Office 2013

July 3, 2013

Create A Custom Tab In Office 2013 Easily

Rahmeen Ahmad Khan Office 2013 Office 2013 0 Comments

The Ribbon interface was introduced in Office 2007 but the new Office 2013 takes the Ribbon interface to the next level. Microsoft has introduced features like creating custom tab in Office 2013 in addition to the standard tabs which we get when we open any Office app.

In this article, we will create a custom Tab in Office 2013. A tab consists of ‘Groups’ and ‘Commands’. A command is a standalone function that is used to perform any task like spell and grammar check, thesaurus or word count etc.

Related commands make a group. For example, spell checker, thesaurus and word count make group named ‘Proofing’. Proofing, language, tracking, comments, changes, compare and protect groups combine together to make a ‘Review Tab‘ .

So we can conclude that different commands make a Group and different groups make a ‘Tab’. For quickly going through all the process visually, you can go through this video:

Create a Customized Tab on the Office 2013 Ribbon

Add a Custom Tab to Ribbon Bar

Right click on the Ribbon and Select Customize Ribbon.
Or Go to File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon.
Select ‘New Tab’ under ‘Customize the Ribbon’ pane.
You will see a custom tab will be added with the name ‘New Tab’ (Custom).
Select the newly created tab and click on ‘Rename’ to give your tab a proper name.
Now, you can add groups and commands to your Custom Tab.

Customize the ribbon in Office 2013

Adding Groups to Custom Tab

You can add groups to your custom tab, by:

Go to File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon.
In Customize the Ribbon pane, find your Custom Tab and select ‘New Group’.
It will create a new group in the tab.
Select Rename to label your groups and associate a symbol with them.

You can add a group from any other Tab to your Custom Tab.

Hold the ‘Group’, drag and drop into the Custom Tab.

Add Groups in Ribbon bar Office 2013

Adding Commands to the Custom Groups

Now it is time to add commands to the custom groups. I will recommend you to select ‘All Commands’ from the drop down list of ‘Choose commands from’ so that you can browse through all the available commands. You may be surprised to see the long list of commands that you have never used before. To add a command to any group:

Select the group.

Select the command and click ‘Add’.

Similarly, you can remove any command by:

Select the command and click ‘Remove’.

Add Commands in Ribbon bar Office 2013

You may now check that a Custom Tab has been added with your specified groups and commands.

Backup Your Custom Tabs in Office 2013

An interesting feature about ribbon customizations is that you can export your customizations as a file. You may import this file and take with you anywhere, to apply on different systems you are using. To backup your customizations:

Go to Ribbon customization -> Import/Export .
Save your file with appropriate name.

You may also import a customization file using the Import options. You will be prompted to select ‘Yes’, if you want to replace the exisiting customizations with the new file.

Remove the Customizations

When we mess up with any gadget’s settings and get stuck somewhere, we tend to ‘Restore’ it to the factory settings. Similarly, if you want to remove all the customizations at once, you can do it by a simple reset.

In the bottom of the Ribbon Customization window, you will find options related to customization.

Select Reset -> Reset all customizations.

All the customizations will be removed!

That’s it! It is really simple to create a custom tab and add your needed functions to it within seconds. I have planned to create a tab with the frequently used format, insert picture, print and review options in my tab. What are your plans for the custom tab?

June 23, 2013

Protect Word Documents From Unauthorized Editing

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Microsoft Word comes with certain security features that can be used to protect the document in different ways. It includes password protecting the document, sealing it with a digital signature and making certain parts of the documents as read-only. In this article, we will discuss some ways to protect Word documents from unauthorized editing.

Password protecting the document

A very common way of protecting your documents from unauthorized user access is to restrict access to the document using a password. Microsoft understands that confidentiality of your files is important so it provides an easy way to password protect your document. Add a password but remember that if you forgot the password, your document is lost completely. There is no way to retrieve lost passwords.

