Working over a PC that does not have PowerPoint installed and you have to open an important presentation ? PowerPoint viewer brings the solution for such instances. PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions with full fidelity without even installing PowerPoint from the Office Suite. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer.

Text selection via F8 key gives a different, unique way to select the text in a data. It encompasses multiple behaviors based on the number of keystrokes. Pressing it once would take you into this special selection behavior. Doing it for second time would select one complete word, third time would select the whole sentence, fourth time, it would select the whole paragraph, and the fifth time it would select the whole document.

Microsoft Excel 2010 comes with another handy feature which is used to wrap text in long lines. However, this feature was present earlier as well, but with Office 2010, Microsoft has made this feature into ribbon and much more easily accessible.

Wrap text features makes all content visible in a cell by displaying it on multiple lines. Instead of pressing Alt+enter to move to next line every time, a single click do the trick.

Bloggers can use Office 2010 to directly make a blog post to their Blog. Using Word 2010 blogging is as easy as creating a simple document in  Word.  To create & publish a blog post via Word 2010 you need to :

1. Navigate to Microsoft Word 2010 ‘s File Menu.

2. In the File Menu select New Document and Blog Post template from list of available templates by creating a Blog Document.

Word Addin tab is a plugin for Word 2007/2010 that creates tabs in Word for multiple documents. If Multiple multiple MS Word files are opened in Windows 7, the files will default to arrange vertically in the Taskbar like that:

Or horizontally lie down in the Taskbar as the below picture shows:

Word Addin Tabs integrates MS Word with “tabs” function. At this point, it helps the use of Word more convenient as IE.

Microsoft Office Labs have launched a very cool add-in for Outlook, called Forgotten Attachment Detector, which reminds you when you have forgotten to attach a file to your e-mail. The Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) is a Grassroots Project from Bhavesh Chauhan. a Software Development Engineer for Microsoft’s IT team. He created FAD as a side project in his personal time, and Office Labs is helping him release FAD publicly and collect data on its usefulness. Like other Forgotten Attachment Detectors on the web, when you send an email FAD checks it 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.

A new Build 14.0.4514.1009 from Microsoft Office 2010 Beta branch has been leaked in the wild, and is now available for download. The most significant change in this leaked build is the new installation procedure for test versions of Office 2010 SKUs. Previously, setup used to ask for product keys after it has been initiated, but now, starting from Build 14.0.4514.1009, Office 2010 will ask you for a special unique installation product key before setup has even started.

Recently while working on an Excel sheet i required a need to sort a particular column by an order.At office i was working on Office 2003 and it made me nuts while figuring out the exact thing.Office 2010 has this thing in pretty much simple and easy mode.

For Office 2003:
1.Select the cells of a particular column which you want to sort.
2.Go to Menu->Data->Sort
3.Select Sort by “Column name” & “Order” Ascending or Descending
4.Press OK

A new Beta Build 14.0.4417.1000 of Microsoft Office 2010 has been leaked again. This Build features refreshed icons for all Office applications, slightly modified version of Backstage view, Upload Center (which most probably is for Office Web Apps) and a new logo for Office 2010.As of now no torrents or Links were available on major torrent sites.For downloading them you may have to wait for some more days, although Microsoft does not recommends you to use the leaked builds as they may contain harmful code that may destabilize your computer. Original translated text from this release along with screenshots from WZOR are as follows:

I recently discussed Paste options in Office 2010 which have been upgraded to show a paste preview and it provides different types of pastes with formatting or without.In excel the paste preview has few more options.

In the screenshot above i have copied a cell and then tried to paste it in some other cell.These are all paste options i had:

Under Paste we have the following pastes available :