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5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD

UPGRADE TO OFFICE 2013

The new version of Microsoft Office – Office 2013 came across as a fitting

successor to Office 2010. It offered a slew

of improvements and features including

improved user interface, multiple account

sync support, and new file formats etc.

Nevertheless, many critics in the tech world

labeled Microsoft Office 2013 as just

another minor update

SYNC ACCOUNT SETTINGS & IMPROVED SKYDRIVE

SUPPORT

Microsoft Office 2013 has outdistanced its competitors in providing connectivity

with cloud storage. With Microsoft account, you can easily sync (upload and

download) your documents online to your SkyDrive account. Just like Windows 8,

MS Office settings (applications,

interface, and customization) can be

synced between with all configured

systems. You can get a total of 20GB

additional storage space on SkyDrive

too. Read More about improved skydrive

support Here.

PDF FILE EDITING

In the previous versions of Office, you could only save a Word based document

into a PDF, but then could not convert the PDF back to a Word document for

further editing. With Office 2013, this has changed. Read More.

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INSTALL TWO OFFICE VERSIONS SIDE BY SIDE

This option is one of our favorites and is definitely a well thought out idea by

Microsoft. Usually, a new software takes time to get familiar with. A new

interface, a new design, new settings, new features, it is surely quite a stressful

process for many to get the hand of all the features and options. This is why the

MS Office dev team provide support for Office 2013 running in parallel to any

previous versions

IMPROVED SPELL CHECKER

Microsoft Office has always had a very solid spell checking system, and Microsoft

Office 2013 brings more enhancements to this very feature. With usual correction

of grammar and spelling mistakes, the spell checking feature now gives

proper dictionary definition for words. Although not directly linked with the Spell

Check tool, you can make Office 2013 pronounce selected words for you using the

‘Text To Speech’ feature.

TOUCH SCREEN SUPPORT

Office 2013 offers full support for touch-screen interface without any glitches.

The Read Mode - built especially for touch screen interface users, allows you to

skim through documents with swipe gesture. Gestures like slide, swipe, pinch, tap

and stretch are all supported to make not only navigation smoother, but editing

documents a bit easier as well.

Every time you enable the touch screen mode, it switches the ribbon

to hide mode for a better reading and editing experience, and icons are magnified

so that they can be easily tapped. Although still not perfect

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