To password protect a document, follow the steps below:

Go to File –> Protect Document –> Encrypt with Password.

After entering the password, when you open the document, it will ask you for a password.

Mark document as final making it read-only

If you have completed the editing and formatting of your document and you know that no further changes are to be made, you can protect it without a password. The quickest way of preventing your document from editing is to save a read-only version of it by marking it as Final. When a document is marked as final, the status property is set to ‘Final’ and typing, editing commands, and proofing marks are turned off. Mark as Final icon appears in the status bar indicating that the document is a Read-only version.

Go to File –> Protect Document –> Mark as Final

Word 2013 Mark as Final

You may notice that all editing commands in the ribbon bar are now disabled.

Note that sometimes a document is displayed as read-only even when we have not marked it as Final. It is displayed because you may have opened multiple copies of a same document for editing. Windows allows you to make changes to a document from only one window at a time. That’s why the other opened versions would be Read-Only.

Restrict formatting and editing

Restrict Formatting and Editing feature lets you apply conditional restrictions. It means you can define parts of the document which can be edited and which are restricted.

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Formatting Restrictions limit formatting to a selected set of styles. It lets you specify the formatting styles that you want to allow to be used in the document.

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You can also add exceptions in your document. It means that if you are working in a team and you are working on a specific topic, you restrict that part for editing and the rest of the document is allowed to be edited freely.

Highlight the part of text that is to be freely edited.
In the formatting restrictions pane, go to exceptions and select ‘Everyone’.
Now, click on Start Enforcement.
Give a suitable password to your document and enforce the settings.

XPS or PDF Format

Microsoft Word 2013 comes with the ability to save a document in PDF or XPS formats. By default, PDF and XPS documents are read-only.

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To save a document in XPS format, do the following:

Go to File –> Export –> Select ‘Save as XPS’

You can save the file in PDF format in the similar way.

Go to File –> Export –> Select ‘Save as PDF’.

You can select a way to protect your document from unauthorized access according to your need. If you have completely finished any document, you may want to Mark it as Final or save as PDF/XPS. If the document is not private and you want to protect a part of it, then restrict formatting and editing is the choice. In extreme cases, you can add password to the document which will limit access to the document to the ones who have the password.

April 26, 2013

Extend Office 2013 With 180 Day Trial License

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If you want to test drive Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft gives a 30 day trial for getting familiar with the suite. You can download Office 2013 here. If you are a regular reader of Technize.net, you would have read about how to use Windows 8 for 180 days while the official trial is of 30 days.

The same rearm feature that we used to extend the trial of Windows 8 can also be used for Microsoft Office 2013. This method is legal and is provided by Microsoft especially for volume license customers.

After 30 days of use, Office 2013 needs to be activated for further use. The rearm feature can be used to extend the trial further for 30 more days. You will be able to use the rearm command for 5 times making it a total of 180 days or 6 months.

We will discuss two methods of rearming and extending Office 2013 trial license.Just make sure that you are rearming on the last day before your trial expires. This is to make sure that you get full 180 days trial. Otherwise, if you are rearming in the middle of the trial, it will add another 30 days to the trial. For example, if you rearm on the 15th day, it will extend the trial for the next 30 days making your trial 45 days long and not 60 days.

Rearm Office 2013 manually

To extend the Office 2013 trial, follow the steps below.

Make sure all Office 2013 applications are closed.
Open command prompt with elevated privileges (Windows Key + X + A)
Go to the following folder:
32-bit Office installation = C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Office\Office 15
64-bit Office installation = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 15
After you reach the above folder, run the following command: ospprearm
If the rearm is successful, the following message will be displayed:
“Microsoft Office rearm successful."

You will need to repeat this process on the 30th day of trial period. For more information about rearming, you can visit the Technet article about deploying volume activation of Office 2013.

Rearm Office 2013 using Office Trial Extender

Office Trial Extender is a tool which can be used to automate the rearming process. You can schedule it to run after every 29 or 30 days to extend the trial to the next 30 days.

