Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is Now Available

Microsoft today released the first service pack for Office 2010, Service Pack 1 (SP1), coincidentally alongside the launch of Office 365. (There's no SP1 requirement for Office 365.) In addition to aggregating previous fixes, this service pack includes a number of small changes and fixes.

Paul Thurrott

June 28, 2011

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Microsoft today released the first service pack for Office 2010, Service Pack 1 (SP1), coincidentally alongside the launch of Office 365. (There's no SP1 requirement for Office 365.) In addition to aggregating previous fixes, this service pack includes a number of small changes and fixes, including the following:

  • Outlook fixes an issue where “Snooze Time” would not reset between appointments.

  • The default behavior for PowerPoint “Use Presenter View” option changed to display the slide show on the secondary monitor.

  • Integrated community content in the Access Application Part Gallery.

  • Better alignment between Project Server and SharePoint Server browser support.

  • Improved backup / restore functionality for SharePoint Server

  • The Word Web Application extends printing support to “Edit Mode.”

  • Project Professional now synchronizes scheduled tasks with SharePoint task lists.

  • Internet Explorer 9 “Native” support for Office Web Applications and SharePoint

  • Office Web Applications support for Chrome

  • Inserting Charts into Excel Workbooks using Excel Web Application

  • Support for searching PPSX files in Search Server

  • Visio Fixes scaling issues and arrowhead rendering errors with SVG export

  • Proofing Tools improve spelling suggestions in Canadian English, French, Swedish and European Portuguese.

  • Outlook Web Application Attachment Preview (with Exchange Online only)

Right now, Office 2010 is available as a manual download in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, though Microsoft will eventually push it to Microsoft Update of course.

Download Office 2010 SP1 32-bit
Download Office 2010 SP1 64-bit

About the Author

Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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