Ultimate List of Free Microsoft Office 2010 Software & Resources

 

Trial Versions of Microsoft Office 2010: 

 

DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 – Client, Web & Mobile 

• • Download –> Office Professional Plus 2010 

What’s Included:

• Access 
• Communicator
• Excel
• InfoPath
• OneNote 
• Outlook 
• PowerPoint 
• Publisher 
• SharePoint Workspace
• Word  

• “Click-to Run” Download –> Office Home & Business 2010
• Download –> Office 2010 Web Apps are online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. 
• Download –> Office Mobile 2010 brings the powerful Office 2010 tools you use every day at work, home, or school, to the screen of your Windows phone with rich interfaces especially designed for small devices.
• Office 2010 End-User Resources – product documentation including: an overview, product guide, getting started, & new features. (Available in DOCX, PDF & XPS Format).
• Office 2010 IT Professional Getting Started Guides provides an overview of the Office 2010 suites and information about how to get started with Office 2010.  (Available in DOC, PDF & XPS Format).
• Office 2010 IT Professional User Readiness Resources help prepare business for the deployment of Office 2010 along with posters, flyers, and weekly e-mail templates to get end-users excited.
• Office 2010: Product Guides provides an overview of what’s new in each Office program and a deeper look at benefits across all Office 2010 programs.
   
• Getting Started with Office 2010 provides an overview of the Office 2010 suites and information about how to get started with Office 2010.
• Operations Guide for Office 2010 provides information about how to maintain and manage an installation of Office 2010.
• Planning Guide for Office 2010 provides planning information for migration and upgrading from previous versions of Office, as well as planning for virtualization and Remote Desktop Services.

 

ACCESS 2010:

 

• Access 2010 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components installs a set of components that can be used by non-Office applications to read data from and write data to 2010 Office system files such as Access 2010 (mdb and accdb) files and Excel 2010 (xls, xlsx, and xlsb) files.
• Access Database Engine 2010 install a set of components that can be used by non-Office applications to read data from Office 2010 files.

• Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable installs a set of components that can be used to facilitate transfer of data between 2010 Microsoft Office System files and non-Microsoft Office applications.

• Access 2010 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2010 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2010 installed on their computers.

• Access 2010 Source Code Control makes it easy to deploy and manage solutions built using Access.

 

EXCEL 2010:

 

• Analytics for Twitter allows users to query Twitter (i.e. Tweeters, #hashtags, @mentions & keywords) and get dashboard views on Twitter statistics inside Excel.

• Building VBA Applications & Workbooks for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 – Code Samples & White Paper

• Calendar Analytics Add-in Tool allows you to connect to your Microsoft Exchange Calendar to get dashboard views on meeting statistics from inside Excel 2010.

• Cloud Data Analytics add-in enables users to execute a variety of data-centric tasks on Windows Azure through a custom Ribbon in Excel. This add-in can be used to connect to data stored in the Windows Azure cloud and can be extended to connect to a variety of other data sources.

• DataMarket Add-In allows discovering and importing data from Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket into Microsoft Office Excel.   

• eBay Plug-in easily manage thousands of eBay listings from your desktop.

• Excel Games – Missile Command & Tower Defense (Support: MSDN How it’s made.)

• Excel 2010 Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC) – Microsoft’s Excel Team felt the ability to directly resize or reposition points on a chart had deprecated since Excel 2003.  For example, in Excel 2003 double-clicking on a data point in a column chart would reveal surface handles that could be used to resize the columns, or visually smooth the curves. (From: MSDN)

• Fuzzy Lookup Add-In performs fuzzy matching of textual data in Excel.
  

• Migrating to Microsoft Excel 2010 document contains information to consider when you plan a migration to Excel 2010 from an earlier version of Excel.

• NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration Template for Excel displays a network graph using edge and vertex lists stored in an Excel workbook.

• OLAP PivotTable Extensions add-in extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. It also adds some new features like searching cubes, configuring default settings, and filtering to a list in your clipboard.
  