Office Trial Extender

Office Trial Extender is very easy to use. You can download it from the following location and install it on your computer. Unfortunately there is no portable edition of the program.

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There are only two buttons on the Office Trial Extender, one for rearming Office 2010 and the other for rearming Office 2013. Clicking on the appropriate button will rearm the Office installation automatically.

The only thing you need to be careful about is the installation of Office Trial Extender. The setup comes with extra software installations which need to be avoided by declining their license agreements.

Install Delta Toolbar

Install TuneUp Utilities 2013

I installed an extra add-on by mistake and was greeted with Internet Explorer 10 dialog box that the toolbar was trying to change the search provider which is always dangerous unless you know and trust the search provider.

IEHelper dll warning

When you run Office Trial Extender, you will be asked if you want to run the app with administrative privileges. You will need to click the Yes button in order for the app to run properly.

Office Trial Extender admin privileges warning

If you benefit from the method of extending Office 2013 trial up to 180 days, please leave a comment and share this article on the social networks.

March 12, 2013

How To Be More Productive Using Microsoft OneNote 2013

Rahmeen Ahmad Khan Microsoft Microsoft Office, office 2010, Office 2013, onenote, productivity 2 Comments

Are you the one who is habitual of using sticky notes or keeping a pocket diary where you can note down all the important points while studying, write down meeting timings, tasks to do or other random thoughts and information? Are you looking for a tool that allows you to note down all related stuff while working on your PC?

OneNote is a tool that gathers all your information and notes in the form of organized ‘Notebooks’. This notebook is like a physical diary where you can make different sections.

OneNote 2013 is more like a brain processor where you can dump every plan and thought you are thinking of. It can serve as an important asset for you if you learn how to use and manage your data using OneNote. It can also serve as a brainstorming tool.

Let us start with a sample Notebook and explore the possibilities. You can either add a new notebook or choose from the available template notebooks. You can start with Personal or Work notebooks to help you manage your daily routine or work related notes. Click on the drop down arrow and select Personal Notebook.

Click on the ~ez_lsquo+ez_rsquo~ button next to the ‘Quick Notes’ to add different sections in your notebook. You can add as many sections as you want and customize them.

Protect Your Notebooks

Every one of us does not own a personal computer or laptop but each of us want privacy for his/her documents especially your personal notebook which has everything that you may have in your mind. Encrypt your notebooks and prevent them from unauthorized persons by adding a password. To password protect any section:

Right click on the section and select ‘Password Protect this Section’.

Protect One Note 2013 Notebook

If you want to apply this password to all the sections of your notebook then press ‘CTRL+ALT+L’ (L is for the lock). Another way is to go to Review tab -> Password, and a panel will appear containing different options related to password protection.

Add Pages

Adding a page is really simple. All you need to do is to go into the section and find the ‘Add Page’ option in the right side panel. Click on it and give your page a proper title. Office offers a collection of Page Templates. Go to insert tab-page template. Or go to the online template library.

Merge Sections

You can copy or merge different sections of even different notebooks. Let’s say you want to merge ‘To Do’ section from personal notebook to ‘Project 2’ of work notebook;

Right click on ‘To do’ section -> Select ‘Merge into Another Section’.

A window will appear that has all your notebooks. Select your required notebook and specific section to merge them. You can merge two sections at a time.

Merge Sections in One Note 2013 Notebook

Import Data into Notebook

Organize your data by inserting tables in your notebooks or add spreadsheets. Let’s assume that you want to import an excel spreadsheet containing expense and their details of Project Italy in your Work Notebook. To do so:

Click Insert -> Spreadsheet -> Existing Excel Spreadsheet and find it.
Inserting pictures is a traditional option available but you can also insert one or more files in the notebook.
Click Insert -> File Attachment -> Insert your required files.
Link up different sections and pages of your notebook so that you don’t need to open different notebooks when you need them.
Go to Insert -> Link -> Link any web address or file.
However, you can import audio or video but can only record them at the instant.

