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Your Modern OfficeA Reviewers Guide to the New Office
Table of Contents
Welcome to your modern Office 1
Get Office in the way that works for you 2
Modern user interface 3Experience Office at its best on Windows 8 devices 3Office on Phone, Tablet and PC 4
Office 365: The Office you love with the power of the cloud 5Choose the Office 365 subscription that's right for you 5
Office 365 for everyone 6Settings move with you 6Always have the latest innovations 6Stream Office to any Windows 7- or Windows 8-based PC with Office on Demand 6Connect to social networks easily 6
Office 365 Home Premium and SkyDrive: any file, anywhere, automatically 7
Office 365 for businesses: turbocharge your productivity 8Keep people connected 8Gain insights anywhere with Excel and SharePoint 10Deploy it your way 10
Word: Create beautiful documents and enjoy the read 12Enjoy 12Work together 13Polish 14
Excel: Discover and share insights from your data 16Discover 16Visualize 17Share 18
PowerPoint: Design and deliver beautiful presentations with ease and confidence 20Design 20Impress 22Work together 22
Outlook: Manage your emails, schedules, contacts and to-dos 25Communicate 25Manage 26Find 27
OneNote: Take notes and have them where you want when you need them 30Capture 30Find 32Go 32
Publisher: Create professional and impactful publications 34Impact 34Personalize 35Share 35
Visio: Simplify complex information with professional diagrams 37Create professional diagrams quickly 37Collaborate with your team 38Link diagrams to dynamic data 38Use a powerful diagramming platform 38
Project 41Project Pro for Office 365: A new subscription project management offering41Project Online: A new online PPM solution 42
Getting started with the new Office 45
Top 10 New and Improved Features of Exchange 49
Top 10 New and Improved Features of Lync 50
Top 10 New and Improved Features of SharePoint 51
Welcome to your modern OfficeThe new Office is personalized, cloud-connected and simpler than ever. The new Office
works the way you do and helps you get more done at home, on the job and on the go.
Take Office with you and share and collaborate on documents with friends, family and
colleagues. Your Office applications, documents and personal settings go wherever you go.
Consumers can store Office documents on SkyDrive, and businesses can post documents to
SharePoint and access them anywhere, share them at will and even work together on them
in real time. Office works across devices and platforms, from smartphones and tablets to
desktops and from PCs to Macs, and even on popular browsers.1
The new Office is designed to work closely with Windows on PCs, tablets and phones. The
fast and fluid experience lets you do more in less time, with minimalist styling and an
intuitive touch and inking experience built into all the Office applications. Create a Word
document on your PC and edit it on your Windows Phone with great fidelity, move from a
keyboard to using touch seamlessly, or stream a full-featured version of Office to any
Windows 7- or Windows 8-based PC with an Internet connection — with your personal
settings intact.
The sleek and modern interface gives you
faster access to the tools you use every day
with the ability to customize your
experience in every Office application. New
tools help you make beautiful modern
documents, lead productive meetings and
transform data into insight in a matter of
clicks. The new Office user interface is also
easy on the eyes, with a clean, functional
appearance — less chrome and more touch
friendly, more get-it-done.
Making your documents look their best is now easier than ever. Office helps you create
quickly with a menu of enhanced, professional templates and a list of your recent
documents. Use new alignment guides to place pictures and other visual elements in perfect
alignment within the paragraph, or experiment with your layout and see text flow around
your images and other content with live layout functionality.
With Peeks, Office gives you the information you need at a glance without leaving your
current view. View your schedule, a specific appointment or details about the person you’re
emailing, all without opening additional windows or adding clicks to your workflow.
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1 See Office.com/preview for supported devices.
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Get Office in the way that works for youThe new Office is available in a number of editions to suit business, home and educational
needs.
• Office 365: Delivers the new Office as a subscription service, constantly updated and
connected to Microsoft cloud services.
It is available in business, consumer,
education and government editions.
• Office 2013: Office as traditional
desktop software with a perpetual
license. Combined with a free
Microsoft Account, Office 2013 offers
many conveniences of a cloud-
connected Office such as online
document storage and sharing.
• Office on Windows RT: Devices
running Windows RT will come with
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
OneNote.
• Office servers: Exchange,
SharePoint, Project and Lync are
available hosted in the cloud as part
of Office 365 for businesses,
deployed on-premises, or a
combination of both in a hybrid deployment.
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Modern user interfaceThe new Office is more than just another pretty face. It’s designed to get out of the way and
help you get things done. It’s sleek, streamlined and easy on the eyes with crisp animations,
vivid colors and easy navigation with a mouse or touch. With a familiar, highly intuitive user
experience it’s easy to get up and running whether you’re an Office power user or you’ve
never used it before.
Experience Office at its best on Windows 8 devices
Office was made for Windows 8 on PCs and tablets, as well as Windows Phones. Try them
together for the ultimate productivity experience. The beautiful design is optimized for a
range of hardware: from compact, touch-enabled tablets and lightweight laptops to powerful
all-in-ones with big high-definition screens. It’s smooth and intuitive and gives you instant
access to your people, apps and documents, so you spend less time searching and more
time doing.
Fresh, fast and fluid user interface
Windows 8 and the new Office both have a bold, beautifully designed new style that’s sleek
and modern. From the clean look of the words on your screen to the way apps animate, the
experience is fresh and the way it works is intuitive. The streamlined, user-focused design
creates a productivity experience that is both functional and gorgeous.
Touch, pen, keyboard — your choice
Office is optimized for different experiences. When you’re on the go with your tablet or
mobile phone, the new Office touch experience makes it easy to communicate, consume
content and perform lightweight editing with the flick of your finger or the stroke of a pen.
When you are at your desk with a keyboard and mouse, you have the full range of fine-
tuned Office controls at your command for the most demanding content creation tasks.
Type naturally, error-free, with the Windows 8 touch keyboard
The touch keyboard in Windows 8 helps you speed up your typing and makes it more
accurate. If you mistype a word, Windows will suggest words as you type so you can get it
right with a single tap. Two keyboard modes — a full-size touch keyboard and a thumb
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keyboard — help keep you productive anywhere. On touch-enabled PCs, the keyboard layout
automatically adjusts to the language you choose for Windows.
Leading touch experience with OneNote
Ready for a re-imagined touch experience when brainstorming and taking notes? The
OneNote Windows 8 app delivers with touch-and-hold radial menus that put useful
commands at your fingertips, one-tap search and sharing, and finger-friendly zooming and
panning through pictures.
