What is it?

Microsoft Office® 2013 Office Productivity Suite

Issued last year, Microsoft Office® 2013 is the latest version of Microsoft’s office productivity suite that—depending on the version—provides word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, with additional components available that include email, note taking, databases, project management and document publishing. Typical parts of the suite include Word® 2013, Excel® 2013, and PowerPoint® 2013.

What does it do?

Office 2013 is the most sophisticated, feature rich office productivity suite that is used by millions of companies worldwide. New features include a new read mode in Microsoft Word®, a presentation mode in Microsoft PowerPoint ®and improved touch (for use in tablet and touch screen computers) and linking in all of the Office programs. Microsoft Word can also insert video and audio from online sources as well as the capability to broadcast documents on the Web. Word and PowerPoint now have bookmark-like features that synchronize the position of the document between different computers.

Some of the improved features of Office 2013 include the following:

• Do more with your Word docs: easily drop in an online video, open a PDF and edit the content, and align pictures and diagrams with minimal fuss.
• Excel templates do most of the setup and design for you, so you can focus on your information.
• Create compelling presentations with the new alignment, color matching, and other design tools inPowerPoint.

What are some of the ways it helps us?

Overall, Office 2013 is a significant step forward from earlier versions of Office in terms of its features.

For Crawford:

• It provides a consistent, unified office suite for our employees, so everyone is familiar and comfortable with the same technology.
•  It provides sophisticated tools making it faster and easier to create documents, presentations, financial calculations and take notes.
• It keeps Crawford current with the office technology of our partners, clients and prospects.
• Office 2013 is fully compatible with earlier versions of Office that go back seven years. Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 365, or Office 2013 users can open documents created with any of those programs without any additional action. Customers using earlier versions of Office may need to download and install a compatibility pack.

Who uses it?

Ultimately, Office 2013 will be used by all of Crawford‘s global employees.

When was it launched?

Deployment began in 2014 and continues through 2015.

Where can I get more information?

Free tutorials and webinars may be viewed here.

Free Microsoft Office 2013 Quick Start Guides (“Cheat Sheets”) are here:

• Microsoft Word 2013 Quick Start Guide
• Microsoft Excel 2013 Quick Start Guide
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Quick Start Guide

Free Microsoft Office 2013 online training is available here:

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  Word 2013 Training
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  Excel 2013 T.5aining
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  PowerPoint 2013 Training