Import Data in OneNote 2013 Notebook

Tag Pages and Sections

Tagging is very helpful when you have a large number of documents. You can search pages and sections with specific tags as to do, important, question, idea, critical etc. There are many predefined tags, but you can also customize tags according to your needs.

Go to Home Tab-> Tags -> Select from the Tag Menu.
To add new tag, go to the bottom of the Tag Menu and click ‘Customize Tag’.
Add or modify a tag.
Similarly, you can also search all notebooks with a specific tag.
Go to Home Tab -> Tags -> Find a Tag.

Tag Pages and Sections in OneNote 2013

The Clipping Tool

Sometimes we need to take a screenshot of our work and make notes accordingly. You can not do this in Word 2013 rather you would be installing any snipping tool to capture your work. But the OneNote 2013, comes with a built-in clipping tool that would spare you from installing any other software.

Go to View -> Clipping Panel -> Clipping Tool.
Capture screen and insert it in your pages. You can also capture screen-shots using insert tab.
Go to Insert -> Screen Clipping.

Clipping Tool in OneNote 2013

Dock to Desktop

While working and researching on the Internet we often wish to note down several points. You may either use a paper and paper or copy-paste information into a separate word file. But if you are using OneNote 2013, you are blessed with a smarter option — Dock to Desktop.

Go to View -> Dock to desktop and OneNote will be appeared at the right of your desktop.
You can now easily take notes while surfing on the web or reading any research paper.

Dock OneNote 2013 To Desktop

We hope that you find this basic tutorial helpful and it will help you make intelligent use of the available tools to improve your productivity.

March 11, 2013

Make a Business Calendar with Microsoft Word 2013

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Have you ever thought of making a business calendar using Microsoft Word 2013? Basically, Microsoft Word is a word-processing program that is used to create professional documents. However, Microsoft has improved Word over decades and the latest improvement equips it with a variety of built-in templates. These templates have taken Word 2013 to a new level. Now you can make flyer, invitation cards, business calendars, memos and a lot more using these templates. Let’s make a business calendar with Word 2013.

Go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Word 2013

File -> New

The New option consists of a variety of templates. Scroll down a little to see the ‘Business Calendar’ template.

Or type ‘Calendar’ in the search bar to visit the collection specific to calendars. You can filter the search results by different categories like weekly, monthly, annually, business, academic year or etc.

Select the one that best suits your need.

You will see that the formatting options of title, heading and sub-headings in the home tab have now been replaced with date, days, month, tagline, normal, year and headings.

Customizing the calendar

Add Logo

Click on the image and replace it with your logo image. You may need to add reflections, shadows or 3-D effects to your logo. You can also add various artistic effects to make it visually more appealing. Right click on the image and select Format Picture.

Add a Tagline

Place your cursor in the ‘2013’. You can replace it with a tagline, month, day, date, or heading style by selecting the one from Home Tab.

Highlight Months

Every month in the calendar is an independent table. You can intelligently use this characteristic to relate different months of a year. For example, use the table with green grid in the months of June, September and December which represent that your sales increases in these months. Similarly, use another color to represent the productivity months. By doing this, you will have a more understanding of your annual business plan and its execution.

Add Tasks

Since, Microsoft Word is a word processing program that enables creating professional documents easily so we should not expect it to behave like a project management tool. There is no concept of tasks in it, rather you can add tasks to any date by adding a ‘New Comment’ to it.

Move the cursor to the date.
Date will be highlighted. Right click on it to see the context menu.
Select ‘New Comment’.
Make a comment.

See the Correspondent Dates to Comments

You can add a long list of tasks (or comments) to your calendar and all of them will be lined up in the Markup Area. Click on any comment and you will see that the comment will be displayed inside the box and that box will link you to the date.

