Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 is available for download

Microsoft has released the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2010. SP2 release improves the compatibility of Office 2010 with Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013. It also addresses security, stability, and performance and contains all the Cumulative Updates (CU) and Public Updates (PU) that have released since SP1.

Details
Office 2010 SP2 provides the latest updates for Office 2010. This service pack includes two kinds of fixes:
  • Previously unreleased fixes that are included in this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, these fixes include improvements in stability, performance, and security.
  • All the public updates that were released through May 2013, and all the cumulative updates that were released through April 2013.


How to obtain and install the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2
Method 1: Microsoft Update (recommended by Microsoft)
Enrolling in Microsoft Update is the recommended way to update the products to SP2. Microsoft Update will detect which products that you have installed, and then apply all updates to the products.

To download the service pack from Microsoft Update, visit the following Microsoft website: Microsoft Update

Method 2: Download the SP2 package from Microsoft Download Center
The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.

Overview of Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 improvements
Specifically, these are the key areas of improvement in Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010.

Excel 2010 SP2
  • Improves the overall stability, performance, and compatibility with other versions of Excel. For a more detailed list of specific issues that the service pack fixes, please download a version of the workbook that is available below.
  • Fixes issues in which the performance of Excel decreases, and Excel file sizes become larger when additional built-in styles are copied during the duplication of data between different Excel instances.
  • Fixes an issue in which data validation lists that contain comma signs (,) are broken in an .xlsx or .xlsb file. This issue occurs when you set the user locale to a location that does not use comma signs (,) to separate the lists. For example, Germany uses semicolons (;) to separate the lists. When you set Germany as the location, data validation lists that contain commas are all broken.
  • Fixes an issue in which an .xlsx file created in Microsoft Office 2013 that contains an App bound to a table is corrupted on save. Additionally, it addresses the issue in which all Agave formulas in the workbook sheet are removed from the file.

Outlook 2010 SP2
  • Fixes the issue regarding the message size of certain long email messages. Additionally, it fixes an issue that occurs when you perform a spell check before you send an email message.

PowerPoint 2010 SP2
  • Improves the quality of videos in a presentation after the videos are optimized or compressed by PowerPoint.
  • Fixes issues that occur when you co-author a presentation with other users at the same time.
  • Fixes an issue in which Mozilla FireFox crashes when you try to view a presentation in PowerPoint Web App on a Mac computer that has Microsoft Silverlight 3 or Silverlight 4 installed.

Word 2010 SP2
  • Fixes issues regarding bookmarks, fields, track changes, templates, tables, object wrapping, autocorrect options, and email addresses. Additionally, it fixes general reliability issues that occur when you post a blog entry on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and Microsoft Office 365 blogs.

This workbook lists the issues that are fixed by this service pack. List of issues that the service pack fixes (.xlsx)

Applies to
  • Office Home and Business 2010
  • Office Home and Student 2010
  • Office Professional 2010
  • Office Professional Plus 2010
  • Office Standard 2010
  • Office Starter 2010
  • Office Professional Academic 2010

Source:
Description of Microsoft Office 2010 SP2

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