If you are familiar with Microsoft Office Word 2007 or earlier versions of Microsoft Word, the following list describes features and functionality that have been discontinued or changed in Microsoft Word 2010.
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AutoSummary The AutoSummary feature, which listed the Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, and Comments, is not available in Word 2010. If you inserted an abstract into the document, the abstract will remain. If the document was saved in a summary view, it will be in a different view the next time you open it.
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Clip Art task pane Several changes have been made to the Clip Art task pane:
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Search in box The Search in box is no longer available, which means that you can no longer limit your search to specific collections of content. To narrow your search, you can use multiple search terms in the Search for box.
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Organize clips link The Organize clipslink is no longer available. To open Microsoft Clip Organizer from Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP, click the Windows Start button, click All Programs, click Microsoft Office, click Microsoft Office 2010 Tools, and then click Microsoft Clip Organizer.
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Clip Organizer Clip Organizer is no longer accessible directly from the Clip Art task pane in Microsoft Office programs. In addition, the following changes were made to Clip Organizer:
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Automatic organization The command for automatically finding media files on your computer and organizing them into collections no longer exists. However, you can still add clips manually to Clip Organizer or import them from a scanner or camera.
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Send to e-mail recipient as attachment The command for sending a clip as an attachment in e-mail message is no longer available.
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Delete from collection Although you can delete clips from Clip Organizer, you can no longer delete a clip from a specific collection.
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Find similar style The command that allowed you to find clips of a similar style is no longer available.
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List and Details views The List and Details views are no longer available. Instead, all clips appear as thumbnails in the Clip Organizer window.
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Document Map The Document map is replaced by the Navigation pane in Word 2010. The Navigation pane supports all of the Document Map features except the ability to see revision marks on headings within the pane. Instead, you can see the final result of the revisions within the pane.
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Document Workspaces In Word 2010, Document Workspaces are not available. Instead, Word supports simultaneous editing in documents that are saved to a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 site.
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Encarta Encyclopedia Research service The Encarta Encyclopedia Research service is no longer available, and queries to it will not return any results.
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Ichitaro Converter The converter for the Japanese version is no longer available in the File type list of the Open dialog box. A separate download may become available in the Office.com Download Center at a later date.
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Letter Wizard The Letter Wizard is no longer available in the Japanese version of Word. The three templates that the wizard used will be available on Office.com.
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Mail merge using a Microsoft Works database You cannot perform a mail merge in Microsoft Word 2010 with a Microsoft Works database. You can export the data from Works and then import it into a new data source for your mail merge operations.
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Memo Wizard The Memo Wizard is no longer available in the Japanese version of Word. The three templates that the wizard used will be available on Office.com.
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Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) In Word 2010, MODI is not available, although a separate 32-bit version of the TIF converter will be available as a separate Web download. The Internet Fax feature in Word 2010 uses the Windows Fax printer driver to generate TIF files.
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OASYS Converter The converter for the Japanese version is no longer available in the File type list of the Open dialog box.
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Print Preview The Print Preview experience in earlier versions of Word has been replaced by a preview in the Print area of the Microsoft Office Backstage view.
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Research and Reference pane The Research and Reference pane is not available in Windows Internet Explorer 7. Therefore, the shortcut Alt+Click in Microsoft Word 2010 does not open the Research and Reference pane in the browser.
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RTF file format Word 2010 features and functionality are lost when a document is saved in the Rich Text Format (RTF) file format.
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Search Libraries button The Search Library buttons that appeared under Insert Citations in Word 2007 is not available in Word 2010.
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Smart tags Text is no longer automatically recognized and displayed with a dotted purple line. Instead, you can perform different actions by selecting the text, right-clicking, and then clicking Additional Actions on the shortcut menu. In addition, The Person Name recognition that was based on Outlook Contacts is no longer available. It’s replaced by an action that identifies names based on your Office Communicator contacts.
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Table Header feature The Table Header feature for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean is no longer available.
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English Assistance service Because of low usage, the English Assistance feature and service is no longer available. For more information, please see What happened to English Assistance? If you try to use the service, you'll get the message "The service could not be searched because you are not connected to the Internet. Please connect and try again." even if you're connected to the Internet.
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Korean Language Reference (KOLR) service Because of low usage, the Korean Language Reference research service is no longer available. This affects the English and Korean versions of PowerPoint. If you try to use the service, you'll get the message "The service could not be searched because you are not connected to the Internet. Please connect and try again." even if you're connected to the Internet.
