WHAT’S NEW

WITH MS WORD

Formatting Effects

Word 2010 has new and improved

formatting effects. You can add effects

such as gradient fills and reflections

directly to the text in your document. You

can also apply many of the same effects

to text and shapes that you might already

use for pictures, charts, and SmartArt

graphics.

Formatting Effects

Navigation Pane

The much improved navigation

pane and find tools save time and

simplify your work. The new

enhancements make it easier than

ever to browse, search, and even

reorganize document content right

from a single, easy-to-use pane.

More Themes

A theme in Office affects the whole

document and offers a way to co-

ordinate different elements of the page

stylishly. Live previews (just hover over the

thumbnail image of the theme) let you

see what the theme will look like when

applied, before you actually apply it.

Paste Preview When you copy a styled piece of text, Paste Preview in Word

2010 gives you a variety of options when it comes time to paste

it:

Keep Source Formatting – this option retains the formatting

used on the source document you copied. This means that text

will be displayed using the same fonts and other attributes like

the line height of text will be retained too. Images are inserted

with the same vertical and horizontal spacing.

Merge Formatting – the pasted elements will adopt the

formatting currently in use in the destination Word 2010

document.

Keep Text Only – using this option will discard certain things that

were present in the source, such as images and formatting.

Only plain text will be pasted so headings, for example, will lose

their size and bolding.

Screenshot Tool

The screenshot tool in Microsoft Word 2010

allows you to capture an image of a

particular screen and then insert it into

your document.

Artistic Effects There are lots of different Artistic Effects that

you can apply to the pictures you insert into your Word document. These effects are applied with just one mouse click. The beauty of Artistic Effects is that you can apply them quickly and you don’t have to perform complicated steps to get stunning results. If you have time to experiment, though, you might like to exert more control over the effects by using the Artistic Effect Options.

Artistic Effects

Background Removal Tool

There is a handy new tool that narrows the gap between word processor and image editor. Word 2010 now has a background removal tool, although it’s pretty basic compared to Adobe Photoshop’s capabilities. If there are large areas of a picture that Word can identify as being the background, you can remove it very easily using the background removal tool.

Background Removal Tool

Background Removal Tool

Improved WordArt

WordArt is a gallery of text styles that you

can add to your Office documents to

create decorative effects, such as

shadowed or reflected text. In Word and

PowerPoint, you can also convert existing

text into WordArt. The good thing about

WordArt is that even with complicated

effects, it remains editable text.

REFERENCE

http://www.word-2010.com/whats-new-

in-word-2010/