

Considering the many new tablet devices with touch screens that are coming out in the market with Windows 8, the Word team have put a lot of emphasis on improving the reading experience on these new type of devices. People open up Word to read reports, brochures, product guides, proposals – all type of documents. A more comfortable reading environmentĪccording to Doug Thomas in the Word 2013 Preview Webinar, two-thirds of all Word documents that are opened are only read – not edited. There is a long list of new and enhanced features in Word 2013, but here I just want to focus on what improvements I see as most beneficial from a productivity standpoint. Last week I wrote about the benefits of Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, this week I wanted to share with you the benefits of Microsoft Word 2013. Even so, reading the Office blog, and hearing from the various teams about the work they have put into the new version of Office, I’m reminded of how much effort there is behind every little detail that we as users take for granted. Having worked for Microsoft for over a decade I have some insight into the very complex process of application development, the millions of rows of code that need to be written, reviewed and tested.

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