• PowerPivot for Excel 2010, is a data analysis add-in that delivers unmatched computational power directly within Excel 2010. PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions. (Support: PowerPivot Help File, PowerPivot Sample Data, PowerPivot Business Intelligence Samples)

• Research Biology Extension provides a simple, flexible way to work with genomic sequences, metadata, and interval data in an Excel workbook by exposing the features and functions of the Microsoft Biology Foundation.

• Web App on SkyDrive allows developers to quickly create rich and interactive data mashups.

• WorldWide Telescope (WWT) Add-in Excel enables users to visualize location-based data, with latitude/longitude or right ascension/declination, in WWT. This is achieved by sending data from Excel to WWT with the use of loosely coupled application-programming interfaces exposed by WWT.

 

ONENOTE 2010:

• • Calendar/Planner Powertoy creates a custom calendar, by selecting a start date and # of days.
  • Canvas for OneNote allows you to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content. The prototype lets you zoom and pan around; view and organize content in new ways; add new pages right where you want them; and even locate pages in a timeline view.
  • Linked Note Taking Extension for Firefox.
  • Text Importer – imports all the text files in a folder into a new section.  It was designed to help folks move from “piles of TXT files” into OneNote quickly.  (From MSDN)
  • Sort Sections PowerToy – Sort OneNote sections with a *click*
  • Word Count counts the number of words on a page

 

OUTLOOK 2010: 

• • AddPST allows you to add PST services (PST files) to a given e-mail profile. You can add either new or existing PST files to the profile. The file will be created at the specified file location.  (Support: Article ID 2000021)
  • AntySpam Plug-in “looks-up” incoming email IP Addresses against DNS Black List Server (Anti-Spam List Servers).
  • Bing Travel Planner Add-in  makes finding the lowest fare faster and easier because it’s available anytime in Outlook. Just by clicking the Bing Travel button in the Add-Ins menu, or right-clicking in your calendar, you’ll have access to Bing Travel’s decision making tools and all your favorite online travel agencies and airlines.
  • Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 provides contact management, sales, marketing and project management for the small business or small team.

Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Database Tool allows administrators to host Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta database on a computer on which Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta are not installed. 

 

Business Contact Manager Language Packs (32-bit & 64-bit)

 

• Calendar Checking Tool checks the Outlook Calendar and items for problems or for potential problems.

• Calendar Printing Assistant

• Conferencing Add-in adds the “Meet Now” button within Outlook to create ad hoc meetings for Office Live Meetings (From TechNet)
• Controlled Vocabulary Add-on restricts people to a defined set of subject prefixes so the audience can filter them better to avoid unstructured email.
• DelPST allows you remove services (PST files) from a given email profile. It is possible to remove all ANSI files, all UNICODE PST files, or all files of both types.  This tool cannot be used to remove individually specified .pst files from a profile.  (Support: Article ID 2000021)
• Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) checks your outgoing emails for keywords that indicate you’ve forgotten to attach an attachment. If it detects this, it notifies you and gives you a chance to correct any mistakes.
• GetPST allows you retrieve information about the existing services (PST files) in a given e-mail profile. It is possible to retrieve information about all ANSI PST files, all UNICODE PST files, or both file types.   (Support: Article ID 2000021)
• Junk E-mail Reporting Tool Add-in lets users report junk e-mail to Microsoft for analysis, allowing for targeted reduction in volume and impact of junk e-mail messages.
• Notebook Cleaner & Privatizer PowerToy prepares a “shared” notebook for distribution.
• NoReplyAll Add-In prevents people from replying to all the recipients of your message or forwarding it, as well as checking for common email errors, such as omitting attachments or subject lines.
• Outlook Social Connector (64-bit Edition) – provides you with more ways to connect and stay up-to-date with friends and colleagues. (For Developers: Outlook Social Connector 1.1 Provider Reference)

