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From the Word Team Blog…

The Microsoft Office Word Team’s Blog : Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010: “Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

When we first started blogging about Word 2007, we talked a lot about 21st Century Documents. Our vision was that Word 2007 would allow authors to easily create much richer documents (Quick Styles, Themes, SmartArt, Picture Styles, Building Blocks, etc.). In Word 2010, our cutting-edge authoring pillar builds on the 21st Century Documents vision in that 21st Century Documents often have multiple authors. To accommodate this, we’re working to make co-authoring as natural as solo-authoring. Here’s how…”

Microsoft Access Team Blog: “Access 2010 Custom Themes

Today’s guest writer is Steve Greenberg.

The recent Access 2010 Theme’s post introduced you to the new Office themes inside Access. Now let’s show you some of the advanced things you can do with themes. The controls we are about to use can all be found to the left of the Design tab once you’re designing a form or report in design or layout view.”

Microsoft gets readers to test browser-based Office suite – Business news, business advice and information for Australian SMEs | SmartCompany: “Microsoft will release its first browser-based version of Office for public testing within a week, the company says.”

From ITnews.com…

First impressions of Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps – Technology – News – iTnews.com.au: “Still a long way to go.

Microsoft has unveiled the Web Applications update to its Office 2010 technical preview, giving the first glimpse of the new cloud-based versions of the market-leading productivity suite”