

There's a significant improvement in the time the suite apps take to launch, and how they behave when working on your documents.Īs regards appearance, all the Microsoft Office 2010 apps have been slightly modified. Regarding performance, Microsoft Office 2010 seems to be as fast and light on system resources as the Technical Preview. What's more, Microsoft Office 2010 now lets you save your documents on SkyDrive and share them online in just two clicks. There are also tools to translate text, take and use screenshots, and apply special effects to the images you use in your documents. You can now add videos to your PowerPoint presentations, remove redundant messages from conversations in Outlook and insert small color charts inside cells in Excel spreadsheets. The context menu in Word, for example, has been greatly improved and lets you see changes in real time as you browse through the different options. To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the Internet.Leaving changes aside, the truth is that Microsoft Office 2010 has pretty much the same features we already saw in the Technical Preview. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades.


Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app. For Microsoft 365 plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. However, Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Microsoft 365 subscription plans. You don’t need to be connected to the Internet to use Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.