Add Multiple Tasks To One Date

You can add multiple tasks to one date by following the same procedure of select date -> right-click -> new comment. However, it will become difficult for you to keep a track of all tasks associated to one date. So, a better option will be to add them as sub-tasks of one main task.

Select the task already added.
Right click -> New Comment.
Type the Task.

Mark Tasks As Done

It is important to mark tasks that have been completed on time. Usually, we put a tick on our calendars to show a task as completed. We can also mark completed tasks on our virtual calendar.

Select the task already added.
Right click -> Mark Comment As Done.

These comments will now appear in dull colors to distinguish them from the uncompleted tasks

Mark Tasks As Important

Unfortunately, there is no feature in Word 2013 to mark any comment as important. But, in real world some tasks are more important and they need to be distinguished from the unimportant ones. So, we will highlight the tasks to serve this purpose.

Select the task already added.
Right click -> Formatting bar -> Highlight the text.

See the Details of Author

In a professional environment, a single document is often passed to different people. Your co-workers may schedule any task in the calendar. It seems difficult to keep track of who has made what changes in the document. Our difficulty is easily tackled by the Microsoft Word 2013 as it specifies the name of author along with the comment.

Right click on the author image in the comment.
Select ‘See Contact Card’ to view details.

See Contact Card in Word 2013

Delete Tasks

Select the task already added.
Right click -> Delete Comment.
Type the Task.

Enter Company URL

Double click and type the web address of your company in the ‘footer’.

Save your calendar and share it with your co-workers.

I hope this tutorial will make you more productive while using Microsoft Word 2013. Now you can omit the calendaring features of Microsoft Outlook if you don’t use it for your emails. What are your thoughts about this tutorial?

February 6, 2013

Fake Microsoft Office 2013 Activators And Product Key Generators

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Microsoft Office 2013 RTM version was released a few days ago and is available for download. Although it is very similar to Office 2010, it is better in performance, speed and many other features. As soon as Office 2013 got released, the hackers and crackers have been busy in preparing some kind of activators or keygens which can be used to activate Office 2013 multiple times.

This time, the crackers have taken an innovative approach by using Youtube as their marketing weapon. The hackers have been busy creating Youtube videos which show working activators of Office 2013. These activators can be used to generate unlimited number of Office 2013 product keys so that everyone can used them.

If you go to Google and search for “Office 2013 activator”, you will be greeted with Youtube videos with similar titles like the following:

Microsoft Office 2013 (OFFICE15) Permanent Activation
Microsoft Office 2013 activator [100% working]
Office 2013 activator
Microsoft Office 2013 activation key
Office 2013 KMS activation
Office 2013 activation tutorial
Office 2013 serial key

These are only examples. You can find several more titles and videos on Youtube. Basically, when you encounter one of these titles, be warned that all these Youtube videos tend to be created to trick the user to either install a Trojan in their computer or complete a survey which may have monetary benefit to the video creator.

This is very similar to fake Windows 8 Product Key generators which surfaced after Windows 8 was released. When you encounter a Youtube video or a webpage claiming that they have the Office 2013 activator which is working 100%, make sure that you do not get into their trap of installing malicious software on your computer.

First of all, don’t get into completing surveys just for getting the download link for Office 2013 activator and secondly, don’t download or run any seemingly innocent activator or product key generator on your computer. This may harm your computer without getting into your knowledge.

We highly recommend that you should always use legitimate software which are free from viruses and Trojans. A steps towards the wrong direction can cause problems for your computer especially when you have important data saved in it. You can always buy Office 2013 to be safer or use a free alternative like LibreOffice. Otherwise, go for a subscription based solution like Office 365.

Have you encountered any of these fake activators? What are your experiences about these? Do they really work or are they just scam?

January 17, 2013

Get Microsoft Office 2013 For Less Then $10

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Microsoft Home Use Program! have you ever heard that? If yes then you may know to use it but if no, then here is your guide to purchasing Microsoft Office 2013 through Microsoft’s Home Use Program.

