If you purchase a pre-paid subscription, your subscription starts when you activate your subscription and land on your My Account page. You can purchase pre-paid subscriptions from a retailer or reseller, or a Microsoft support agent. If you have an active Microsoft Family subscription, you can share it with up to five members of your household six total. To add someone to your subscription, visit www. Each person you add will receive an email with the steps they need to follow.
Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. You can stop sharing your subscription with someone or remove a device they are using at www. When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off your property off-premises , and is maintained by a third party hosted , instead of residing on a server at your home or business on-premises that you maintain.
With Microsoft , for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Microsoft is the latest version of Office. Previous versions include Office , Office , and Office Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
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Word Become a better writer with smart tools that help you create impressive documents. Excel Excel does complex analyses for you, empowering you to be the master of your data. OneNote Get organized with OneNote, the digital notebook that lets you type, draw, and more. Outlook Get more done with an intelligent inbox and focus on the emails that matter most. Publisher Simple tools to help you create professional newsletters, brochures, and more.
Expand all Collapse all. How do I know if my computer can run Microsoft ? Is internet access required for Microsoft ? Will I still have control of my documents with Microsoft ? When would my subscription start? How do I share Microsoft with the rest of my household? You can trim video so your audience sees only the video content you want them to see. You also can add video effects, fades, and even create video triggers to launch animations during your presentation. These video bookmarks can be used to cue captions at specific points during a video, for example.
When it's a static presentation you're working on--such as a publication, newsletter, or pamphlet--Office lets you color-correct and add artistic effects and borders to images so you won't need a third-party image editor.
We found many of these features to be quite intuitive once we were able to track them down in their appropriate Ribbon tabs. Like many features in Office , it's not the functionality that can be challenging, but rather the getting used to the feature that is. Outlook has seen many notable feature improvements in Office , which will save users time in their daily e-mail tasks if they get past the initial learning curve. The new Conversation View lets you group threads together so you can view an entire conversation in one place.
With plenty of competition in Google's online Gmail search tools, Outlook needed to make attractive new features to continue to be competitive, and this feature makes searching through e-mail much easier. You also can run Clean Up to strip out redundant messages and threads so you have just the info you need without scanning through several e-mails.
Microsoft got mixed reviews during beta testing of this feature, but we think that this might be one of those features like the Ribbon that will become more useful as users become acclimated with a new way of doing things. A new feature called Quicksteps lets you create macros for common daily tasks like regular forwarding of specific e-mails to third parties. Say you have sales e-mails from several parties that are sent to you on a regular basis, but need to go to another person within your company.
With Quicksteps you could custom create a macro that would automatically send that e-mail on with the click of a button. Like the Conversation View features, Quicksteps is not immediately intuitive, but after some study, it will save you an enormous amount of time processing e-mails in the future.
Even with the tweaks for simplifying your e-mail processing, Outlook still seems more in tune with large business clients than with smaller companies that could probably get by with online alternatives. New coauthoring in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote, as well as advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Outlook, make collaboration much easier, reducing the time it takes to finish large projects with several contributors.
Word and PowerPoint now have a syncing mechanism to avoid sudden changes while you're working on a project a major concern in the beta. We wonder how people will react to this specific change, since now the only way to have live coauthoring without the need to sync up changes will be through OneNote. In any case, offering access to shared documents in key business applications from anywhere is something any international business or business traveler can appreciate.
Google Docs, though not as elegant, are extremely easy to share with other users, so offering OneNote as the only option may not be enough. Live edits in OneNote are only one of the new features for Microsoft's notebook-like application, however. Sketching out ideas, collaborating in real time, and adding images, video, audio, and text are all available in OneNote as it sits to the side of what you're working on.
This enables you to drop sections of text, images, and other tidbits into OneNote's interface to keep all your ideas in one place.
An upgraded Navigation Bar makes it easy to jump between notebooks to copy or merge information. When you're collaborating on a project, OneNote now features automatic highlighting so you can quickly find changes to your notebook since your last save. Features like these, along with new visual styles and a Web version with live changes, make OneNote the key collaborative tool of the suite. Our only question is whether people will accept OneNote as their mainstay for live collaboration since it has less name recognition than bigger apps in the suite.
In addition to upgraded collaboration tools, you'll now be able to work on your documents anywhere with slimmed down Web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. The Web based components will make sharing information easier whether it's from your home computer, your phone, or when you're traveling for business. The Web apps preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of the device you're working on--even if it's your smartphone.
