Office+2010+Overview

=Office 2010 Overview=

Office 2010 replaces the traditional menus of commands with a tool ribbon. The ribbon replaces and expands the toolbar concept of Office 2003. In addition, there are multiple tabs that allow you to access different ribbons. Each ribbon is divided into sections. As an example, the Home ribbon of Word 2010 has these sections: Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, and Editing. The tabs are the equivalents of menus in 2003 and the ribbons with their sections are the equivalents of menu commands. Many menu commands will be found in the same ribbon as they were in Office 2003, especially in the Insert ribbon.

The ribbons can be customized like the toolbars of Office 2003 to place commonly used commands in easy access of the user. In addition, contextual ribbons will appear as needed as you are working on a document. As an example, if you insert a drawing or table, a drawing or table tab will appear with the formatting commands in the ribbon needed to modify drawing or table.

The file extension for Office 2010 is also different than 2003. Office 2003 used three letter extensions for files: .doc for Word, .xls for Excel, and .ppt for PowerPoint. Office 2010 uses four letter extensions:.docx for Word, .xlsx for Excel, and .pptx for PowerPoint. This change in file extensions makes it very easy to tell which 2003 documents have been converted to Office 2010. Because Office 2010 has some new features, 2003 files open in compatibility mode. If you you want to convert a document to 2010, use the File tab and Info command to convert it to the 2010 format.

=Office Tools= Publisher 2010

=Google Cloud= Google Cloud Connect is a ribbon that you can add to Office that allows you to easily send an Office document to Google Docs where collaboration and sharing can take place. To install Google Connect go to this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect?hl=en. If you do install Google Cloud Connect, I would strongly suggest that you change the sync setting from Automatic to Manual.