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. With the new touch-optimized reading mode in Word 2013, you can skim through documents using a finger swipe.
