New Microsoft Office 15 new features

Microsoft preparing its new Microsoft software - Microsoft Office 15, The most popular Office suite will renew its design and functionality in an attempt to follow in the footsteps of the innovation of the operating system, the company has released a previous version that has been shared with a small group of companies and developers to receive his impressions and develop the product quickly; We tell you the first characteristics of this set of programs that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.

 

The first design changes that have appeared in Microsoft Office 15 targeting clearly bring the experience of use of such tools to the Metro interface that uses Windows 8, The menu ribbon that appears at the top of Office 15, has been smaller than and Outlook has been added a bottom bar to navigate the various options of the program. Despite this, its design is still very similar to the previous version of Office 2010, and it is expected that in the following months it deepen more in this aspect.

 

 

 

Word. Microsoft will include a new way of reading designed to avoid the distractions in the reading of the users. The text consists of columns that will be adjusted automatically to the full screen. This feature will be very useful in the case of the tablets, and will also be the possibility of moving between documents through the tactile response. In the case of using this mode, the ribbon interface becomes larger to be able to use way more comfortable with your fingers. Finally, the fact that the possibilities of collaborative work in the Word network, including improvements in the system of comments and the search engine to find recent changes made to the document being developed is also very interesting.

 

Excel. The company's efforts seem to be very focused on facilitating the use of Excel to the users who use large amounts of data, and also to those who are not very familiar with the platform. For this reason, there will be new features that will enhance the visualization of Excel tables, and that allow to understand the changes that have occurred in the tables throughout the creation process. There will also be new templates preset for calendars, forms, or reports. PowerPoint. Probably one of the tools that has less are playing at least for the moment. Like Word 15, will feature a reading mode and touch capabilities will move easily between slides. By default, we will have slides in panoramic format to take advantage of the capabilities of monitors and TVs today, which often have this format.

 

The Microsoft e-mail program is one that more improvements will receive, Outlook 15 will feature a new bar of the time that we can consult in organizing a meeting. There have been improvements in the synchronization and management of multiple simultaneous email accounts. And all this with an interface very close to Metro. Ultimately, the suite of Microsoft Office aims high, but we must still wait to see unfold these months, that many of the new features incorporated into the previous version could disappear and new ones come to light.