Office on Phone, Tablet and PC
Use Windows 8 across devices and get a full-featured Office experience anywhere. Each
experience is tailored for the way you work, whether you are at your desk or on the go.
Edit across devices while preserving formatting
Create a document on your desktop; edit it on your browser, phone or tablet fearlessly.
When you use Office on a Windows 8-based PC or tablet or a Windows Phone, formatting and
styles remain intact no matter where you work on documents. All the hard work you put into
making your document look its best will pay off.
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Office 365: The Office you love with the power of the cloudOffice 365 brings Office on the desktop together with cloud-based services so you can take
your ideas wherever life takes you. Your documents and settings — even your Office
applications themselves — roam with you. You can stream Office 365 to any Windows 7 or
Windows 8 Internet-connected computer. Pick up reading a Word document where you left
off. Work with others in real time. With the new cloud-powered Office, the world is at your
fingertips.
Choose the Office 365 subscription that's right for you
Office 365 plans are simple to understand and even simpler to buy, with one per-user price
for everything you need. Office 365 is designed to deliver a complete package with no
hidden fees. From firms of one to the Fortune 500, from homes to schools to government
agencies, there's an Office plan that's right for you.
There are several Office 365 plans available in the customer preview, providing you with the
flexibility to choose one that best fits your needs.
• Office 365 Home Premium Preview: Install Office on up to five PCs and get an
additional 20 GB of online storage on SkyDrive so that you can save and share your
documents online. Home Premium includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote,
Access and Publisher.
• Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview: Ideal for businesses with up to 10
employees, each user can install Office, getting the same applications that are included in
Office 365 ProPlus on up to five PCs per user, and enjoy professional email, shared
documents and HD videoconferencing in an easy-to-manage solution that is hosted by
Microsoft.
• Office 365 ProPlus Preview: Create up to 25 user accounts, with five installations of
Office 365 ProPlus per user. It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote,
Access, Publisher, InfoPath and Lync.
• Office 365 Enterprise Preview: Get the benefits of Office 365 ProPlus combined with
Exchange Online, including archiving and legal hold to fully manage your company's email
in the cloud. It also includes SharePoint Online to manage and share documents and Lync
Online to allow you to conduct meetings and collaborate across remote teams and team
members.
The final version of Office 365, when available, will include Office for Mac.
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Office 365 for everyoneOffice 365 is now
available to home as well
as business and
organizational users.
Here are some of the
features that are
available to all Office 365
users.
Settings move with you
If you use Office a lot,
you probably have things
set up the way you like it
— your Ribbon, your styles and other default settings. Even if you sign in to Office 365 on a
different PC, everything will be ready for you to get to work right away.
Always have the latest innovations
Office is continually evolving. New and enhanced features and services are added all the
time, and thanks to the cloud, Microsoft has greatly increased the pace of innovation.
Because Office 365 is a subscription service, you always have the most up to date Office at
your fingertips. You get the latest ways to work as soon as they are available, automatically
downloaded and synched with Office on your desktop. With the subscription service, there’s
no need to buy a new edition or upgrade.
Stream Office to any Windows 7- or Windows 8-based PC with Office on Demand
Ever wanted to get something done on a PC that’s not your own? With an Office 365
subscription you can. You don’t even have to have Office installed on the PC. Stream a full-
featured Office application to any Internet-connected PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8
using Office on Demand. When you’re done, close the application and it will be removed
from the PC.
Connect to social networks easily
Bring your online social networks to Office, complete with pictures, contact information and
status updates. Rekindle old connections, ask questions, boost your business and more. It’s
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Office 365 is easy for anyone to manage.
all possible with the latest version of Office, which includes built-in connectors that bring
LinkedIn and Facebook into more of your Office experience.
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Office 365 Home Premium and SkyDrive: any file, anywhere, automaticallyYou want to access and share your documents and other files, but you don’t always have
your PC with you. No problem — when you are signed in, Office 365 Home Premium saves
your documents to SkyDrive by default. You can access them from any Internet-connected
device. Want to save them to your local drive? You can do that, too. (Office 365 editions for
business use SharePoint for document sharing, storage and collaboration. For more
information, see the section on Office 365 for businesses.)
With your documents stored on SkyDrive,
you have what you need wherever you go —
whether it’s a home to-do list or the latest
version of a sales presentation. Putting your
files on SkyDrive has other benefits, too. For
one thing, they aren’t stored on a PC hard
drive with a limited lifespan. If your
computer goes down, your files stay up.
And, if you’re collaborating with other
people, you only have to keep track of one
version instead of sending revisions back
and forth by email. Going mobile? Access
your SkyDrive files quickly and easily from
your smartphone. Use the SkyDrive apps for
Windows Phone and other compatible
mobile phones, or just sign in from your browser. Either way, you’ll get your docs to go.
Accelerate your creative process with collaboration built in. With Office 365 Home Premium
and SkyDrive, people can work together even when they’re not together. Work on a vacation
plan in OneNote with a family member. Post it on SkyDrive and invite others to review and
do basic editing in their browser with the free Office Web Apps. They don’t have to have
Office installed to get a great experience.
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Office 365 for businesses: turbocharge your productivityOffice 365 for businesses gives your business the productivity tools it needs to succeed in a
fast-moving world. With up-to-date Office applications for Windows-based PCs, tablets and
mobile phones, you can keep things moving forward from anywhere. Powerful, easy-to-
manage online services including Exchange, SharePoint and Lync give any business
enterprise-grade capabilities. Plans are available to suit organizations of all sizes. Best of all,
you don’t have to deploy or manage servers on site, and Microsoft provides a 99.99 percent
financially backed uptime
guarantee for Office 365
services.
Keep people connected
Office 365 for businesses
helps you stay connected
with new tools such as
high-definition, multiparty
videoconferencing in Lync,
SharePoint Team Sites to
keep team communications
and documents in a single place, and newsfeeds to follow sites, documents and discussions
to get answers in real time.
With SharePoint, Office 365 delivers business-centric social networking designed to help
people stay connected and innovate together. You can follow people, teams, documents and
sites to stay on top of the latest happenings. Keep track of what your colleagues are up to
through their activity feed. SharePoint even recommends people and documents to follow
based on your interests and responsibilities. Ratings and reputation scores enable you to
recognize colleagues and develop expert communities.
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Easily create SharePoint Team Sites with built-in guidance.