1. Facebook Social Connector allows you to connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues. You can see status updates and recently posted items from your Facebook contacts.
2. LinkedIn Social Connector – brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
3. MySpace Social Connector – enables you to view activity updates for friends and colleagues in the People Pane, synchronize your MySpace contact list to your Outlook contacts, and get one-click access to profiles.
4. Socialwok Outlook Connector helps businesses share and collaborate within Microsoft Outlook 2010 supporting Google Apps & Gmail. (From MS Singapore)
5. Windows Live Messenger Connector displays a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an email from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to help you easily track your communications.
6. XING  Business Networking: Find jobs, companies, contacts, experts, and more.

• • Office Outlook Connector (32-bit & 64-bit) – access and manage your Hotmail or Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free from within Outlook 2010. (Support: MSDN)
  • OutSync syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Outlook.
  • PST Data Structure View Tool is a graphical tool to browse the internal data structures of a PST file.
  • SharePoint Connector makes it easier to upload emails to SP or attach SP documents to an email message.
  • Time Zone Data Update Tool (32-bit & 64-bit) – adjusts calendar items when there has been a change in time zone definitions (saved in Windows) or if the user is making a permanent move to another time zone.

  • ToneCheck identifies and flags emotionally charged sentences within email messages. ToneCheck installs quickly and easily into Outlook.

  • TwinBox integrates sending & receiving messages directly to Twitter (From TechNet, Support: How to Twitter Using TwInbox in Outlook)
  • VDialer is a CodePlex add-in that allows you to initiate a Vonage call directly from the Outlook contact list or contact item. Just select the contact you want to call and your phone will start ringing – as soon as you pick up the phone call is placed.
  • Voice Access Quick Start Guide
  • XML Schema Reference contains reference documentation to guide you in developing solutions based on the XML schemas used in Outlook 2010.
     

POWERPOINT 2010: 

• • Deploying Broadcast Slide Show – Broadcast Slide Show is a new capability in Microsoft Office 2010 that enables presenters to broadcast a slide show from PowerPoint 2010 to remote viewers who watch in a Web browser. Broadcast Slide Show provides companies with a low-infrastructure presentation broadcast capability that works through the Web.
  • Giving a Presentation – Useful for people doing presentations, this application hides desktop icons, disables screensaver, closes chosen programs when presentation starts, etc. and restores settings when presentation ends.
  • Mouse Mischief allows teachers to work with Office PowerPoint to make interactive presentations. With Mouse Mischief, teachers can add multiple choice questions to their presentations, and large groups of students can answer the questions using mice connected to the teachers PC.
  • PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
  • pptPlex tour slides as a zoomable canvas tour.
  • Presentation Companion 1.0 [Beta] works with Office PowerPoint Mobile to control a PowerPoint presentation on your laptop, as well as view speaker notes on your Windows phone as you control the presentation.
  • Presentation Companion (64-bit version) allows using a Windows Phone to control a PowerPoint presentation on your laptop.
  • Producer for PowerPoint is used to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser.

  • STAMP, the Subtitling Add-In lets you add closed captions to the video and audio files in your PowerPoint presentations, so no one misses a word of what you have to say.
    

 

PROJECT 2010:

 

Download –> Project Professional 2010 (32-bit & 64-bit) – Project Professional 2010 gives you powerful, visually enhanced ways to successfully manage and deliver a wide range of projects. Easier and more intuitive, Project Professional 2010 provides flexible choices to simplify planning, collaboration and resource management.

• Customized Favorites Tabs that can be imported into Project 2010.

• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit (SDK) is a release helps solution providers, value-added resellers, and other developers learn about new features in the Project Server 2010 platform, and how to extend and integrate Project Server 2010 with other applications for enterprise project management (EPM). It features conceptual and “How to” articles, sample code, and programming references for the Project 2010 clients and Project Server 2010.

