Microsoft has offered a cut-down, ad-supported free Starter Edition of Office 2010 for quite a while now, but it has only been available pre-installed on netbooks and other low-spec PCs. At the moment, however, you can download the whole thing for free from Microsoft’s servers. More »
Dear Lifehacker, I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 installed on my PC but I have found that I’m not using anything more than Word and Excel. I’m wondering if there is a way to uninstall the applications I’m not using (Powerpoint, Access, OneNote and so on) without completely uninstalling the lot and doing a fresh install? Thanks, Office Clutter More »
First, a good taste warning: this post mentions Clippy, the irritating helper paperclip that Microsoft thankfully dumped from Office back in Office XP. If the mere mention of that digital excrescence doesn’t send you running to the hills screaming for gin, then you might want to check out Ribbon Hero 2, a game designed to teach migrating Office users how to use the Ribbon found in Office 2007 and Office 2010. More »
Windows 7 has been on sale since October 2009, and if you’re a dedicated geek you’ve probably been running it for 18 months or more at this point. But corporations move to a different and much slower drum, and 2011 is the year many will finally make the shift away from Windows XP and towards Windows 7. If you work in IT, what do you need to know about that process? More »
Upgraded to the 2010 version of Project and can’t find the familiar camera icon for converting Gantt charts into images? Tech blogger Nathan Gropman points out that it has been replaced with a ‘Copy Picture’ icon on the Task tab — a good example of how the Ribbon isn’t always intuitive. [Nathan Gropman]
PowerPoint 2010 offers a host of image cropping options, but where to find them isn’t always obvious. Office blogger Helen Bradley walks through image cropping in the latest version of Microsoft’s presentation application, including how to handle making images fill the available size. More »
Word 2010 is a capable word processor, but some of the default settings on a newly installed copy don’t make much sense. Here’s some recommendations to improve them. More »
Adding a scanned signature to a document is the easiest way to sign it. Tech blogger Helen Bradley explains how you can add your signature to the clip art collection in Word 2010, making access to your signature a simple search away. More »
Contemplating shifting to Office 2010 from an earlier version? Microsoft has just released a series of PDF format guides covering key differences in the latest product. For more help with that decision, check out our complete Office 2010 guide. [Microsoft]
