Interesting Features: New Microsoft Office 2013

---

This Tuesday Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has introduced next version of Microsoft Office and surprise many people. This new version of office will be more efficient than any previous version of office. Its preview is already available on office site, look at the below video.

The new office version is specially developed for windows 8 operating system and touch based tablets.  The new features on new version that works quite well on touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new windows devices, including tablets. As there is more competition from other companies, they have also introduced cloud based service in this new version. 

Let’s see about its new feature in little detail.

New Office Features :

Touch Friendly: The new office system will work quite well with touch screen tablets. It will respond to touch as normally as keyboard and mouse. So those tablet users can easily use this version of office. You can easily swipe your fingers on it to read document easily, you can also pinch the document to zoom in and zoom out to read it more clearly. So access all those features with your fingers.

Inking: You can easily write anything with your finger, means handwriting is better and it will convert them in to text automatically. You can also color your content and erase them more easily with this new version.

Cloud Service with Sky Drive: As I mentioned that Microsoft also have introduced cloud based service in this new office version. You just need to sign in your live id and office will be automatically synchronized with your sky drive. Office will automatically save your documents to sky drive. So you can access your documents from any device, like computer, tablet and phone. So you can access your files from anywhere.  

After singing into office, you can get your personalized settings and recently used files on the screen. So this new version of office will brings you to the position that you had left last. So you can easily carry on your work again.

Edit PDF and Save: You can also edit your pdf files using new Office and also can save them in their adobe format. So it is good news for those who always need to edit their pdf files.

Add Videos in Document: Users can also embed their videos into document and play them directly on the new office. So this is quite new feature given by Microsoft. I am sure this new feature will be quite appreciated.

Adding photos directly from Famous Sites: You can also add photos from few famous sites like flickr, facebook and many more directly. I mean no need to save them in to your computer hard disk. This is another good feature in the new office version.

Windows RT: Office home and Student 2013 RT which is having those new versions of excel, word, power point and other, will be available on ARM- based windows 8 devices, including Microsoft surface.

New windows 8 applications: Windows 8 will have the new applications for new office and that will be OneNote and Lync. These new applications are included to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet.

Good for socializing: Using new office we can integrate our account of Yammer social site on it. Yammer is having integration SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. Yammer is good social site for businesses. You can sign up for free their and start using it. Using SharePoint you can follow people, team and documents directly from the office. New office has also Skype in it, after subscription you will get 60 minutes for free every month on skype. You can integrate your Skype contact into Lync and contact with them instantly directly from office.

So this is it. So far I came to know about this much features in new version of Office. And I think it is having many good features which will be appreciated by many users. Personally even I like these new changes. This will surely increase the competition between big companies and they will try something more to go ahead from each other. I hope you like this information. Have Fun. :)