You have heard a lot about the popularity that this suite version has garnered, ever since its release. But, you never felt the need to upgrade to it, not because you weren’t aware of the features, but just because you didn’t realize how wonderfully it could take care of your tasks! Is this ringing a bell? Worry not… it isn’t after all too late. If you want to know about the precise features and benefits of the Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business edition, read on.

What to expect in Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business

1. Microsoft Word 2010
2. Microsoft Excel 2010
3. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
4. Microsoft Outlook 2010
5. Microsoft OneNote 2010

The Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business advantages that wait to unfold for you include:

• Unparalleled flexibility

Why you should upgrade to a better application largely depends on the flexibility you will get, following the upgrade. This certainly is no reason to bother about, here. From fine e-mail managing facilities (Microsoft Outlook 2010) to options to efficiently manage resources, projects, and deadlines (Microsoft OneNote 2010) to making your documents richer (tools to format pictures, PivotTable, Sparklines, etc), you certainly have loads of flexibility while using the different applications of this suite… Also, sharing the saved documents on the web and accessing them from anywhere is possible just as a breeze.

• Efficient information organizing capabilities

The biggest and the best reason for which you should upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business is its data collecting and saving capacity. You have used the previous versions of the Microsoft Office productivity suite and have felt that the tools – Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft Excel 2010 – are both easy to use and robust in offering benefits. From professional formatting options to sharing the documents in online folders and from accessing them easily for your colleagues/ associates on the go to adding screenshots and visuals (including images and graphics) you can do it all… Additionally, the new Backstage View (replacement for the previous File menu) lets you to instantly and conveniently save documents and further navigate between tasks smoothly.

• Priceless expression-forming features

Whether you have to prepare a presentation for your home/office or have to help your kid prepare his for school, readymade templates, easy tools to enhance the visual treat in the presentations, and SmartArt graphics (Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft Excel 2010) will only make your task easier and far better in quality quotient. Besides, you can also add special effects like 3D, shadow, reflections, and a host of others in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

• Stay in touch!

Most importantly, Microsoft Office 2010 lets you remain in constant touch with your work, your network, your colleagues, and also others. Viewing documents, editing them, and further sharing them over the network are comfortable tasks earlier not known. In addition, you can expect to explore the Office Web Apps in a familiar environment (Microsoft Office) and this takes the experience to a higher level.

iYogi tech experts are available to help you install, configure, and upgrade your current productivity suite to Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business edition. Call us at a time of your convenience and let our technicians comfortably set this suite on your PC so that you are more resourceful and productive. Keep our number handy so that in case of any technical snag that you may encounter while working with this suite, your productivity isn’t lost and you reach us immediately.

Here is what you need to know about the Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Version:

• The Trial Version remains activated for a period of 30 days.
• At the end of the 30-day period, the trial version will get automatically de-activated.
• It is available free of cost so that you can evaluate the features and its usability as per your work requirements.
• You can try out any of the three Microsoft Office 2010 editions
  1. Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business
  2. Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student
  3. Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
  4. You can download the trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional edition as it is set with all the applications available in the suite. You can nevertheless try out the others as well.
  5. To download the version, click microsoft.com/office/try.
  6. However, if you would like to check out the version for another few days, you can opt for trying it out for 180 days.
  7. To do it, you can use the Rearm facility that lets you extend the period of 30 days, five more times since its first 30-day period expiration date.
  8. To rearm Microsoft Office 2010 for the next cycle of free 30 days of free trial, run the command file ospprearm.exe in the Office Software Protection Folder (under the Program Files folder).
  9. You can also use the Office 2010 Trial Extender program to rearm and extend the version.

If you face an issue while trying out the trial version or while using the rearm facility, don’t you worry as you have help at hand. Call iYogi tech experts and they can help you fix any bug and crease out any issue that you may be facing. Keep our toll free number handy.