These apps seem to work as advertised mostly, but we wonder how well the Web-based versions will work when server loads reach into the several millions of users. What sets these apps apart from Google Docs and other services is that your documents and spreadsheets retain their formatting, giving Office 's Web apps a leg up against its online counterparts.
Excel has received some tweaks as well, with easier-to-read, color-coded spreadsheets and smart tools to bring in the information you need. In Excel , you can flip through the tabs to access formulas, insert diagrams and charts, and quickly import data from connected sources.
A new feature called Sparklines lets you create a small chart in a single cell. This lets users compare data across multiple cells with added graphical elements to make them easier to read and spot trends over time. These moves seem to suggest that Microsoft is trying to make spreadsheets a little more accessible to a wider swath of users.
We welcome the new customization features, especially as Excel retains the powerful tools users have come to expect. Those who are involved in creating their own publications and newsletters will appreciate new changes to Publisher With several available templates, you can add your personal business logo graphics and branding and then preview them in real time across each template style.
Microsoft has added ligatures and Stylistic Alternates to fonts so you can add your own personal touches to your publications. Like the other applications we've talked about in Office , Publisher offers the same new useful image-editing tools, so effects, color-correction, cropping, and more are only a few clicks away. Late to our labs and late to the game, some might say, with Google and Yahoo leading the pack are some of the new features that Windows Live Hotmail will support when it launches to all users in July or August.
Microsoft says users will be offered the option to upload Office documents or images to their SkyDrives, and then send a link of their work to a friend who uses Hotmail. This will eliminate the need to use caution when sharing large files for presentations, videos, or large collections of photos, because the documents will exist in the cloud.
The recipient will be able to view documents in their original format and large multimedia files in their Inbox without the need to wait for a huge download. This gives Hotmail users the opportunity to pick and choose which content they want to download from SkyDrive. As a result of new feature additions to Hotmail, images and video will receive new options, too, including the ability to automatically view a collection of images in a slideshow, and the ability to view photos and video from third-party services like FlickR, SmugMug, Hulu, and YouTube, all without having to leave Hotmail.
Microsoft also says it will push Windows live e-mail, calendar, and contact information, and more to your Windows Mobile phone using Exchange ActiveSync. Other new features we saw in the demo included separate sections for viewing shipping information and e-mails from social Web sites, which represent a significant amount of all e-mail messages. Does Office offer enough to make it worth the upgrade from earlier versions? We think that largely depends on how you use Microsoft Office.
New templates and quick access to video and image-editing tools are welcome additions for those who create visual presentations of their content.
Serious spreadsheet power users will like the new features that tie data together in Excel while making complex data more accessible in the Ribbon and more exciting visually. Outlook's new conversation-scrubbing features and Quicksteps for common e-mail actions could save daily e-mail users a lot of time, if they're willing to learn the ropes initially.
If you feel like Office or Office have all the features you need in your line of work, then there's probably little reason to upgrade. Obviously, the Ribbon is now the preferred method across the entire suite for getting to features quickly. If you didn't like the Ribbon in Office , you probably won't like it now, but we think there's plenty of utility in having a common interface tool across all the apps; it might be worth learning a new way of doing things if you want to streamline your work flow.
The new Hotmail integration features that will launch alongside Office may give Google Docs a run for its money if they work as advertised. We're impressed with what we've seen so far, but we'll need to reserve judgment until users are relying on the new features en masse. Office is a worthy upgrade for those who desire new templates and visual styles, better ways of editing multimedia content in publications and presentations, and easier methods of collaboration.
The ability to work from anywhere with the new Web apps is surely a big reason to upgrade if your job requires that kind of flexibility.
Microsoft Office Home and Student gives you the essential tools you need to complete school and household projects efficiently. Ready-to-use templates in Word and PowerPoint equip students to create outstanding schoolwork, with rich visual effects and media-editing features that help them express their ideas creatively.
Excel gives you the spreadsheet tools the pros use to simplify working with data, from tracking expenses to creating a household budget. And there's OneNote for household projects, a catch-all spot for organizing notes, files, and resources in one easy-to-access place. Free YouTube Downloader. IObit Uninstaller. Internet Download Manager. WinRAR bit. VLC Media Player. MacX YouTube Downloader. Microsoft Office YTD Video Downloader.
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