 

VISIO 2010:

Visio Premium 2010 takes diagramming to a new level with dynamic, data-driven visualization tools and templates, enhanced process management capabilities, and advanced Web sharing. Bring real-time data together from multiple sources, including Excel and Microsoft SQL Server, in one powerful diagram using vibrant graphics like icons and data bars.

 

• Baseball Scorecard diagram prints scorecards for recording during the game.  You can also customize the diagrams by pre-filling in text boxes or using Shape Data to change the fields.

• Course Development CFF template for course development using Cross-Functional Flowchart (CFF). This template diagram illustrates the course development flow from start to finish.
  

• Customized Favorites Tabs that can be imported into Visio 2010
  

• Disk Space Monitoring provides a graphical view of free space available in the server machines on a network. This add-in has a client and a server component.

• Exchange Server 2007 makes it easy for Exchange administrators to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Instead of viewing single user data, administrators can create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data at a glance and dramatically increase productivity.

• Flowchart Converter converts AutoShapes, text boxes, figures, Clip Art illustrations, graphs, tables, SmartArt graphics, and more in Excel worksheets, PowerPoint slides, and/or Word pages for use in Visio drawings.

• Lync Server 2010 Visio Stencil provides over 125 shapes to help you create a visual presentation of your Lync Server architecture.

• Process Improvement Template is an example of how a group might model, track, and manage the process around how different parts or functions of an organization participate in a process to serve a specific customer need.
  

• Rack Server Virtualization uses various new features of Visio 2010 to display the details of servers, racks and colors present in the Data Center. This add-in provides the consolidation of physical servers by allowing many virtual servers to run concurrently on one physical server resulting in the improvement of system utilization, reduction in number of physical servers, lowering costs, increasing flexibility etc.

• Rack Server Virtualization Template is based on Microsoft Visio 2010 Add-in for Rack Server Virtualization (above), which uses various new features of Visio 2010 to display the details of servers, racks and colors present in the data center.
  

• Visio shapes for SharePoint Server, Project Server, Search Server, and Office posters zip file of Visio stencils to create your own diagrams for models of server deployments.

• SharePoint Network Topology Add-In provides a pictorial representation of SharePoint 2010 Farm, its servers and their services.

• System Center Add-in provides a comprehensive list of alerts from System Center Operations Manager 2007 and system information, user group information & patch information from System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in a single consolidated view.

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Add-in combines the strengths of two applications widely used in enterprise IT to simplify the creation of customized dashboards that show the health of an environment.

• U.S. Weather Conditions templates and the data file utilize Microsoft’s mash-up demo using the “Link Data to Shapes” and “Data Graphics” capabilities in Visio Professional 2010 to bind our USA map and weather detail diagrams to value changes in the public MSN weather data source. Right from the Visio client you can publish to a SharePoint site, and with minor JavaScript coding, established the interaction between the two webparts, whereby clicking an individual state shape in one diagram updates the detailed weather information in the other diagram.

• VisioAutomation is a .NET Library that simplifies automating Visio from .NET languages such as C#, F#, IronPython and a set of tools that use that library.

• Visio 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Visio 2010 (Beta).
  
• Visio 2010 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, or 2010) inside their Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.

• Work Breakdown Structure Modeler 2.0 (WBS Modeler)  is intended to improve the project planning process by giving the opportunity to generate Project Plans from a work break down structure using a graphical representation of elements. A WBS structure is a hierarchical representation of the elements and sub-elements in a project.

Visio Stenclis, Diagrams & Templates 

 

• Australian State Stencils
• Exchange Server 2007 Stencils
• Exchange Server 2010 Stencils
• Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Stencils & Icons
• Geographic Map Shapes
• Office Communications Server 2007 Stencils
• Server Deployment Stencils for IT Professionals
• Software & Database Shapes for creating Express-G, ORM, Jackson, and ROOM notation diagrams.

• Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams template for an application architecture pivot diagram.
• Audit Process Diagram Template illustrates a typical process diagram for an audit.
• Change of Address BPMN (Business Process Model & Notation) Template
• Data Center Template illustrates a typical IT diagram for data center.
• Enterprise Server Design Template illustrates a typical IT diagram for enterprise server design.
• Event Planner Template illustrates a typical process diagram for a event planner.
• Fault Tree Analysis Template allows you to detect information systems failure at the real-time.
• Help Desk Flow Template maps out the help desk flow process and customers call data.
• Improving SOX Compliance Template illustrates an example for improving SOX compliance using Microsoft Visio 2010.
• IT Asset Management Template provides an example of how to use Visio to monitor status relating to deployment, configuration, and usage of different IT hardware assets, such as workstations, web servers, and database servers.
• Network Sample Diagram Template illustrates a network sample diagram for IT infrastructure.
• Office Comics Template diagram includes the customized shapes and stencil the author uses to create new versions of the recurring comic.
• Organization Chart Template maps out the organization chart for human resources.
• Portfolio Management Template provides an example of how to use Visio to map out the portfolio management for business process.
• Resources Availability Report Template maps out the resource availability report for IT infrastructure.
• Responsibility Assignment Matrix Template illustrates a typical responsibility assignment matrix for project management .
• Space Planning Template maps out the space planning for facility management.
• Space Planning with Asset Data Template helps to organize the space in the office by incorporate individual employee information.
• Supply Chain System Template helps to manage manufacturing supply chain, includes resource information from various locations.
• Value Stream Map Template helps to analyze and improve the flow of materials and information required to get the product and service to the customers.
• Visimation Network Diagram Template illustrates network trouble shooting for information technology.

 

WORD 2010: 

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    AutoHistory provides a local history for documents by automaically creating backups on every save.  You can view and restore each version you’ve ever saved.

  • Chem4Word – Chemistry Add-in tool for the authoring and rendering of semantically rich chemistry information in Word documents.

  • Medical Article Authoring Add-in enables authors & editors to save Word files in the National Library of Medicine’s Document Type Definitions format used for publishing & archiving articles & books.

  • MediaWiki Add-in saves documents from Word straight into MediaWiki.

  • Ontology Recognition Add-in “solution accelerator” works in two ways: background scanning & direct tagging.

  • Save as DAISY converts Word Open XML files to the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) format. DAISY powers digital talking books and compatible software and Braille readers for people with print disabilities or limited vision.
    

  • Word to XAML Converter Add-in application to converts the Office Open XML (WordprocessingML) to XAML.  (From MSDN)

 

OFFICE 2010 TOOLS: 

• Barcode Fonts allows you to create 3 different types of barcodes with Word and Excel. Barcodes supported includes Code 39 barcode, Industrial 2of5 barcode and Postnet.

• Docs for Facebook – discover, create, and share Office documents with your Facebook friends.

• Getting Started Screensaver – Quick tips to help get you up to speed on Office 2010; offering links to more detailed articles and videos when you return to your desktop.

• Interactive Command Reference provides a useful mapping between features and commands in Office 2003, and then shows you where those commands are found in the Ribbon.

• Language Interface Pack for Office 2010 provides a user interface for:

Excel 2010
Outlook 2010
PowerPoint 2010
Word 2010

 

• Mathematics Add-In for Word & OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.
• Office Live Meeting 2007 Client allows you to connect to online meetings (whether hosted on your organization’s servers or on the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service). [From TechNet]
• Office ScreenTip Language (32-bit & 64-bit) language and help users navigate Microsoft Office applications installed in a language they do not understand.
• Ribbon Hero is a game for Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge.  Play games (aka “challenges”), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office.

• Search Commands help you quickly find commands in Office 2010

• ScreenTip Language shows test translations of display elements – such as buttons, menus and dialog boxes – in another language.

• Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool includes updated Group Policy Administrative Template files and Office Customization Tool OPA files for use with Office 2010 applications. It also includes an Admin folder with an updated Office Customization Tool, and ADMX, ADML, and ADM versions of Office 2010 system Administrative Template files for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
• Office 2010 Jingle Ringtone  (From MSDN)
• Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack contains an executable file that will extract and install KMS (Key Management Service) host license files. These license files are required for the KMS host service to recognize Office 2010 KMS host keys. It will also prompt you to enter your Office 2010 KMS host key and activate that key.
• Office 2010 Menu to Ribbon Reference Workbooks – Find the new locations of Office 2003 commands in Office 2010. Each Excel workbook contains tables that list the old menu commands and show where in Office 2010 those commands are located.
• Office 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guides – are visual, interactive reference guides to help find commonly used commands in Office 2010.  These guides are a simulation of the old menu versions of Office.  Click a command in the guide to learn its new location in Office 2010. 

1. Access 2010
2. Excel 2010 
3. InfoPath 2010
4. OneNote 2010
5. Outlook 2010 
6. PowerPoint 2010
7. Project 2010
8. Publisher 2010
9. Visio 2010
10. Word 2010

• • Office 2010 Filter Packs is a single point-of-distribution for Office IFilters. IFilters are components that allow search services to index content of specific file types, letting you search for content in those files. They are intended for use with Microsoft Search Services (Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Windows Search).

The Filter Pack includes:

 

• • Legacy Office Filter (97-2003; .doc, .ppt, .xls)
  • Metro Office Filter (2007; .docx, .pptx, .xlsx)
  • Zip Filter
  • OneNote filter
  • Visio Filter
  • Publisher Filter
  • Open Document Format Filter

• • Office 2010 Resource Kit Technical Library as a Compiled Help (CHM) File.
  • Veer Images Add-in for Office 2010 – Direct access to the entire photography and illustration collection at Veer while working within Word and PowerPoint.

 

OFFICE 2010 DEPLOYMENT RESOURCES: 

• • 64-bit Client Installation of Office 2010 describes and illustrates the 64-bit client installation of Office 2010. Elements include setup overview, processes, requirements, deployment considerations, and supported scenarios.
  • Deployment Guide for Office 2010 covers information about the fundamentals of Deploying Office 2010.
  • Deployment Options for Office 2010 – describes and illustrates the client deployment methods for Office 2010. Deployment options include network share, Group Policy startup scripts, managed deployment, and virtualization.
  • Deploy Multilanguage Packs for Office 2010 – describes and illustrates how to deploy multilanguage packs for Office 2010. Elements include evaluation criteria, planning considerations, and deployment tasks.
  • Deploy Office Web Apps – Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote applications that allows users to access documents from anywhere. Users can view, share, and work on documents with others online across personal computers, mobile phones, and the Web.
  • Group Policy Settings Reference for Microsoft Office 2010 provides information about the new and removed Group Policy settings and Office Customization Tool (OCT) settings for Office 2010.
  • How to enable Office Professional Plus 2010 to run on a terminal server.  is article describes how MSDN and TechNet Subscription customers can enable Office Professional Plus 2010 to run on a terminal server.
  • Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments.  (Document: MAP 5.0 Sample Assessments)
  • Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is required for sequencing and deploying Office 2010 client products with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V). This kit includes the components required for Office license activation. This product must be installed on the App-V sequencing station prior to monitoring the Office 2010 client installation.
  • OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) for Office 2010 is a set of tools, documentation, and product files that assist licensed original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in preloading Office 2010 and PC Essentials on new computers for distribution to end users.
  • Office Environment Assessment Tool is a comprehensive environment scanning tool. This tool (along with documentation) assists a customer in the assessment phase of deployment.
  • Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) 2010 is a group of tools designed to help administrators during the planning and testing phases of a Microsoft Office 2010 deployment.
  • Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack – Key Management Service (KMS) is a local volume activation method for volume licensing editions of Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications, Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010 require activation.
  • Volume Activation describes and illustrates how to manage Office 2010 Volume Activation methods: Multiple Activation Key (MAK) and Key Management System (KMS).
  • White Paper: Deploying Office 2010 at Microsoft – How Microsoft IT deployed Office 2010 to more than 100,000 computers by using Microsoft deployment technologies.

