Microsoft: Word 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 16. Installing and using Apps for Office

In This section:

• Adding an app from the Office Store

• Using an app in a document

Microsoft Office 2013 includes a new feature called Apps for Office and SharePoint. An App for Office is a web-based program that appears within an Office application’s window and interacts with your documents. Typically, an app recognizes text that you select in a document and displays information about it, which you can insert into the document or use in other ways.

Examples of Apps for Office include dictionaries and reference works, calculators, templates and forms, file format converters, and news. Apps for Office are available only online from the Microsoft Office Store. Many of them cost nothing to install and use; ...