Enterprise social networking with SharePoint
Email, contacts, calendars everywhere
The more places you can access email, the faster your business can move. Office 365 gives
you the power of Exchange, the world’s most used email server, in a hosted service that is
easy enough for even solo professionals and small businesses but powerful enough for the
largest enterprise organizations. Exchange helps protect your email and data with powerful
anti-spam and anti-malware services that are always up to date, as well as policy-based
information protection.
Now you can take enterprise-grade email with you anywhere. The improved Outlook Web
App works on all major browsers and is optimized for touch navigation. And with Exchange
ActiveSync, users can get email, contacts, calendars and tasks on a wide variety of mobile
devices.
Work together across your business
Office 365 for businesses keeps everyone in your organization connected no matter where
they are. Find the expertise you need with a SharePoint search. Detailed contact cards and
presence, now integrated into all Office applications, help you connect and work with people
from anywhere within the Office experience. When you find who you’re looking for, join in
rich, interactive discussions and meetings with audio, video and instant messaging (IM)
capabilities of Lync. You can start the conversation spontaneously by hopping from IM to
voice to video, or send out online meeting invitations with a couple of clicks.
Share ideas and content
SharePoint helps you keep track of what your colleagues are doing by following people, sites
and documents. You can get instant feedback on the documents and projects you’re working
on delivered in real time to your activity feed. Sharing documents or presentations with the
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people you work with should be simple, intuitive and always available. With SkyDrive Pro
you can share content with the people you work with without leaving your document library
and track who you’re sharing with at a glance. You can publish and share documents directly
to SharePoint from any Office application via the Office Backstage View. When you need to
work with colleagues, you can co-author documents in the browser using Office Web Apps.
Keep teams in sync
Prescriptive guidance is now built right into SharePoint. It guides you through setting
permissions, creating document libraries, and adding a custom theme to your site so you
can quickly set up a new team site. You can even provide external partners and vendors
access to SharePoint sites or documents with robust security while helping to meet the data
governance and protection policies set by your IT department. To help your team stay in
sync, all your team documents and emails can be accessible from Outlook and SharePoint
using a Site Mailbox.
Gain insights anywhere with Excel and SharePoint
Empower everyone in
your organization to gain
business insights. Mash
up big data from multiple
sources using PowerPivot.
Explore data, visualize it
and tell a compelling story
using PowerView. When
it’s decision time, share
business intelligence-
enriched reports and
dashboards with
SharePoint to give everyone access to the real numbers.
Deploy it your way
The cloud is the future of Office, but you can go there at your own pace. Not only can you
install Exchange, SharePoint or Lync in your own datacenter, the latest releases of Office
servers are built on the very same technology that powers Office 365. That means you can
keep some users on-premises while others consume services from the cloud. Move to the
cloud at your own pace. Test different configurations before deploying. Keep sensitive data
within your firewall. Whatever the reason, it’s your Office — deploy it how you want to. And,
you can even still get traditional, perpetual Office client licenses to install on desktops and
PCs in your organization.
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With PowerView you can see actionable data at a glance.
Word
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Create beautiful documents and enjoy the readThe new Word gives you a new, clean view so you can enjoy the read right from your screen. Of
course, you still get professional-grade tools for creating beautiful documents and working with
others. Stay on top of the latest changes to a shared document and all the conversations in the
document. Have your documents saved and stored online so you know you're using the right
version. Add polish and style with new, compelling templates and tools and support for online
videos and photos. Polish. Work together. And enjoy the read.
Enjoy
Get absorbed in Word documents with the new on-screen
read mode. It looks great and provides you with the right
tools to enhance your reading experience.
Read mode: Enjoy easy and pleasant reading with text
reflowing automatically in columns to fit the screen.
Distractions are removed, providing you with only tools
that add value to your reading (such as Define, Translate
and Search on the Web).
Object zoom: Just tap your finger or click your mouse to
zoom in and make tables, charts and images in your
document fill the screen. Focus on and take in the
information, then tap again to zoom out and continue
reading.
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Resume reading: Word automatically bookmarks your last position in a document. Take a
break from reading your document; when you reopen it, you can pick up right where you left
off, even on a different PC or tablet when signed into your SkyDrive account.
Online video: When you have an Internet connection, you can watch online videos right in
Word without having to leave the document, so you can stay focused on the content.
Expand and collapse:
Have the option to
collapse and expand
sections of your
document with just a
tap or click. Easily
manage your reading by
collapsing paragraphs
you are done with, or
expand to explore more.
Navigation pane:
Know at a glance where
you are in your
document. You can see the contents, search the document and track your place by heading
all from the navigation pane.
Work together
Share and work easily with others using improved reviewing and online presentation tools.
Simplified sharing: When you are online and signed in with your Microsoft Account or
organizational or school ID, your documents are saved to the cloud by default. You can share
and collaborate just by sending a link. Manage and track only one version of your document.
Reply comment: Debate and easily track comments right next to the relevant text. You
can see who replied to whom and when, so you can have helpful conversations where they
matter.
Present Online: When you're online, you can share the document on your screen with
others, even if they don't have Word. Send them a link, and they can follow you in the
browser as you scroll through the document on your screen.
Simple markup: See a clean version of documents that have been marked up, with subtle
hints indicating changes and comments. In one click, you can see all the changes and then
hide them again for easy reading and easy tracking.
Lock tracking: Add a password to the ability to stop tracking changes to ensure that all
changes to your document are being tracked. No change can get by without you seeing it.
Mark comment as done: When a comment or a conversation has been addressed, mark it
as "done" to collapse and gray it out. It will remain out of your way, yet easily accessible for
future reference.
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The new read mode in Word makes reading a pleasure.
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Polish
Add flair to your documents with online photos and videos.
PDF reflow: Use content from PDFs easily and make it look great. Word now opens PDFs
and makes content, such as paragraphs, lists and tables, act as familiar Word documents.
Automatically reflow PDF content into an editable Word document.
Alignment guides: The new alignment guides make it easy to line up charts, photos and
diagrams with your text for a polished and professional look. Guides pop into place when
you need them and disappear when you're done using them.
Live layout: Watch photos, videos and shapes move through text as you drag them in your
document. Release the mouse button and your object and the text around it are already in
their final place — no need to guess the result.
Online video: You can say more and type less by adding online videos to your documents.
Readers can watch these videos right in Word when they are online.
Start: The new Start experience gives you easy access to inspiration, with new, compelling
templates and a list of your recently viewed documents so you can get back to where you
were in no time.
Design tab: The new Design tab helps you make all your design changes from one place,
saving time searching for what you need.
New building blocks: Choose from a new set of cover page, header and footer styles to
give your document polish.
