Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Is Available

[brad jones]

You might be asking the question, "What more could Microsoft add or change in Microsoft Office?" If so, then now is your chance to find out with the new beta of Microsoft Office 2010.

Download the Office 2010 Beta from Here

Because I'm talking about Office already, let me do a free plug for Microsoft...

Do you use OneNote? If so, no reason to read on! If not, then do you attend a lot of meetings or attend conferences? Do go to classes? If so, you should check out OneNote. It is a great tool for organizing notes (hence the name) and other information into one place. It is like having a slate of paper where you can type, write, draw, record audio, and more. You can even highlight, flag areas, and otherwise mark up your notes too. If you've never tried it, then that is just one more reason to take a look at the Office 2010 beta. It is your chance to check out OneNote!



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[abhijit]

Brad,
I downloaded the Office Beta a couple of months back. Is this a different beta than the one I have?

[NeedSomeAnswers]

You might be asking the question, "What more could Microsoft add or change in Microsoft Office?"

Remove that stupid ribbon control and put all the menus back so i actually know how to get to all the options again !

[chris128]

Brad,
I downloaded the Office Beta a couple of months back. Is this a different beta than the one I have?

I think its the same BETA, I got it a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure it wasnt BETA 2 or anything.

[RobDog888]

No beta 2 yet. Not even in the MSDN subscription downloads.

[techgnome]

well... the ribbon has been re-arranged.... your menus are gone... and I doubt they are coming back.

-tg

[JuggaloBrotha]

Brad, you're just now posting about Office 2010 beta? I registered and dled 7 or 8 weeks ago...

[Nightwalker83]

If I install the Office 2010 Beta on my pc or laptop will it stuff up my current install of Office 2003/2007?

[JuggaloBrotha]

If I install the Office 2010 Beta on my pc or laptop will it stuff up my current install of Office 2003/2007?

As long as you click 'Customize' and check the 'Keep previous versions' checkbox, it will wipe out Office 2003/2007.

[RobDog888]

You can only have one version of Outlook installed.

[Nightwalker83]

You can only have one version of Outlook installed.

I might try it on my Win Pro laptop since the laptop didn't come with Office Outlook 2007 installed but has all the other general office programs. Although, my laptop did come with Live Mail installed.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

well... the ribbon has been re-arranged.... your menus are gone... and I doubt they are coming back.

I know, that was just a bit of a rant, it is not change i object to just badly thought out change. I don't even hate the ribbon i just wish they could have made it work more for power users.

Is Office 2010 any good then, as i have Office 2007 and i really don't like Word 2007.

In fact i don't really have a problem with the other programs it just Word which if anything has got more difficult to use and to find anything. (well i might have a problem with Access but fortunately i don't have to use it so i don't know)

[chris128]

I quite like it - it seems like they have actually addressed more issues than they did between 2003 - 2007. One example being when you work on a document from Sharepoint in Word, when you click Save it saves it asynchronously so you dont have to wait for 30 seconds before you can carry on working (for anyone wondering why it takes that long normally, I access our sharepoint site over a slow VPN)

[RobDog888]

2010 is great but you guys know Im biased

@chris, maybe ms was just helping us have a small break from slave driving employers and now we have less reasons to be waiting.

[brad jones]

Brad, you're just now posting about Office 2010 beta? I registered and dled 7 or 8 weeks ago...

I"m not sure what spurred me to post on this now. I'm not sure if the beta was just extended to be more public, or what.....

That was a week+ ago, and I've slept since then....

Next week I'll post about Visual Studio 2010 going into beta, then the Office 2010 note won't seem so off....



Brad!

[JuggaloBrotha]

I"m not sure what spurred me to post on this now. I'm not sure if the beta was just extended to be more public, or what.....

That was a week+ ago, and I've slept since then....

Next week I'll post about Visual Studio 2010 going into beta, then the Office 2010 note won't seem so off....



Brad!

hehe, that'd be great, be sure to post about VS 2010 Beta 1

[brad jones]

hehe, that'd be great, be sure to post about VS 2010 Beta 1

Exactly