Microsoft Office 2013 New Features

Microsoft Office 2013 is a cloud-based service aimed at offering easily available apps and subscription features, among many other things.


Microsoft’s Office 2013 comes equipped with a framework that uses cloud and creates applications supported on web standards and known languages. All the new applications can be made readily available via the Office Store or other app pools. They are designed in such a manner that embedding them within Office Word, Excel and other modules — in more than one organic way — has been made easily possible.

The enhanced features of Office 2013 include — silky appearance reflective of Windows 8, functional step ups, and link-ins to SkyDrive and SharePoint for compiling documents online. Moreover, the varying elements of Office Web Apps also improve the suite’s performance in the cloud.

The Office 2013 reviews have been great so far and anyone wishing to make a transition to the new suite can consider doing so after reading through the following features.

  1. Touch — The Office suite reacts to touch as habitually as it does to the pair of keyboard and mouse. With just a swipe of the finger, one can easily navigate and tap through the screens and apps respectively.
  2. Stylus — With the use of a stylus, users can write notes, create content, and access different features. Users can even handwrite email replies which can then automatically convert to text. Whether it is laser pointing, coloring content or erasing mistakes, stylus can perform these functions with great ease.
  3. New Apps — Lync and OneNote are first of their kind applications for Windows 8 Office. These apps are designed to offer touch-first user interface when explored on a tablet. OneNote also carries a radial menu that makes it quite simple to access features with a finger.
  4. SkyDrive — Documents get saved to SkyDrive by default thereby allowing users to access their data anytime and anywhere via different devices like tablet, PC or phone. These documents can also be accessed offline.
  5. Syncing — Syncing has been made possible across different devices as well. Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will save the work to the last detail of letters, images or cells respectively. This feature enables users to pick up from where they left off, even on a different device.
  6. Subscriptions Services — Office 2013 uses a cloud-based subscription service that will help users with automatic future updates along with interesting cloud services such as world minutes on Skype and extra storage on SkyDrive.
  7. Accounts — Office 2013’s Backstage View includes an Account tab where one can log in to SkyDrive accounts as well as switch between accounts. Users can access connected services like Facebook and Twitter and add others like SkyDrive and LinkedIn.

Users can get the desktop software as a part of an Office 365 subscription. Those who are new to Office 2013 can enroll for Microsoft Office 2013 course. Many enterprises have even upgraded their official systems by providing Microsoft Office 2013 training to their staff. Furthermore, Microsoft Office specialist training programs are specifically designed to enable IT pros to gain more experience in software packages offered by Microsoft.

Thus in the end, as promised by Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, it looks like the “modern Office” has exceeded expectations of being highly productive and flexible, for both the individual and business users.