It’s been about three years aback Microsoft apparent a new adaptation of Office, and decidedly with Windows 8 aloof months abroad from dropping, the software has been able-bodied behind for an upgrade. Today, Redmond apparent the latest archetype — Office 2013 (aka Office 15) — which the aggregation will be assuming in a examination date until the final adaptation goes on auction (hit up the antecedent articulation if you appetite to download it for yourself).
Perhaps the bigger annual isn’t any distinct affection Microsoft’s added to Chat (hello, accessible YouTube embeds!), but how and breadth you’ll admission your files. With this version, the aggregation is affective to a subscription-based archetypal wherein your Office files are angry to your Microsoft ID. Already you assurance up, you can download the assorted desktop apps to a assertive cardinal of accessories and, as with Windows 8, your settings, SkyDrive files and alike the abode breadth you larboard off in a certificate will chase you from accessory to device. (It’s telling, we think, that files now save to the billow by default.) As you’d expect, too, this adaptation is additionally added tablet-friendly than editions past, with a blow approach that widens the agreement amid onscreen altar and flattens menus. In Chat and PowerPoint, you’ll additionally acquisition a read-only approach that turns abstracts into full-screen editions, whose pages you can bash through as you would an e-book or calendar magazine.
Of course, Microsoft included affluence of diminutive updates like PDF alteration and a behind-the-scenes Presenter Appearance in PowerPoint. Auspiciously for you, analytical adeptness users, we’ve been spending the bigger allotment of a anniversary testing the software on a Samsung Series 7 Slate loaded up with Windows 8. So accompany us accomplished the breach breadth we’ll accord you a abundant breakdown of what’s new, forth with screenshots and abundant aboriginal impressions.
General attending and feel
For those of you who anticipation Microsoft would absolutely analysis Office advanced of the Windows 8 release, let’s put it this way: if you could survive the alteration to Ribbon airheaded in Office 2007, you’ll bound feel at home here. The Ribbon is, indeed, still the cornerstone of the Office experience, the beheld allegory biting Word, Excel, Outlook and every added appliance in the suite.
Nonetheless, Microsoft has fabricated some attenuate changes to the UI, and they’re all absolutely important. For starters, no bulk what app you’re using, you’ll acquisition your name and Microsoft annual photo in the upper-right bend — a admonition that the billow is now the linchpin to the Office experience. From there, you can bang the photo to acclimatize your annual settings, bandy in a new account or alike about-face accounts.
Cloud integration
Being able to save to the billow is hardly a new affection in Office, but for the aboriginal time extenuative to SkyDrive is the default, not the C drive. (SkyDrive Pro abutment is advancing as well, says Microsoft.) And aback you do hit save, you’ll alike see a beforehand bar on the basal of the screen, acknowledging your latest abstract fabricated it cautiously to the cloud. As you’d expect, of course, the congenital options for extenuative to the billow are bound to Microsoft’s own casework (SkyDrive and SharePoint). If you appetite to upload to Dropbox or Google Drive, you’ll accept to do it alfresco Office.
And aback your files are stored online by default, it’s adequately accessible to allotment them on the web as well. Throughout these assorted Office apps, you can allotment your assignment with accession by sending them a URL, acceptance them to chase forth in a browser alike if they don’t arise to accept Office installed on their bounded machine. To do this, aloof hit File, Allotment and accept either “Get link” or “Invite people,” if you appetite them to accept alteration privileges. If, for some reason, the adaptation fails to upload, you’ll see a banderole accession beyond the top of the screen, bidding you to try that save again. From the aforementioned administration menu, you can additionally cavalcade your assignment to a amusing arrangement or email a certificate as an attachment, but that aftermost bit isn’t new.
Another perk: a affection alleged Resume Account allows you aces up absolutely breadth you larboard off, alike if you resume alteration on accession device. (Okay, okay, Amazon’s Kindle, for one, already bookmarks e-books this way, but isn’t it a abatement not to lose your abode in a 44-item accelerate deck?) Admitting this affection doesn’t administer to best apps in the Office family, you will see it in Chat as able-bodied as PowerPoint.
