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Microsoft Announces Office 2016 and Office For Windows 10 Coming Later This Year

At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version is under development, it is called Office 2016, and it will be generally available "in the second half of 2015." Office for Windows 10 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), meanwhile, is also slated to arrive later this year, though Microsoft has shared more about it and plans to offer a preview in the coming weeks. These new Office apps will be pre-installed (they will be free) on smartphones and small tablets running Windows 10. They will also be available to download from the Windows Store for other devices.

I better start saving up! :no:
 
aye-aye-Chris aye-aye-Chris

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foxidrive said:
Microsoft Announces Office 2016 and Office For Windows 10 Coming Later This Year

At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version is under development, it is called Office 2016, and it will be generally available "in the second half of 2015." Office for Windows 10 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook), meanwhile, is also slated to arrive later this year, though Microsoft has shared more about it and plans to offer a preview in the coming weeks. These new Office apps will be pre-installed (they will be free) on smartphones and small tablets running Windows 10. They will also be available to download from the Windows Store for other devices.

I better start saving up!
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:no:

Wait and see if the H.U.P. is still operating. I have 2010 & 2013 through it.

Find someone who works where MS Office is registered, i.e. government, ask them to register and give you the d/l code they get. That's if they don't want it themselves. Once you have the d/l code, the email address used to d/l it does not need to relate to the email address that registered for it.
 
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I have 2013 - I think it was around $30 due to some slip-up of an offer which went viral.

I've only used it 4 times. :poke
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Well here's another use for Word 2013 :satisfied

Word 2013 brings a fair number of new features to the word-processing table, but one of the most welcome (and business-friendly) by far is the capability to edit PDFs.

Previously, that would require Adobe Acrobat X Pro or some other pricey utility. That's because a PDF is technically an image file, and converting that image back to text (especially if has graphics mixed in) requires some fairly sophisticated OCR.

Thankfully, Word now lets you open a PDF the same as if you were opening a .docx file, make changes to it, then save it again back to PDF format (or, if you prefer, something else).

That's incredibly handy, whether for making changes to a contract, filling in a form, or recreating a document. Here's how to make it happen:

1. In Word 2013, click File, Open.

2. Navigate your hard drive until you find the PDF you want to edit.

3. Click it, and then click Open.

4. Make whatever changes or additions you need to make, keeping in mind that some formatting may be lost in the process of converting the PDF to an editable format. Also, depending on the document, you might not be able to fill in form fields.

5. When you're done, click File, Save As, then save the document as a PDF. (By default, Word will want to save it in its native .docx format.)

That's all there is to it. So, what do you think of Word's PDF-editing capabilities? Is that feature alone worth the price of an upgrading from an earlier version? Have you found another tool you like better for the job?
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but one of the most welcome (and business-friendly) by far is the capability to edit PDFs.

I think I had to do that once. :satisfied

Thanks for the info Chris.
 
misi misi

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aye-aye-Chris said:
Well here's another use for Word 2013 :satisfied
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"Previously, that would require Adobe Acrobat X Pro or some other pricey utility. That's because a PDF is technically an image file, and converting that image back to text (especially if has graphics mixed in) requires some fairly sophisticated OCR."

That's pretty good!
Maybe that's the beginning of the end of Adobe Acrobat?

Do you remember Lotus 123? Excel put the nails into its coffin.
 
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