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