Touch-optimized use and minimalist design à la Windows 8 E-mails in Outlook 2013 are now tablet friendly and can be viewed, if you want, in an optimized list view with larger areas. In all views, Outlook 2013 brings together fade-in menus for appointments, contacts and tasks. 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 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 2013 Professional Plus 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. To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the Internet.With the new touch-optimized reading mode in Word 2013, you can skim through documents using a finger swipe. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents but cannot edit the documents or create new ones.

You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app. For Microsoft 365 plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options.

However, Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Microsoft 365 subscription plans. You don’t need to be connected to the Internet to use Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.

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