Recently, it has been announced that Microsoft’s HUP has been updated with Microsoft office 2013. HUP is usually accessed by employees of different companies. The benefit of buying software through HUP is that you get them at low rates. Microsoft Office 2013 is now available at HUP for $9.95. Yes! Now you can get it for this low rate by just using your work email and a program code.

The software is available for $15 in Australia and for £8.95 in United Kingdom.

Not only for Windows, but the program is also valid for Mac users. So, if your company provides you the above mentioned details, then you can get MS office 2013 for as low as $9.

Contact your employer and get the code as soon as possible to avail this offer. This offer is also valid for Army officers too. The process is mentioned below:

Visit the HUP website.
Select your Country
Select your or your organization’s location and it will redirect your to the details page.
Submit Work Email and Program Code
On the right hand side, you’ll see a form. Enter your work email and Program code that has been assigned by your employer.
Now verify your Email
After submitting correct details, you’ll see the following message.
Log in to your mail box and verify address.
Now, Proceed with the payment details.

For United States Army

If you are associated with the United States Army, then enter your Army email address and use the standard code C4FAA257E3.

So, you can get MS office 2013 for $9 by following these simple steps. If you have any other question regarding this offer, you can mention it in the comments section or simple visit the FAQ section of Microsoft Home User Program.

December 8, 2012

5 Resources To Download PowerPoint Templates For Free

Rahmeen Ahmad Khan Featured, Internet, List Office 2007, office 2010, Office 2013, powerpoint, productivity 5 Comments

Microsoft PowerPoint is, without doubt, the most widely used presentation tool. PowerPoint comes with a default template library so that we can start with a specific design rather than a blank presentation. We can use any template to start working on it. However the default template library is very limited and after giving one or two presentations you try to seek more new and energetic templates from online resources. While working on our project presentation, we just came across some resources from where you can download a variety of templates for free.

PowerPoint 2013 templates

PowerPoint 2013 comes with a search field on the Welcome screen. This search field will enable you to search for and download free PowerPoint templates of your choice. You can also browse through categories for templates of your choice. Just click on any template and download it.

Following are some resources which provide PowerPoint templates in addition to the built in templates.

1- Free PowerPoint Templates – FPPT

Fppt has a large collection of templates that cover almost all of the categories one may be looking for. These templates are compatible with Office 2007 and Office 2010. Just click on your selected template and a separate page will open. You can download it as a zip file. You will find a brief description about each template which will help you decide if it suits your need or not.

The collection includes more than one thousand PPT templates, themes, PowerPoint backgrounds, 3D PowerPoint templates, animations for PowerPoint.

Visit free PowerPoint templates for downloading free PowerPoint templates of your choice.

2- Indezine

A collection of over 5000 PowerPoint templates can be found at Indezine. They have divided their collection into small combos consisting of 200 designs each. You can either download the templates for free or buy the designs in one CD. The collection has totally different aesthetic taste. We must admit that the templates look more ‘abstract’ than ‘professional’.

Download PowerPoint design templates from indezine.

3- Smile Templates

Smile templates is another large collection of PowerPoint templates compatible with Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010. You can download any template instantly. Just click the ‘Download’ button and the download process will start. Premium templates are also available which are made more attractive with animations and can be bought if desired.

Smile Templates

4-PowerPoint Styles

PowerPoint styles leads the list by providing high quality PowerPoint templates for free. What is unique about PowerPoint styles is that they not only allow you to download any template but also suggest the related templates so that you may have a wider choice of similar templates.

PowerPoint Styles

5- Graphics Land

Graphics Land provides you formal presentation templates. If you are looking for simple and elegant presentation templates then you must land at the graphics land. Although the free collection is not very large but you can get all the templates by downloading one zip file. Most of their templates and themes are premium ones.

The premium templates are known as PowerDesigns. PowerDESIGNS is a complete PowerPoint design package including PowerPoint templates, animated templates, 3D graphics, photo icons, and animated slide layouts that will make you look like a PRO.

