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12+ New Microsoft Office 2010 Features

Start The Discussion | Fredric Paul | November 18, 2009 14:05 PM

This visual look at what's new for SMBs in the Microsoft Office 2010 beta reveals a number of significant improvements. But is it enough to maintain the productivity suite's overwhelming dominance in the face of cheaper (free!) online alternatives?

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Navigation Pane in Word 2010

Word 2010 adds a new Navigation pane -- available in the View menu -- that shows an outline of your document by headings. (Obviously, this works only if your document uses headings styles, a subtle encouragement to format your documents by the rules...) You can also get a page-by-page outline, and use it to jump to the page -- or paragraph or section -- you want.

The Navigation Pane also lets you change the change organization of the document right in the Pane instead of in the document itself. You can change the level of individual sections, move sections around with the document, and create new sections. It can be much easier to make gross changes like this in the Navigation Pane than in the document itself when working with long, multi-page documents.

The Navigation Pane also holds a search input field that searches that document only. The Pane shows each search hit in context, and also highlights your search terms in the document itself.

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