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GENERAL INFORMATION

Release June 2010

“Less” versions

 Starter

Home and Student

Home and Office

ProfessionalProfessional

Plus

Word x – limited x x x X

Excel x – limited x x x X

PowerPoint   x x x X

OneNote   x x x X

Outlook     x x X

Access       x X

Publisher       x X

Sharepoint Workspace         X

InfoPath         X

WEB BROWSER VERSIONSApplications Excel PowerPoint OneNote Word

Available through Business’ Microsoft SharePoint Server Windows Live

Available “later this year”

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6.5

OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESThe Ribbon Has made it to all applications Expanded and deeper functionality

Quicksteps

Paste Preview

Enhanced typography

OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESImproved photo video editing Photo

Effects Video

Trim Fades and transitions

OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESBackstage Replaces File menu and Office button Full screen options for

Opening Saving Permissions Printing Sharing

BACKSTAGE

BACKSTAGE

WORDImage background removal tool

Lots of new text effects

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EXCELLots of performance improvement and better statistical

calculations

PivotTables add dashboard for exploring results

More color coded results

Moderate

changes

POWERPOINTVideo editing within the application

Video borders

Show merging

New transitions, as always with a new version

Moderate

changes

OUTLOOKRibbon everywhere

Improved and powerful Conversation view

Cleanup Conversations

Social Connector can tie in to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr

Contact cards show up in lots of places

Groups of users with shared calendars

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ONENOTERibbon

Screen snipping allows copying to a section or just to the clipboard

Linked notes to any Office documents

Audio and video recording

Moderate

changes

PUBLISHERHuge benefits from the Ribbon

Moderate

changes

ACCESSWhat changes?

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