What’s New
in Office?

The new Office has smart features and a fresh look. And, with Office 365 Home Premium, your documents are accessible virtually anywhere on up to 5 PCs, Windows 8 tablets, or Macs. With an easy annual subscription, automatic upgrades are included so you are always using the latest version.

• Experience the applications you count on made even smarter with time-saving new features, including easy ways to add a variety of media to your documents.
• New cloud services let you access your documents and settings anywhere you need them-on your PC, Windows 8 tablet, or Mac.
• Create great documents quickly with a new Start screen that gives you a selection of professional-looking templates and recent documents to choose from.
• Experience Office at its best on Windows 8 devices, optimized for the way you like to work-using a touchscreen, pen, or keyboard.

Your Trusted Applications Made Even Smarter.

What’s new:

Meet the new Office.

Get ready to help customers experience the most powerful Office yet, with smarter versions of their favorite applications and new cloud services that connect them to their documents and settings - when and where they need them.

With the new Office, customers have the freedom to work the way they choose, from PCs, Macs, and select mobile devices.

Smarter Office applications – Time-saving features help customers create, read, share, and connect to Office documents in new ways.
Cloud-connected – Wherever and whenever customers sign in to Office, their personal documents and settings are always available, just as they last left them.
Optimized for touch – Experience Office at its best on devices running Windows 8 and Windows RT, optimized for touch.

Smarter Office applications.

• New, time-saving features offer easy access to recent documents and templates in the cloud or from the newly designed Start screen.
• An enhanced reading experience, regardless of screen size, makes it simple to zoom in and out of content and to use touch to turn pages.
• Easily share Office documents and presentations in real time, with anyone who has a web browser - even if they don’t have Office.
• Capture, organize, and share information in a digital notebook, accessible across devices, from virtually anywhere.
• Office brings social networks and contacts together, including updates from Facebook and LinkedIn, so customers can stay in touch with friends and family.

Cloud-connected.

• Save documents to the cloud with SkyDrive to access them from virtually anywhere.
  When customers are offline, documents are saved to a SkyDrive folder on their local PCs.
• After connecting to the Internet, documents sync automatically between their two SkyDrive folders.
• Once signed into Office, customers’ personal settings and documents - including most recently used files, favorite templates, and even custom dictionary entries - are available, just as they last
  left them.
• Using Office Web Apps in SkyDrive, access, edit, and share work online from any device with an Internet connection.

Optimized for touch.

• Office responds to touch and stylus as naturally as to keyboard and mouse. So customers can easily create, edit, and read documents on touch-enabled devices, including those powered by Windows 8.
• With inking, handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text.