Behind the Scenes of Microsoft Office Home Student 2010

If you have or are planning to get Microsoft Office Home Student 2010, then the best thing to do is to familiarize you with the best features of 2010 that its predecessors don’t have. Perhaps the most salient feature is the Backstage View. The Backstage view serves as the File menu of 2010. The File tab is blue and you can find it at the left of the tabs. It opens up a display of the most basic commands including Save, Print and Open.

If you have a file that is open, and you click on the File tab – you will be treated to the Info screen. This is where the basic information such as the properties are and in here you have options for modifying the permissions and prepping the file for distribution and replacing older versions of the file. The file command can be found at the pane on the left.

What are the file formats in Office 2010? Just like in 2007, the formats in MS 2010 are XML. This allows the files to become more light-weight, increases their compatibility and provides easy recovery and macro storage to hinder harmful codes. .docx for instance is thed default format for an MS Word file just as .pptx is to PowerPoint and so on. You can save files in PDF or in XPS, which is another type of computerized file format.

If you need to open files, you can click on Recent if it is a file that you have used recently.  Then, click on the necessary file so that you can open it. If you want to stay on the same list, you can click on the pin that you will find to the right of the file name. If not, from the File tab – press Ctrl + O, the Open dialogue box will be shown to you. From there, locate the required file and double click on the filename – alternatively hit it once and click Open.

Office 2010 files may open with Office 2007 but not on earlier versions. If you want to err on the side of more backwards compatibility save in 97-2003. Saving a file is pretty basic, click on the Save icon. This is located on the Quick Access Toolbar. Ctrl + S does this pretty easily too. You can click on File and on the Backstage view go for Save As if you need to save it as a separate file. Save in is clicked if you intend to navigate the folder or drive on your PC which to store the file.

Microsoft Office Home Student 2010 is very easy to use. Give it a try and make the best out of your school projects with this platform!