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As always, the Internet is full of those saying that there is no compelling reason to upgrade partly true , and those predicting the imminent death of Office still a long way off in our view, but becoming more likely every year. Decide for yourself by downloading the beta version from our Downloads section , or heading over to Microsoft's site directly.

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Free Office beta available to download Find out how to download free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more in Microsoft's Office beta programme. Jason Jenkins. Office beta comes packed with meaningful improvements such as beefed up cut-and-paste functions for text and multimedia content.

Also added is tighter integration to the Internet such as Outlook Social Connector, which brings communications history, collaboration, and social network feeds directly into Outlook.

One of the most striking addition to Office is the introduction of Office Web Apps. These are lightweight versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote that are all accessible via desktop, mobile devices, and Web browsers.

The ribbon interface introduced in the key Office apps goes suitewide in Office , with more contextual changes. Suitewide, the most immediately apparent change is the departure of the round Office button that brought up commands for saving and printing documents as well as for changing application-specific settings. Instead, Microsoft returns to a familiar menu convention: a File tab that brings up a full screen of commands and information.

Microsoft calls this screen the Backstage View. The left navigation bar in Backstage View holds many of the commands, but most of the real estate is devoted to big panes filled with document-specific items such as editing permissions, links to autosaved versions, file size, and even a thumbnail. Businesses can customize Backstage View to integrate their workflow processes.

Microsoft engineers have added a paste-preview feature that lets you see the results before you commit similar to the mouse-over previews of font changes and other edits available in the ribbon. Improved picture-editing tools allow you to preview and apply cropping and many new adjustments and effects on the fly as you insert images into Office documents.

A new Text Effects pane lets you apply artistic effects fills, outlines, and the like to any text—and still edit the text afterward,.