Chapter 4. Microsoft Office Overview for Developers

Microsoft Office 2010 is the latest edition in a long line of productivity applications that have become commonplace on the desktops of information workers. Through the years, the Office brand has extended to new applications like InfoPath, Communicator, and OneNote, and it has also gained enterprise servers in SharePoint. Yet the core of Office continues to be Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Information workers use these four applications to generate a multitude of files that hold organizational information. With each new edition of this software suite, Microsoft focuses on the spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and e-mail, always enhancing the ways these items can participate in ...

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