London: Microsoft has unveiled new version of its Office 2013 tailored for tablets and other touch screen devices.
For the first time, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are all responsive to touch-screen controls – taps, swipes, and pinch-and-zoom can be used within documents, files and presentations.
The software is also primed for mobile devices, cloud computing, and social networking.
Documents, slides, and presentations can be marked up on mobile screens, drawn on, highlighted or annotated with a digital pen, stylus or even a finger.
Skype, bought for $8.5bn (£5.4bn) in 2011, and Yammer, a social network for businesses, are being rolled into Office: live, multi-party conversations and meetings can be created with Skype video and accessed within Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook.
New “People Cards” include an individual’s digital “presence” – a photo, options to email, instant message, phone or video chat, and activity feeds from the social networks Facebook and Linkedin.
Skydrive automatically saves and syncs all Office documents in an online, cloud-based storage service. This makes files and content created in Office available on demand across computing devices.
Microsoft has also promised that the new Word will ensure that the PDF formatting will remain as is.
The new Excel will include a new way to recognise data, and has the ability to auto-complete the remaining data, with no formulas or macros required. Long suffering and bored Excel users will now get a variety of choices to better present/represent their data. They can also format charts, change titles, layouts, and play with a bunch of other chart elements.
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