Microsoft Office 2013

1. Microsoft Office 2013 David F. Soll Chief Technology Officer Omicron Development LLC dsoll@omicron.com

2. Agenda • Introduction • Editions • Licensing • System Requirements • Office 2013 Overview • Conclusions

3. Introduction • Presenter: David F. Soll • President and Chief Technology Officer, Omicron Development • Treasurer, PCJS IEEE • Past Chair, Princeton/Central NJ IEEE Computer Society • Senior Member of the IEEE • Recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Award • Past Chair, Princeton Chapter of the ACM • Senior Member of the ACM • Chair, TCF IT Professional Conference • Over 30 years in computing

4. Office 2013 Editions • Office Home and Student 2013 • Office Home and Business 2013 • Office Professional 2013 • Office Professional Plus 2013 • Office 365 Home Premium • Office 365 University • Office 365 Small Business Premium • Office 365 ProPlus • Office 365 Enterprise

5. Office 2013 Editions

6. Office 2013 On-line Purchase Source: email from Rakuten (Buy.com)

7. What About Windows RT • An Office 2013 for Windows RT comes on Surface devices • Outlook was missing with RT 8, but was added with RT 8.1 • The RT edition does NOT support: • Macros • Add-ins • Send-As (i.e.: Attachment) • Mail Merge • Automatic Synchronization with SkyDrive • Equation Editor • ActiveX • Audio and Video OneNote Recording

8. Licensing

9. Licensing (cont’d.)

10. Office 2013 Requirements

11. Office 2013 Requirements

12. New to Office 2013 • Modern Interface • Less 3D • Less shading • Simpler look • Flat • Clean

13. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Start Screens

14. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • OneDrive Integration • Save account info and default to SkyDrive • OneDrive Storage • 7 GB storage for free (without buying Office) • Additional 20 GB for $10 per year • Additional 50 GB for $25 per year • Additional 100 GB for $50 per year • Additional 25 GB with Office 365 Home Premium

15. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Syncing Across Devices • Really just a benefit of saving to OneDrive or other Cloud location • Doesn’t actually “sync” • If saves to a location available to other devices instead of the local hard drive • There is a module that will synchronize a OneDrive cache (folder) with OneDrive

16. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Touchscreen • Office 2013 has been designed to be used with a touchscreen • When in “Read” mode, swiping moves through pages • Has a “Touch” mode specifically for touchscreens • This means larger “landing” spots (thus eating screen real estate)

17. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • PDF Editing • Can open PDF files directly • Then save as PDF or as DOC or DOCX

18. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Formatting Task Panes in PowerPoint • Formatting images, shapes, and other objects in PowerPoint is now more intuitive

19. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Easier Charting • New “Recommended Charts” feature

20. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • More Graphics Options • New icons on the Insert tab of the ribbon • Insert from online sources, including Bing, SkyDrive, and Flickr

21. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • New Account Login capability • Allows you to store credentials for cloud storage

22. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • Outlook now had built-in support for Exchange ActiveSync • It can support Hotmail accounts directly without needing a plugin

23. New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) • PowerPivot is built into Excel 2013 • PowerPivot is disabled by default and must manually be enabled

24. Conclusions • The biggest change to the Office suite is the push towards a subscription model of licensing • Office 2013 has improved cloud based access • Office has continued to become easier to use

25. Microsoft Office 2013 David F. Soll Chief Technology Officer Omicron Development LLC dsoll@omicron.com This presentation is available at: http://home.comcast.net/~soll/