The latest version of Microsoft’s Office was released to the world last month. Should you upgrade? Should you care? We’ll help your nonprofit or public library determine what’s new with the new Office and why there may be some compelling reasons to make the switch.
In this free webinar co-hosted by TechSoup and Microsoft, Elliot Harmon from TechSoup, author of What Your Organization Should Know About Office 2010, will be joined by a Microsoft expert to highlight some of the new features of the Office suite. We’ll review new features like Web Apps for improved online collaboration, the Social Connector tool to bridge your Outlook to social media tools, as well as improvements to built-in image and video-editing features throughout the suite. In addition, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of upgrading at your organization, compatibility with older versions of the Office suite, and how you can go about upgrading your donation through TechSoup or Microsoft Software Assurance.
Markus’ demo of web apps: Maybe show Excel or OneNote since Elliot’s screenshots focus on Word. Maybe show how to save a doc directly to SkyDrive Show how to change permissions on a doc Demo photo/video-editing Social connector to Facebook & LinkedIn
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From the outset, a key design criterion for Office 2010 was to minimize the need for additional system resources. A comparison of the system requirements for recent Office versions is shown in the following table. *All display requirements for Office 2010 are designed to allow for good performance on both portable and desktop computers. Office 2010 will not run on Windows 98. Office 2010 requires at least Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later. 64-bit Windows XP not supported. When upgrading from Microsoft Office 2007 to the 2010 release you should not need to upgrade your hardware, although you might need to upgrade to a supported operating system. When upgrading from Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, or Office XP to the 2010 release you will have to make sure that your hardware and operating system meet the minimum 2010 Microsoft Office system requirements. We highly recommend that you evaluate your computer before you install 2010 Microsoft Office system products to verify your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements. Processor and RAM requirements for Office 2010 are the same as for the 2007 Office system. Therefore, if your computer meets the 2007 Office system requirements, you can run Office 2010. The recommended hard disk space has increased with Office 2010 because of new features, Office-wide ribbon implementation, and in some cases different applications that are included in the Office suites. For example, Microsoft Office Professional 2010 includes OneNote, whereas Microsoft Office Professional 2007 did not. Also, the system requirements are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB to be conservative. For example, if we measure an application’s required hard disk space to be 1.99 GB, our recommendation will be 2.5 GB. Our hard disk system requirements are intentionally larger than the actual disk space usage of the software
Can I open previous versions of Office files in Office 2010? Yes. Files created in previous versions of Office can be opened using the Office 2010 version of the applications. Supported files vary by product. Can I open Office 2010 files using previous versions of Office? Yes, Office 2010 files can be opened within Office 2007. If you have Office 2000, XP, or 2003, you will need to download the free Compatibility Pack . However, new features and formatting capabilities found in the new version might be lost when saving to or opening from previous versions of the software.