The new Office is now more powerful than ever:

Smarter Office Applications

• New versions of your favorite Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access and Publisher.
• This release of Office knows to put your most-important documents, applications and people right up front so you can access what matters from the start.
• Benefit from smarter Office applications that can anticipate and recommend the most appropriate charts, tables and graphs.
• Review papers more easily with a clean, comfortable reading view.

Optimized for Touch

• Experience Office at its best on devices running Windows 8 optimized for touch.
• Office responds to touch and stylus as naturally as to keyboard and mouse. So you can easily create, edit, and read documents on touch-enabled devices, including those powered by Windows 8.
• With inking, handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text.
• An enhanced reading experience, regardless of screen size, makes it simple to zoom in and out of content and to use touch to turn pages.

Word 2013

• Familiar concepts and new features make it easy to create engaging documents, work collaboratively, and enjoy reading right from the screen.
• Word Start screen — Offers easy access to recent documents and new, compelling professionally designed templates to help you get started quickly.
• Read Mode — Delivers an optimized reading experience, regardless of screen size, making it simple to zoom in and out of content and to use touch to turn pages.

Excel 2013

• Discover intuitive ways to explore and visualize data at new depths in less time.
• With Flash Fill, format and rearrange data easily—no formulas or macros required.
• Discover new and different ways to visually represent data with Quick Analysis.

PowerPoint 2013

• Quickly design and deliver dynamic presentations with ease and confidence.
• Eyedropper — Apply exact color matches without any guess work to quickly create professional-looking slides.
• Presenter View — New, behind-the-scenes tools keep you in control and enable you to focus on and connect with your audiences. See the slide that’s being presented to the audience, along with the next slide.

OneNote 2013

• Capture notes, pictures, web pages, and media from virtually anywhere, and access them on-the-go¹.
• Capture notes in one place — Take notes, sketch a diagram, record a lecture and connect them to related presentation files, photos, videos, web links, charts and more—all in one digital notebook.
• Embed, edit, and preview files — Add a presentation, document, or spreadsheet into a OneNote notebook, making all the information just a click away.

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse or other standard or accessible input device. New touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8.

Internet functionality requires an Internet connection. Fees may apply.

Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device.

Microsoft and Skype accounts.

Other

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.