The quintessential productivity suite for college students Microsoft Office 2010Professional Academic is a special version of the popular productivity suite specially developed for university and college students and sold at a very attractive price.Though it’s a special version for students, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic is not crippled in any way. It includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, InfoPath, SharePoint, Communicator and Publisher – a complete suite of apps to make your daily homework, assignments and papers much easier.As regards appearance, all the programs in Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic keep theribbon interface– in a clear, almost minimalist style – but the Office button now gives you access to a totally different panel. It includes direct access to all document-related tasks, and also shows detailed information about the document you're currently working on.Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic has pretty much the same features we have seen in other versions of the suite. The context menu inWord, for example, has been greatly improved, and lets you see changes in real time as you browse through the different options. You can now add videos to yourPowerPointpresentations, remove redundant messages from conversations inOutlookand insert small color charts insideExcelspreadsheets. There are also tools to translate text, take and use screenshots, and apply special effects to the images you use in your documents.Regarding performance, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic seems to be fast and light on system resources. There's a significant improvement in the time the suite apps take to launch, and how they behave when working on your documents.In all, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic is an excellent productivity suite with great new features that make it easier and more comfortable to use. Microsoft Office's innovations also turn it into an even more professional solution for daily homework and university papers.Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Academic lets you fully test the new, long-awaited version of the world's most popular productivity suite.Microsoft Office supports the following formatsDOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, MDB, ACCDB, PUB, RTF, TXT, HTM, JPG, PNG, TIF, EMF, WMF, XML, WRI, ODT, ODP, ODS, WMV, AVI, PDFNotesIn order to buy Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010 you must have a valid e-mail address at an educational institution ending with the domain suffix .EDU (i.e., leina@contoso.edu) OR have a valid email address at one of the educational institutions listedhere.You must also be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010 includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, InfoPath, SharePoint, Communicator and Publisher ProsEnhanced design in the 'ribbon' interfaceExcellent new version of OutlookNice built-in image editing toolsSupport for videos in PowerPoint and mini-charts in ExcelImproved performance and usability Cons None worth mentioning
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