Microsoft Office 2010 Wins Award for Taming Information Overload

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The average business user receives over 1800 emails per month, according to analyst firm Basex. Today, Basex selected Office 2010 as the recipient of a Basex Excellence Award, also known as a Basey, recognizing Office as an industry-leading product in the areas of knowledge-sharing and collaboration. This year’s Basey awards focus on productivity and information overload and are presented as part of an online event in observance of Information Overload Awareness Day.

How does Office 2010 help people manage information overload? Check out some of the new features Outlook 2010 offers:

  • Conversation View: Condense, categorize, or even ignore entire conversations with a few clicks. Conversation View turns dozens of messages into just a few relevant items. Go to the View tab in the Conversations group and select Show as Conversations.
  • Mailbox Clean Up: New conversation management tools allow you to save valuable inbox space by turning dozens of e-mails into just a few conversations using the Clean Up feature. 
  • Ignore: Don’t need to see all 27 emails about Bob’s retirement party? Can’t blame you – use Ignore feature to send entire conversations to Deleted Items.

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Office 2010 now ranks as the fastest selling consumer version of Office in history, with more than 6 million copies sold to date - more than 30 copies of Office 2010 being sold every minute. We believe Office has been so popular in part because it helps people stay organized and productive. Read more about how Office 2010 offers solutions for information overload on the Office Matters blog, and more about the new features that help manage your Outlook 2010 inbox here.

“We selected Microsoft Office 2010 for this year’s Basey Award due to innovations in the suite that enhance the ability of knowledge workers to collaborate around documents, as well as for user interface improvements that streamline document processes for knowledge workers and standardize interfaces across applications.” – Jonathan Spira, CEO and chief analyst, Basex