Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010

Priced for student budgets, Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010 is a complete suite of applications that equips you for school and beyond. It’s all you need to communicate, create stand-out assignments, and work with others from almost anywhere.

Create reports that make your ideas stand out

• Write research papers more easily with the citations and bibliographies in Word 2010 and other features that save you time and help ensure accuracy.
• Add style and emphasis to your work with SmartArt® graphics that you can customize.
• Make title pages and headlines stand out with dramatic effects like glow, reflections, and shadows that you can apply to text.
• Browse through an outline of your document's pages or headings, or view search results in the improved Navigation Pane.

Design presentations that showcase your originality

• Express your ideas using media from high-quality video to audio and photos in PowerPoint 2010.
• Take advantage of easy-to-use photo- and video-editing features and dynamic visual effects you can add without leaving PowerPoint.
• Choose from an array of slide transitions and animations to make your presentations more dramatic.
• Broadcast your PowerPoint 2010 presentation through a web browser to remote audiences — even if they don't have PowerPoint.

Access, edit, and share your work from more places and on more devices

• Get assignments done when you're away from your computer or off campus with Office Web Apps.¹
• Create documents in Office 2010, post them online to Windows Live SkyDrive, and access, view, and edit them with Office Web Apps from almost anywhere you have Internet access.
• Simplify group projects by inviting others to review and edit documents online, asking everyone to share ideas and contribute through a browser and Office Web Apps.
• Use Office Mobile on your smartphone² to stay on top of schoolwork even when you're away.*

Take control of your data to make analyzing problems easier

• Identify trends in data at a glance and draw conclusions more easily with the powerful analysis tools in Excel 2010.
• Visualize your information quickly with colorful 3-D charts and graphs.
• Highlight significant items in your data set with just a few clicks using Conditional Formatting.
• Insert Sparklines — small charts that summarize your information — alongside your data.

Organize research projects in a single place

• Create a digital notebook in OneNote 2010 to capture and share all your information — from text and images to video and audio.
• Take notes while working in a Word 2010 document, a PowerPoint 2010 presentation, or in Internet Explorer; notes link automatically to the page you're working on in the other application, where they're easy to search
  and study.
• Easily capture audio and video recordings of lectures and notes right in your OneNote notebook.
• Find what you need faster with tagging features and an improved search experience that shows you search results while you type.

Stay in sync with your e-mail and schedule from almost anywhere

• Organize your busy class and personal schedules all in one place. Outlook 2010 gives you email, calendar, and task tools that simplify communication.
• Manage multiple email accounts from services such as Windows Live™ Hotmail_, Gmail, or just about any other provider in Outlook 2010.
• Track and manage your email easily with Conversation View in Outlook 2010, a feature that lets you condense, categorize, and even ignore lengthy email exchanges with a single click.
• Stay connected to your email even when you're away using Outlook Mobile on your smartphone.²

Promote yourself, your club, or a personal project

• Create communications that stand out with powerful design tools in Publisher 2010, whether you're planning an event or starting a club.
• Jump right in with a library of customizable templates for creating postcards, brochures, email marketing, and more.
• Choose from photo-editing options such as changing the shape of photos, pan, zoom, crop, color, and brightness. You can also preview your formatting changes before applying them.
• Give your communications a professional look with advanced typography tools and ready-to-use design themes.

Build your own database to manage complex information

• Create databases using Access 2010 to organize most any type of information, from scientific research to accounting data to professional contact info.
• Start fast with pre-built templates you can customize to the needs of your project.
• Share your insights more quickly with Conditional Formatting tools that use color and formatting to communicate your analysis clearly and easily.