Microsoft Band; Software. Office; Windows; Additional software; Apps.Microsoft Office 2. Windows) Review & Rating. Microsoft made massive changes in Office 2. Windows but has hidden most of the changes beneath a reassuringly familiar- looking surface. With the new version, the world's most- powerful and widely used office application suite leaves its online and desktop- based competition even further in the dust, especially in its convenient and deeply integrated collaboration features. As always with Microsoft Office, it's vastly better than anything else out there, and only a few advanced users will find odd corners of inconvenience that Microsoft hasn't bothered to fix. So far only available to Microsoft Office 3. Office will have to wait until an unspecified date to buy Office 2. Office 3. 65 subscribers will be offered the option to upgrade immediately. There are a wide variety of Office 3.
Office 3. 65 starts at $6. PC, one tablet, and one phone. The final release of Office 2. Microsoft released back in May, and offers an almost flat learning curve for longtime users who feel at home editing documents in Word, Excel, and Power. Point, and taking notes in One. Note. The big changes appear when you start editing collaboratively in Word, Power. Point, and One. Note, with two or more users editing the same document simultaneously and optionally exchanging text, voice, or video chat via Skype, with the Skype functions accessible directly from the document. Microsoft Office remains the mightiest productivity suite you can get, with strong collaboration features added in the latest version. Users of Office 2013 won't need any retraining, and new features are slotted. Office Chat works almost everywhere including all recent versions of Windows, Mac, iOS and Android Phones. Download To Get Started! The new features get even more elaborate when you start working with other team members using timesaving Group functions built into Outlook. In all these changes, Microsoft isn't merely playing catch- up with collaborative services like Google Apps or Zoho Office. Some of Office's collaboration features are so effective and intuitive that you may wonder why no one thought of them before. Office resources; SharePoint Server. Rewards; Startups; Students. Microsoft Imagine; Microsoft Student Partners; Architects. Overview; Case studies; Blueprints; Blog. How to develop chat program using VB.NET. Other changes that Desktop users won't notice include handwriting support for equations, so tablet users can draw an equation on a touch screen and see Office transform it into typeset form—impressively but not always perfectly accurately in my ham- fisted testing. Another change brings the traditional Office apps closely in line with new mobile versions for i. OS and Android. Office 2. Web browser and every standard desktop and mobile platform except Linux. I'll get back to Outlook's Group features after surveying what's new in Office's traditional big three apps—Word, Excel, and Power. Point. A major new convenience is a . You either click in the Tell Me box or type Alt- Q to start typing in the box, and a drop- down menu lists likely matches for the words you type. So if you can't remember that you record a macro from the View menu (Microsoft's totally irrational location for the macro feature), just type . Unfortunately, the Tell Me feature won't find what you're looking for in the Options menu, which is just as cluttered and confusing as it was in older versions. The New and the Old. The ribbon also gets a new online research feature called Smart Lookup, accessible from a button on the Review menu or from the context menu that pops up when you right- click on a document. These open an Insights pane at the right of the screen with two tabs: Explore, containing Wikipedia and other Web- search information on the currently selected text, and Define, showing definitions from the Oxford dictionaries. Long- time Office users will remember an old Research pane that performed similar functions, but disappeared from the interface in Office 2. The new Insights pane is a supercharged Web- based update of the old Research pane, but if you want the old Research pane in addition to, or instead of, the new Insights pane, you can still reach it by holding down the Alt key and clicking on a word you want to look up. As in the case of the Research pane, and other expert- level features like split- screen editing, multi- chapter Master Documents, and updateable fields, Office tends to bury older functions instead of removing them entirely. The entire Office 2. Windows 1. 0, and you can now choose a black background for the menu that helps you focus your attention on your document instead of on the application. The top- line menu also features some minor tweaks like lowercase labels on tabs instead of the old all- capital style. Word continues to make it easier to create highly styled documents using Microsoft's suggested headline styles than to create your own custom layouts. Corel Word. Pefect is the only current word processor that offers more straightforward controls over formatting, but Word. Perfect remains a niche product used almost entirely by long- term loyalists and legal users who need its special features. Microsoft has learned that Excel users love charts, so the new version includes some show- stoppers formerly available from third- party add- ins—Pareto charts, sunbursts, and waterfall charts that show the effects of cumulative changes in a series of floating blocks like in the Super Mario Bros. Expert Excel users know the laborious trick of building a waterfall chart by making the lower part of a block invisible, but Microsoft's one- click version is a lot more elegant. Among rival spreadsheet programs, only Apple's Numbers offers comparably good- looking charts, but in far fewer types, while Google Docs and Libre. Office 5. 