the newsletter of tbd consultants - 2nd qtr 2010
						Printable PDF version Subscribe to our newsletter In this Edition Construction Cost Trends What influences the steel market? Office 2010 Arrives
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		Construction Cost Trends Brian Tolland The stock market continues to climb slowly up, but construction remains flat. Brian Tolland looks into where we are now and what we can expect the construction market to do in the coming months.
		What influences the steel market? Oliver Fox In this article Oliver Fox looks at the factors that influence one of the main materials in many buildings - steel.
		Geoff’s IT Gems Office 2010 Arrives Just when you thought it was safe to click the Office button – it’s gone! If you are used to working in Office 2007, when Office 2010 arrives at a computer near you the biggest change you will immediately notice is that the Office button has disappeared and we have something that (at first glance) looks like the File menu is back. But if you click on File you find that it is much more than a simple menu, or even a ribbon. It takes up the entire window and will give you a fair amount of information and options related to each of the basic “menu” options. The other big difference between Office 2010 and its predecessor is the built-in ability to save and open documents to and from an online folder. The idea here is that you can then access the documents from anywhere, provided you have an Internet connection, and you can work on the documents using the Windows Live versions of the Office suite if necessary. You can also make documents available for others to work on. These online capabilities are playing catch-up with things like Google Apps, and we can expect to see the online capability growing in future versions of Office. Other than those two changes, there is little changed in any substantive way from Office 2007. The layout of the other ribbons (menu-toolbar things) is basically unchanged, and the file format is the same as for Office 2010. So the learning curve moving from Office 2007 to Office 2010 should be a lot flatter than it was with the jump from Office 2003 when Office 2007 arrived. Plus you get a few interesting new features, such as the ability to directly edit videos in PowerPoint.
		Design consultant: Katie Levine of Vallance, Inc.