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Fortunately, PowerPoint 2010 offers several tools to help you ensure your presentation goes smoothly. In this lesson, you will learn how to rehearse and record slide shows in advance. You will also learn about alternative presentation options, such as creating a video of your presentation and broadcasting your presentation to remote audiences. In this video I show you how to broadcast your slideshow to the world and how to save your presentation as a set of images.
Office 2010 reached its end of support on October 13, 2020. If you haven't already begun to upgrade your Office 2010 environment, we recommend you start now.
This article provides recommendations, information, and links to help administrators and IT Pros in large enterprises plan their upgrades to Microsoft 365 Apps.
Note
- If you're a home user who wants to upgrade from Office 2010 to the latest version of Office, see How do I upgrade Office?
- If you're an admin at a small business or organization who wants to help your users upgrade to the latest version of Office, see Upgrade your Microsoft 365 for business users to the latest Office client.
We also recommend business and enterprise customers use the deployment benefits provided by Microsoft and Microsoft Certified Partners, including Microsoft FastTrack for cloud migrations and Software Assurance Planning Services for on-premises upgrades.
What does end of support mean?
Office 2010, like almost all Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide bug fixes and security fixes. This lifecycle lasts for a certain number of years from the date of the product's initial release. For Office 2010, the support lifecycle is 10 years. The end of this lifecycle is known as the product's end of support. Office 2010 reached its end of support on October 13, 2020, and Microsoft no longer provides the following services:
Technical support for issues
Bug fixes for issues that are discovered
Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered
Because of these changes, we strongly recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.
What are my options?
Because Office 2010 has reached its end of support, you should explore your options and prepare an upgrade plan to either of these latest versions of Office:
Microsoft 365 Apps, the subscription version of Office that comes with many Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) enterprise and business plans.
Office 2019, which is sold as a one-time purchase and available for one computer per license.
A key difference between Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019 is that Microsoft 365 Apps is updated on a regular basis, as often as monthly, with new features. Office 2019 only has the same features that it had when it was released in October 2018.
This article provides guidance on upgrading to Microsoft 365 Apps.
What is Office 365? What is Microsoft 365 Apps?
Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) provides subscription plans that include access to Office applications and other cloud services, including Skype for Business, Exchange Online, and OneDrive for Business. Microsoft 365 Apps is the version of Office that comes with many Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) enterprise and business plans. Microsoft 365 Apps includes the full versions of Office apps installed on your client computers. For example, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote.
Unlike Office 2010, Microsoft 365 Apps uses a user-based licensing model that allows people to install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on their mobile devices. There are also differences in how you deploy, license, and activate Microsoft 365 Apps compared to Office 2010. For more information about Microsoft 365 Apps, see the following information:
Review what's changed since Office 2010
To learn about some of the changes since Office 2010, review the following articles: Changes in Office 2013 and Changes in Office 2016 for Windows.
For information about the new features available in Microsoft 365 Apps, see What's new in Microsoft 365. For Office 2019, see What's New in Office 2019.
Review the system requirements for Microsoft 365 Apps
Before upgrading to Microsoft 365 Apps, verify that your client computers meet or exceed the minimum system requirements.
In addition, you should review the system requirements for your Office server workloads. For more information, see Exchange Server Supportability Matrix and System Requirements for Office server products.
Plan for Office 365
Because Microsoft 365 Apps comes with many enterprise Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) plans, you should review your current Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) capabilities as part of planning an upgrade to Microsoft 365 Apps. Prior to deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, for example, you should ensure that all your users have Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) accounts and licenses. For more information, see Deploy Microsoft 365 Enterprise for your organization.
Assess application compatibility
Before deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, you may want to test your business-critical VBA macros, third-party add-ins, and complex documents and spreadsheets to assess their compatibility with Microsoft 365 Apps. For more information, see Assess application compatibility.
To help with assessing application compatibility with Microsoft 365 Apps, you can use the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA. The Readiness Toolkit includes the Readiness Report Creator, which creates an Excel report with VBA macro compatibility and add-in readiness information to help your enterprise assess its readiness to move to Microsoft 365 Apps.
You can download the Readiness Toolkit for free from the Microsoft Download Center. For more information, see Use the Readiness Toolkit to assess application compatibility for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Other resources are also available. Illustrator to animate. For example, if you use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (current branch), you can use the Microsoft 365 Apps readiness dashboard. Or, you can get assistance from Microsoft through the App Assure program.
Assess your infrastructure and environment
To decide how to upgrade to Microsoft 365 Apps, you should evaluate your infrastructure and environment, including the following areas:
Number and distribution of your clients, including required languages.
IT infrastructure, including operating systems, mobile device support, user permissions and management, and software distribution methods.
Network infrastructure, including connections to the internet and internal software distribution points.
Cloud infrastructure, including existing Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) capabilities, user licensing, and identity.
Your assessment of these components will influence how you want to upgrade. For more information, see Assess your environment and requirements for deploying Microsoft 365 Apps.
Review new Group Policy settings
As with any new version of Office, there are new Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Group Policy settings. All Group Policy settings for Microsoft 365 Apps are now located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0 and HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0.
