Your
Complete
Office in
the Cloud
A Reviewers Guide
to Office 365
Table of Contents
Welcome to Office 365
1
Devices
2
Social
4
Cloud
5
Control
6
Top 10 New and Improved Features of SharePoint
8
Top 10 New and Improved Features of Exchange
10
Top 10 New and Improved Features of Lync
11
Create beautiful documents, and enjoy the read
14
Enjoy
14
Work together
16
Polish
18
Discover and share insights from your data
21
Discover
21
Visualize
23
Share
24
Design and deliver beautiful presentations with ease
and confidence
26
Design
26
Impress
28
Work together
28
Manage your email, schedules, contacts, and to-do lists
31
Communicate
32
Manage
33
Find
34
Take notes, and have them where you want, when you
need them
37
Capture
37
Find
39
Go
40
Create professional and impactful publications
43
Impact
43
Personalize
44
Share
45
Create Web Apps quickly and easily
48
Create
48
Experience
49
Deploy
49
Simplify complex information with professional
diagrams
52
Create professional diagrams quickly
52
Collaborate with your team
52
Link diagrams to dynamic data
53
Use a powerful diagramming platform
53
Project
55
Project Pro for Office 365: A new project management subscription
55
Project Online: A new online PPM solution
56
Get started with Office 365
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Managing your Office 365 Subscription: Frequently Asked Questions
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Welcome to Office 365
How people work is changing—and fast. The “bring your own device” trend is accelerating. People
increasingly want business software to offer the same seamless, cross-device experiences they have come
to expect from consumer apps. Enterprise social networking is improving collaboration and helping
people make decisions faster. Multiple generations work side-by-side, requiring businesses to
accommodate varying preferences and levels of technical sophistication. Yet despite all this, companies
have to maintain compliance, security, and reliability while making the most of their technology
investments.
Office 365 does it all. By combining the productivity innovations of Office with the power of enterprisegrade cloud services, it delivers unparalleled value for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft delivers the most
comprehensive approach to productivity, giving everyone from kiosk workers to road warriors to desktop
power users the tools they need to get things done wherever they are. Full-featured, cloud-based versions
of Office servers including SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange work together to give workers new ways to
communicate and collaborate while supporting the compliance, security features, and control today’s
businesses need. Office 365 business plans also include powerful new versions of go-to applications
including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Visio, Access, and Publisher.
Create documents using pen, touch, or keyboard1. Intuitive touch features work with how you use
devices—flip through PowerPoint slides, read documents, and check email—and let you go from
consuming content to composing it.
With Office 365, you can easily make documents look their best. Benefit from smarter Office applications
that anticipate and recommend the most appropriate charts, tables, and graphs. Adding pictures, videos,
links, and more media is as easy as dragging and dropping them into your document.
Completely consistent with the Office productivity tools you already know, Office 365 provides a familiar
experience optimized across devices and personalized for the way you work. Your settings, preferences,
and documents roam with you, available wherever you go. From real-time presence to the incorporation
of Skype, social and communication tools are everywhere in Office 365, enabling you to connect and
collaborate like never before.
With sophisticated compliance features, world-class security technologies, and comprehensive
management features, even businesses in highly regulated sectors can get the power of cloud
productivity services. And with on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid deployment options, you can move
your business to the cloud on your terms.
Touch-enabled device required.
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Devices
Office 365 is optimized for Windows 8 on PCs, tablets, and Windows Phone 8, and also offers a great
experience on Windows 7. 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, intuitive, and gives you instant access to your people, apps, and documents, so you spend less
time searching and more time doing. Use Windows 8 across your devices, and get a full-featured Office
experience virtually anywhere. Each experience is tailored for the way you work, whether at your desk or
on the go. Office Mobile even comes preinstalled on Windows Phone 8.
Office also delivers a high-quality experience on iOS and Android devices, with native OneNote and Lync
available for both platforms. With Office Web
Apps, you also can view and edit Office
documents through the browser on the iPad.
No matter how you access Office 365, your
document formatting will be preserved in
high fidelity.
Fresh, fast, and fluid user interface
Windows 8 and Office 365 share a bold style
that puts content first to help you stay on
task. From clean typography to crisp
animation, the experience is fresh and
intuitive. Improved contextual menus give
you access to most frequently used items
with one click. Choose Touch Mode for more
space and access to finger-friendly Quick
Actions, while Quick Peeks let you view your
calendar, people, and tasks in Outlook without even leaving your inbox.