0 have only a barebones selection—though Google's charts display Google's characteristically simple elegance. Microsoft promises to add new chart styles every month for Office 3. Meanwhile, Excel gets a built- in Forecasting feature that creates forecast charts based on existing data, and gee- whiz graphic features like an animated transformation of one chart type to another when you decide to use a different charting style. Power. Point hasn't had any major changes beyond the enhanced collaboration features added everywhere in the suite, but a Microsoft rep hinted that some big new Power. Point features will be coming to Office 3. Meanwhile, Power. Point slightly lags behind Apple's Keynote in graphic razzle- dazzle, but only slightly, and not enough to make anyone choose Apple's i. Work over Microsoft Office as their preferred office suite. Learning to Share Nicely. In addition to the Tell Me box, the other new feature on Office's top- line menu is the Share button at the far right. This opens a sharing pane (or, if you prefer, a floating menu) in which you can invite collaborators to view or edit your document, and multiple users can now edit the same document at the same time. Office seems to block two users from editing the same sentence or paragraph at the same time, though this wasn't consistent in my testing, and when I tried collaborative editing with one user working in a browser and the other in desktop Office, sometimes the two versions of the document took more than a minute to get into sync. As in the similar feature pioneered by Google Docs, a colored flag in the document indicates where each collaborator is editing, but desktop Office 2. Google only shows you an initial (and Office in a browser only shows a colored flag). One benefit of this feature is that it's easy to create a collaborative Team Notebook in One. Note. Simply create a new notebook on a Microsoft cloud drive, and click the Share button to make it accessible to collaborators. As you'd expect, collaborative documents must be stored on a Microsoft cloud server, either One. Drive, One. Drive for Business, or an Office 3. Share. Point site. You can fine- tune permissions for collaborative editors either by right- clicking their names in the list under the Share button, or you can control sharing without opening the document itself by clicking on it in a browser window open to a list of your One. Drive files. Inside a document, when you click on a remote user's name in the Share menu, icons let you send a Skype IM, make a Skype call, or send an email message via your mail program. One benefit of storing documents in Microsoft's cloud services is that you get easy access to previous versions, as in Google Docs, including the names of the different editors who saved collaborative documents at different times. A new History tab on the File menu opens a pane that lists saved versions; click on an item in the list, and that previous version opens in a new window so you can edit it as a separate file or copy text and graphics into the current version. A Group Outlook for Outlook. Outlook gets the most thorough makeover to accommodate Office's collaboration features, and some new features are only visible if you use an Office 3. Business account or Share. Point services, though other new features are available to anyone with a Microsoft account, business- level or not. For example, one feature available to everyone lets you attach a link to a file on your One. Drive drive instead of attaching the file itself, and do this with a single click. When you click the Attach File button while composting a message, Outlook displays a list of your recently- edited documents. Click on a document stored in One. Drive, and Outlook inserts a live link to the cloud- based file—although, if you prefer to send the actual file, you can click on the attachment and choose an option to attach a copy of the file. Dropbox users will recognize this as a one- click counterpart to the multi- step operation of fetching a link to a file stored in Dropbox and then pasting the link into a mail message. Advantages of this new method in Outlook include mail messages without a lot of extra bulk, and your ability to update a document after sending the link, so that the recipient of the file will always open the current version. For enterprise- level Office 3. Business accounts, Outlook offers a Groups feature through which team members can message the group and effortlessly share files and calendars. Group members can opt to receive messages in their Inbox or only get them when they click on a Groups heading in the left- hand sidebar.
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