OFFice 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 (formerly Office 15) is the latest version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows and the successor to Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2013 includes extended file format support, user interface updates, and support for touch. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on 2012 when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on 2013.

New features:-
Office 2013 is more “cloud-based” than previous versions. This is notable as the default save location is the user’s SkyDrive. Also, Microsoft offers Office 2013 through Office 365 subscriptions as an alternative pricing model to the standard retail versions.

Microsoft Office 2013 includes updated support for ISO/IEC 29500, the International Standard version of Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as well as OASIS Open Document Format 1.2, which Office 2013 can read and write. Additionally, Office 2013 provides full read, write, and edit support for ISO 32000 (PDF). Microsoft Office 2013 also supports Office Open XML Strict, a format which Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector.

New features include a new read mode in Microsoft Word, a presentation mode in Microsoft PowerPoint and improved touch and inking in all of the Office programs. Microsoft Word can also insert video and audio from online sources as well as the capability to broadcast documents on the Web. Word and PowerPoint also have bookmark-like features which sync the position of the document between different computers.

 

Other features of Office 2013 include:-
Flatter look of the Ribbon interface and subtle animations when typing or selecting .
A new visualization for scheduled tasks in Microsoft Outlook.
Remodeled start screen.
New graphical options in Word.
Objects such as images can be freely moved; they snap to boundaries such as paragraph edges, document margin and or column boundaries
Online picture support with content from Office.com, Bing.com and Flickr.
Ability to return to the last viewed or edited location in Word and PowerPoint.
New slide designs, animations and transitions in PowerPoint 2013.
Support for Outlook.com and Hotmail.com in Outlook
Support for Skype and Yammer.
Excel 2013 supports new limit models.

Removed features:-
Removed from the entire suite
Office 2007 and Office 2010 chart styles.
Ability to insert a 3D cone, pyramid, or cylinder chart.

Features removed from Microsoft Word
Custom XML markup has been removed for legal reasons.
Older WordArt objects are now converted to new WordArt objects.
Features removed from Microsoft Access
Access Data Projects (ADP).
Support for Jet 3.x IISAM.
Access OWC control.
dBASE support suite.
Features removed from Microsoft Outlook
Download Headers Only mode for IMAP.
Outlook Exchange Classic offline.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 support.
Cleanfreebusy switch.
Ability to import from or export to any formats other than Personal Storage Table (PST) or comma-separated values (CSV).
Notes and Journal customization.
Outlook Activities tab.
Outlook Mobile Service (OMS).
Outlook Search through Windows Shell .
Features removed from Microsoft PowerPoint
Support for Visio Drawing.