Microsoft officially released its new Office suit on Tuesday and we’ve been playing with it for a few days now. For the most part, we like it!
This is a major redesign for Microsoft's popular Office suite, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote and Outlook. Microsoft added new features to all of them and made them work better with touch-friendly Windows 8.
Microsoft is trying something new this time. You have a couple of ways to buy the same software, Office 2013. You an pay $99 a year and download it onto five other PCs and/or Macs. That's called the Home Premium version, and that's the version we tested. Or you can pay more to get a "perpetual license" and put it on one PC, the same as you've always done
Word 2013: Read mode
Word can become an e-reader. Select "Read mode" and it removes the tool bars and lets you tab or swipe your way through a document. It bookmarks your spot, too.
Word 2013: Video heaven
Word is now video friendly. You can search for videos on the Web and YouTube (via Microsoft's search engine, Bing) and add them to your documents without leaving Word. Word can also play embedded videos.
Word 2013: PDF friendly
Word now does really good job converting PDFs into Word format. You can open a PDF in Word or insert one (or part of one) into your document. (Use: Insert/Object/Text from file).
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