Lastly, in assorted Office apps it’s now easier to bung in a photo you begin online. For example, Chat is now chip with Facebook and Flickr so that you cull pictures beeline from there, instead of accepting to download it and afresh manually admit it into the doc. Acutely the alone admonition is that you charge an internet connection, so maybe save a Disney World photo or two on your desktop for offline emergencies.
Touch mode
Across the assorted apps, too, you can use a new blow approach to accomplish the software a little added finger-friendly. To betrayal this option, bang on that baby arrow in the upper-left bend of the awning — you know, the one you already use to adapt which icons are arresting and which ones are hidden. Already you baddest blow mode, the figure that appears should attending like a amphitheater with a dotted band about it.
It’s accessible to brainstorm that, with the columnist of a button, Office would somehow booty on added of a Metro-inspired look, with large, finger-friendly icons and — cartel we say it — a added dumbed-down interface. Actually, the adjustments Office makes in blow approach are far added subtle. In short, enabling this approach widens the agreement amid onscreen objects, authoritative it beneath acceptable that you’ll tap the amiss thing. This approach additionally causes assorted airheaded to abrade so that you can see options with beneath feel ascribe involved. Again, that doesn’t beggarly the altar on awning aback become beyond to board feel input, but this apparatus at atomic cuts bottomward on the bulk of borer you’ll end up doing.
Etc.Spend abundant time in Office 2013 and you’ll apprehension dozens of beheld flourishes that serve to accord the software that added bit of discharge and polish. Office comes address bright new icons, for one. Altered apps like Chat and PowerPoint accept bigger alignment guides, which become arresting aback you’re inserting tables and added altar (we aboriginal noticed this while inserting a YouTube clip).
Also, activated transitions are everywhere: a accelerate of the awning aback you hit the Book tab, Excel archive growing afore your eyes. As a Microsoft rep explained it, the abstraction is to action some beheld acknowledgment to new users, who adeptness not absolutely apperceive their way about yet. Whether you crave that affectionate of allowance is debatable, but we’re abiding of this much: the animations are glossy — pretty, alike — and aggregate about the apartment feels fast: fluid, alive and refreshingly bare of bugs.
This isn’t your old-school software installation, kids. The adorableness of Office 2013’s software-as-a-service archetypal is that you get automated updates and all that applesauce you’ve arise to apprehend from the added web-based casework in your life. So it’s fitting, then, that the accession begins not with a software download, but by selecting your examination adaptation and afresh signing in with your Microsoft / Windows Alive ID. Wait a few account for the bureaucracy to unfold, and afresh download Office to your assorted devices. (Take note: Office 2013 will run on Windows 7 and the Win8 Absolution Preview; it’s not accordant with Vista, and it won’t assignment with beforehand builds of Windows 8, such as the Consumer Preview.) Armed with a accelerated WiFi connection, we were up and alive in bristles account and, again, the acquaintance was bland and crash-free.
This adeptness be a acceptable time to analyze the minimum accouterments requirements. So continued as you accept 3.5GB of chargeless deejay amplitude and an X86 or X64 arrangement clocked at 1GHz or higher, you should be acceptable to go. DirectX10 cartoon are required, forth with a minimum resolution of 1024 x 576. Microsoft additionally recommends 1GB of RAM for 32-bit systems, and 2GB for 64-bit machines.
Look and feel
When you accessible Chat for the aboriginal time, you’ll apprehension some changes to that anterior alpha page. Now, the left-hand breadth shows contempo documents, while the breadth to the appropriate showcases templates, some of them new. Of course, the affair you’ll apparently appetite best – a bare certificate – is still sitting in an easy-to-spot corner, against the top of the screen.
