What's new in Word 2010

New/changed Word 2010 feature - NEW FILE MENU

As for Excel, there is a welcome FILE tab on the Word ribbon:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - CUSTOMISABLE RIBBON

In Word 2007 you couldn't customise the ribbon (unless you knew XML and were a techie). Now you can create as many tabs as you like:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - EASIER FINDING

You can now find text in a document much more easily, and see three different views of any text string found:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - SCREEN SHOTS

No longer are you reliant on pressing ALT + PRTSC to capture an area of the screen - you can just click and drag to choose any rectangular area:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - ARTISTIC EFFECTS

You can now add artistic effects to pictures ... and much more. Here's an example:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - REMOVING BACKGROUNDS

There is a useful background removal tool, which you can use to remove any part of the background of a picture:

New/changed Word 2010 feature - OTHER NEW FEATURES

Other additions to Word 2010 include:

• Word now supports ligatures (a complicated and advanced font feature which this owl doesn't understand!)
• When pasting, you can now choose to keep just the text you are pasting, just the formatting or both
• There are web and mobile phone apps to let you view Word 2010 documents even without having Word 2010 loaded
• There are additional themes, WordArt effects and SmartArt diagrams
• The spell-checker has been improved (the main dialog box is shown below)

All in all, Word 2010 is pleasanter and easier to use!