Chapter 1. Inside Office 2013

What’s new? What’s changed?

Using Office Web Apps

A field guide to Office 2013 editions

Word 2013

Excel 2013

Outlook 2013

PowerPoint 2013

OneNote 2013

Other Office 2013 programs

MICROSOFT OFFICE is, without question, the single most widely used piece of productivity software in the world today. More than 1 billion (that’s billion with a b) people actively use one of the many versions of Office that Microsoft has released in the past two decades.

If you’re one of those longtime Office users, you’ll find that Office 2013 feels new and greatly improved but without feeling dramatically different. That’s both reassuring and somewhat puzzling.

At first glance, Office 2013 looks slightly different, with a flatter user interface than ...

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