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Individuals
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Office 10
simplifies the way people work by empowering individuals to put more of the
product to work for them and giving them greater control over the way Office
works.� Office 10 also empowers
individuals by providing new features that automatically save individual�s
work, so they can continue working if system or application errors occur. Key
innovations include:
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Smart Tags
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Smart Tags
appear on the screen while individuals work and provide useful information
for completing tasks or accessing data. Smart Tags can offer AutoCorrect,
AutoFormat, or Paste Options that give users control over automatic
functionality in Office and help them accomplish their work more quickly.
Smart Tags also can help individuals easily access information from the Web
or other Office applications. Smart Tags are built with an extensible
architecture, allowing any developer to customize them for a specific need.
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Speech Functionality
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Speech
functionality in Office 10 will enable dictation, command and control and
Text-to-speech capabilities in three principal languages: Japanese,
Simplified Chinese and English. Speech is available in all the Office
applications except Microsoft Office Designer.
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Task Panes
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New Task Panes
offer new views which contain a wide range of new and popular features that
help people easily identify and use more of the product.� Examples of feature sets contained in Task
Pane views include finding and creating documents, styles and formatting,
copying and pasting and new search and translation tools.
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Hotmail/MSN Instant Messenger
Integration
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New integration
with Web services like Hotmail Web-based email service and MSN Instant
Messenger enrich the communication options for Outlook users.
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Data Recovery Innovations
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With innovative
new document recovery features, Office documents are automatically recovered
if a file, application or system error occurs and individuals can easily
restart an application, open the recovered document and can continue working.
Individuals also now have the option to report specific problems directly to
Microsoft and receive personalized Web-based help on how to fix the problem.
Organizations will also have the option to automatically report errors to
support groups within their organization.
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Improving
Team Productivity
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Office 10 will
enable teams to work together more effectively by dramatically improving the
way people collaborate on documents and by providing tight integration with
an exciting new Web-based application for managing team projects, content and
activities.� Key innovations for
improving team productivity include:
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Document Review and Workflow
Process Improvements
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The
collaborative document creation and review process has been dramatically
improved, as individuals can now send documents for review directly from
individual applications and easily manage the workflow process of comparing
and merging multiple documents. Editing, accepting, and rejecting changes can
be easily managed through a new user interface. Documents reviewed by
multiple reviewers can also be easily merged into one complete document.
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Integration with Microsoft
SharePoint
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Microsoft
SharePoint is a new Microsoft application that will tightly integrate with
Office 10. Microsoft SharePoint is a rich, easy-to-create Web site that
improves the way teams manage information and activities. Using only a Web
browser, team members can create contact and task lists, event calendars,
libraries for storing documents, and surveys.� Teams can also have newsgroup discussions and be notified when
content on the site changes.
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Expanding
Solution Opportunities for Organizations
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Office 10 will
provide organizations with a rich platform for creating Web-based business
solutions that improve accessing and reporting of critical business data,
enable tight integration between Office and other applications, and with
tools to build collaboration and workflow applications that help teams work
together more effectively.� Key
innovations include:
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Native XML Support
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Excel and Access
now support XML as a file format and can easily import and export XML
data.� This enables organizations to
build solutions that integrate Excel or Access as a front end to XML based
data structures to improve corporate reporting and analysis.
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Office Designer
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This new visual
development tool can be used to rapidly create and customize Web-based
collaborative applications that teams can use to communicate and work
together more effectively. This new tool is included in Office 10 and targets
Exchange 2000�s Web Storage System.
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Local Web Storage System
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The Local Web
Storage System is a new technology based on the Web Storage System shipping
in Exchange 2000 and Tahoe. This technology enables Outlook users to work
with their personal Outlook information or Office Designer applications when
they are offline and synchronize automatically when they return to an online
environment.
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Subscriptions
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Office 10 will
introduce a new subscription offering that provides customers with a new
choice for purchasing and staying up to date with the latest versions of the
product.� For a lower upfront fee,
home and small business customers can purchase Office on an annual basis,
while receiving product upgrades at no additional expense during their
subscription. Customers will be able to purchase their subscription via a new
packaged product at retail stores in select worldwide regions when Office 10
becomes available toward the end of the first half of 2001.� Subscriptions can be renewed annually via
the telephone or over the Internet, or by purchasing a new subscription
product at retail stores.
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