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Online pictures: When you're online, you can use Word to search your online albums on
Flickr and other services and add pictures directly to the document, without having to save
them first to your desktop, laptop or tablet.
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Excel
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Discover and share insights from your dataThe new Excel gives you intuitive ways to explore your data, inspiring you to get to new
insights. In one click, discover new ways to visualize your data, and see your information
with new depth. Enjoy working with and analyzing your data — the new Excel guides you
with charts and tables based on your data and helps you get the job done faster. A new
clean view made as much for the tap, touch and turn of your fingers as the click of your
mouse or keyboard means you can move naturally through your information.
Discover
Unleash the insights hidden in your data with new tools that make it easy to extract what
you need from imported information and quickly perform complex analysis.
Flash Fill: Reformatting and rearranging your data just got easier. Watch Excel learn and
recognize your pattern and auto-complete the remaining data, with no formulas or macros
required.
Recommended PivotTable: Find the best summary for your data. Excel suggests options
for how to summarize your data into a PivotTable. See a quick peek of your data in tables
that use different pivots, and pick the one that lets the insights flow.
Available with Office Professional Plus
Quick Explore: Explore different cuts and views of your data in a click, and discover new
insights hidden in your data. In a click, conduct a cross-tab analysis of large datasets and
get a 360-degree view of what your data can show you.
Quick Trend: Trying to predict future trends? A good place to start is to look at the
historical time series data. Now, you can pull up a chart showing the trend based on the
historical data.
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Spreadsheet Inquire & Compare: This
new Excel Add-in scans spreadsheets and
performs diagnostics for errors, hidden
information and broken links, and
compares workbooks looking for
inconsistencies to help prevent fraud.
Rest easy knowing that during an audit,
you have an audit trail of the changes in
a spreadsheet.
Visualize
Bring your analysis to life with a click of
the mouse with easy-to-use new
visualization tools that make your data
look great.
Quick Analysis Lens: In one click,
discover different ways to visually
represent your data. Love what you see?
Apply the formatting, Sparklines, chart or
table with just one more click.
Recommended Charts: Find the best
ways to visualize your data in charts.
Excel recommends the most suitable charts based on patterns in your data. See a quick
peek of your data in different charts and graphs and pick the one that shows the insights
you want.
Chart Formatting Control: Fine-tune your charts quickly and easily. Change the title,
layout or other elements of your charts from a new and interactive interface.
Chart Animations: Watch every change in the chart as you adjust the numbers or add new
data points. With animations, you can see clearly the changes applied to your charts so you
can better understand movement in your data.
Timeline Slicer: Quickly see your data over different periods. Now you can apply a visual
time filter on your data, charts or PivotTables or move through rolling month-to-month
performance with just a click.
Get started quickly: Don't draw a blank on how to structure or format your spreadsheet.
When beginning a new document, pick from a collection of professionally designed
templates including budgets, calendars, forms and reports.
Excel App Animations: Enjoy working in the new Excel with smooth animations that help
you focus on the changes clearly.
Touch-enabled: Get in touch with Excel. Use your fingers and hands to move through your
charts, graphs and tables.
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Flash Fill automatically completes your data without macros or formulas.
Apps for Excel integration: Now you can create custom add-ons to help you mash up
your data with data and visualizations available on the Web, such as Bing Maps.
Available with Office Professional Plus
Power View: Discover new insights at the speed of thought with highly interactive, familiar
data exploration, visualization and presentation for all levels of skills. Power View lets you
compile data, charts and graphs into a single view to bring your data to life.
PowerPivot: The Excel Add-in provides groundbreaking in-memory database technology to
allow fast manipulation of large data sets, streamlined integration of data and the ability to
effortlessly share your analysis.
Share
Work together or show off your results with the new sharing capabilities of Excel. Send a link
to co-workers and post to your social network using Office Web Apps.
Simplified sharing: Sharing a workbook is now much simpler. You can share and
collaborate just by sending a link to your workbooks saved in the cloud.
Post to social network: You can now share part of your spreadsheet on the Web by simply
embedding it on your social network pages.
Present online: You can share your workbook and collaborate in real time with others via
Lync conversation or meeting. You can also allow them to take control of your workbook.
Send by instant message: You can also share your workbook by attaching it to an instant
message. Everyone will receive a separate copy of your workbook.
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PowerPoint
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Design and deliver beautiful presentations with ease and confidenceEasily work with others and design beautiful presentations. Intuitive design tools make it
easy to start from a theme, apply variants, align text and media, and even build customized
icons. When collaborating, co-authoring and replying comments make it easy to work with
one version and keep all important conversations in context. Sharing online is simple: Even
if your audience doesn't have PowerPoint, you can project to their browser. And, when you
present, you are in complete control behind the scenes, keeping track of your notes,
zooming in on specific slides and easily navigating among them.
Design
Getting started on your presentation and making it look
great has never been easier.
Start screen: Get started with ease and polish. When
opening PowerPoint, you are immediately presented
with a collection of compelling wide-screen themes from
which to create your presentation.
Alignment guides: Enhanced alignment guides make
it easy and intuitive to line up shapes, text boxes and
other graphics, so your presentations look as if they
were polished by a designer.
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Smart guides: See in real time how your graphics line up and intuitively drop objects into
the right place.
Master-level guides: Set fixed guides for specific slides from the master, making it easy to
achieve visual consistency across slides.
Theme variants: Change the look and feel of your presentation in one click, making your
presentation unique.
Merge shapes: Select two or more shapes on your slide and easily create new custom
shapes with union, combine, fragment, intersect or subtract. You can create amazing new
shapes for diagrams and icons.
Eyedropper: Grab the exact color you need to make your slides great. Match the color of a
title to an accompanying picture, or ensure you are using your exact logo color in three
simple clicks.
Online pictures: When online, you can use PowerPoint to search your online albums on
Flickr and other services and add pictures directly to the document, without having to save
them first to your desktop, laptop or tablet.
Insert pictures from online sources without saving them to your desktop first.
Media support: Add life to your presentations with videos and enjoy support for even more
formats.
Play in Background: Have music and sound play across several slides or your whole
presentation.
Format Object task pane: A new pane holds all the shape, picture and text design
decisions for you. Easily navigate among all the formatting options and see their immediate
effect.
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Modify Data Layout: Fine-tune your charts quickly and easily, without affecting the
underlying data. Filter the data presented using a new intuitive menu.
Impress
Stay effortlessly and intuitively in control so you can focus on your audience, not your slides.