Optimized for touch, pen, and keyboard
When you’re on the go with your tablet or mobile phone, the Office 365 touch experience makes it easy
to communicate, read, watch, and perform light editing with a flick of your finger or stroke of a pen. At
your desk with a keyboard and mouse, you have the full range of features for intensive content creation.
Type naturally and accurately with the Windows 8 touch keyboard
The touch keyboard in Windows 8 helps you type quickly and accurately. Windows suggests words as you
type so you can complete or correct with one tap. Two keyboard modes—a full-sized touch keyboard and a
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thumb keyboard—help keep you productive anywhere. On touch-enabled PCs, the keyboard layout
automatically adjusts to the language you choose for Windows.
OneNote Windows Store App
Ready for an immersive, touch-first note-taking experience? The OneNote Windows Store App has touchand-hold radial menus that put commands in easy reach. Search and share with one tap, and zoom and
pan through pictures with just your fingers. Use your device’s full capabilities including the camera for
visual reminders and the microphone for recording meetings or quick voice memos. Store your notes in
SkyDrive Pro for easy online access anywhere.
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Lync Windows Store App
With the Lync Windows Store App, you can simply touch a colleague’s people card to send an instant
message or start a voice or video conversation. Manage multiple IM conversations, and even connect with
public and federated contacts. Snap Lync to the side of the screen and multitask with other apps,
including OneNote for the ultimate meeting toolkit.
Social
In today’s people-powered businesses, social computing isn’t a distraction—it’s a competitive advantage.
Office 365 includes social capabilities within Office apps and services.
Social to get things done
With SharePoint Online, Office 365 delivers business-centric social networking designed to help people
stay connected and work 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 feeds.
SharePoint even recommends people and documents to follow based on your interests and
responsibilities.
SharePoint provides tools to make enterprise social networking more engaging and useful. Ratings and
reputation scores enable you to recognize colleagues and develop expert communities. Familiar social
features such as hashtags, @mentions, and likes will satisfy even the most avid social networker.
Newsfeed items can also be turned into Outlook tasks to make ideas reality.
Several Office 365 plans also include Yammer, the popular enterprise social networking platform, at no
extra charge. Yammer provides easy-to-use communication, collaboration, and project planning tools and
enables organizations to connect with vendors, partners, and customers easily. Microsoft has announced
plans to integrate Yammer and SharePoint more closely as part of the Office 365 road map.
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Pervasive communications and social feeds
Discuss and meet, co-author documents, find experts, and chat in real time with improved capabilities that
keep everyone connected no matter where they are. The People Card, accessible from all Office
applications, provides a single view of a person, including rich presence information, aggregated internal
and external feeds, and click-to-communicate via email, IM, voice, and video. Detailed presence
information makes it easier than ever to connect—or let people know when you’re busy.
Connect with Facebook and LinkedIn
Bring your online social networks to Office, complete with pictures, contact information, and status
updates. Rekindle old connections, ask questions, and find new prospects. It’s all possible with the latest
version of Office, which includes built-in connectors that bring LinkedIn and Facebook into more of your
workday.
Make meetings more effective with multiparty HD video
With more businesses looking to reduce the expenses associated with in-person meetings, workers need
effective ways to communicate that don’t involve getting on a plane. Office 365 supports HD
videoconferencing across a range of devices.2 The new Lync Meeting tools let you interact with people
through video, audio, and instant messaging, and to share content while meeting. Join a Lync Meeting
from an HTML5-based browser using the Lync Web App, and enjoy HD video, voice over IP, instant
messaging, and sharing of desktops, applications, and PowerPoint presentations. When you’re the
presenter, you have rich controls and a streamlined interface to make the meeting professional and
seamless.
Communicate with Skype contacts right from the new Office
Every Office 365 subscription includes 60 minutes of free international Skype calls per month to landlines
in more than 40 countries and to cellphones in seven countries.3
Cloud
Office 365 isn’t just a hosted version of on-premises software. It uses the power of the cloud to help you
work anywhere, extend its capabilities with custom apps, and use online services in ways that make sense
for your business.
