Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview

Surface RT comes pre-installed with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview¹—touch-optimised versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. This preview version will be automatically updated by Windows Update when the final version is available. For more details, see Office.com/OfficeRT.

• Word: New templates and design tools help you put the finishing touch on documents. The new Read Mode provides a modern and easy-to-navigate reading experience that automatically adjusts for large and small screens. Zoom in and out of content, stream videos within documents, view revision marks and use touch to turn pages.
• Excel: Enjoy new ways to explore your data more intuitively. Visualise, analyse and display results with a single click. And when you’re ready, it’s easy to share your freshly discovered insights.
• PowerPoint: Ready to create more striking presentations? Select a theme, add a design variant, align text and pictures, and more. The new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time and speaker notes in a single glance. While presenting, you can zoom, mark up, and navigate your slides with touch.
• OneNote: OneNote is a digital notebook. Capture and organise all kinds of information in OneNote—notes, pictures, web pages, voice memos and other media—and easily share them with others. Your notes are automatically saved and searchable so you have them when you need them.

When you’re signed in with your Microsoft account, Office apps save documents in the cloud by default–on SkyDrive. This way your Office files are in one place, available from any PC, Mac, iPad, or phone, or device that’s connected to the Internet. You can also share and work on files with other people (if someone doesn't have Office they can view and edit documents that you share using free Office Web Apps). For more info, see SkyDrive and Office work together.

Or if you prefer, you can still save documents on your Surface by choosing Computer when you save documents in any Office app.

To start an Office app, go to the Start screen, scroll until you find the app that you want to use and then tap or click the app tile. Icons for the Office 2013 apps also appear on the desktop taskbar.

You can also install the OneNote app, optimised for touch, from the Windows Store, see Install and uninstall apps.

Note Surface RT comes with the preview edition installed.

¹The final Office version will be installed by Windows Update when available (free download; ISP fees apply). Some features and programs are not supported in Surface RT. See Office.com/OfficeRT for more info.