Presenter View: When presenting with a second screen (such as with a projector), new
behind-the-scenes tools keep you in control and allow you to focus on and connect with your
audience.
Effortlessly control your presentation with the improved Presenter View.
Slide zoom: Help focus your audience on your ideas. Just click to zoom in and out on a
specific diagram, chart or graphic.
Navigation grid: Easily navigate between slides using a visual grid showing your slides at a
glance: Your audience only sees the slide you're presenting.
Auto-extend: When you connect to a second screen, PowerPoint will apply the right
settings to enable Presenter View and ensure it is projected on the correct screen.
Swap displays: If Presenter View is projected on the big screen and the presentation on
your personal monitor, one click flips the settings and keeps you in control.
Work together
Create and edit presentations with others in real time and share online easily
Simplified sharing: When you are online and signed in with your Microsoft Account or an
organization or school ID, your presentations are saved to the cloud by default. You can
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share and collaborate just by sending a link, which also grants read or edit permissions. With
online sharing, you can easily manage a single version of your presentation.
Reply comment: Debate and easily track comments right next to the relevant text or
graphics. You can see who replied to whom and when, so you can have helpful
conversations where they matter.
Comments pane: The new comments pane makes it easier to review all the comments and
conversations in a given slide.
PowerPoint Web App Coauthoring: Co-authoring comes to the PowerPoint Web App.
When you're online, you and your team can work together on the same presentation at the
same time from the desktop or free via the PowerPoint Web App on SkyDrive.
Resume Reading: PowerPoint automatically bookmarks your last position in a
presentation. When you reopen a presentation, you can pick up right where you left off,
even on a different device when signed into SkyDrive.
Present Online: You can share your presentation with anyone, even if they don't have
PowerPoint. Send them a link, and when you are online they can follow you in their browser
as you advance through the presentation on your screen.
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Outlook
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Manage your emails, schedules, contacts and to-dosOutlook empowers you to take control of your day. It's the place to go to communicate,
manage your schedule and to-do list, and find the information you need to get your work
done quickly. With Outlook, you can send emails and files from all your email accounts and
quickly find messages and attachments with the information you're looking for. It's also
more social than ever — improved connection with LinkedIn and Facebook give you access
to more of your contacts from one place.
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Communicate
Quickly connect and share files with the people and groups that matter most.
Inline replies: Reply to email in one click, and check quick replies off your list so you can
focus on the important stuff.
Animation: Smooth transitions between email, calendar and tasks intuitively help you
understand context.
Navigation bar: Get easy access to email, calendar, people and tasks with a navigation bar
that takes up less space.
Ribbon: See the Ribbon when you need it, and hide it when you don't.
Social connectors: See social updates from the people you're in contact with. LinkedIn,
Facebook and other updates are incorporated automatically so you have the right context to
start, add to or change the conversation.
Exchange ActiveSync support: Connect Outlook using Exchange ActiveSync and access
push-based email, appointments and contacts across many popular email servers and
services.
Site mailboxes: Create a single folder, calendar and task list for everyone on your team.
Using the combined power of Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint, you can assign an email
folder to a team project, and give everyone on the team access to that folder. Store team
emails and links to supporting documents, and manage team communication as you go.
Manage
Take control of your email and schedule with tools that help you more easily organize your
life.
Peeks: Take a peek at your schedule, a specific appointment or details about the person
you're emailing with, without moving screens or losing context.
People Card: Multiple contacts are transparently joined into one view, reducing distracting
duplicates and offering social context.
Multiple email accounts: See, create and respond to all your email in one place, just like
you do on your phone, including Hotmail and third-party webmail. You don't have to
download anything or install add-ons; Outlook can now connect directly with your other
email and calendars.
Share your calendar: Make your calendar available for others to see so meeting
scheduling becomes a snap.
Exchange Fast Access: See new email faster with Outlook powered by Exchange.
Sync slider: Control your disk space usage with an easy way to choose how much email is
stored on your hard drive.
Office side by side: Deploy Outlook 2013 side by side with your previous version of
Outlook so pilot testing doesn't impact your current plugins and experiences.
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Peeks show you important information without leaving your current view.
Find
Find the important information that you need so you can make the right decision fast.
Search: Find the information you need fast. Search is available for email, attachments,
calendar appointments and contacts so you can find the information you need fast.
MailTips: Find out
important information
before you send your
email. MailTips lets you
know if someone is out of
the office, if you forgot an
attachment, if you are
sending information
outside your organization
and much more before you
ever send the message.
MailTips saves you time,
helps you avoid mistakes
and enables you to find
the right contact for your
email quickly.
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Conversation view quickly shows you all thread-related messages.
Policy tips: Easily be reminded of company information policies before you might make a
mistake. Policy tips notify you when there is information in your email that might be tied to a
policy so you can make informed decisions about what you are sending. (New, requires
Exchange.)
Fast filters and context commands: Get one-click context: Instantly see what's
happening today, next week or next year. View emails by who sent them, or whether you've
responded, or go straight to what you haven't read. Easily file, flag or delete emails.
Clear view: See more of your information with a clean, clear viewing area.
Weather bar: See the weather while you ponder your calendar, for easy planning of your
day or next trip.
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OneNote
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Take notes and have them where you want when you need themOneNote is your digital notebook that holds your notes, pictures, Web pages and media.
Access your information wherever you go, using your favorite devices.2 Create notes, sketch
a diagram and record a lecture and connect them to related presentation files, photos,
videos, Web links, charts and more right in your notes. Everything you capture is saved and
searchable without having to do anything extra. With OneNote, your notes travel seamlessly
with you. Download the OneNote app so you can access your latest OneNote notebooks from
your favorite devices including Windows Phone, Windows 8, iPhone, iPad and Android
phones. OneNote is also available through your browser using the OneNote Web App. You
don't have to remember, because OneNote's got it.
Capture
Have your ideas in one spot: Keep all your
notes, links, Web pages and media
together. Take notes, sketch a diagram or
record a presentation, all in OneNote.
Embed files: Add a presentation file,
document, spreadsheet, Web link, video file
or other media right into your notes. You'll
always have the information you need right
at hand.
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2 App availability varies by device and country/region. See Office.com/preview for details.
Auto-Updating File Views: When you embed Excel and Visio files, you'll be able to see
content previews from within your notebook. Made a change? The preview will automatically
update. You'll be able to see the information you care about right next to your notes.
Tables: Do more with tables. OneNote now has more powerful table tools, which allow you
to make headers and quickly move around rows and columns. Want to create data
visualizations or do more advanced data work? With one click, you can convert tables in
your notes into embedded Excel spreadsheets.