Stream Office to any Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC with Office on Demand
Installing Office 365 is a breeze. Streaming installation installs most-used features first so you can get
started working almost instantly. Ever wanted to get something done on a PC that’s not your own? With
an Office 365 subscription you can, and 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. Office
365 works with existing Office add-ins, customizations, macros and legacy Office file formats.
Office roams with you
If you use Office a lot, you probably have your ribbon, styles, and other default settings set up the way
you like them. Even if you sign in to Office 365 on a different PC or stream it to another computer using
HD video camera required
See office.com for details. Skype account required. Excludes special, premium, and nongeographic numbers. Calls to mobile
phones are for select countries only. Skype available in select countries only.
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Office On Demand, everything will be personalized and ready for you to get to work right away. Your
documents will be available and in sync across all your devices, online or off. It even remembers where
you left off in documents and presentations.
Save to the cloud with Office 365 and SkyDrive Pro: any file, anywhere, automatically
When you’re signed in, Office 365 saves documents to SkyDrive Pro by default. IT administrators can
enable SkyDrive Pro access from any Internet-connected device supported by company security policies.
Of course, you can also save them to your local drive or sync them for use offline. With your documents
stored on SkyDrive Pro, you have what you need wherever you go—whether it’s a home to-do list or the
latest version of a sales presentation. Your SkyDrive Pro files aren’t stored on a PC hard drive with a limited
lifespan. If your computer goes down, your files stay up.
If you’re collaborating with other people, you keep track of one version instead of sending revisions back
and forth by email. Going mobile? Access your SkyDrive Pro files quickly and easily from your smartphone.
Use the SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows Phone 8 and other compatible mobile phones, or sign in from your
browser. Either way, you’ll get your docs to go.
Built-in collaboration
With Office 365 and SkyDrive Pro, people can work together even when they’re not together. Collaborate
on a product idea in OneNote with an engineer on another continent. Post it on SkyDrive and invite
others to review it and do basic editing in their browser with the free Office Web Apps. They don’t even
need Office to participate in the creative process.
New cloud app development model
Extend Office, Office Web Apps, and SharePoint with apps hosted in the cloud. Office cloud apps can be
developed using Web standards including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Deploy apps your way,
through an enterprise IT app catalog or the Office Store. Apps roam with your data and settings so your
customizations are always available.
Deploy it your way
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.
Control
Moving to the cloud should reduce risk, not create it. Office 365 provides companies of all sizes the tools
they need to stay safe, compliant, and in control. Of course, you can count on Microsoft’s multibilliondollar network of globally redundant datacenters, site-level disaster recovery, and third-party-certified
security practices. Multiengine virus and malware scanning plus highly accurate anti-spam services are
included with Office 365 to help keep your network safe.
Spreadsheet governance and controls
Spreadsheets and databases empower users to catalog, visualize, analyze, and compare data. Yet these
“end-user computing” applications (EUCs) create risk if they are not managed, including multiple versions,
errors, and even fraud. With new tools built into Office 365, you can diagnose, audit, and inventory
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spreadsheets and databases automatically. Discovery and Risk Assessment scans network shares and
SharePoint document libraries automatically or on demand to create an up-to-date EUC inventory. Audit
and Control Management Server captures a cell-level audit trail of changes to EUCs. And Excel 2013
Inquire & Compare helps users eliminate errors and keep “one version of the truth.” With Office 365 EUC
controls, organizations can enable data-driven decision-making while helping to reduce compliance risk.
Data protection and eDiscovery
With continued explosive growth in the amount of data businesses create and store, it’s more important
than ever to have tools that help you protect and manage it. It all starts with users: data loss prevention
(DLP) capabilities in Office 365 help prevent them from mistakenly sending sensitive information to
unauthorized people. The DLP features in Exchange identify, monitor, and help protect sensitive data
through deep content analysis and provide built-in and extensible DLP policies that are based on
regulatory standards such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Payment
Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards. DLP alerts users to potential policy violations, helping them to
learn and internalize compliance standards over time.
The ability to retain and discover data across your organization is essential to ensuring internal and
regulatory compliance. Compliance officers can use the new eDiscovery Center to identify, hold, and
analyze your organization’s data from Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. The data always remains in place
so you don’t need to manage a separate data store. Discovery can be delegated to experts without
providing full administrative rights, enabling IT administrators to focus on what they do best.
Client health and management
Managing PCs, mobile devices, and other client hardware can be complex and costly. Office 365 now
offers Office Telemetry to centrally manage client health and performance while making migration easier.
