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Communicate ideas more effectively, and turn any homework assignment, essay or group project into a memorable document. Word 2010 brings a collaborative learning experience to every classroom, letting you—and your students—create easy-to-read documents with a personalized touch. Packed with enhanced features to create, edit, and access documents from almost anywhere, Word 2010 helps more students get their point across better than ever before.
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Transform any basic document into a visual masterpiece
Simplify any school document and make it more enjoyable and easy to read with Word 2010. Create eye-grabbing visuals with new WordArt templates and Artistic Effects. Select features in the improved Office 2010 Ribbon interface. Import images from your computer and customize their appearance using the new Background Removal tool. Capture screenshots from any Word document and include them in classroom assignments or share them with other teachers.
Use Word 2010 to make any document stand out and be seen:
- Create documents that are easy to understand and enjoyable to read
- Attract attention with eye-grabbing visuals and improved graphics
- Provide comments and suggestions with the click of a button
- Give students a creative avenue to express their ideas
- Develop fun and exciting student projects and assignments
- Access, view, and edit documents from almost any computer or your Windows phone
System requirements:
- 500 MHz or faster processor
- 256 MB RAM; 512 MB recommended for graphics features and certain advanced functionality
- 3 GB available disk space
- Windows XP (must have SP3) (32-bit), Windows 7, Windows Vista with Service Pack (SP) 1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 and MSXML 6.0 (32-bit Office only), Windows Server 2008, or later 32- or 64-bit OS.
- Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 9.0c graphics card with 64 MB or more video memory.
- Internet Explorer 6 or later, 32-bit browser only. IE7 or later required to receive broadcast presentations.
- Internet functionality requires an Internet connection
Resources
Microsoft Office in the Classroom: Teaching Guide
Discover helpful ways to refresh your lesson, manage class assignments, make quick work of daily tasks, and share information with colleagues, students and parents.
Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote
Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.
Chemistry Add-in for Word
Empowering students, teachers, and chemists to easily author documents in the language of chemistry is at the heart of the Chemistry Add-in for Word.
5 Bibliography Tips
You want to focus on writing the best paper you can, but you need to cite your sources and track those sources. Word 2010 can help.
Use Synonyms to Make your Writing Vivid
In this lesson, students learn how to identify a synonym, find synonyms in a thesaurus, choose appropriate synonyms to make their writing more vivid, and avoid selecting a synonym that is incorrect.
Formatting research papers--APA and MLA in Word
School is starting, which means you're starting to write papers again--formatted exactly in the style that's required by your professor.
5 Tips for Using Text Effects in Word 2010
Word 2010 has many text options--including glow, shadow, and reflection text effects.
Product how-tos
Get organized! Learn how to use Microsoft software in the classroom with tips and tricks for some of your most frequently used applications, like Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, OneNote, and Excel.
Education Templates (Word 2010)
Use predesigned templates to make any standard document an appealing work of art.
Digital Storytelling with Microsoft Word
Format: Word
Size: 1.8 MB
Learn how to generate all the elements needed for a digital story and learn how to save a Word file as a PDF file.
Develop Research Skills with Microsoft OneNote and Microsoft Word
Format: Word
Size: 940.3 KB
Learn to use electronic dictionaries and reference works that are integrated into Office.
Building a class community with Free Tools
Format: Word
Size: 1.9 MB
This tutorial will help you set up introduction activities to enable you to understand your students and to build a positive community in your classroom.