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READYING YOUR FIRM FOR OFFICE 2010 the ability to compress long e-mail threads into a few conversations that can be categorized, prioritized and conveniently filed. An Ignore feature sends an entire conversation to your Deleted Items and a new Quick Steps feature lets you perform multi-command tasks, such as Reply and Delete, in a single click. With the E-mail Calendar feature, you can send your schedule to others so they can quickly see your availability for appointments. The new Schedule View provides a streamlined horizontal display of multiple calendars to help simplify your scheduling tasks. New calendar management tools enable you to save frequently used groups of calendars so they can quickly be displayed whenever you need them. Compliant, security-enhanced messaging is simple and effective across the organization using Outlook 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Together with new technology in Exchange Server 2010, Outlook 2010 enables you to receive voicemail and faxes directly to your inbox, and they can be accessed from almost anywhere using your computer, Outlook Mobile or Outlook Web App. Innovative tools such as MailTips notify users when they are about to send e-mail to a group or an individual who is outside the organization. Improved connectivity with Exchange Server 2010 will support the use of multiple Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010, making it simple for a user to manage several accounts in one place. 5. SIMPLIFIED ACCESS TO COMMON FILE COMMANDS AND FEATURES WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE BACKSTAGE VIEW. A new Microsoft Office Backstage view replaces the traditional File menu across the core Microsoft Office 2010 applications — including Word, PowerPoint and Excel — to give you a centralized space for all of your file management tasks. www.iltanet.org Microsoft 9 Donna Payne, CEO of PayneGroup, Inc., currently has many clients who have made the decision to move to Office 2010. When we asked for her thoughts on Backstage view, she said, “Software can have every bell and whistle in existence, but if it’s not discoverable, it isn’t worth a dime. Backstage view is genius because it brings all of the previously hidden commands out of hiding and makes them more discoverable.” For example, printing tools — previously spread across several commands (Page Layout, Preview, Print) — are all together in one Print tab within the Backstage view. You can assign metadata to a file, check it for accessibility, or make sure it’s finalized and ready to share with others. Backstage lets you save, share, print and publish your documents and presentations with just a few clicks. If you’re a law firm IT professional, you can take advantage of the new Microsoft Office Backstage view to incorporate work and information flows from other systems and highlight them within the most useful Microsoft Office application. For example, Backstage view lets you bring those back-end accounting or HR workflows right into Office 2010.