There is yet another suite version by the same name, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, and many users contemplating an upgrade confuse one with the other. However, to start off with, the similarities end at that as both the versions have been designed to cater to niche users in separate categories. While Microsoft Office 2010 Professional edition is available as a retail product only, you can obtain one license per PC; Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus is available as a Volume Licensing product, which means you can opt for this version if you need more than five licenses for your business.

In this article we aren’t discussing the features of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional or Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus. If you want to know more about them, you can browse through our articles on the same by clicking on the hyperlinked texts above. This article rather aims to highlight the comparisons in a simple, straight-forward manner so that you know which one you should opt for!

Here are the Microsoft Office 2010 Professional advantages:

• This productivity suite caters to individual users.
• Tools available here include: Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft Publisher 2010, and Microsoft Access 2010
• Using the tools available in this suite you can remain creative, manage your data effectively, organize notes, and also handle your e-mails in a safer and better manner.
• Using the tools here, you can deliver all tasks professionally.

The benefits of using Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus are here too:

• Small and midsized business ventures are well taken care of by this productivity edition.
• Tools available here include: Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft Publisher 2010, and Microsoft Access 2010, Microsoft InfoPath 2010, SharePoint Workspace, and Communicator.
• You can take the productivity suite experience across all devices that you have (with a browser) by using Office Web Apps. You can create, edit and access documents saved as Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 files.
• To help you remain productive even when offline, Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus lets you use SharePoint Workspace 2010.
• This robust suite gives you the much-required flexibility and strength that your business venture needs.

We hope that the points mentioned in the article would have reduced your uncertainty about the particular suite that would suit your needs. Depending on your set-up, the number of users you need the suite for, the features that you want to explore, and the flexibility that you need – pick your choice!

Looking for Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus download? Visit the official website and get the process started off in a jiffy.

How to install Windows XP SP3 and Silverlight?

If you want to install Windows XP SP3 on your PC, visit the Microsoft Official website and turn on the Automatic Updates feature. One prerequisite of having Windows XP SP3 installed is that your PC should have Windows XP SP1 or SP2 already installed and on turning the Automatic features On, it would automatically update the SP1 or SP2 to Windows XP SP 3. If you want them (SP1 or SP2) to be installed, you can use the same Automatic Updates option to do it. One important thing to note here is that if you have Windows XP 64-bit version (SP2) installed on your PC, you can proceed toward installing Microsoft Office 2010 directly; you do not need to upgrade it to SP3.

To install Silverlight, make sure that you have a Silverlight-compatible OS and browser set up on your PC. If this requirement is met with, you can download the program from the Microsoft website and set it up on your PC.

Installing Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows XP SP3

After you have checked your PC against the OS version and Silverlight parameters, you have one last thing to do; before you kick started the installation process. This is checking the System Requirement (hardware):

ü  1 GHz CPU or above

ü  512 MB RAM or above

ü  1024×768 resolution or above

ü  DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB memory or above

Once you have checked the above, start the installation of Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows XP and follow the steps mentioned below:

• Access the installation wizard of the particular Microsoft Office 2010 version that you want to install.
• Followed by entering the product key (type all the 25 characters accurately).
• Proceed to agree to the EULA (End User License Agreement).
• Select the ‘Customize’ option so that you can uninstall any previous suite or particular applications of the suite or keep the previous version running as well.
• Go to the ‘Installation Options’ tab and select the ‘Microsoft Office 2010’ applications that you wish to install (you may not want specific programs and avoid cluttering your hard disk space).
• View the ‘Installation Progress’ window to find out the status of the process. The time taken to complete may vary. So sit back and relax.
• Once you are notified that Microsoft Office 2010 has been successfully installed, close down the Installer window and access the particular program you want to start working on. You will be able to view all the installed programs in the Microsoft Office folder in the Start menu.

Installing Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows XP SP3 shouldn’t be a difficult task. However, should you face an issue, do not hesitate to call us on our toll free number. We are available 24×7 to help you set it up on your PC.

“Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly component.”

The above mentioned sentences flashing across the screen, notifying the user that the installation process has halted isn’t an uncommon sight. Several PC users have seen it and others have dreaded seeing it. Although it isn’t a pleasant sight, Error 1935 should not actually give you sleepless nights. Not at least after this as this article aims to decode the error and provide you simple fixes that you too could try applying, if ever you met it face to face… This error may occur when you are installing the entire suite or while you are setting up standalone applications.

Error 1935 installation error: Reason of occurrence

Before we give you the resolves, let us first understand why this error occurs in the first place. Well, this happens primarily when the Microsoft .Net framework goes corrupt, missing, or gets damaged. It may happen due to the presence of adware or when the Windows Installer encounters a reference either to a drive that is missing/has been moved/ its contents are no longer readable.

Error 1935 installation error: Tips to fix it

• Repair the Microsoft .Net framework installation

This is the first fix that you can attempt. To do this, select the ‘Repair’ option in the ‘Uninstall a Program’ folder of Control Panel. You could also reinstall the Microsoft .Net framework from the official website of Microsoft and start the process anew.

• Check for important Windows updates

The Error 1935 also implies that your PC is short of the latest updates released for Windows. To check this, visit the official website and install the latest Windows updates on your PC and attempt to install the Microsoft Office 2010 suite (or a standalone product) one more time.

• Use the File System Utility

The File System utility helps a user to manage the file and drive properties in NTFS format. Therefore, using this utility, you could attempt to get rid of the installation error. To use it, access the Command Prompt window (in Windows Vista and Windows 7) by entering cmd.exe in the Run box and further clicking on the ‘Run as administrator’ option (you will get it by right-clicking on the cmd.exe search results). Once you are able to ‘Run as administrator’, type “fsutil resource setautoreset trueC:\” and press on Enter.

On being notified that the attempt was successful, you can proceed toward setting up Microsoft Office 2010, once again.

• Clean the system registry

This is a simple fix that you can try out indeed. It has helped many users and may work out for you too. Additionally, also check if your PC is already loaded with some incompatible software; in the case of software conflict, your attempts to install Microsoft Office 2010 will fail. Some known programs that bring up a conflict situation include WinTools, WinEasy, HP Component Manager, etc.

• Disable your security products that may be interfering

Last, but certainly not the least, in several instances it is seen that an antivirus program may interfere with the installing of an application as the real-time protection feature may prevent an application from being successfully set up. Check if this holds true in your case. If it is, disable the program and start the installing process. Once this is complete, enable your security cover or else you may land up risking your digital information and data.

In case none of the above work and you still aren’t able to install the suite, call iYogi tech experts to help you. Our technicians are well-trained to install, uninstall, and fix installation errors and can fix the Error 1935 for you, in no time. Keep our toll free number handy.

Let us see how the Microsoft Office 2010 Customization Tool works:

To make the OCT tool work, you will have to set up a network installation point for Microsoft Office. To do that, create a source folder and copy and paste here the Microsoft Office folder and files. Henceforth, you can run the set up file of the OCT and let the on screen prompts guide you to complete the installation. Once the installation is complete, it is ready to work. It is significant to mention here that the OCT delegates the work into four channels that it divides as categories – Set Up, Features, Additional Content, and Outlook.

In the Set Up category, you can specify the destination folder and brand the set up with the name of your organization to display in the ‘About’ box and on banner pages. If you have a previous version of Microsoft Office suite installed on your PC, you can remove it now. Furthermore, if you want to add any other apps to your Microsoft Office 2010 set up, you can do it now. Other tasks you can finalize here (at the Set Up stage) include modifying set up properties, setting the security levels for macros, templates, and other Microsoft add-ins, and most importantly licensing.

Under the Features category, you can modify the user settings and even select the particular features that you would like to install for the different applications.

