For instance, scientists and other researchers can access all the formulas in handy pull-down menus. You can make deeper data sorts and work with as many as a million rows. It's easier to find the Conditional Formatting for drawing heat maps or adding icons in order to display data patterns.
Plus, along with the other glossier graphics throughout Office, Excel charts get a facelift. You'll probably want to upgrade to PowerPoint if you frequently depend upon professional-looking slide shows to help close a deal. The new template themes are more attractive and less flat-looking than those of the past, although there's little new in the way of managing multimedia content.
Among the four applications in Office Standard, Outlook provides the most practical improvements. To start, it lets you drag tasks and e-mail messages to the calendar, a long-awaited feature that makes scheduling more simple. The new To-Do Bar's task and calendar overview and the ability to flag an e-mail for follow up at a specific time are terrific for time management.
Outlook's built-in RSS reader is useful if you manage lots of news feeds, but we were disappointed that it matches up only with RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7 and not other browsers. We also wish there were a simpler way of organizing e-mail messages than in nested folders and Search Folders.
Tagging messages by subject might be nice, as Gmail allows. The new Instant Search--which lets you troll through e-mail messages, calendar entries, to-do items, and contacts--improves upon Outlook 's clutzy lookups.
Plus, Outlook's new protection against junk mail and phishing scams disables suspicious links. But Outlook uses Word 's HTML standards rather than those of Internet Explorer 7 , which could make some of your newsletters look lopsided when compared with their appearance in Outlook When sending e-mail attachments from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the Outlook composition window opens with all of its formatting options.
Integration has improved throughout the applications, but it's not fully there yet. For instance, we like that you can tinker with a chart's appearance within Word and PowerPoint while managing the connected data in Excel at the same time.
You can click through a preview of a PowerPoint slide show attached to an Outlook e-mail message. But why can't you get a quick, split-pane view of two applications at once at any other time? We're disappointed at the current lack of integration with Web-based services. We had hoped to see such capabilities added, perhaps in the form of tie-ins to Microsoft's Windows Live or Office Live.
The documents, presentations, and spreadsheets squeeze more data into fewer kilobytes than their predecessors did. If a file becomes corrupted, you should be able to recover its contents better than in the past because the files store text, images, macros, and other elements separately.
Note that when you open older Office files with the applications, you'll work in the Compatibility Mode with fewer features until you convert files to the new format. And as with the release of Office , you can't open a file with the new extension right away when using earlier versions of the programs.
What if you have the new software but need to share work with people who have not upgraded? The applications let you save backward-compatible files, but not by default. Service and support Boxed editions of Microsoft Office include a decent, page Getting Started guide. During the first 90 days, you can contact tech support by toll-free phone number for free between a. Pacific on weekdays, and a.
Help at any time with any security-related or virus problems also costs nothing. It could take up to a business day to receive an e-mail response. Luckily, Microsoft's online help is excellent, although we're displeased that Microsoft and other software makers are increasingly promoting do-it-yourself assistance.
That said, we especially like the Command Reference Guides for Word , Excel , and PowerPoint , which walk you through where commands have moved since Office You can also pose questions to the large community of Microsoft Office users via free support forums and chats.
And the included Microsoft Office Diagnostics installation is designed to detect and repair problems if something goes haywire. Conclusion Should you upgrade to Microsoft Office ? It depends on how you work. If you're style-conscious and want to play with new document templates, then Office should please you. Outlook outshines its predecessors if you need to lean on it daily to manage meetings and tasks.
At the same time, if you already use few of the features of Office or earlier and are getting along well, then there's little need to spend hundreds of dollars on the new software.
The radical new interface of Office applications is here to stay, and it's likely to spawn some copycats. For a software package with so many layers of features, it makes sense to cluster functions within icons and tabs rather than a hodgepodge of menu boxes. At the same time, we think that some users will find the dynamic tabs and galleries more distracting than useful. We anticipate that some makers of rival Office software will capitalize on Office 's steep learning curve and try to attract users with the relative simplicity of applications with pull-down menu interfaces that look and feel more like Office and earlier.
Because Microsoft has opened some of the Office source code to developers, prepare to see all sorts of add-ins, such as additional interface tabs, from third party developers. At this point, however, Microsoft hasn't created a gallery on its Web site to help you find such extras. Office doesn't approach the simplicity of upstart, Web-based alternatives, but it better serves up myriad features, and it's much less bloated than in the past.
Note: Microsoft Office Basic Edition is available only as a preinstalled option from participating computer manufacturers. Microsoft Office Basic is a software suite for homes and small businesses with new computers that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents and spreadsheets and manage e-mail. The latest release features the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail.
With these enhancements, Office Basic makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home or work. New features and improvements in the version include an Office Fluent user interface that makes it easier for you to find and use product features; more stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents; enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices; and Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.