Graphics Land

Presentation Magazine and Presentation Pro also provide free templates which include animated and flash templates as well. However you may need to subscribe to these websites to get free emails into your inbox.

Using the template files

You can directly open the template file and start customizing it according to your needs. You can also apply these themes and templates to your existing presentations. Just follow the steps below:

Open the presentation in PowerPoint and go to Design tab.
Click on the down arrow and select browse for theme.
Locate your downloaded template and apply it to your presentation.

We hope that you enjoyed browsing through these beautiful collection of templates which can be downloaded and used easily. Do you know any better resource of free PowerPoint templates? Do not forget to share with us.

November 15, 2012

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus Direct Download Links (Final RTM Version)

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Microsoft Office 2013 RTM final has been released and is available for download. Today I got an email from Microsoft that I could download and install Office 2013 Professional Plus 2013 and stop using Office 2013 Customer Preview. I wanted to search for Office 2013 direct download links for the final version so that I could keep an offline copy of the suite for chain installation in my network.

Microsoft Office 2013 RTM setup

Office 2013 Professional Plus can be downloaded as a 60 day evaluation trial. It will be full featured in the trial period and will expire after that. You can also keep on using Office 2013 Customer Preview for the next two months.

System Requirements

Office 2013 comes for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. It comes with a touch friendly interface meaning that it will be usable on tablet PCs. Here is the complete requirement set of Office 2013 RTM:

A computer with 1Ghz or faster processor

1 GB memory

3 GB hard drive space

.NET Framework 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5

It can run on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012.

Here is a note from Microsoft about these system requirements:

System requirements are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB, to be conservative. For example, if we measure an application’s required hard disk space to be 1.99 GB, we recommend 2.5 GB of disk space. Our hard disk system requirements are intentionally larger than the actual disk space usage of the software.

A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007. Most computers that are available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceeds this standard. However, if you or your users do not have a graphics processor, you can still run Office 2013.

What is included in Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus?

What is included in Office 2013

You will find the following apps inside Office 2013 Pro plus suite:

Access 2013 – a database app from MS

Excel 2013 – the best spreadsheet program ever

InfoPath 2013 – Create stunning forms with live data feeds

Lync 2013 – a unified communications platform which lets users use features like making a call, keeping track of their contacts , send instant messages and join a audio/video conference.

Lync Server 2013 – The server of Lync will let you create your own communications server in your local area network environment. This will be very similar to having your own private Skype network.

Office Solution Management (Telemetry Dashboard) – Lets you manage add-ins in Microsoft Office.

OneNote 2013 – the best note taking app integrating seamlessly to many devices.

Outlook 2013 – an integrated collaboration suite including E-mails etc.

Project Professional 2013 – keeps track of your project perfectly.

Word 2013 – a feature rich word processing app.

Word 2013 now enables you to co-author a document with multiple authors at the same time. But for this, you will need to have SharePoint Foundation 2013 along with Microsoft ID for SkyDrive synchronization.

Office 2013 Direct Download Links

Office 2013 direct download links setup running

You can go to the Microsoft download page to register and download Office 2013. The benefit of registering is that you will get additional emails of resource guides to get started with Office 2013. Otherwise you can click on the following links to start the download process immediately.

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You can download Office 2013 from the above direct download link and then apply a language pack to Office 2013 in order to convert it to another language. Otherwise, download the Office setup in your language from the below mentioned links.

Office 2013 download links for all languages

I have finally been able to get the direct download links for all the languages of Office 2013. Here’s the list:

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Arabic

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Arabic

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Chinese (Simplified)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Chinese (Simplified)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Chinese (Traditional)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Chinese (Traditional)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Dutch

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Dutch

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit French

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit French

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit German

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit German

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Hebrew

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Hebrew

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Italian

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Italian

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Japanese

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Japanese

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Korean

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Korean

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Portuguese (Brazil)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Portuguese (Brazil)

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Russian

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Russian

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 64-bit Spanish

Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus 32-bit Spanish

How To Open the IMG files and run the setup?

