Like other Microsoft Office 2013 products, PowerPoint 2013 uses the same basic ribbon command structure, but it has been optimized for tablet use. The simplification of the interface also makes it more phone ready. PowerPoint’s built-in themes now have a variation feature which makes them more customizable than the original. More Choices from the Start The starting sequence of PowerPoint is different. Rather than opening to a default blank PowerPoint presentation, a starting

Microsoft is known for two things: being the provider of software which is the industry standard for business, and for being extremely innovative. Microsoft may not be the first company to come up with some innovative features, but Microsoft would rather be the first company to come out with those features executed correctly rather than the first chronologically. Microsoft Office 2013 is no exception. The first major goal of Microsoft Office 2013 was to clean up graphic effec

One of the best things about using Microsoft Online products, besides their unprecedented reliability and functionality, is the fact that they are always innovating. Microsoft has big plans for Microsoft Dynamics CRM this year, and they are going to wow us with a great many new features and functionality. This is not only to enable greater productivity through the features directly, but the idea is to expand the interest for users as well as the number of devices they can use

New Microsoft Office Word 2013 allows you to do more than you could with previous versions of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Office 2010. Some of the new things you can do is add an online video to your Word document, use Word to open and edit *.PDF documents, and use it easier on tablet computers. For those working on team documents, editing and annotating with comments is easier in Word 2013 than in previous versions. There are different features to make reading as pl

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Lync has a new feature when used with Office 365 Plan E4 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Jahjah Voice plan for Lync which could prove extremely useful to businesses. The fact is, it takes time to go look up a CRM record, pick up a phone, and then type in the numbers to dial. If you think that this takes you a long time, imagine how long it takes bored employees. Employees like things to be simple and direct. Simple and direct processes also speed up pace of work getting

Office 365 2010 Edition and Office 365 2013 edition are quite different not only in their outward appearance but also in their functionality. Little-known difficulties with Office 2010 are now making Office 2010 an attractive target for hackers, according to Kaspersky Labs. In the past, the most common files to exploit were Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat. Adobe has come up with a more aggressive update policy and they have changed their code to help prevent these exploits. Off

Employees are considered good by managers when they are comfortable enough with a business process to develop a “System”. This system is a way of doing things, a way of handling common business situations in an efficient way. Employees get very attached to their way of doing things, and when technologies change, they invariably come up with resistance to that change. This resistance to change is often misunderstood. Suddenly managers and employees are pitted against each othe

New features in Office 2013 are mostly tablet oriented as well as arranged around the new simplified ribbon menu style. One of the key features is the simpler look allows the user to flip through pages of a Microsoft Office Document on a touch-screen in a realistic manner, much as one would flip through the pages of a book. Other features related to this Office 2013 Metro interface are a recurring theme on the Metro Windows 8 Phone and Windows 8 user interface, which are also

The new Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 2013 Editions have in common a new interface by Microsoft originally called Metro. This interface is named Metro after the system of signs on many Metro train systems where the typography is uniform and clear, and people can see universally what each sign means. There are less distracting graphic effects like the glass effect so popular under Windows Vista and Windows 7 and suddenly absent with Windows 8. Inspiration for the simpli