Everything you wanted to know about Office 2010

And still nothing has changed at the core. I'll stick with my Office 2000, thank you. I can load any Office 2k app faster on a mid 2000's era computer than anyone can open an Office 2k10 app from the faster SSD, guaranteed.

why do microsoft keep churnin out these newer versions?

i can only think of 2 answers:

1. the predecessors were useless and ineffective

2. they are hungry for your cash

can anyone add anything feasible to this list?

Well, Office 2k3 did introduce PST files greater than 2GB, and that was a welcome change. Besides that I agree with you, 2k3 was mostly a non event, and 2k7 was an event for just how much users hated it.

Office 2k7 introduced the ability to have more than 256 columns in Excel. That alone, for me, was well worth the upgrade. Of course, the new UI was an improvement too...if you had the ability and time to learn how to use it. I know a number of people who scorned the new UI at first but after learning how to use it found they could work much faster. I always found it weird that the UI didn't make it into Outlook 2k7 though.

If you have problems with Excel only allowing 256 columns then your design is fubar'd. Either you need to be splitting that into distinct workbooks or else using a real database.

I wasn't limited by the columns, but I did routinely need to have worksheets with more than 65535 rows.

In Office 2003, I had to script something to break my CSVs up which made reporting and pivot tabling difficult if not impossible.

In Office 2007, I can open up a 200,000 row CSV with no issues at all.

…but but but, can PowerPoint incorporate BOTH a landscape and portrait setting in the same slideshow yet? Or can users rearrange the Quick Access Toolbar by dragging the icons around instead of the retarded way of going into the Options/Customize area? I mean the brain fart of having a horizontal bar being re-arranged by a vertical selection was priceless. Oh can Excel finally show the page break, dotted lines FIRST instead of having to go into Preview to see where the margins are? Oh, yes Page Layout, but I want it in the NORMAL view at first.

While 2007 did add columns and rows, that feature has been around for quite awhile with 3rd party products.

Besides, when did a spreadsheet become a database? The lines are getting muddied. Notice the lack of promotion of Access for some reason.

I agree the 65535 rows was the biggest useful change.

I ran into the 65535 rows limit a fair amount when browsing through our billing csv files.

And yes... it's all in a sql database, all of our real processing is done there, but it's nice to be able to open large files in excel sometimes

Yeah life has only a few good pleasures, and watching 2Gb PowerPoint presentation is certainly one of them. Well at least Office 2k3 did something about the insomniac people.

All those "new features" that you people are talking about sound more like small patches on top of Office 2k.

And you paid for that...

And by the way the "free" web version will require Office installed and will only work with the fricking Internet Exploder. Ha.

PST stands for Personal Storage Table. It is used to hold email in Outlook. Prior versions of Outlook had PST files limited to 2GB. If you ever shoved more than 2GB of email in it, the file would become immediately inaccessable and only recoverable through a painful process. PST files created in Outlook 2003 has a limit of 20GB.

Many users have more than 2GB of email, and with corporations have legal requirements for holding onto email for a certain period of time, deleting email isn't always an option.

P.S. You don't happen to troll on Fatwallet.com under the name Celo do you?

People payed for MS Office? State the blindingly obvious answer to everyone again why don't you. Might want to tell them, they have to pay for Windows too! What a fiasco, users paying for software!

Guess you now know about PST files. That was the single most important and helpful change to come around. But then you wouldn't know that would you, it's not like you're in IT support.

You can use ANY browser you like, I often used FF for Exchange over the WWW.
I imagine they wouldn't have changed the style that they write in at all. That standard being for IE compatibility and that's why I said you can use any browser if it supports it.

Go back and read the details, you don't need a local copy of Office installed to use the WWW version. Any idiot would see that doesn't make sense, except for yourself I take it. You only need to own Office to use it and you must first verify that information with MS. If not, proceed to the counter and purchased access to use it...

It seems to me that its possible that this website that is showing all the features of office 2010 could just be 'leaking' it in the manner that beta's of windows 7 was 'leaked'.

@Minotaur
I believe when mycelo commented on people paying for it, they were saying that the improvements seem nothing more than patches.
If you patch up windows or even install a service pack, microsoft provide this free of charge as it is just fixing things or improving them. People dont pay for these improvements.