Microsoft® Office 2010 Compatibility Mode

Microsoft Office 2010 is one of the best productivity suite and the browser which you depend on today. Without losing the sight of what is needed for the IT success it would help you to deal with the challenge of today’s business. By utilizing a set of smart and integrated tools, it would help you to work in a fast and easier way. With the help of Office 2010, you could do minor editing on Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote. With the SharePoint Workspace, Office 2010 would allow you to access and edit documents stored on the server when you are offline. The Microsoft Office 2010 would enable you to create amazing digital content in PowerPoint 2010 without the expense of any third party tools. All the information which you need is easily accessible as Office 2010 pulls everything to digital images. The Excel in Office 2010 provide tools for improved data visualization. Then the co-authoring in it would allow many people to work on the same document at same time.

• Compatibility mode
• System requirements of Office 2010
• Tips to open Word documents

Compatibility mode

When you try to open the Office Word 2010 then it would operate in compatibility mode and you could see the text in the application title which is next to the document. The compatibility mode would allow you to work on the documents which are created in the versions of Word which is prior to 2010. Then while working in the compatibility mode some of the functions in the Word 2010 might be disabled. If you try to open a document which is created in Word 2007 then Microsoft Word 2010 would detect this and will switch it in to compatibility mode.

System Requirements of Office 2010

For the proper functioning of the Office 2010 your system must have to satisfy certain requirements. The minimum RAM requirements for the programs are of 256 MB. Then it requires a processor which operates at 500 MHz. When compared to Office 2003 and Office 2007 the CPU and the RAM requirements of Office 2010 are higher. Office 2010 is capable of supporting almost all operating system. The graphics processor in it must a Direct X 9.0 support.

In order to open the document in compatibility mode you would have to follow certain steps. First you would have to click the 'Office' button. By clicking on it you would immediately see a message which indicates that you are in the compatibility mode. At the same time a 'Convert' button would be displayed. By clicking on it the document would be converted to the newer file format. The document is actually replaced by the newer version and there will be only one copy of it in the Word 2010 format. Finally you would have to click 'OK.'

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