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April 23, 2010

PowerPoint 2010 Adds Broad Array of Video Capabilities

Barn-Wan Li and his team created new audio and video features for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 that allow users to more easily embed video in their presentations and even to overlay text and make basic edits to videos without leaving the program.

April 16, 2010

Microsoft Word 2010 Coauthoring Enables Multiple People to Work on a Document at the Same Time

Jonathan Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager, worked with a team of problem-solvers at the company to bring an end to a 27-year-old issue: how to efficiently collaborate on documents. The resulting tool, coauthoring, will be available in Office 2010.

April 8, 2010

Excel 2010 Sparklines: Fitting the Big Picture Into One Cell

Sam Radakovitz developed a feature called “sparklines” for Microsoft Office Excel 2010 that lets users transform large amounts of data into small, at-a-glance displays that fit into a single cell.

March 25, 2010

Former DJ Spins Up a More Social Outlook 2010

Microsoft Program Manager Michael Affronti helped develop two new features for Microsoft Office 2010, one that organizes e-mails by conversation and another that lets people use e-mail to connect socially with friends and professional contacts.