Microsoft Office 2010 for government

New and improved features in Office 2010 extend the familiar Microsoft Office experience to the web and to smartphones, better supporting the real-world needs of your agency staff to work and collaborate anywhere, anytime—even if they don’t have a dedicated computer. With Office Web Apps 2010—online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—you can review and edit documents from a supported web browser. With its touch-friendly navigation, Office Mobile 2010 makes Microsoft Office applications easier to use on any supported Windows or Nokia E Series phones. And with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (formerly Microsoft Office Groove), you can take SharePoint lists and document libraries offline and, when you’re back online, automatically sync to the SharePoint server.

The robust collaboration capabilities in Office 2010 allow coworkers and teams to write and edit the same Microsoft Office document at the same time—even when they are miles apart. Now you can brainstorm ideas and collaborate on mission-critical documents, high-priority reports, and strategic presentations in the cloud—no more emailing in-progress documents. Because version control and synchronization of changes are automated, you can spend less time coordinating updates. And on-premise hosting helps ensure high security for sensitive content.

Expanding on the security engineering of previous versions, Office 2010 uses a tiered approach, or layered defense, to help protect your agency against attacks. With rigorous file validation and the new Protected View feature (which allows files to be opened without harming the system), users can more safely determine the trustworthiness of documents and data.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 helps users regain control of their Inboxes by combining message threads and cleaning up duplicate posts—and can make compliance with archiving and retention policies easier. Voice messages are automatically transcribed and voice-to-text previews of voice messages are sent directly to the Inbox, along with the voice mail recording. Agency staff can also retrieve messages from virtually anywhere through the web or with a smartphone. Group Scheduling Tools and Team Calendar help you coordinate the entire team’s schedule.

Whether you’re reporting internally or providing services to your constituents, enhancements throughout Office 2010 can help your agency to communicate information more effectively. With the refined picture-editing tools in Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010, for example, you can achieve dramatic graphic effects, and the customizable templates of Microsoft Publisher 2010 make it easy to create publications for print, email, and the web that get your message out.