1. Staying Connected Using Excel 2013

The entire Excel installation and startup experience feels different in Office 2013. You might have purchased Office 2013 on a DVD at a store, but it is just as likely that you purchased Office online and were able to start using Excel while Office 2013 was still downloading. You might even be renting Office 365 on a month-to-month basis, where the Click-to-Run option will download a version of Office 2013 wherever you happen to sign in.

After Office installs, you are asked to sign in to a Windows Live account, which facilitates saving workbooks to the cloud. After that, you can connect Excel to many online accounts, such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and more.

Every time you start Excel, you will be confronted ...

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