Introduction

MICROSOFT OFFICE is the most popular collection of application software ever, and for good reason. The programs in the Office family allow you to perform just about any task that involves words, numbers, charts and graphs, slide decks, email, and more.

With Office 2013, Microsoft has polished the entire collection and introduced tight connections to cloud-based services, which allow you to sync settings between multiple devices just by signing in with an Office account and using the SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro services from Microsoft.

Office 2013 introduces one new wrinkle that might confuse some longtime Office veterans. In addition to the conventional one-copy-per-PC license, Office 2013 is available as a subscription product, which ...

Get Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.