Inking: OneNote's improved inking allows you to draw, erase and edit seamlessly, whether
using your finger, stylus or mouse. Like writing instead of typing? OneNote also converts
handwriting into text.
Meetings (with Outlook): Connect your notes with corresponding meetings scheduled
through Outlook. Go to your meeting, and pull up the corresponding notes on the given
topic. Embed a presentation for a meeting, pull it up during the meeting, and make your
notes right alongside every slide.
Linking/audio: Go back and hear just what was said. Record audio right in your notes. Type
while you're recording. Your notes will link with the specific part of the audio recorded while
you were typing. Find your note, hit play and listen to what was said.
Snip photos: Add cropped screenshot images from any type of file or image to your notes.
Snip anything from your screen and add it to your notes.
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Find
In OneNote, your notes are automatically saved and searchable. You can even find the words
you're looking for in audio and pictures. You don't have to remember where you put anything
— OneNote's got it.
Auto-save: OneNote saves as you go (just like a paper notebook) so you never need to
remember to hit the "save" button. Of course, you can still save as a new version or under a
new name.
Search: You can search the notes and files you've added to find anything you've captured
— a page in a presentation, text in a picture or a comment in an audio clip — just type in a
keyword or phrase.
Simplified sharing: Your notes are saved to the cloud by default when you're online. You
can share and collaborate just by sending a link. Manage and track only one version of your
notebook, all from within OneNote. And, when it's in the cloud, it's backed up, so you don't
have to worry about losing your work.
Full Page View: Have the tools you want when you need them. When you want just your
notes, full screen mode will hide the Ribbon and page navigation so you have no
distractions. Need to go to a different page or access the Ribbon? They're just a click away.
Go
OneNote is your digital notebook that travels with you. Download the OneNote app so you
can access your latest OneNote notebooks from your favorite devices,3 including Windows
Phone, Windows 8, iPhone, iPad and Android phones.
OneNote on Windows 8: Draw, type, click and swipe: OneNote is reimagined for Windows
8. Your notes are saved and searchable, and sync to OneNote apps on your other devices.
Touch: Get in touch with OneNote. Use your fingers and hands to move through your pages
and notes when you don't have a keyboard.
Desktop Touch
In sync: OneNote syncs with SkyDrive and SharePoint, so you know you always have the latest
on all your devices. You can find what you need, or add more from the OneNote client or from
SkyDrive/SharePoint.
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On your devices: There will be OneNote apps available3 on Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad,
Android™ phones, and Nokia Symbian phones. If you have a supported browser, you'll have
the free OneNote Web Application. OneNote is there.
3 App availability varies by device and country/region. See Office.com/preview for details.
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Publisher
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Create professional and impactful publicationsUse familiar, simple tools to create professional-looking publications that make an impact.
With the unique layout and print capabilities in Publisher, you can easily and quickly make
brochures, newsletters, calendars, posters, flyers and more. Publisher makes it easy to grab
the attention of your audience with simple personalization tools so you can customize
names, photos and links. And, you can easily share publications in the way that suits your
audience the best.
Impact
Make an impact in a highly visual world overloaded with content. Publisher has simple tools
that make it easy to stand out and grab attention.
Swap picture: Import all your pictures to a single canvas in Publisher, and swap them in
and out of your design with a simple drag and drop. Experiment to find the right image
without wasting time.
Effects: Use professional-looking effects for text, shapes and pictures, including softer
shadows, reflections and OpenType features such as ligatures and stylistic alternates. These
effects are familiar to use because they work like the effects in other Office applications that
support them.
Start: The new Start experience gives you easy access to inspiration, with new, compelling
templates, as well as a list of your recently viewed documents, so you can get back to where
you were in no time.
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Picture background: Use your photos as high-resolution page backgrounds, and make
your publications look professional and polished.
Online pictures: When online, you can use Publisher to search your online albums on Flickr
and other services and add pictures directly to the document, without having to save them
first to your desktop, laptop or tablet.
Personalize
Make your professional publications personal for your audience through text, photos and
links. It's simple to customize with Publisher using familiar tools such as mail merge.
Mail merge: Include photos and links in the familiar mail merge tools, and boost the
personalization of your newsletters, cards and emails.
Mailings tab: All your personalization needs are in one place in the Ribbon.
Share
Share and work easily with others. Email, PDF, XPS or high-quality prints: Publish in the way
that suits your audience best.
Simplified sharing: Your documents are saved to the cloud by default when you're online
and signed in with your Microsoft Account or organizational or school ID. You can share and
collaborate just by sending a link.
Photo printing: It's now even easier to print your great-looking publications or photo
albums at any print shop with the ability to save all your pages to a common picture format,
such as JPEG.
Email: Share a page as an email or send the entire publication in the email message as
HTML. All the pages will be combined into one message for you.
PDF and XPS: Save your publications as PDF and XPS, and even send them directly as PDF
or XPS attachments without saving them first.
Print: The print tab in the backstage view makes it easier to preview your publications and
ensure your printing comes out just as you intend.
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Visio
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Simplify complex information with professional diagramsVisio 2013 provides new features to help you create diagrams more easily — including new
and updated shapes and stencils, improved themes and effects, and options to make
teamwork simpler. You can also make your diagrams more dynamic by linking shapes to
real-time data and then sharing them through a browser with others — even if they don't
have Visio — using Visio Services in SharePoint.
Create professional diagrams quickly
Visio 2013 adds all-new features that make it easy and intuitive to create professional
diagrams in just a few clicks.
Quickly customize the look and feel of your diagram: Use new and updated shapes
and apply themes and effects to quickly make your diagrams look professional and engaging
with just a few clicks.
Create great-looking organization charts more easily: Take advantage of several new
organization chart styles and the option to import people's photos. Create your organization
chart quickly by importing information from Outlook, Exchange or a spreadsheet.
Change shapes without affecting your diagram layout: Replace shapes in your
diagrams with new ones without having to re-do the layout or losing any information you've
added to the shapes.
Get started with ease and polish: When opening Visio, immediately be presented with a
collection of compelling stencils to get started, and a list of my most recently used
documents.
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Collaborate with your team
Visio 2013 makes it easier than ever for teams to work together on diagrams and share their
information.
Work together on a single diagram at the same time: Work on a diagram at the same
time as your colleagues without having to worry about merging multiple versions or
managing version conflicts. See who else is working on different parts of the diagram, get
notifications on what has changed, and choose when to merge those changes with the
version you are working in.