 

OFFICE 2010 DEVELOPER REFERENCE:

 

• • Compatibility Inspector compares existing (legacy) code against the Office 2010 object model by using a text search for known properties and methods that have changed. You can run the tool against specific projects. You also have the option to mark those areas in the code where text search has identified a possible object model match.
  • Excel 2010 SDK: Excel 2010 XLL Software Development Kit exposes all relevant Excel 2010 functionality to XLL add-in developers, and introduces two new “power UDF” capabilities – Asynchronous user-defined functions (UDF), and HPC function remoting.
  • Icons Gallery – adds two groups to the Office Backstage view with icon galleries of built-in icons available for reuse in your solutions.
  • Language Portal for Office 2010 includes localized terminology, download style guides, find pointers & provide feedback.
  • InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates is designed to help you build InfoPath form templates that contain business logic written in Visual Basic or Visual C#.
  • Office 2010 Developer Training Kit provides developers with collateral to get started quickly developing for Office 2010.
  • Office 2010: Developer References contains updated HxS builds for the following developer Help content:

– Combined Office 2010 Developer References
– Access 2010 Developer Reference
– Excel 2010 Developer Reference
– Outlook 2010 Developer Reference
– PowerPoint 2010 Developer Reference
– Project 2010 Developer Reference
– Publisher 2010 Developer Reference
– Visio 2010 Automation Reference
– Visio 2010 ShapeSheet Reference
– Word 2010 Developer Reference

• • Office 2010 File Formats Documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary file formats.
  • Office 2010 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers contains files that list the control IDs for built-in controls in all applications that use the Office Fluent user interface.
  • Office 2010 Help Files: Win32API_PtrSafe with 64-bit Support – Windows API Declarations and Constants for Visual Basic provides declarations for Microsoft Visual Basic programmers who want to call Windows API routines.
  • Office 2010 Protocol Documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in Office client programs to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products.
  • Office 2010 Reference: Office Fluent User Interface XML Schema contains reference documentation for the Office 2010 XML schema as well as the Ribbon extensibility schema, customUI.xsd.
  • Office 2010 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers.
  • Office 2010 Schema: Fluent User Interface Schema.
  • Outlook PST File Format SDK is a cross platform C++ library for reading .pst files that can be incorporated into solutions that run on top of the .pst file format.  (PDF / ZIP)

Wave 14 Office 2010 Video Demos:

 

• • Office 2010 Overview
  • Office Mobile
  • Office Web Apps
  • Excel 2010
  • OneNote 2010
  • PowerPoint 2010
  • Word 2010 

 

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 TEAM BLOGS:

 

• • Office Deployment Support
  • Office 2010 Engineering  
  • Office Global Experience Team Blog  
  • Office for Mac
  • Office Resource Kit
  • Office Sustained Engineering
  • Office Web Apps Team  

 

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 APPLICATION BLOGS:

 

• • Access Team Blog  
  • Excel & Excel Services Team Blog  
  • InfoPath Team Blog  
  • Natural Language Team Blog  
  • OneNote  
  • Open XML  
  • Outlook Team Blog  
  • PowerPoint Team Blog  
  • Project Administration
  • Project Team Blog  
  • Publisher Team Blog  
  • Share Point Designer
  • SharePoint Workspace Team Blog  
  • Visio Team Blog  
  • Word Team Blog 

 

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 NEWSGROUP FORUMS:

 

• • Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview
  • Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
  • Microsoft Office 2010 Key Management Service (KMS) and Multiple Activation Key (MAK) Volume Activation
  • Microsoft Office 2010 Document & Application Compatibility
  • Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business (Click-To-Run)
    
  • Access 2010
  • Excel 2010
  • OneNote 2010
  • Outlook 2010
  • PowerPoint 2010
  • Word 2010