All these links will download the IMG files instead of the EXE files. You will need to extract the IMG file and then run the setup.exe from the extracted files. To extract the files, I have used WinRAR which can be downloaded from here (32 bit, 64 bit). Although WinRAR is not free, you can run the trial version forever without paying anything. If you are not comfortable with WinRAR, you can always use free archiving programs like 7-zip.

November 13, 2012

Download Microsoft Office 2013 Proofing Tools – Fonts, Spelling, Translations [All Languages]

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Microsoft Office 2013 is the latest Office suite from Microsoft. It is the most advanced suite till date which adds a lot of extra features and functionality on top of Office 2010. If you have bought Microsoft Office 2013 in one language, you can always convert it into another language by using a Office 2013 language pack. But if you don’t want to convert the whole installation into another language but only want features like fonts, spell checking, translations etc.. of an additional language, you will need Office 2013 proofing tools.

Microsoft Office proofing tools kit is an add-on pack for Office which contains different additions to Microsoft Office like fonts, spellings, grammar checkers, auto-correct lists, auto-summarize rules, translation dictionaries, keyboard layouts etc. Although you can download the proofing tools from within Office 2013, we will also give direct download links to the proofing tools of each language for your ease.

Install Proofing Tools using Office 2013 language tool

Let’s first discuss how to install proofing tools using Office 2013 language preferences tools which will be installed automatically with Office 2013.

If you are using Windows 8, go to Start search (WinKey + Q) and search for “Office 2013 language preferences”. Select the same result from the search results.
This will open Microsoft Office 2013 language preferences window. You can see all the installed languages here. If you want to install proofing tools for a specific language, you can select the language from the drop down menu and then click on Add button.
After you click on the Add button, a new language will appear in the list above but it will show as not installed. Click on the Not installed link. This will take you to a web page where you can download and install the proofing tools of your selected language.

Download Office 2013 Proofing tools directly to your computer

Another way to install the proofing tools is to select your desired language and click on the appropriate link below. All the links below are direct download links so the download will start immediately. You can then click on the executable to install the proofing tools.

Office 2013 Proofing Tools English 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools English 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Arabic 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Arabic 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Basque 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Basque 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Chinese (Simplified) 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Chinese (Simplified) 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Chinese (Traditional) 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Chinese (Traditional) 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Croatian 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Croatian 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Czech 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Czech 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Danish 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Danish 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Dutch 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Dutch 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Estonian 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Estonian 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Finnish 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Finnish 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools French 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools French 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools German 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools German 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Greek 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Greek 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Hebrew 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Hebrew 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Italian 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Italian 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Japanese 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Japanese 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Korean 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Korean 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Portugues (Brazil) 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Portugues (Brazil) 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Portugues (Portugal) 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Portugues (Portugal) 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Spanish 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Spanish 32-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Swedish 64-bit installer

Office 2013 Proofing Tools Swedish 32-bit installer

If I have missed any language, please let me know through comments and I’ll try to add it in the list.

Installation instructions

Download the proofing tool file from above direct download links.
Run the setup program.
On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms page, review the terms, select the “Click here to accept the Microsoft Software License Terms” check box, and then click Continue.
The setup wizard runs and installs the proofing tools.
After the installation has completed, restart your open Office applications.

Uninstalling Office 2013 language proofing tools

Go to Programs and Features under Control Panel in Windows 8.
In the list of currently installed programs, select Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2013 Preview – [Language] and then click Uninstall, Remove, or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.
Click Yes or OK to confirm that you want to remove the program.

Please note that Office 2013 proofing tools and Office 2013 language packs are the same thing. Some proofing tools will also contain language help files and interface changes which you can configure in the language preferences tool discussed above.

You may also want to download Office 2013 RTM final version.

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