You can download the Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Group Policy settings for Microsoft 365 Apps from the Microsoft Download Center for free. The download includes an Excel file that lists all the Group Policy settings for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Choose how you want to deploy Microsoft 365 Apps
You can deploy Microsoft 365 Apps from the cloud, from a local source on your network, or with Configuration Manager (or another software distribution solution). Which option you choose depends on your environment and business requirements. Deploying from the cloud, for example, minimizes your administrative overhead, but could require more network bandwidth. Deploying with Configuration Manager or from a local source, on the other hand, offers more granular control over the deployment of Microsoft 365 Apps, including which applications and languages are installed on which client computers.
For more information, see Plan your enterprise deployment of Microsoft 365 Apps.
Choose how often to update Office
With Microsoft 365 Apps, you can control how frequently your users receive feature updates to their Office applications. For more information, see Overview of update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Plan for additional languages
You can install language accessory packs after you've deployed Microsoft 365 Apps in one of its base languages. There are two ways to install language accessory packs:
Have your users download and install the language accessory packs that they need from the Office 365 portal.
Use the Office Deployment Tool to deploy the appropriate language accessory packs to your users.
For more information, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Special considerations
The Office Customization Tool is not used as part of the Microsoft 365 Apps installation. Instead, you can customize the installation for your users with the Office Deployment Tool. For more information, see Overview of the Office Deployment Tool.
Removal of InfoPath from Microsoft 365 Apps. InfoPath 2013 remains the current version and therefore isn't included in Microsoft 365 Apps. When you upgrade an existing installation of Office 2010 to Microsoft 365 Apps, InfoPath is removed from the computer. If your users still need to use InfoPath, the 2013 version of InfoPath is available for installation on the Software page in the Office 365 portal.
Related articles
For articles about planning, deploying, and managing Microsoft 365 Apps in an enterprise environment, see Deployment guide for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Hd omni. To find out more about upgrading from Office 2010 servers, see Resources to help you upgrade from Office 2010 servers and clients.
For more information about Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) plans, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Service Descriptions.
For more information about the support lifecycle for Microsoft products, see Search Product and Services Lifecycle Information.
To discuss or learn more about end of support for Office versions, go to the Microsoft Office End of Support area of the Microsoft Tech Community.
Most applications (such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) include fonts that are automatically installed when you install the software. For example, applications that are created especially for document design projects, such as Microsoft Publisher, often come with quite a few extra fonts that you can use with any other program on your computer.
However, sometimes you may want to install custom fonts that you've created, purchased or downloaded from somewhere else. In this article we'll talk about how to install those fonts so you can use them in Microsoft Office.
Joomla shopping cart component. Note: To embed fonts in a Microsoft Office Word document or PowerPoint presentation, see Embedding fonts on the PPTools site.
Locate custom fonts on the Web
In addition to acquiring and using fonts installed with other applications, you can download fonts from the Internet. Some fonts on the Internet are sold commercially, some are distributed as shareware, and some are free. The Microsoft Typography site site provides links to other font foundries (the companies or individuals outside of Microsoft who create and distribute fonts) where you can find additional fonts.
After you find a font that you would like to use with an Office application, you can download it and install it through the operating system that you are currently using on your computer. Because fonts work with the operating system, they are not downloaded to Office directly. You should go through the system's Fonts folder in Windows Control Panel and the font will work with Office automatically. On the Mac you use the Font Book to add the font and then copy it to the Windows Office Compatible folder.
Many third parties outside of Microsoft package their fonts in .zip files to reduce file size and to make downloading faster. If you have downloaded a font that is saved in .zip format double-click the zip file to open it.
Install a custom font you have downloaded
Once you've downloaded the font you want to install you need to install it in the operating system. Once the font is properly installed in the operating system Microsoft Office will be able to see and use it. For detailed instructions select the operating system you're using from the drop-down box below.
Find the font file that you downloaded, keeping in mind that it may be contained within a .zip file. It's probably located in your downloads folder.
Double-click the font file to open it in the Font Previewer
If you're satisfied that this is the font you want, click Install at the top left.
Close the Font Previewer, and open your Office program. You should now see your new font included on the font list.
Find the font file you downloaded - it likely has a .ttf or .otf extension and it's probably in your downloads folder. Double-click on it.
Note: If the font file has a .zip extension you need to open that .zip file and open the font file from there.
It will open in the font previewer. Click Install Font. It will open in the Font Book.
Close the Font Book. Your font should now be available to Microsoft Office.
Note: If you're using Office 2011 for Mac, you may need to drag and drop the font to the Windows Office Compatible collection in the Font Book to make it available to Microsoft Office.
Office 365
Sharing files that contain non-standard fonts
When you install a custom font, each font will work only with the computer you've installed it on. Custom fonts that you've installed on your computer might not display the same way on a different computer. Text that is formatted in a font that is not installed on a computer will display in Times New Roman or the default font.
Therefore, if you plan to share Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files with other people, you'll want to know which fonts are native to the version of Office that the recipient is using. If it isn't native, you may have to embed or distribute the font along with the Word file, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet. For more information about this see Fonts that are installed with Microsoft Office.
See also
Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2010 App
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