10 Best Office 2013 Features, According to Microsoft

Whether you love Microsoft or think it’s, well, less than lovable, there’s no denying the power Microsoft Office has in business. From the smallest operations to the largest enterprise, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and the rest of the suite are ubiquitous. Naturally, IT pros have a deep and vested interest in the newest version of Office.

We asked the folks in Redmond what they thought were the coolest features of Office 2013. Here’s a look at what they believe stands out most in Microsoft’s newest version of Office.

With the new PDF reflow, you can now open PDF files as fully editable Word documents, making paragraphs, lists and tables act like familiar Word documents. Open the PDF file in Word and you can copy text, tables and other content to reuse in other documents.

The search functionality in the new Office is improved and available for email, attachments, calendar appointments and contacts. In OneNote, notes are automatically saved and searchable. You can also search the notes and files you’ve added to find anything you’ve captured—a page in a presentation, text in a picture or a comment in an audio clip—by typing a keyword or phrase.