Head on into a bare certificate and you’ll see the Ribbon UI has fabricated allowance for a new Architecture tab, which claims to let you accomplish all your architecture changes in one place. Options accommodate things like fonts, branch spacing, capacity and abacus watermarks to documents. Thankfully, though, Microsoft kept the affection breadth if you highlight argument and afresh hover over it with your mouse, you’ll see some pop-up controls appropriate there, acceptance you to change the chantry blush and accomplish added simple tweaks.
Tracking changes
Of all the new appearance in Office 2013, this is the one we Engadget editors authority angel to our hearts. With this adaptation of Office, tracking changes has been tweaked so that unless you’re actively account through changes and comments, all that babble artlessly shows up as a agglomeration of red lines. Aback you’re accessible to focus on editing, aloof bang the band to aggrandize the thread. And we do beggarly threads. Now, if you get into a back-and-forth with accession editor (“Can we alarm this buzz a Galaxy Note clone?” “No”), those comments will arise in a distinct chat that flows alongside the page, in the margins. If you’ve anytime acclimated clue changes to coact on a document, you apperceive that ahead such an inane barter would beggarly seeing a abstracted animadversion balloon for anniversary person’s response, alike if they were all acclamation the aforementioned issue.
And ascendancy freaks, rejoice: you can now lock tracking, which agency accession needs to access a countersign to accomplish Chat stop tracking changes. The point being, unless that actuality knows the password, he or she can’t accomplish any changes after you knowing.
Live Blueprint and abacus online video
It’s not like you couldn’t ahead add online video to an Office document, but it was a affliction — hardly a beginner-level move. Now, Chat allows you to admit clips anon from YouTube, Bing Video or any added site, so continued as you accept the HTML bury cipher handy. Aloof bang the Admit tab in the Ribbon, afresh bang – you estimated it – “Online Video.” Again, if we capital we could adhesive in some cipher from Viddler, Engadget’s hosting site, and admit a analysis video we had already uploaded. For the purposes of this walkthrough, though, we’ll pretend we’re analytic for article on YouTube.
When you search, the after-effects arise in a baby pop-up that obscures the awning (not a browser pop-up, but a chat box aural Word). All of the chase after-effects arise as baby thumbnails, and if you hover over them, you can see the appellation of the video (how abroad are you declared to apperceive if you’ve got the auto-tune remix?). Helpfully, you can additionally see how continued a video is, so if you were attractive for a music video, say, you adeptness accept an easier time weeding out the 50-second ones that acutely aren’t complete. You can additionally examination the video aboriginal so that you don’t go through the altercation of embedding it alone to apprehend it’s not what you wanted.
Once you admit the video, it’s accessible to resize it by boring the corners or sides. There are additionally little pop-up tabs abutting to the frame, which you can bang to baddest a blueprint advantage (e.g., in band with the text) or do things like cut or archetype it. In theory, you can additionally watch a video from central Word, after accepting to accessible up the browser. It doesn’t augur well, though, that the aboriginal video we amid had its permissions set in such a way that we had to appointment YouTube if we were action to watch. Unfortunately, there’s no way of allegorical that afore you admit a video.
Also, in a new affection alleged Alive Layout, the argument will automatically blanket itself about a video, blueprint or annihilation abroad you admit into the text. And that happens in absolute time, alike as you annoyance the article around. This is what we beggarly aback we allocution about Office’s solid performance: as absorbing as these new appearance are, they feel appreciably failing and nimble.
Editing PDFs
For a while now, Chat has accustomed users to save accomplished docs as PDF files. But until now, accomplishing the adverse — alteration a PDF — has appropriate added software, abundant of it not free. Here, though, aback you accessible a PDF you can adapt it as you would a Chat document, and afresh you can either save it as such, or save it as accession PDF file. We had no botheration demography a PDF email attachment, accounting in added material, extenuative it as a PDF and afresh examination it in Windows Reader. Okay, depending on who you are this adeptness not be the best agitative new appearance in Office 2013, but it is absolutely one of the best useful.
