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Download Office 2010 Service Pack 1 

<p>The Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) -- a bundle of updates based on what we've learned during Office 2010's record-breaking first year-- was released yesterday. Learn more about it in the SP1 announcement on the Microsoft Updates (Sustained Engineering Team) blog, or just go ahead and download it now from the Download Center. SP1 will be available through Microsoft Update as an automatic update in 90 days. It's available there now as a manual update to those who've installed all Office Automatic Updates. </p>
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Ready for widescreen? How to manage aspect ratios in PowerPoint (16:9 vs. 4:3) 

<p>Widescreen, with its 16:9 aspect ratio, is taking over video screens faster than Godzilla in a scale model city. And that's a good thing, with PowerPoint. As the name implies, widescreen brings wider, more beautiful images onto your TV and computer screens. So why does your PowerPoint presentation suddenly look terrible? Possibly because you copied slides that contain graphics between one presentation created in 16:9 and another created in 4:3. Here are five tips for moving slides and graphics between presentations that use the 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.... </p>