Additional Content lets you add or remove particular files as well as registry from the Microsoft Office 2010 installation and configure the shortcuts and the locations that they will be placed in.

And finally the Outlook category wherein you get to customize your Microsoft Outlook profile to suit your requirements. You may opt to use the existing profile, add new ones, specify accounts (groups) to use when you do a Send/Receive, and export existing settings to the new profile.

Once you have customized the settings, you can save them in a MSP file to be used later (before deploying the suite) when you may require altering the settings. Also, this file can be helpful at times when you may want to create another Microsoft Office 2010 installation, and the file could help you to exchange the customized settings between the two.

The best feature about the Microsoft Office 2010 Customization Tool is that once the MSP file is created and tested, you can save it in the Update folder and continue to deploy the suite on your PC. If at all there are any patches or modifications to be reflected on the installation, you will not have to intervene, the Microsoft Office set up will itself apply them on its own…

Since OCT is the only recommended tool for most customizations, it is a handy feature that lets you customize the biggest as well as the smallest Microsoft Office 2010 features as per your choice.

There are essentially two situations in which you could find yourself in. Either you will have a DVD to back up Microsoft Office 2010 or you may have to do it without a DVD. What will you do in either case? Read on to know about it all.

1.  Online Backup

Visit the Microsoft official website link office.com/backup and click on the ‘Get Backup’ option available there. To be able to back up your productivity suite online, you have to keep your product key handy, as you will have to produce it when asked. This key should be valid and activated for you to be able to install and activate the software. Once you select the ‘Get Backup’ button, you will have to enter your product key and further enter the details of your Windows Live ID (create one if you don’t have it already). The only catch of having an online backup is that unless you have a high speed Internet connection to use, this attempt may not be easily successful and you may have to keep trying it many times. Although this option is available for free, a slow Internet connection or intermittent dropping in connection could frustrate you and also render the process a failure. In addition, although you can download the backup copy innumerable times, Microsoft definitely has a set limit, which you cannot exceed, depending on the number of licenses that you have purchased.

If you want to go ahead with the download, press on the Download option and wait for the process to complete. Since the files are large, it will take time. So, just sit back and relax. You will also be sent the download link in a confirmatory e-mail which you can save as reference for future use.

2.  Backup without a DVD: Process to order a DVD

As mentioned in the previous point, if you did not have a Microsoft Office 2010 Backup DVD, you could opt for the online option or order for a DVD to do it. You can order the DVD from the Microsoft official website by allowing two week’s time for shipment. You will also have to pay a shipping charge, which varies according to the region you want it sent.

3.  Microsoft Office 2010 Backup using a DVD

If you already have the backup DVD, keep it safe, you never know when you may need to use it. If you have ordered for one, wait until it reaches you and then keep it protected and handy. Now that you have the DVD in hand, you can use the backup as and when you may require it…

For further queries or clarifications or help to backup Microsoft Office 2010, reach out to iYogi tech experts. Our technicians are skilled enough to troubleshoot all errors that you may encounter while working on your Microsoft Office 2010 productivity suite.

For Microsoft Office 2010, the company had sent out an update mentioning a few enhancements in the suite, and to meet up with those, certain specs may have to be upgraded. To check out what they are, read on.

CPU and RAM requirements for Microsoft Office 2010 stand at 500 MHz and 256 MB respectively, as against the same specifications for Microsoft Office 2007; and for Microsoft Office 2003 they were 233 MHz and 128 MB respectively. On the contrary, the standalone application disk space prerequisite has gone up for the latest suite by 0.5 GB. Explaining this increase, Alex Dubec, Program Manager, Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team said that it is to offer the users a better interface, a variety of tools as compared to the predecessors, and also to remain on the safer side by following an upper limit of the same.

Other than the minimum hardware requirements, Microsoft Office 2010 also has a GPU requirement; this is to specifically boost up graphics rendering in Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. DirectX9.0c compliant graphics processor and 64 MB video memory are the minimum requirements your GPU must meet in order to match up to the enhanced graphics you can create on the latest productivity suite tools.