Reading mode
Now here’s a affection Microsoft adeptness not accept agitated to accommodate if it didn’t brainstorm bodies application Office on tablets. The company’s added a new account approach — a full-screen, read-only appearance that mimics the acquaintance of account an e-book on a tablet. To access it, aloof go to the Appearance tab in the Ribbon and acquisition “Read Mode” all the way on the left. (Psst: This works in PowerPoint, too.)
Once you’re in, the certificate takes up the accomplished screen, save for the Windows taskbar at the bottom. Like an e-book — but absolute abundant clashing a Chat certificate — the pages annal from ancillary to ancillary by default, instead of top-to-bottom. (If you like, you can about-face to a alleged folio appearance with vertical scrolling.) All told, it’s absolute automatic to acquisition your way around: there are onscreen larboard and appropriate arrows, which you can click, but you can additionally aloof bash the awning to beforehand to the abutting page. You can additionally acclimatize the blush of the text: it’s black-on-white by default, but you can additionally accept white-on-black or a amber theme.
Lastly, aback you’re in account mode, there’s a abstracted affection alleged Article Zoom, which allows you to aggrandize a photo or table aural the argument by bifold beat or borer it. Like any acceptable e-reader app, you can additionally chase for specific words in the text, or accomplish a chase (in this case, with Bing).
Onscreen keyboardSticking with this book affair for a moment, Microsoft congenital in the aforementioned well-spaced touchscreen keyboard you’ll acquisition in Windows 8. We abnormally acknowledge that the apostrophe is to the appropriate of the “L” key, as it is on a concrete keyboard. There’s additionally a arresting Ctrl key so that you can columnist Ctrl S to save your work. Lastly, we had a acceptable acquaintance with the predictive spelling, which presents suggestions in the anatomy of small, humble pop-ups.
Flash Fill
We can bethink a time aback Sparklines, those charts-within-cells, were the covering new affection for Excel. This year, though, you’ll apprehension that abounding of the aloft new additions don’t necessarily aim to applesauce up spreadsheets so abundant as booty the banality out of the number-crunching. Exhibit A: Flash Fill. It’s a affection that recognizes your abstracts patterns to the point breadth it should be able to adumbrate what belongs in the absolute bare beef and ample them in for you. For example, if you were to accomplish a spreadsheet account on what canicule altered departments were application the capital appointment room, Excel would eventually aces up on the actuality that every business controlling has a affair there Tuesday, while the publicity bodies are due there on Thursday.
In theory, you aloof accept to access some of that abstracts and afresh go to the Abstracts tab, breadth you columnist the Flash Ample button to accomplish it ample in the rest. For instance, in a admirers spreadsheet provided by Microsoft, one cavalcade shows a account of aggregation email addresses, anniversary of which chase the architecture “firstname.lastname.” After accounting two aboriginal names in the bare “First name” column, Excel abounding in the rest. Ditto aback we added a cavalcade for aftermost names.
In our own testing, we enjoyed agnate success, but apparent that Flash Ample doesn’t accomplish faculty of all abstracts — for example, it doesn’t admit “yes” and “no” as values. So, there adeptness able-bodied be times aback Excel won’t be able to analysis your abstracts set and aces up on the patterns within.
Suggestions for visuals
Fortunately, Excel includes some new appearance that prove to be a little added able than Flash Fill. These accommodate recommendations for alleged PivotTables as able-bodied as charts. Application the abstracts we aloof talked about (employees, their departments and their bloom allowance status) the Recommended PivotTable affection (located beneath the Admit tab) came up with a few analytic options: agent calculation by department, and a calculation of insured against uninsured workers. Sounds appropriate to us. Likewise, the Recommended Archive affection (also in the Admit section) offered up the aforementioned ideas, alone represented in appealing bar blueprint form.
Timeline Slicer
A new accession to Office’s accumulating of alleged Slicers, Timeline allows you to clarify abstracts by assertive time periods (think: sales abstracts for 2011).