View diagrams through a browser on any PC and virtually any device: Save your
diagrams to Office 365 or SharePoint so that others can view them through a browser on
virtually any device, even if they don't have Visio installed.
Share feedback with improved commenting: Add and reply to comments in diagrams
through either Visio 2013 or in your browser using Visio Services. See when diagram authors
are online and get real-time feedback from them through an instant messaging
conversation — which you can initiate right from within Visio. (Presence integration requires
a compliant IM application, such as Lync 2013.)
Link diagrams to dynamic data
With Visio 2013, you can use the shapes in your diagram to show real-time data.
Link diagram shapes to data with a simple wizard: Make complex information easier
to understand by linking your shapes to data that stays up to date. Use formatting and data
graphics — icons, symbols and bar charts — that automatically adjust when your data
changes to make patterns in the data evident at a glance.
Use a range of common data sources: Link to business data from common data sources,
including Excel, Excel Services, SQL Server, SQL Azure and SharePoint External Lists.
Create no-code dashboards with SharePoint: Create powerful dashboards without
writing any code by saving your data-linked diagrams to Office 365 or SharePoint 2013.
Use a powerful diagramming platform
Visio 2013 provides an extensible, flexible and fully up-to-date platform for creating powerful
diagrams and solutions.
Get support for updated diagramming standards: Create diagrams that comply with
the BPMN 2.0 standard while continuing to open and update diagrams that use older
versions of BPMN. Plus, create diagrams that comply with UML 2.4.
Validate diagrams to make sure they make follow business rules: Use a built-in
validation engine to make sure that BPMN diagrams have all required elements. The
validation engine may also be extended for other types of diagrams using XML.
Create visual workflows and publish them to SharePoint: Take advantage of updated
support for Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 (including support for stages and steps) and
better integration with SharePoint Designer to visually create and publish workflows.
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Improve governance and control in Project 2013: Create visual workflows in Visio for
demand management in Project 2013 and Project Online.
Extend Visio through a rich application programming interface (API): Create add-ins
to help users visualize data from other business systems through Visio diagrams.
Maintain IT control: Use Group Policy to control what users can do in both Visio 2013 and
Visio Services in SharePoint.
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Project
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Project Project offers flexible online and on-premises solutions for project portfolio management
(PPM) and everyday work, enabling you to effectively execute and achieve strategic
priorities.
Tools for project management
• Project Pro for Office 365: Effectively plan, manage and collaborate with others from
virtually anywhere to deliver winning projects. Offered as a subscription so you always
have the most up-to-date version on your PC or other devices.
• Project Professional 2013: Easily collaborate with others to quickly start and deliver
winning projects. Offered with a perpetual license.
• Project Standard 2013: Keep your project organized and on track. Offered with a
perpetual license.
Tools for PPM
• Project Online: An online PPM and everyday work solution for team members, project
participants and business decision-makers.
• Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365: An online PPM and everyday work
solution for project managers and business decision-makers.
• Project Server 2013: An on-premises PPM and everyday work solution.
An overview of the new Project cloud offerings (Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365) is
provided below.
Project Pro for Office 365: A new project management subscription
Microsoft introduces Project Pro for Office 365, a project management subscription that
offers flexible plans and simplified IT management. Improved functionality between Project
Pro for Office 365 and SharePoint Online makes project collaboration fast and easy for
nearby or geographically distributed teams. Project Pro for Office 365 works seamlessly with
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Office 365 to help you share project details and effectively communicate progress without
having to reformat or re-do work. And because Project Pro for Office 365 supports
lightweight and more robust project management systems for small teams and
departments, you can more reliably and successfully deliver projects.
Stay organized
Give your teams a better way to stay organized with simple and engaging ways to get
started, quickly plan and easily keep projects on track.
• Offering simple and straightforward ways to get started, Project Pro for Office 365 enables
you to easily begin planning and managing your projects.
• The enhanced visual experience in Project Pro for Office 365 helps you quickly focus on
what matters, select actions to take and browse functions.
• New project templates in Project Pro for Office 365 help guide you to create your best
plan, and Project Pro for Office 365 makes it easy to quickly find recent files every time
you get started.
Deliver projects successfully
Avoid costly breakdowns in teamwork with effective ways to see and share the data you
want to present to team members and executives.
• Project Pro for Office 365 provides the ability to visualize and print project reports
beautifully, helping you easily and effectively share and discuss progress.
• Powerful, out-of-the-box reporting tools in Project Pro for Office 365 delivered within a
familiar Excel-like experience help you quickly and easily measure progress and resource
allocation.
• Project Pro for Office 365 provides enhanced tools for “what-if” scenario planning, helping
you see potential problems and make changes to assess impact, without re-creating your
entire project plan.
Improve everyday collaboration
Effectively track status, receive changes and use more out-of-the-box features that work
seamlessly with other Microsoft applications to improve team collaboration.
• Project Pro for Office 365 is designed to work with Office 365, SharePoint Online and Lync
Online, creating a complete collaborative project management system.
• Improved list synchronization between SharePoint Online and Project Pro for Office 365
helps you deliver project information, effectively track status and receive changes from
virtually anywhere.
• The social capabilities of SharePoint Online are designed to work with your project site to
facilitate discussions and facilitate information sharing so you can get projects and
everyday work done.
• The search capabilities of SharePoint Online enable you to find the right information in the
right context to execute everyday work and projects effectively.
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Project Online: A new online PPM solution
Microsoft introduces Project Online, a flexible, online PPM solution to achieve strategic
priorities as well as manage tactical project execution and everyday work. Built on
SharePoint Online, Project Online provides new choices for teams, departments and large
organizations to adopt lightweight or rigorous approaches to PPM. Delivered through Office
365, Project Online increases agility and control while helping all types of organizations to
get started — to define and prioritize project portfolio investments and deliver the intended
business value.
Take action
Complete your work from virtually anywhere on almost any device.
• Get started quickly. Visual tiles identify important steps and provide a simple guide for
you and your organization to begin (or hone) PPM capabilities.
• Focus on what matters most. Project Online aggregates everyday work, project tasks,
important details and timelines in a visually rich and contextual user interface.
• Extend your PPM experience to smartphones and stay up to date while you're on the go
with an interface suited to small form factors. Project Online also works on popular
browsers.
Flexible PPM
Achieve strategic goals with a flexible PPM solution that enables you and your team to
effectively set priorities, execute projects and complete everyday work.
• Capture all demand to accurately measure capacity — even when your people are
managing everyday work or ad hoc projects in SharePoint Online task lists.
