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Office 2010 Leaked

The technical preview of Office 2010 has been leaked, but I do not have a copy.

Ars Technica has some screenshots.

One of the images consists of each tab in the Excel ribbon. Everything looks identical to Excel 2007, with the exception of the Insert ribbon.

New items are:

• A Screenshot control in the Illustrations group. I assume this will let the user save all or part of a worksheet as a graphics file.
• A Sparklines group with three commands: Line, Column, Win/Loss. Obviously, Excel 2010 will support Sparkline charts.
• A new Filter group, with one command: Slicer. I'm not sure if this is a native command, or a command added by the "gemini" add-in.

Another change is that the big round "Office button" has been replaced by a smaller rectangular button, directly to the left of the Home tab.

- Reader Comments -

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1. By sam. Comment posted 18 May, 2009 9:45pm

   The Slicer is a part of the Gemini Addin.
   Also the Colorful Blob is replaced with a Green Blob which when clicked gives a Large Screen with New, Close, Save on the right and List of things that you can create viz Spreadsheet...template etc - WOW.
   
   The rest is as bad as 2007
2. By Ross. Comment posted 22 May, 2009 5:05am

   Like like that smaller button better though!!