Quick Analysis
Though the name would beforehand otherwise, this affection isn’t so abundant a adjustment for authoritative faculty of your abstracts as it is a way to examination altered visuals. As you can see in that screenshot above, already you bang on the agnate Quick Analysis figure you’ll see assorted formatting options, and as you hover over them you’ll see the certificate change accordingly, giving you a glimpse of what you’ll see if you end up selecting that option.
Presenter View
So no adorned new archive in Excel, but lots of means to accomplish coursing through your abstracts a little added efficient. It’s a agnate adventure with PowerPoint: alike added than activated transitions, Microsoft is absorption on behind-the-scenes appearance advised to booty some of the all-overs out of presentations. For starters, aback you bung in a projector, Windows will automatically extend your desktop assimilate that beyond awning so that you don’t accept to dabble with the bureaucracy in advanced of your audience.
Once you’re acquainted in and accessible to alpha your talk, you’ll accept the advantage of application a new presenter view, arresting alone on the awning you’re application (press Alt F5 to accompany it up). Not clashing the presenter awning in Apple’s Keynote software, this shows you the time elapsed, as able-bodied as any addendum you may accept accounting yourself. You can additionally enlarge text, teleprompter-style and compression the slider to see the abounding accelerate accouter — absolute agnate to how you can compression to get a bird’s eye appearance of your Windows 8 Alpha screen. The idea, says Microsoft, is to be able to agilely skip advanced a few slides if accession in the admirers asks a catechism about some affair you haven’t gotten to yet. If you do adapt the slide, it won’t be arresting to the admirers on the big screen. None of the behind-the-scenes actuality will be.%Gallery-160413%
As ever, you can additionally scribble, or “ink,” on slides application either a pen or your finger. (You’ll accept to tap an figure aboriginal to accredit this.) You’ll see this as an advantage beneath the Analysis tab aback you’re appearance up slides, but you can additionally do it during your presentation, from the Presenter Appearance screen.
MiscellaneousThe blow of the new PowerPoint appearance are a assorted bunch. You can absorb shapes to actualize custom ones. In accession to application an eyedropper to baddest colors, you can additionally bout a blush to an accompanying photo. Music playback has additionally been bigger so that you can now comedy a clue in the accomplishments beyond assorted slides or the accomplished presentation. Additionally, Microsoft has broadcast its account of accurate media book types to accommodate .MP4 files, acceptation you can consign to .MP4 as able-bodied as comedy such files natively after accepting to install QuickTime.
Look and feelIn its accepted incarnation, Outlook still looks like, well, Outlook, but you’ll apprehension that abounding of the options aren’t anon visible. Abundant like there’s no anchored Alpha button in Windows 8, the flags in Outlook alone arise if you hover abutting to a bulletin with your mouse. Additionally new with this version: a acclimate bar accession beyond the top of your calendar. You can manually change the location, but by default, Office shows alone one set of acclimate forecasts at a time. Another, added assorted change: if you’ve amorphous to acknowledge to an email, but adored it as a draft, the chat “Draft” will arise in red in your inbox, abutting to the bulletin (yes, aloof like Gmail).
Peeks
With this version, the aggregation is additionally introducing fly-over airheaded alleged Peeks, which appearance things like calendar appointments, agitation items and advice about your contacts. To acquisition these, attending for the icons ample on top of anniversary added in the lower larboard bend of the screen. Abrasion over the calendar icon, for instance, and you’ll see a live, pop-up window that allows you to glance at your calendar after accepting to toggle amid tabs to analysis your schedule. If you’re advanced open, you’ll see a bulletin adage you accept no appointments; if you are booked, it’ll acquaint you when.%Gallery-160412%
Social connectors
Continuing this affair of assuming as abundant advice in one abode as accessible (without you accepting to bang to a altered screen): if you’re account an email from someone, you can bang an arrow at the basal of the awning to cull up the Bodies Pane. While this breadth isn’t new (you could ahead see your affairs with that actuality and additionally your email history), you can now glance at that person’s amusing networking goings-on. For now, Outlook natively integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn, but not Twitter, for whatever reason. (There is, however, an API that makes this possible.)
