Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by aarongolliver on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @07:03PM (#5142601)

I have been loving Office 2013. SkyDrive is fantastic for keeping my notes and documents automatically synced between my desktop and laptop. While DropBox can do the same thing, it's a bit smoother when it's integrated right into the app. Also I think it looks much nicer than 2010, but that's personal opinion.

You might still be able to download the free preview version from here http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en

It should work for 60 days after 2013 came out. It should give you a good idea if you like it or not.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by ditoa on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:38PM (#5142211)

Excel and PowerPoint have seen some nice new features added however Word is mostly the same. The new UI is different but mostly just cosmetic over 2010. Although the ribbon has more options.

The biggest changes in 2013 are SkyDrive integration. If you don't really need SkyDrive you can probably live without it until the next version of Office.

I do find 2013 uses less memory than 2010 and generally performs better which is the reason I have stuck with 2013 more than anything else.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by rlu on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @07:21PM (#5142647)

Word has improved "track changes" and commenting. Definitely my favorite changes specific to word. Other than that, it can also embed videos (nice to be able to play a video instead of clicking a link to open a browser and watch the video...) and it can also finally open and edit PDFs.

Seriously though, check out the new tracked changes. Much nicer than before.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by ditoa on Thursday January 31, 2013 @05:50PM (#5148000)

Yeah Word does have a few nice new things but I wouldn't say they are worth the price of the upgrade.

The advanced embedded stuff scares me a little. I can see people adding huge videos into a word document and emailing it to 100+ people on a DL. I can see it being abused.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by chris_wot on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:52AM (#5144132)

Video in a... word processor. Seems like the wrong medium to me.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by rlu on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:12PM (#5146726)

Pictures/graphics too? We aren't talking cat videos here lol

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by dangrossman on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:40PM (#5142230)

All that's been seen was a pre-release preview version that came with Windows RT. You can't get Office 2013 yet, it's not out.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by cdh on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @06:09PM (#5142382)

I've been using it for a while. There was a beta version available for free, and I believe most enterprise customers have had access to the final RTM version for months. I know that some MSDN subscriptions include a production license, and I was able to purchase a consumer copy from Microsoft's Home Use program last week, as well.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by DrPizza on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @06:27PM (#5142463)

The RTM update to Office on Windows RT was delivered the week before Windows RT went on sale.

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by aarongolliver on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:12AM (#5143764)

Office 2013 is out. I know because I bought it yesterday.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy-microsoft-office-and-m...

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Re:Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been ... by niggler on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @06:36PM (#5142504)

It's been available for a while via bizspark http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx

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