Last month I started looking into the new features of Office 2010, starting with Microsoft Word 2010. This month I’m going to take a look at Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Let’s start by taking a look at just a few of the new features and improvements in Excel 2010.
New templates save you time by letting choose from a format that contains common fields.
A new feature called Slicer lets you filter and drill-down so you can more easily find the specific information you need.
Sparklines is a new charting feature that allows you to create charges and graphs in a single cell, giving you a quick way to spot trends and patterns.
The Backstage view improves on the File menu from previous versions, allowing multiple ways to save, share, and even publish your spreadsheets to SharePoint.
The PowerPivot for Excel add-in helps you model and analyze large amounts of data. With this, you can combine data from multiple sources, including databases, other spreadsheets, and so on.
Excel 2010 offers improved performance by taking advantage of 64-bit processing and multithreading.
All in all, the visual features of Excel are better looking, more powerful, and more easily integrated, and Excel 2010 makes it easier than ever to access your data, by using Excel Web App or Excel Mobile 2010.
Posted Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 at 1:28 pm by peterl
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