Integration with Active Directory Group Policy supports granular configuration management.
“Bring your own device” scenarios are also made easier with Office 365. IT administrators can centrally
control mobile device settings including PIN and password policies and remote wipe of lost or stolen
devices. Office 365 ProPlus gives IT professionals complete control over client software updates. Updates
take place in the background, invisible to users yet under the IT department’s control. Office 365 supports
pretesting of updates before they are deployed to ensure compatibility with existing investments.
Easy to manage
A streamlined, Web-based portal accessible to administrators through any browser makes managing
Office 365 a snap. PowerShell support enables automation of routine tasks and fine-grained control over
settings. Administrators can manage on-premises Office servers and Office 365, as well as users on both,
with one set of skills and one interface. In addition, the new service health dashboard provides
customizable reports that help you get insights into your service.
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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.

Store, share and manage all your documents in one place with
SharePoint.
Share your stuff: Sharing documents from
Office or SkyDrive Pro with people inside
and outside 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
Easily find the expertise you need with SharePoint people search.
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.

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.
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
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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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, Webbased 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.
Hold highly interactive videoconference calls.

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.

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.
Communicate in multiple ways with one easy-to-use Lync app.
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
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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Word
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Create beautiful documents
and enjoy the read
The new Word gives you a new, clean view so you can enjoy the read right from your screen. Of course, you
still get powerful tools for creating beautiful documents and working together. 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, onscreen read mode. It looks great and gives you 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 only the tools that add value to your reading such as
Define, Translate, and Search with Bing.
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Object zoom: 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, and tap again to zoom out and continue
reading.
Resume reading: Word automatically bookmarks your last position in a document. Take a break from
reading, and when you reopen your document, you can pick up where you left off, even on a different PC
or tablet when signed into your SkyDrive Pro account.
Online video: When you have an Internet connection, you can watch online videos in Word without
having to leave the document, so you can stay focused on the content.
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Expand and collapse: You can collapse and expand sections of your document with a tap or click. Easily
manage large documents by collapsing paragraphs you are not working with, or expand them 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 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 by sending a
link. Manage and track only one version of your document.
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Reply comment: Debate and easily track comments 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 their 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 that
indicate changes and comments. With one click, you can see the changes and then hide them for easy
reading and tracking.
Lock tracking: Add a password to prevent others from turning off change tracking so you see every edit.
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 be out of your way but easily accessible for future reference.
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Polish
Add flair to your documents with online photos and videos.
PDF re-flow: Use content from PDFs easily, and make it look great. Word now opens PDFs and makes
content such as paragraphs, lists, and tables act like Word documents.
Automatically reflow PDF content into an editable Word document.
Alignment guides: New alignment guides make it easy to align 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 the text as you drag them in your
document. Release the mouse button, and your object and the text around it are in their final place—no
need to guess the result.
Start: The new Start experience gives you easy access to new, inspiring templates as well as a list of your
recently viewed documents. You can get back to where you were in no time.
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Design tab: The new Design tab helps you make your design changes from one place, so you spend less
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.
Online pictures: When you're online, you can use Word to search your albums on Facebook, Flickr, and
other online services. Add pictures directly to the document without having to first save them to your
desktop, laptop, or tablet.
For information about Word, visit the Get started with Word 2013 website.
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Excel
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Discover and share insights
from your data
The new Excel gives you intuitive ways to explore your data, inspiring you 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 touch of your finger 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 analyses.
Flash Fill: Reformatting and rearranging your data just got easier. Watch Excel recognize and learn your
pattern and auto-complete the remaining data, with no formulas or macros required.
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Recommended PivotTable: Find the best summary for your data. Excel suggests options for
summarizing your data into a PivotTable. Get a quick look at your data in tables that use different pivots,
and pick the one that lets the insights flow.
Add custom tools: The new Office Store offers a range of apps to help your represent and interpret your
data. From a heat map to a radial bar chart, you can choose the best way to share your insights with
colleagues.
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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.
Spreadsheet Inquire and 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 and new, easy-to-use visualization tools that make
your data look great.
Quick Analysis Lens: With one click, discover different ways to visually represent your data. Love what
you see? Apply formatting, Sparklines, a chart, or a table with 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. Quickly look at your data in different charts and graphs,
and pick the view that shows what 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 a chart as you adjust the numbers or add new data points.