• Evaluate portfolio investment and select optimal project portfolios for your organization by
analyzing constraints, demand and dynamic resources.
• Enable your people to effectively manage the tactical details of execution and delivery,
while ensuring alignment with business priorities.
Strengthen everyday collaboration
Avoid costly breakdowns in teamwork with new ways to collaborate and act quickly.
• Project Online is designed to work with Lync Online, enabling your people to have real-
time conversations and IMs from within their projects.
• Project Online uses the social, search and collaborative capabilities of SharePoint Online to
help your people facilitate discussions and find and share the information they need. You
can better manage your project pipeline and more effectively measure your team's ideas.
• Enable business decision-makers and analysts to quickly mine and aggregate project and
portfolio data to understand risk and align long-term planning and short-term execution needs
with business priorities.
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Increase agility and control
Take advantage of the online platform that combines agility, control, robust security
features and reliability.
• Project Online uses industry standards such as Open Data Protocol (OData) for data
mining and business intelligence.
• Project Online and SharePoint Online offer an integrated administrative experience that
simplifies IT management.
• Project Online enables you to bring together different disciplines such as Application
Lifecycle Management, New Product Development and Innovation Process Management
through a connected and scalable PPM platform.
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Get Started
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Getting started with the new OfficeGetting your Office 365 Preview up and running is simple. Just follow these steps.
Step 1
Choose the Office 365 description that suits your needs.
Step 2
Click Get Started to begin your preview.
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Step 3
Sign in with your Microsoft Account or organizational or school ID.
Step 4
Click Continue to activate your account.
Step 5
Your account will be ready in minutes.
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Step 6
Install Office on your
devices, access SkyDrive
and manage your Office
365 subscription from the
My Account page.
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Top New and Improved Features of Office Servers
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Top 10 New and Improved Features of Exchange Helps keep your organization safer: The new Data Loss Prevention
features in Exchange help identify, monitor and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis.
Easier eDiscovery: Compliance officers can use the new Exchange eDiscovery Center to discover and analyze Exchange, SharePoint and Lync data stored in Exchange from a single interface.
Keep your data in one place: Large mailboxes and in-place archiving enable you to manage storage needs and compliance in cost-effective ways.
Manage team and project communications more easily: Allow users to see old communications on a project as soon as they join, have access to the current versions of their team documents, and access all that information right from within Outlook.
Unified user experience: Co-authoring, document storage and versioning are provided by SharePoint while messaging is handled by Exchange with a complete user experience within Outlook.
Touch-enabled inbox: The same thoughtful design in the Outlook desktop interface has been applied to both the browser and mobile interfaces.
Move to the cloud on your terms: Onboard to the cloud overnight, move in stages, or maintain a hybrid deployment with mailboxes on-premises and online to meet your business needs.
Simplify management: Do it all from the Exchange Administration Center — a single, easy-to-use Web-based administration interface.
Web content in Outlook: Customize Exchange by incorporating relevant, Web-based Office Apps into the desktop and browser-based Outlook experiences with robust security.
Unified contacts: Enable users to bring contacts in from other networks. Exchange automatically consolidates duplicates into one contact card.
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Top 10 New and Improved Features of Lync Stay in touch anywhere: Lync enables users to communicate with
robust security anywhere they have network connectivity and automatically adapts to network conditions.
Unified client: Lync integrates voice and video calls, Lync meetings, presence and instant messaging in one easy-to-use client.
Consistent experience: Lync makes communicating easier with a consistent and familiar experience that's optimized for the device, OS or browser being used, including Windows 7 and Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android smartphones.
Connect with the outside world: Lync Federation extends unified communications with robust security over the Internet to customers, suppliers and partners across the most common messaging platforms, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Google Talk.
Take notes in OneNote: OneNote Share allows users to create and share OneNote digital meeting notes within Lync meetings.
Hold virtual conferences or ad-hoc conversations with interactive video: See multiple video streams simultaneously and see the active speaker automatically.
Adaptive videoconferencing: Lync uses open standards including H.264 SVC to enable video compression, which adapts to bandwidth for a high-quality experience for everyone.
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Hold highly interactive videoconference calls.
Communicate in multiple ways with one easy-to-use Lync app.
Click to join: Joining a Lync meeting requires only a single click or touch on PCs and mobile devices.
Browser-based access: The Lync Web App allows PC and Mac users to join a Lync meeting from a browser and delivers a full Lync Meeting experience, including IM, voice, multiview video, data collaboration and sharing.
Quickly and intuitively find the best way to communicate: Quick Lync is a menu that appears over a contact in the Lync contact list and shows available communication modes.
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Top 10 New and Improved Features of SharePoint A new and simplified user experience: Drag and drop content into
document libraries, see live previews of your content, edit lists inline and create sites in a few simple clicks. SharePoint puts you in control.
Put social to work: New social features let you share what you’re
working on, ask questions and keep track of what your colleagues are doing. SharePoint puts social to work.
Grow your network: New search profile features help you connect with people across your organization and easily discover interests, past projects and documents they’ve worked on. SharePoint helps you find answers to questions and discover experts you never knew.
Store and sync your documents: SkyDrive Pro sync’s your content in SharePoint to your desktop, so if you’re working remotely or about to jump on a plane your docs are just a mouse click away. SharePoint keeps your content in sync from virtually anywhere.
Share your stuff: Share documents
from Office or SkyDrive Pro with people inside and outside of your organization puts working together with anyone just a couple of clicks away. SharePoint helps you get stuff done.
Keep your teams in sync: Set up a
new team site in minutes with wizards built into SharePoint to help you set permissions, track meeting notes and bring together all your team’s email and documents in one place. SharePoint 2013 makes teamwork easy.
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Store, share and manage all your documents in one place with SharePoint.
Easily find the expertise you need with SharePoint people search.
Keep your projects on track: Organize your projects and tasks giving you a view into upcoming deliverables across SharePoint, Outlook and Microsoft Project. SharePoint helps you prioritize and get stuff done.
Find what you’re looking for: Quickly customize and narrow your search to deliver more relevant results, and also provides recommendations on people and documents to follow. SharePoint makes it easy to discover answers and take action.
Take SharePoint with you on the go: If you’re running from meetings
or out of the office you can share documents, or update your activity feed from your mobile phone or tablet. SharePoint keeps you connected from virtually anywhere.
Do more with SharePoint apps: The SharePoint store is an online marketplace to discover and install apps that’s designed to work with SharePoint. If you need a specific business solution to help you get even more out of SharePoint the store is just a click away.
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