Surely, Microsoft Office 2010 minimum requirements have reiterated the fact that you needn’t necessarily overspend in order to enjoy better benefits. Staying within the same budget too, except for the few enhancements, you can enjoy the benefits of this productivity suite for your home, business and professional set-up.

Microsoft Office 2010 Junk E-Mail filter is your friend in need; it not only identifies junk mails in your inbox but also flushes them out (moves them to the Junk folder) to keep your inbox clutter-free. Besides, depending upon the level of security that you want for yourself, you can increase or decrease the sensitivity of the filter and let it act as per your need.

How does the Microsoft Office 2010 Junk E-Mail filter work?

The filter is activated by default and you don’t have to bother about changing the settings, not until you would like to enhance or reduce your security cover. However, at the very onset what you could do with the filter is create lists mentioning Safe Senders, Safe Recipients, Block Senders, Blocked Encodings, and Blocked Top-Level Domain List. You can fill the lists with names, e-mail addresses, and even domain names of the senders. Depending on these identifications, the filter will access each incoming mail and let it remain in the inbox or push it to the Junk folder. The evaluation is done on the basis of the mail’s content, the time of receiving the mail, and also the sender’s source.

Here is what the different lists actually mean:

1:   Safe Senders List: The contents of this list are considered safe and the filter will never evaluate the mails received from this source.

2: Safe Recipients: If you regularly send across mails to an audience, you can add the contents of the list here so that you can safely continue sending mails, irrespective of the content.

3: Block Senders: This is the most useful list; it contains all e-mail addresses, domain names, and names of senders whose mails you don’t want to reach your inbox. You can add more names to it to increase the range of the Junk e-mail filter.

4: Blocked Encodings: All Junk mails (promotional material, ads, etc), which reach us in the form of special characters or alphabets, which we may not understand can be a reason to worry. You can block such sources by adding their names to this list.

5: Blocked Top-Level Domain List: If you want to block e-mails that come from specific regions (example: you can find such domains that have .us or .ca endings), you can create this list. You could create this list by adding the country name or region code, if you are aware of it.

You can modify the Junk E-Mail filter settings as easily as you created them. To do it (steps apply only for Microsoft Outlook 2010):

• Go to Microsoft Outlook and access the ‘Delete’ group
• Click on the ‘Home’ tab and then on the ‘Junk e-mail’ option
• Select the particular option you would like deployed out of the four:
  • No Automatic Filtering: To turn off the filter
  • High: If you receive junk e-mails at a very high rate
  • Low: To let the filter access only the most obvious spam messages
  • Safe Lists only: To only allow mails to be received from this list, excluding all other mails, even the genuine ones

Now that you know how you could boost the safety of your mailbox by using the Microsoft Office 2010 junk e-mail settings, put to practice the steps mentioned here. If you need professional help to do it, do not hesitate to call on our toll free number and let a tech expert guide you.

However, here is a silver lining. Without even having the application installed, you can still view, copy, and print contents originally developed on a Microsoft Office application.  All you need to do is install the freeware program Microsoft Viewer. Once installed, you can use this application to copy the contents of a Microsoft Office document and paste it into this processor and carry forward from there. You can download the application from the official website of Microsoft and start using it… You can install Microsoft Word Viewer, Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, and also PDF viewers. Pick the one that suits your requirement and carry on your task. These are especially helpful when you may receive files developed in a different Microsoft Office version and you need a platform where you could merge the two.

Besides the Microsoft Viewers, there is a range of Microsoft Converters also available to help users. These convert the files into a readable format as per the Microsoft Office version installed on your PC. If you do not have one, you can still use this freeware and be on the same page as your colleague or friend who has shared the original file with you.

Download the Microsoft Viewer today and enjoy hassle-free working!