Overview

What is Microsoft Office 2013?

Office 2013 is Microsoft's desktop and cloud productivity suite.

In depth

A closer look at Microsoft Office 2013

Office 2013 is Microsoft's desktop and cloud productivity suite. It's available as a stand alone desktop package or through Microsoft's Office 365 subscription model. It's various versions include the programs:

Word 2013
Excel 2013
PowerPoint 2013
Outlook 2013
Access 2013
OneNote 2013
Project 2013
Publisher 2013
Visio 2013

The first thing you'll notice when starting Microsoft Office 2013 is it's clean, refreshing and coherent look across all supported platforms including desktop, smartphones and tablets. Through a subscription of Office 365 and the integration with SkyDrive you can access and edit your files from any computer via a browser.
Among the new features are a "Read Mode" in Word 2013 which removes toolbars and lets you swipe and tab through a document like in an "E-Reader". Videos are better supported. They can be searched, added and viewed directly within Word. Excel 2013 has new easy ways of working with formulas and charts in spreadsheets. Powerpoint 2013 was enhanced with better controls while in presentation mode, for example "Slide Zoom" to zoom in on a section of your slide. Adding photos to a presentation also became easier as you can now search and add pictures from your albums on Flickr and other online photo and social network sites.

Requirements

System requirements

Windows Windows 7 / Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64-bit / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64-bit

Verdict

Should you download Microsoft Office 2013?

Microsoft Office 2013 runs on Windows 10/11 and is available under the Commercial license — the installer is 156 KB. We’ve catalogued it under General.

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