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In the final shipping version of Office 2013, Microsoft has added a nice new feature that makes it much easier to configure the applications’ ribbon interface. Called Ribbon Display Options, this feature lets you toggle the ribbon between three different states....More

Microsoft announced today that its next generation office productivity family, Office 2013, has reached the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone. But since Office 2013 encompasses a wide range of products and services, the release of this product family will occur over several months. And I have some exclusive news about Office for iOS and Android....More

If you used the new Office 365 web-based installer to install the Office 2013 Customer Preview on your PC, you’ve experienced the wonders of Click-to-Run: Lightning-fast install times, automatic updating, friendly side-by-side usage with previous Office versions, and seamless integration with the underlying OS. Click-to-run has been around since Office 2010, but in Office 2013 it really comes of age....More

In keeping with Microsoft’s broader embrace of the trend called consumerization of IT, Outlook 2013 now integrates with several social connectors. This technology, which originated as a series of add-ons for Outlook 2010, lets users further blur the line between personal and work relationships by bringing their contacts’ activities and other data from popular social networks into Outlook....More

Object zoom lets you quickly display pictures, tables and charts in a Word document in larger sizes while in Read mode....More