With animations, you can clearly see the changes applied to your charts and better understand movement
in your data.
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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 a click.
Get started quickly: Structure and format your spreadsheet instantly using 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.
Touch-enabled: Get in touch with Excel. Use your fingers to move through your charts, graphs, and
tables.
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
coworkers, and post to your social network using Office Web Apps.
Simplified sharing: Sharing a workbook is now much simpler. You can share and collaborate by sending
a link to your workbooks saved in the cloud.
Post to social networks: Embed part of your spreadsheet on social network pages.
Present online: Share your workbook and collaborate in real time with others. You can even allow them
to take control of your workbook.
Send by instant message: Share your workbook by attaching it to an instant message. Each recipient will
get a separate copy of your workbook.
For information about Excel, visit the Get started with Excel 2013 website.
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PowerPoint
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Design and deliver beautiful
presentations with ease
and confidence
Easily 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. 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
Get started on your presentation, and making it look great has never been easier.
Start screen: Get started with ease. When opening PowerPoint, you are presented with a collection of
compelling, widescreen themes to use in creating 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.
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 with one click, and make your
presentation unique.
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Merge Shapes: Select two or more shapes on your slide, and easily create new, custom shapes with
union, combine, fragment, intersect, or subtract tools. 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 that you are using your exact logo color with three clicks.
Online pictures: When online, you can use PowerPoint to search your albums on Facebook, Flickr, and
other online services, and add pictures directly to the document without having to first save them to your
desktop, laptop, or tablet.
Insert pictures from online sources without saving them to your desktop first.
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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 formatting options, and see their immediate effect.
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 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 your audience focus on your ideas. Click to zoom in and out on a specific diagram,
chart, or graphic.
Navigation grid: Easily navigate between slides using a visual grid to show your slides at a glance; your
audience sees only the slide you're presenting.
Auto-extend: When you connect to a second screen, PowerPoint applies the settings to enable Presenter
View and ensure that it is projected on the correct screen.
Swap displays: Move Presenter View and Audience View to opposite screens with one click.
Work together
Create and edit presentations with others in real time, and share online easily.
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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 share and collaborate 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 next to the relevant text or graphics. You can see
who replied to whom and when, so you 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 Co-authoring: Co-authoring comes to the PowerPoint Web App. When you're
online, you and your team can work together on a presentation at the same time from the desktop and in
the browser with the PowerPoint Web App on SkyDrive Pro.
Present Online: You can share your presentation with others, 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.
For information about PowerPoint, visit the Get started with PowerPoint 2013 website.
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Outlook
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Manage your email,
schedules, contacts,
and to-do lists
Outlook helps you manage your busy life more easily and efficiently. You get new and improved ways to find
information quickly, handle email, coordinate schedules, keep current with contacts and social networks, and
tame your unruly to-do lists.
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Communicate
Quickly connect and share files with the people and groups that matter most.
Inline replies: Reply to email with one click, and check replies off your list so that you can focus on
important tasks.
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.
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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 organize your life.
Peeks: Take a peek at your schedule, a specific appointment, or details about the person you're emailing
without moving screens or losing context.
People card: Multiple contacts are transparently joined into one view, reducing distracting duplicates and
offering social context.
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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 Web mail. You don't have to download anything or install addons; Outlook can now connect directly with your other email and calendars.
Share your calendar: Make your calendar available for others to see so scheduling meetings 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.
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 quickly find the information you need.
MailTips: Find out important information before you send your email. MailTips lets you know if someone
is out of the office, you forgot an attachment, you are sending information outside of 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.
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, and instantly see what's happening today,
next week, or next year. View email messages by who sent them or whether or not you've responded, or
go straight to what you haven't read. Easily file, flag, or delete email.
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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.
Personalize: With apps from the new Office Store, you can add capabilities to Outlook to simplify your
life such as the Hertz app, which lets you rent a car without leaving Outlook. Apps are also available for
Word and Excel.
For information about Outlook, visit the Get started with Outlook 2013 website.
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OneNote
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Take notes, and have them
where you want, when you
need them
OneNote is a digital notebook that holds your notes, pictures, Web pages, and media. Access your
information wherever you go, using your favorite devices. 4 Create notes, sketch a diagram, or record a
lecture, and connect them to related presentation files, photos, videos, Web links, and charts in your
notes. Everything you capture is saved and searchable without extra steps. 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 8, 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 to
your notes. You'll always have the information you
need at hand.
