Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview

• Word: A word-processing program designed to help you create professional-quality documents.
• Excel: A powerful tool for getting meaning out of data, making calculations, and tracking almost any kind of information.
• OneNote: A digital notebook that provides a single place for all of your notes—everything you need to remember and manage in your life. In addition to the OneNote desktop app, a free OneNote app is available in the Windows Store.
• PowerPoint: A program for creating presentations that convey a message or story in a series of slides.

Notes

• Office Home & Student 2013 RT has most of the same features as Office Home & Student 2013 on Windows 7 or Windows 8. To learn about the differences go to Office.com/OfficeRT.
• You can’t install Windows 7 programs, such as Microsoft Outlook, on Surface RT.

If you’re new to Office 2013, you can download free Quick Start Guides to help you get started. These printable guides have useful tips, shortcuts, and screenshots to help you find your way around.

• Word 2013 Quick Start Guide
• Excel 2013 Quick Start Guide
• PowerPoint 2013 Quick Start Guide
• OneNote 2013 Quick Start Guide

When you’re signed in with your Microsoft account, Office apps save docs on SkyDrive (the cloud) by default. This way your Office docs are in one place, available from computer, phone, or device that’s connected to the Internet. Your Microsoft account includes 7 GB of free file storage on SkyDrive.

Saving Office documents on SkyDrive also makes it easy to share and work with other people (If they don't have Office, they can view and edit documents that you share using free Office Web Apps). For more info, see Work together on Office documents in SkyDrive.

You can still store Office docs on your Surface by choosing Computer when you save from any Office app.

Office 2013 apps can open files created with previous versions of Office. To check compatibility between Office 2013 and previous versions of Office, see Check file compatibility with earlier versions.

• The Office Touch Guide helps you learn how to use touch with the new Office apps.
• To find out how use a capacitive pen (sold separately) to draw, write, or highlight text in Office apps (called inking in Office)—see Use a pen to draw, write, or highlight text on a Windows tablet.
• If you want to work with different languages, see Office 2013 language options.

If you’re using an Office app and the startup screen includes the word Preview, then your copy of Office hasn’t been updated to the final release. Use Windows Update to update to the final Office release. Here’s how:

1. From the Start screen, open the Search charm, and type install optional updates.
2. Tap or click Settings and then choose Install optional updates from the search results. The Windows Update section of Control Panel appears.
3. Tap or click Check for updates or Updates are available. A list of updates displays.
4. Select Update for Microsoft Office Home & Student 2012 RT Preview and tap or click Install.

If you have problems installing the update, see Update for Office Home and Student 2013 RT Preview.