| | |  | Word Processing | Home » » » » Microsoft Word 2010 | | | | | | | Description: | | Microsoft Word 2010 offers the best of all worlds: enhanced features to create professional-quality documents, easier ways to work together with people, and almost-anywhere access to your files. Designed to give you the finest document-formatting tools, Word 2010 helps you organize and write your documents more efficiently. In addition, you can save documents online and access, edit, and share them from almost any Web browser.1 Your documents stay within reach so you can capture your best ideas whenever and wherever they occur. | | | Features: | |
• Microsoft Word 2010 offers enhanced features to create professional-quality documents.
• Easier ways to work together with people, and almost-anywhere access to your files
• Better illustrate your ideas with diagrams by turning bullet-point lists into compelling SmartArt graphics
• Apply new formatting effects to your text such as shadow, bevel, glow and reflection
• Add impact to your document with new picture-editing tools
• Capture and insert screenshots directly into your document
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| 0.12 pounds | | Package Length:
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| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 40 reviews |
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61 of 69 found the following review helpful:
 Acts Like Introductory Software Full of BugsDec 02, 2010
By D Burmie
If the title was stripped from the software and I was asked to do a blind test on it, testing it, I would be convinced after giving it a full run this was a newly introduced software from all of the unresponsive and quirky behavior I experienced. It actually fights against your actions: you can try, and I say try, to copy and paste somethings and it will not do it, or it will jump your cursor some other place. And one of the persons responsible for it has a control-issue as this person wants to shove his/her idea of the perfect font, calibri/cambria, onto everyone, every single time, at the line spacing he/she wants. Every time you open up a new document, the font is Cambria/Calibri and set at 11. So if you like times new roman or Arial and 12 points, you have to each time reset it, you can't just start typing. This is a major time-consuming irritation.
In addition, another programmer had a wicked streak by making every document start with 10 points after each line and multiple lines setting, so you have to go in an reset the line spacing EACH time to single spacing if you want it, and the worse of it is, you can't just do several changes at once---it will jump you out of each change, so you have to go back several times to change line spacing or font attributes, making this a Productivity Stripper.
Now if after my blind test, I saw this was a 2010 version of Word, I would say Microsoft has accomplished to take a workable program and put it backwards by 2010 steps. Meanness? Arrogance? Greed to spit out something new for an excuse to get people to buy more? Whatever, it is worth stomping on the box, and the disc if you get it only, and keep on using your older Word programs. The only people who would shell out after using it, might be those who created important documents to them in the new .docx extension and can't get it to open in their older word programs. That is another thing, Microsoft has created an extension that can only be opened by the new one, as maybe a marketing ploy to force people to buy this buggy program in order to open some document given to them by someone else they want to read. Word of the wise: just tell those folks to resave it in .doc instead of .docx and you can save yourself a lot of grief using this pretty-looking but impractical, aggravating "newer" version of Word.
60 of 71 found the following review helpful:
 It took me by surpriseJun 26, 2010
By Bill Haynes
I had tried the Beta version but uninstalled that and went back to Word 2002, which I swore by. I decided to try the final release and was pleasantly surprised. I am working on a brand new book, and now I can find reference material with one mouse click. I have had no headaches at all with this fresh release. I am not impressed with the upgraded "find" feature but other than that once you learn how to navigate it is smooth sailing. Even changing template size on a document was easier than before. If there is any drawback to this latest version it is the new file format. Most publishers still ask for doc. files, which means using compatibility mode or saving as a doc file. They do suggest not saving old doc files in the new mode and they are correct. The formatting is ruined when you try that. There are also some new features that you cannot use while working in compatibility mode. I am finding Word 2010 to be quite an improvement over all. Two things I will share from experience. You have to entirely remove the Beta version to install from CD. It is also best to open Word first and then select your old doc file. Sometimes when you just click on a doc file it will open in read-only mode.
24 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 This program is a downgrade.Dec 12, 2010
By Citris1
I find this program harder to use the Word 2007. The new "clean" design makes it take longer to identify buttons and to click on them.
41 of 49 found the following review helpful:
Buying this is a big mistakeOct 23, 2010
By Reader from Nebraska
It is worse than Vista. Tasks that should be quick and easy are an incredible chore. The use of my mouse to cut and paste has become a major hassle. Right now, I am trying to work with two Word documents at once. One is saved, and one is not--because I don't want to. I have to close out the first document to access the second. The whole program is poorly thought out. Don't waste your money.
42 of 51 found the following review helpful:
Worse than Vista, distroys productiviy, buggy, help is terrible.Oct 12, 2010
By x
Worse than Vista; productivity destroyer of the year. If you have never used Word before this product would still be terrible because of the poor help. If you already know how to use Word, this product throws away your experience. Your muscle memory of where to click doesn't work because most things are in different locations and are organized differently. I am spending hours searching for features that I know how to use in previous versions. The product has terrible bugs that lock you out of files. Converting to docx files (or not) as you choose is clumsy. The help screens are an advertisement for the search engine Bing. Too often I can't find where they hid a feature in their help system and have to go to Google and find the answer from Joe public.
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