App availability varies by device and country/region. See office.com/preview for details.
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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 next to your notes.
Tables: Do more with tables. OneNote now has powerful table tools that 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 converts handwriting into text.
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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, open it during the meeting, and make your notes alongside every slide.
Linking audio: Go back and hear what was said, record audio in your notes, and 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.
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 so you never need to remember to click Save. 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. Type in a keyword or phrase.
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Simplified Sharing: Your notes are saved to the cloud by default when you're online. You can share and
collaborate by sending a link. Manage and track only one version of your notebook, all 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, fullscreen mode hides the ribbon and page navigation so you have no distractions. Need to go to a different
page or access the ribbon? They're 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, including Windows Phone 8, Windows 8,
iPhone, iPad and Android phones.5
The OneNote app for Windows 8: Draw, type, click, and swipe: OneNote is reimagined for Windows 8.
Your notes are saved and searchable, and they sync to OneNote apps on your other devices.
App availability varies by device and country/region. See office.com/preview for details.
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Touch: Get in touch with OneNote. Use your fingers to move through your pages and notes when you
don't have a keyboard.
In Sync: OneNote syncs fast with SkyDrive Pro, 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 Pro.
For information about OneNote, visit the Get started with OneNote 2013 website.
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Publisher
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Create professional and
impactful publications
Use familiar, simple tools to create professional-looking publications that make an impact. With the
unique layout and print capabilities of Publisher, you can easily and quickly make brochures, newsletters,
calendars, posters, and flyers. Publisher makes it easy to grab your audience’s attention with
personalization tools so you can customize names, photos, and links, and you can share publications in
the way that best suits your audience.
Impact
Make an impact in a highly visual world overloaded with content. Publisher has simple tools that make
your publication 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 by simply dragging. Experiment to find the right image quickly.
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Effects: Use professional-looking effects for text, shapes, and pictures, including softer shadows,
reflections, and OpenType features such as ligatures and stylistic alternates. These familiar effects work
like those in other Office applications that support them.
Start: The new Start experience gives you easy access to 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.
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 albums on Facebook, Flickr, and
other online services, and add pictures directly to the document without having to first save them to your
desktop, laptop, or tablet.
Personalize
Make your 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 personalize your newsletters,
cards, and email.
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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 by sending a
link.
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Photo Printing: It's now easier to print great-looking publications or photo albums at any print shop. You
can save all of your pages to a common picture format such as JPG.
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, or send them directly as PDF or XPS attachments
without first saving them.
Print: The Print tab in the backstage view makes it easier to preview your publications and ensure that
they come out perfect.
For information about Publisher, visit the Get started with Publisher 2013 website.
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Access
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Create Web Apps quickly
and easily
Create
Build and share custom Web Apps that run on SharePoint—no software development knowledge needed.
Create robust Web Apps fast: Using your SharePoint server or Office 365 site as a host, you’ll be able to
build a polished, browser-based database app. Under the hood, Access apps use SQL Server to provide
the best performance and data integrity.
Launch immediately: When you’re done designing, don’t look for a compatibility checker or a Publish
button. Your app is already live—just click Launch App to open it in the browser.
Modify UI easily: Apps let you put controls where you want them without making adjustments to the
layout first. Just drag and drop—the other controls move out of the way to make room.
Welcome screen lift-off: Start creating a custom database from the Welcome screen, or get inspired by
one of the new and professionally-designed database templates.
Table templates: Simply type what you need to track and Access will use table templates to deliver a
database that does the job. Access handles the complexities of fields, relationships, and rules so you can
concentrate on your project. You’ll have a new database with a natural UI up-and-running before you
know it.
Create and run legacy databases: Enjoy support for your existing desktop databases (ACCDB/MDB).
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Experience
Use a standardized app framework that makes navigating databases familiar and easy. Your database will
remain professional-looking as it grows with your business.
Gorgeous simplicity: Never again get "lost in the data." Databases you rely on every day remain easy-touse even as data volume and complexity grow.
Related items control: Take a peek at additional relevant information in the database without changing
screens. You always have the right context when reviewing or entering information.
Auto-complete control: Entering data accurately is "a breeze," with drop-down menus and
recommendations that appear when you begin typing.
