Microsoft Office Home and Student

"Managing home and homework, made easier"

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 gives you the essential tools you need to complete school and household projects efficiently. Ready-to-use templates in Word and PowerPoint 2010 equip students to create outstanding schoolwork, with rich visual effects and media-editing features that help them express their ideas creatively. Excel 2010 gives you the spreadsheet tools the pros use to simplify working with data, from tracking expenses to creating a household budget. And there's OneNote 2010 for household projects, a catch-all spot for organizing notes, files, and resources in one easy-to-access place.

• Powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents
• Make better decisions quickly with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets
• Create dynamic presentations to engage and inspire your audience
• Organize, store, and search your ideas, information, and notes in one place
• Access, view, and edit your documents from virtually anywhere
• One license allows for installation on as many as three computers*
• Accomplish more with an enhanced user experience—save, share, print, and publish your documents with just a few clicks
• Add visual effects, such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to your text, or turn your text into compelling diagrams
• Build a budget and track expenses with easy-to-use graphs and analysis tools that bring your finances into focus fast
• Improved spreadsheet tools let you more easily discover patterns and highlight trends in your data
• Captivate your audience with a polished presentation using improved tools for video- and photo-editing, dramatic new transitions, and realistic animation to help you tell a crisp, cinematic story that's as easy to create as it is powerful to watch
• Manage projects with total efficiency—capture text, images, video, and audio notes and put them into a searchable digital notebook
• Easily post documents online then access, view, and edit them from virtually everywhere

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 gives you the tools you need to complete school and home projects efficiently — from creating outstanding class presentations to managing household finances.

Word 2010
Produce professional-looking reports and research papers effortlessly

PowerPoint 2010
Turn your ideas into great-looking presentations

Excel 2010
Create a budget and keep your expenses on track

OneNote 2010
Collect all your information in one easy-to-find place

System Requirement

Required Processor
500 MHz processor or higher

Required Operating System
Windows 7, Vista with SP1, XP (must have SP3) (32-bit), Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 and MSXML 6.0 (32-bit Office only), or later 32- or 64-bit OS

Required Memory
256 MB RAM; 512 MB recommended for graphics features, Outlook Instant Search, and certain advanced functionality

Required Hard Disk Space
3 GB available disk space

Required Display
1024 x 576 or higher resolution monitor

Required Connectivity
Internet functionality requires an Internet connection

Required Browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, 32-bit browser only

Required Video Card
Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 9.0c graphics card with 64 MB or more video memory.

Additional System Requirements
This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions. It is licensed for installation of either version on up to 3 computers. We recommend the 32-bit version, which runs great on both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. People who routinely use very large documents or spreadsheets that need more than 2 GB of memory may want to run the 64-bit version, but many common add-ins for Office don't run correctly in the 64-bit edition.

Other System Requirements
Certain Microsoft OneNote features require Windows Desktop Search 3.0, Windows Media Player 9, Microsoft ActiveSync 4.1, microphone, audio output device, video recording device, TWAIN-compatible digital camera, or scanner; sharing notebooks requires users to be on the same network.

Certain advanced collaboration functionality requires connectivity to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Send to OneNote Print Driver requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows XPS features.

Multi-Touch features require Windows 7 and a touch-enabled device.

Certain inking features require Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.

Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device.

Grammar and contextual spelling features require 1 GB memory.

Internet Fax not available on Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, or Windows Vista Home Premium

Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.

Connectivity to a compute cluster is required for running user-defined functions on a compute cluster.

The Desktop Experience feature must be installed prior to using OneNote on Windows Server 2008 or later.

2 GHz processor or faster and 1 GB RAM or more recommended for OneNote Audio Search. Close-talking microphone required. Audio Search not available in all languages.

Certain online functionality requires a Windows Live ID.

Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.

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