As we bound learned, this affection is advantageous mainly if you’re on Facebook and additionally accompany with the bodies you’re conversing with. Obviously, you won’t see updates from a business accessory you aren’t affiliated to on Facebook. At the aforementioned time, the LinkedIn affiliation is adequately abortive unless accession is cool alive on that site; you’ll alone see contempo activity, and alike then, the tidbits tend to be uninteresting. After all, do you absolutely charge to apperceive if accession aloof added accession abroad to their network? Really, Twitter affiliation would accomplish this new affection so abundant added valuable: bodies are eavesdropping abundant to affliction about added people’s tweets and fortunately, best of us don’t bother to lock our accounts.
SharePoint integrationIn annual that will bulk best to the IT guys account this, Microsoft has bigger the affiliation amid Outlook and SharePoint so that SharePoint groups now accept their own mailboxes. From here, you see abstracts stored on SharePoint after abrogation Outlook. (To adapt them, of course, you’ll charge to accessible the agnate Office app.) We additionally acknowledge that the about-face is additionally possible: you can annoyance and bead accessories into the docs binder for SharePoint and they’ll upload to your team’s site.
The bigger annual actuality is that OneNote, that bowl for accidental thoughts and musings, will be accessible as a standalone, Metro-styled Windows 8 app. Admitting we bent a glimpse of it in an beforehand affair with Microsoft, it wasn’t accessible for testing during our examination period, so our impressions are added bound here. Rounding out the list, OneNote is additionally accepting a full-screen view, auto-save, bigger table tools, added scribbling (nay, inking) functionality, affiliation with Outlook calendars, added able chase and the adeptness to almanac audio alongside notes.
Since best of our readers aren’t suit-wearing business travelers so abundant as awfully abreast consumers, we’re not action to burrow into the new enterprise-grade appearance in about as abundant detail as Word, Outlook and added amount apps. If accumulated software rings your bell, though, we’ve got a quick briefing beneath of what’s new:
So far, Microsoft hasn’t appear any appraisement advice for Office 2013, admitting it has categorical the altered forms Office will take. There will, of course, be the web-based account Office 365 forth with the desktop Office 2013 suite. Additionally, Office will be accessible on ARM-based tablets alive Windows RT — albeit, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote only. Finally, enterprises can acquirement a server-specific adaptation able of hosting Exchange, SharePoint, Project and Lync. In cases such as those, businesses can accept billow hosting, bounded servers or a aggregate of the two.
Oh, and if you’re apprehensive about Office for Mac, that will be accessible too, but Microsoft isn’t accessible to accord the accessible a examination aloof yet.
All told, actuality are the specific articles Microsoft is previewing appropriate now:
Sometimes it’s the little things, like extenuative abstracts to SkyDrive, that agreeableness us most. Alike added than any absolute affection in Office 2013, what larboard us best bugged during our testing aeon was the moment we powered bottomward our Series 7 tablet, angry it aback on, launched Chat and begin the cursor absolutely breadth we larboard it. The best affair about Office is not what it does bigger than Office 2010, but how abundant added alive it is in afterward you from accessory to device, from shut-down to start-up again. Beyond that, no one distinct affection of Office 2013 is dazzling, per se, but it doesn’t matter: aggregate here, from YouTube embeds to the blueprint architect in Excel, works as promised and is automatic to use. At the aforementioned time, the interface doesn’t mark a abolitionist abandonment from antecedent versions, so alike accidental users with no use for PivotTables should be able to acquisition their way around.
The one admonition we feel accountable to action is that although Office 2013 has been adapted to accumulate clip with Windows 8, this is not some array of abracadabra ammo that will aback accomplish Office a amusement to use on book devices: while account approach is absurd and blow approach is a footfall in the appropriate direction, we still wouldn’t appetite to assignment with spreadsheets after the advice of a mouse. That abnegation aside, we’ve begin absolute few faults with Office 2013 — it’s fast, able and accessible to use.
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