with Windows Live.
Improved! Create PDF or XPS Quickly create and share a PDF (Portable Document Format) or XPS (XML Paper Specification) version of your document, spreadsheet, presentation, form, or publication. These file formats preserve document formatting and enable file sharing. When the PDF or XPS format file is viewed online or printed, it retains the format that you intended and data in the file cannot be easily changed.

GET THINGS DONE WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT
If your ideas, deadlines, and emergencies don’t always occur at convenient times, you no longer have to wait. Microsoft Office 2010, together with Windows Live SkyDrive and Office Mobile 2010, gives you the freedom and power to get things done when and where you need to. Create documents using Office 2010 applications, and easily post them online to SkyDrive. Access and share your work conveniently from a web browser, and edit using Office Web Apps.
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Features	Office Student & Teacher 2003	Office Home & Student 2007	Office Home & Student 2010
New! Access Your Documents on the Web View, edit, and share documents right in a web browser. Use the Office Web Apps to extend your Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote experience to the web for high-fidelity viewing and lightweight editing in the familiar Office interface. You can also work together with others on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and notebooks — even if you’re using different versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote on your PC or Mac.

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