Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 gives you the essential tools you need to complete school and household projects efficiently.

Ready-to-use templates in Word and PowerPoint 2010 equip students to create outstanding schoolwork, with rich visual effects and media-editing features that help them express their ideas creatively. Excel 2010 gives you the spreadsheet tools the pros use to simplify working with data, from tracking expenses to creating a household budget. And there’s OneNote 2010 for household projects, a catch-all spot for organizing notes, files, and resources in one easy-to-access place.

Stay on top of your household budget   

• Build a budget and track expenses right out of the box with ready-to-use templates in Excel 2010.
• Get insights from your data more quickly with easy-to-use analysis tools like Sparklines and Conditional Formatting.
• Visualize your budget instantly with colorful charts and graphs that are a breeze to create.

Organize household information in one easy spot

• Create a OneNote 2010 notebook to organize resources for any project, from a home remodel to a major purchase decision.
• Collect a full spectrum of materials and media in one easy-to-access place: documents, text, videos, audio, screen clippings, and more.
• Find exactly the piece of information you need with simple tagging and search functions.
• Make Internet research more efficient with Linked Note Taking to save Web pages and other online resources to your notebook with just a click.

Create quality reports, resumes, and newsletters

• Create professional-looking documents, from school reports to family newsletters with built-in design templates in Word 2010.
• Communicate your ideas visually with dozens of customizable SmartArt® graphics.
• Make title pages and headings more dynamic with effects like glow, reflect, and shadow you can apply directly to text.
• Locate the page or section you need easily with the improved Navigation Pane.

Component	Requirement
Computer and processor	500 MHz or faster processor
Memory	256 MB RAM; 512 MB recommended for graphics features and certain advanced functionality.1
Hard disk	3.0 GB available disk space
Display	1024x576 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system	Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit operating system (OS) only) or Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, Windows Server 2008, or later 32- or 64-bit OS.
Graphics	Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 9.0c graphics card with 64 MB or more video memory.
Additional Requirements	Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or later, 32 bit browser only. IE7 or later required to receive broadcast presentations. Internet functionality requires an Internet connection.
	Multi-Touch features require Windows 7 and a touch enabled device.
	Certain inking features require Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.
	Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device.
	Internet Fax not available on Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, or Windows Vista Home Premium
	Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.
	Certain advanced collaboration functionality requires connectivity to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007.
	Certain online functionality requires a Windows LiveTM ID.
Other	Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration.  Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity; www.office.com/products.

¹ 2 GHz processor or faster and 1 GB RAM or more recommended for OneNote Audio Search. Close-talking microphone required. Audio Search not available in all languages.