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Anytime Access: The beauty of Office is that it can be accessed anywhere by users and businesses that have purchased the software. If you install a software update for a version of Office, the software update repairs that version of Office. In reply to Rohn’s post on October 20, Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. Outlook cannot coexist with any earlier version of Outlook. Because of this, many attractive advantages are available in Office More from the Foundry Network.
 
 

 

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You need the key and the original install media, However if during the original upgrade it was associated with an MS Account, you log on to that MS Account to reinstall. Thanks for your feedback. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Palcouk’s post on September 8, Thanks for your reply Palcouk. In reply to Paynedave’s post on September 9, No, if you responded to an offer to upgrade to , you would have been provided with a key and the installation media In most instances a installation is associated with an MS Account, so check your MS Account to see if it shows Office , if it doesn’t and you dont have a record of the Key which is not the same as any key then you cannot reinstall Office In reply to Palcouk’s post on September 9, I believe the upgrade happened entirely on-line, with no installation media or new key issued.

Looks like I’m stuck with then. The most important change to Office is the Web-based access and access for mobile phones and other mobile clients introduced in the final version. There will also be mobile versions that allow viewing of documents on a smartphone or other mobile devices, as well as copy and paste between applications. Although, it may not be completely different from the version, there are many solid improvements in Office , which certainly makes it worth checking it out.

So when can you get your hands on Office — and will the Operating System you have run it? Office shipped to manufacturers in October , but the final edition will not be out until the middle of Microsoft also announced that Microsoft Office will only be compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8. XP and Vista users will be left out in the cold. Gail is passionate about building collaborations of bloggers interested in supporting small businesses and creating a better world for all.

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I have had some complaints from users, but it’s been minimal. If you have a smaller number of users, I would definitely say get used to it before any users as there are some subtle differences. The one thing I have found annoying in outlook is that it is not easy to display the sender header information.

Glad to have the disable option via GPO- but I would prefer to have to enable instead. Since we don’t subscribe to Office , it actually becomes a security risk because it encourages them to use their own SkyDrive.

We are running right now, but have licenses due to Software Assurance. I will probably be upgrading later this year. The one feature I really like is the ability to edit PDFs.

Though I am not sure if I had to actually pay for the upgrade if I would find that a compelling enough reason. I like Office – nicest feature for the business – Outlook by default will only download 12 months of mail so easier on the bandwidth. It has proven a hassle to in-place upgrade, however, so I’ve simply made the new PC build with Office instead of Manus Dei is an IT service provider.

Prefer appears to be the last stable release in my opinion especially when looking at Outlook on each. I do question the amount of unused functions and features of Office as most of the every day users I see don’t use anything really outside the formatting options and though who do mainly talking about spreadsheets here tend to muck up what they are doing as they hadn’t really a clue in the first place.

All ends up with muggings here trolling through a massive mess of work backwards engineering everything and then creating a new spreadsheet correctly with comments in the VBA coding and then importing the old data for it to be used once a week or some else come along and change the coding or formula as it doesn’t give them the result “they” want and now doesn’t work correctly once more. Running here too, theres a few bugs still to be ironed out but other than that I like it, much cleaner and faster than its predecessor.

I loved the Office from the first installation. Also I love the new features in it Ex. I am using Office The updates are a lot larger, so when it comes to bandwidth, you might want to consider that. But I personally enjoy using the product. The only thing that’s superior in my view in Office is that the Outlook calendar includes a line that shows you what time it is in relation to your meetings much like in Google Calendar. I don’t mind office we have Software Assurance, so it didn’t cost any extra.

I don’t particularly like it either. It’s okay for the most part it has some annoyances like randomly drag select to highlight text seems to fail in office I also don’t like that is ties each user to their email for everything as it’s trying to be more cloud based, but it’s only on my laptop so no big deal so far. Interface is cleaner and smoother.

Buttons have been moved all over the place. SP1 just came out for so the bugs have been patched. If you don’t need to spend the money, i recommend waiting for the next version. We only went because our vendor no longer sold licenses. Your users will most likely need a training course otherwise you will be getting a ton of phone calls, especially for outlook.

All the default settings and interfaces have been changed. Took 2 months of phone calls before they finally got used to it. A side note. One of our web apps did not work with or 64 bit. I have to downgrade some of those people to our leftover licenses. This is very rare, but apparently some webapps do have office integration and unless you are up to speed with their stuff again budget , it will hurt you in the long run. There is a macro for this for If OP stays on and wants it, pm me or post in here i might not see it in here.

I still have it in a txt file on my drive. We have a standard company name sig so it was really easy to do. To Desperado, it was a nice surprise knowing that i did not have to import this macro on all new office installs :. We upgraded 4Q13 from Office company-wide, and at that time there was still just enough unsettling comments about the newest version that I chose to just upgrade everyone here to It will be supported for a long time and works fine for us.

I like Office so far. We’ve had it for about 4 months now with the learning curve not being that bad. We did a few user videos to help with some of the more used functions here in the office. It does seem that was built with a touchscreen in mind, hence the larger buttons and menus.

I’m sticking with In my experience, is much more compatible I had issues editing certian documents in but no issues in and offers features that omitted. Upgrading the ones if they are getting reimaged or patched, but not actively seeking them to upgrade, if that makes sense. This means making any significant amount of Office functionality Metro-only would be a mistake.

Two, Metro is an environment designed for what others have called “lean-back mode. Instead, Microsoft has given Office a Metro-style makeover without making it an actual Metro app. The word “Metro” doesn’t even appear in the reviewer’s guide handed out for testers of the beta.

Microsoft also added a few key touch-centric features — again, just enough to make Office useful on a touch system without forcing people to rely on it. It sounds incredible, I know. The key to this engineering feat is a new feature called Office On Demand.

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