All of the applications come with new touch-optimized viewing modes. In addition to images, you can embed videos via HTML code in Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013. The famous ribbon bar is expanded only when necessary and it's optimized for finger operation on touch screens. When you use Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013, you'll realize that there have been some changes. Touch-optimized use and minimalist design à la Windows 8 On Tablets, you can switch between slides using finger gestures, paint with a stylus for a lecture on film, or use a virtual laser pointer. Besides the presentation itself, you can also see a bullet list and more details on the presenter screen. PowerPoint 2013 splits the presenter mode into two different views for the audience and the presenter. The new Quick Analysis feature in Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 lets you preview certain formatting options in the spreadsheet itself.

Excel also makes it easier to create pivot tables and graphics by generating suggestions in a similar fashion. Excel analyzes the entire table, detects relations between cells, and suggests a value or text. In Excel 2013, the new Flash Fill function automatically fills out a range of selected cells. Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 also edits PDFs without the need for additional software, which makes it a direct competitor of Adobe Acrobat. Making changes to documents has had a huge overhaul, and expanded to make editing documents easier. With the new touch-optimized reading mode in Word 2013, you can skim through documents using a finger swipe. However, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are more than enough to meet the needs of those that need to complete school or university assignments and the requirements of the average home user. Note that unlike the Business and Professional editions, it does not include Outlook, Publisher or Access. This includes 7 GB of free online storage with Microsoft OneDrive. Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 only includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which are the major apps that most home users and students will need.

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