Free YouTube Downloader. IObit Uninstaller. Internet Download Manager. Advanced SystemCare Free. VLC Media Player. MacX YouTube Downloader. Microsoft Office YTD Video Downloader. Adobe Photoshop CC. VirtualDJ Microsoft Word has also integrated a translation tool for U. English, French and International Spanish in the default pack, with more languages able to be added when additional complements are downloaded free with the official support. Academic writers will be thankful for the addition of the most commonly used citation formats included a tool for directly inserting the right way to make bibliography and text citations for the MLA, Chicago and APA styles.
The new opportunity to blog directly from this Word utility makes it pretty useful for those authors that want to avoid added steps. This time you only need to configure the application with the service you use such as SharePoint, WordPress or Windows Live Spaces and you will be able to upload the texts you create directly to your online site.
The overall engine has been improved, offering a better way of working without delays and smoothly enough to guarantee no annoyances. The way you can insert images into the text, as well as other multimedia elements, and move them in a more efficient way than in previous editions where these elements could mess up your whole work. SmartArt is a new option for graphic elements. With this editable diagram function you can create the graphics you want much easier than before, include it within your text and modify it the way you really need.
Microsoft Outlook might be the general Office component most often used, since users can arrange meetings and manage contact lists, but moreover Outlook is an email client. It is by far, the application that has changed the least of the suite since the Ribbon Interface has only been included for the creation of new messages and not in the main window.
This software requires, at a minimum, using Exchange or later for the mail service, since Exchange 5. The advantage of this application is a better form of manually managing your emails than online, HTML-based services.
In Outlook, you can save your messages to your computer , store them in a local file and thus access them without being constantly connected to the Internet, just getting the permissions to log in with your personal account. For performing searches, Outlook has been sped up using the features of Windows Search APIs , which directly indexes the content of your messages, showing the results of your search in a blink of an eye. The new key features included in Outlook take it to another level, being able to read RSS feeds directly so that you can be informed automatically of the subjects you are interested in.
Additionally, you can push this content to your mobile phone, to get information wherever you are. This comes in handy due to the synchronization of the email service with mobile phones, being able to send and manage SMSs and text-messages using Exchange Server Unified Messaging service.
With Postmark, a new function included in Outlook , you can avoid receiving spam more efficiently without being aware of the extra processes the computer undertakes. One of the utilities that have benefited from the interface change is Microsoft Excel. The way it works is quite similar to the way it used to be, but now for instance, some of its functions have been simplified to the Ribbon style.
This way, the modification of cell formats is now quicker and more visual thanks to the buttons you find in the upper half. The spreadsheets have grown in rows and columns from the former 65, by to the current 1,, by 16,, format that offers more than enough for most project books. The main previous features are same in this edition, with better performance and much larger Excel files.
The benefits of this edition are obvious when you take a look at the possibilities the Ribbon buttons offer. These formats allow for creating more intuitive documents thanks to the visual capacities included. Automatic grouping values in colors and icons depending on their relation helps in a great way, as well as being a feature of showing how the value of a singular cell contribute to the whole group in which it belongs. The best part comes once you take a look at the Formulas tab and find an automatic way of including them in your spreadsheet in an easier way.
From simple functions to financial utilities, Excel also includes a feature for auto-completing formulas according to the characters presented. Thanks to the CUBE functions you can import data from external services like SQL Server Analysis Services, which makes it easier to create advanced reports including options such as PivotTables and filters to order the information you want to check.
Apart from the redesigned interface introduced with the rest of the utilities in Microsoft Office Professional , PowerPoint has been improved in its rendering tools and the overall performance, allowing you to manage bigger files than before, and very smoothly. The inclusion of support for audio files such as. In general terms, there are no great innovations on PowerPoint since there was no need to include many more improvements than a better performance with new multimedia elements.
Microsoft has increased the support for tables imported from Excel or for images imported directly from a camera or a scanner without first passing through another program. Microsoft Publisher is, without any kind of doubt, the software that has the least amount of changes in this new version.
The page designer has always been an independent heavyweight, but since it joined the Office package, Microsoft seems to have stopped spending too much time on this piece of software. With no Ribbon interface design or even the useful Live Preview to check how the changes you want to introduce will finally look, Publisher only improves its performance and adds some minor features that can make things work a little better for the average user.
Publisher only improves its performance and adds some minor features that can make things work a little better for the average user. Each person you add will receive an email with the steps they need to follow. Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. You can stop sharing your subscription with someone or remove a device they are using at www.
When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off your property off-premises , and is maintained by a third party hosted , instead of residing on a server at your home or business on-premises that you maintain.
With Microsoft , for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Microsoft is the latest version of Office. Previous versions include Office , Office , and Office Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
Upgrade from Office to Microsoft See options for home. See options for work. See options for enterprise. Office is now retired Updates are required to stay supported. Find more information. Ready for Microsoft ? Familiar apps with all the latest features Familiar apps with all the latest features. Word Become a better writer with smart tools that help you create impressive documents. Excel Excel does complex analyses for you, empowering you to be the master of your data.
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