Whats new in

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Extend
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Whats new in the Office apps?
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The new Office transforms how you work.

Each application start is a new experience
designed to help productivity. Open an
existing document or use a template to
create a new document. Its also easier to
share and collaborate. You can use new
features like SkyDrive Pro to save and share
your files right from your Office applications.
The new Office applications are also more
closely aligned with each other, so you have
a consistent experience from one application
to another.

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Start
When you start the new Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, or
Access, each experience begins with a newly redesigned and
uniform start screen. You can start with a compelling template or
theme, choose a recent or not-so-recent file, or start from a blank
document.

Save and share files in the cloud

You can save documents directly to SkyDrive Pro from Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. With your documents stored in
the cloud, you can get to them anytime youre online. Its also easier
to share documents stored in the cloud. You can even work
together with colleagues on the same file at the same time.

CAUTION Do not use your personal SkyDrive (use SkyDrive Pro

instead) to share business documents. Your personal SkyDrive is a

consumer service and is not intended for confidential business
information. Also, do not store HBI or PII content on SkyDrive Pro.

Across all applications, more templates, building blocks, and styles

are available and uniformly accessible for you to use. You can
choose from templates saved to your local hard drive or from a vast
array of online templates.

After you save files on SkyDrive Pro, you can create a local cache of
the files for offline usage by clicking the Sync button, which appears
in every document library. The local folder will always sync with the
online library when you regain connectivity.

Office recognizes me?

When you log on to your computer with your domain credentials,
and then open an Office application, Office automatically recognizes
you. Your picture and name are displayed in the upper-right corner
of the screen to show that youre signed in.

Because Office is associated with your credentials, your Office

documents roam with you even when you move to a different
computer or device, as long as youre signed in to Office with those
credentials. For example, lets say youre working on an Excel
spreadsheet at work. You save the document to SkyDrive Pro, close
the document, and then use a different computer or other device
when youre on the road. If youre signed in to Office, when you
open Excel on the new device, your recent documents are displayed
on the left side of the start screen, so you can get right back to work
on your document.

Your Office settings also roam with you. For example, your Office
background, theme, and connected services roam with you when
youre signed in to Office.
To change account information like your picture, tap or click File, and then
tap or click Account.

Access your most-used files quickly

In the new Office, the Save As and Open dialog boxes have been
improved to reduce browsing and scrolling. Your recent folders are
right there, and you can pin a location so that its always available.

Present a document online using the

Office Presentation Service

Share
The new Office applications make it a snap to share files in several
different ways.

Invite people to share

With the new Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, after youve
saved a document on SkyDrive Pro, you can simply invite people to
share the document. You can even set up permissions (view or edit)
to the document from your Office app. When you click Share, Office
sends a link to anyone that you invite so that they can access the
file quickly and easily.

If you need to share a document, you can present a Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, or OneNote document using the Office Presentation
Service, a free public service that allows others to follow along in
their web browser. No setup is required to use the Office
Presentation Service.

Connect to a Lync meeting from

anywhere
You can connect to a Lync online meeting from a smartphone,
tablet, or PC, no matter where you are. In the meeting, you can
share a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, an Excel
spreadsheet, or a OneNote notebook. Meeting attendees can see
the files even if they dont have Office installed.

Apps are hosted in the cloud and are independent from Office
lifecycles, which provides maximum flexibility to deploy and update
apps. Apps for Office roam with your user identity (when youre
signed into Office), so they are available from a multitude of
devices. To create apps for Office and SharePoint, developers can
leverage existing web-development skills and familiar languages
such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, or PHP, along with familiar
tools and hosting services.
Developers can also sell and publish apps through the Office store.
IT and engineering teams can make extensive use of Windows
Azure-hosted applications and ASP.NET. Smaller portal owners can
continue to host on SharePoint.

Touch

Extend
Extend Office with the new apps for Office and SharePoint.

Apps for Office and SharePoint

The new Office introduces a Cloud App Model that web and
professional developers can use to quickly build secure, scalable,
and flexible apps. By combining cloud services and web
technologies (such as HTML and Java Script), this new class of apps
extends and personalizes the way that users can create and
consume information from within Office and SharePoint.

The new Office is designed for touch-enabled Windows 8 and

Windows 7 computers and devices, so that you can tap and swipe
your way through your documents and communications.
If you want to enlarge the space between buttons on the ribbon to
make it easier to select options with your fingers, use the new
Touch/Mouse Mode button. You can add the Touch/Mouse
Mode button to the Quick Access Toolbar so that you can easily
switch back and forth between Touch and Mouse modes.

Add the Touch/Mouse Mode button to

the Quick Access Toolbar
1. Click the down arrow on the Quick Access Toolbar.

Wheres the ribbon?

With the new Office, you can use more of your screen for workspace
by accessing the ribbon only when you need it. If the ribbon is
hidden, just click a tab to display it, and then tap or click the item
you want. If you always want the ribbon displayed, pin it by clicking
the Pin the ribbon button (far right side of ribbon).

2. Tap or click Touch/Mouse Mode to add the button to the

toolbar.
3. Tap or click the Touch/Mouse Mode button on the Quick
Access Toolbar, and then select the mode you want.

Whats new in the Office apps?

To learn about exciting new features in each of the new Office
applications, click any of the following links.

Whats New in Word 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/what-s-new-in-word2013-HA102809597.aspx?CTT=1

Whats New in Excel 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/what-s-new-in-excel2013-HA102809308.aspx?CTT=1

CAUTION Even in Mouse mode, if you open a menu (the collapsed

ribbon or the contextual right-click menu) using touch, the menu

will open up with spaced icons and controls, as if you specifically
switched to Touch mode. Functionality that requires hover behavior
is not active in Touch mode, however. For example, if you tap Font
Color (rather than clicking with the mouse), the buttons will be
bigger, but the Eyedropper will not be available on the menu.

Whats New in PowerPoint 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/what-s-new-inpowerpoint-2013-HA102809628.aspx?CTT=1

Whats New in OneNote 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/what-s-new-inmicrosoft-onenote-2013-HA102749260.aspx?CTT=1

Whats New in Outlook 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/what-s-new-inoutlook-2013-HA102606408.aspx?CTT=1

Whats New in Access 2013?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/what-s-new-inaccess-2013-HA102809500.aspx?CTT=1

For more
information
Microsoft IT Showcase
http://microsoft.com/microsoft-IT

Whats new in Office 2013

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/whats-new-in-office2013-HA102830213.aspx?CTT=1

Office Support
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/?CTT=97

SkyDrive apps
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/download

What is SkyDrive Pro?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/what-isskydrive-pro-HA102822076.aspx