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There is still time to get hold of the Ultimate Steal, the best place to get hold of Office for your studies.

The best news is, for this final week, buy now and get a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it becomes available, and at the lower price of £38.95! It’s a winner all round.

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Recently I had a bit of a problem on my netbook when Office 2010 decided not to activate for whatever reason.

I tried a wide variety of things (it didn’t seem too keen on fixing itself), and eventually came upon the following solution:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select “Uninstall a program”
3. Find Office 2010 Beta, right click and select “Change”
4. Choose the fourth option, “Enter a product key”
5. Enter the product key you got with the download
6. Let it continue and run the wizard
7. When you restart your Office applications, it will ask you to validate online then you will be activated!
8. You may have to restart again to make the messages go away.

Office 2010 Activation Failure

Earlier in the week, I got stuck in to installing and trying out Office 2010. Now that I’ve had a bit of a chance to get to grips with it and use it, there are some very cool additions that I have discovered and want to dig a bit deeper into.

The first feature, surprisingly enough, is in Outlook. As I said in my previous overview of Office 2010, Outlook is the program from the suite I use the most, and that which has had the biggest overhaul.

One feature that I recently discovered is the Quick Steps feature.

This is a fixture that appears in the main ribbon when you are in a mailbox, and it allows you to configure and then execute macros – a series of steps that would usually take you several clicks, but instead with just one.

Setting up Quick Steps can be slightly tricky, so rather than write a very very long post detailing how to go about doing it, I thought it would be better to record a short screencast and walk you through the process:

It’s been nearly 3 years since Office 2007 was unleashed upon the world, its revolutionary UI and complexity contentious to this day.

Now, however, Microsoft is readying its successor, Office 2010. With it comes further UI changes where they had not appeared in Office 2007, along with numerous usability and speed enhancements.

Let’s take an in-depth look at