Drill-through: Simply click to view a pop-up and dig into the details of a record.
Deploy
Permissions improvements: Get more control over who can modify your app. SharePoint now comes
with for 3 default permissions levels—Designer, Author, and Reader. Only Designers can make design
changes to views and tables. Authors can change data but not the design, and Readers (you guessed it)
can only read existing data.
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Package and distribute apps: Access apps can be saved as package files and then added to your
Corporate Catalog or the Office Store. At the Office Store, you can distribute your app for free, or you can
charge a fee and make some spending money.
For information about Access, visit the Get started with Access 2013 website.
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Visio
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Simplify complex
information with
professional diagrams
Visio 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.
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
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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.
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 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.
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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 Excellike 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.
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.
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• 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 compatible 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.
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 a unified 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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Managing your Office 365
subscription: frequently
asked questions
How do I manage my Office 365 Account?
You can install Office on additional PCs, remove existing PCs, or cancel your subscription at any time. Go
to office.com/myaccount and follow the on-screen instructions.
What is my Microsoft account, and why do I need it for my Office software?
A “Microsoft account" is the new name for what used to be called “Windows Live ID.” Your Microsoft
account is the combination of an email address and a password that you use to sign in to services like
Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive Pro, Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE, or Outlook.com. If you use an email
address and password to sign in to these or other services, you already have a Microsoft account, but you
can sign up for a new one at any time.
With this release of Office, you use a Microsoft account to start an Office subscription and to install and
manage your Office software. You may also need to sign in with a Microsoft account when you install the
latest Office 2013 suites.
The Microsoft account you use to sign up for your Office 365 subscription or install your Office suite will
be the one you sign in with every time you want to manage your account. For example, you will need to
sign in when you install Office on a new computer in your household or change your subscription billing
details.
Any time you want to install Office on another PC or Mac, choose a new language for an
installation, or make other changes to your account, return to office.com/myaccount and
sign in with your Microsoft account.
How do I enable my Skype minutes?
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If you have a Skype account, sign in at office.com/myaccount with your Microsoft
account, and click on the link to activate your Skype world minutes. If you don't have a
Skype account, sign up for one and follow the steps above to activate the minutes. You
will see a confirmation at office.com/myaccount when the minutes have been activated.
What happens when my subscription ends? How can I continue to work with my
documents?
As the expiration date approaches, you will receive notifications in the Office applications
and via email that alert you to the upcoming expiration. Once your Office 365
subscription expires, the Office software applications enter read-only reduced
functionality mode, which means that you can view or print documents but will not be
able to create new documents or edit existing documents.
To return to full Office functionality, you can purchase a new subscription from
Office.com or any participating retailer. You can also return to using an older version of
Office or use the free Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for basic editing.
What happens to the documents I have stored in SkyDrive Pro when my
subscription expires?
Your documents will remain accessible to share and download. If you have reached your
free 7 gigabyte (GB) storage limit, you won’t be able to add documents. You will have the
option to access and edit your documents saved on SkyDrive Pro using Office Web Apps,
or edit documents and upload the edited version. You can save your SkyDrive Pro
documents to another computer or disk drive at any time.
For which devices will Office be available?
At launch, Office supports PCs running Windows 7 or higher and Macs with Mac OS X
10.5.8 or higher. Office Mobile supports Windows Phone devices running Windows Phone
OS 7.5 and higher. Additional devices will be added in the future. Check
office.com/information for details.
How do I know if my computer or devices can run the new Office?
You’ll need Windows 7, Windows 8 OS, or Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later to run Office
on your PC or Mac. Other system requirements are as follows:
Computer and processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or greater x86/x64 processor with SSE2
instruction set (PC), Intel processor (Mac)
Memory: 1 GB of RAM (32 bit or Mac), 2 GB of RAM (64 bit)
Hard disk: 3 GB of free disk space (PC), 2.5 GB of HFS+ hard disk format (Mac)
Operating system (PC): Windows 7 or higher, 32 bit or 64 bit; Windows 2008 R2 or higher
with .NET 3.5 or higher. It isn’t possible to install the new Office on a PC running Windows
XP or Vista. To use the new Office with Windows 8, you must be running the Release
Preview version or higher.
Operating system (Mac): Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or higher
Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 10 graphics card and 1366 x
728 resolution (PC), 1280 x 800 screen resolution (Mac)
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