#Review of office 365 business premium windows 8

We especially like that, when you mouse over an image, a gray translucent box appears showing the size and resolution of the image. Teams collaborating on a particular document or project can create a Site, where they can gather all the pertinent documents in one place.

It's a nice quick summary, but the font used for the numbers is so thin, these items can be hard to select with a mouse. To the right of the news feed is a column showing how many people, documents, sites and tags you're following. It's laid out very cleanly, and when you click on a person's name, their Contact Card appears, as with the other apps in Office. Here, you can also make comments, and Like and post replies. In the center of the screen is a feed of the people, documents and sites you're following. This lets you select the color, style and thickness of the stylus, as well as other options.Ĭlick to EnlargeNewsfeed feels a little like Microsoft's mashup of Facebook and Twitter.

#Review of office 365 business premium windows 8

When using a mouse, moving the cursor to the upper right or upper left corner of the screen to close windows would sometimes result in us opening the Windows 8 menus, which was also slightly annoying.Ĭleverly, an 'Ink Tools' Pen tab appears in the top menu bar of any app when you hover an active stylus over a Windows 8 touch-screen display. However, when using Read Mode in Word, our natural inclination to swipe from the right-hand bezel did launch the Charms menu instead of advancing the page. We were worried that using our finger on a right-hand scroll bar would accidentally open the Charms menu, but fortunately, that didn't happen once while we were using Office. We hope that Microsoft fixes this inconsistency and implements this feature into the other Office apps as well. However, Radial menus only appear in the Modern version of OneNote, not the desktop version. These circular menus-which are somewhat reminiscent of Acer's Ring Interface-appear to let you adjust settings using just your thumb. To that end, Office 365 boasts some features designed to appeal to tablet users, though we're not about to ditch our keyboard and mouse just yet.Ĭlick to EnlargeOneNote has a feature called Radial menus. One of the central tenets of Windows 8 is that it merges a traditional desktop environment with one that's more touch-friendly. A similar sort of animation occurs when selecting text, too. Now, it sort of glides from one letter to the next, instead of the more staccato movement of Office 2010. One subtle change from previous versions of Office is the way the cursor moves while you're typing. Click this and you can send feedback to Microsoft on a particular feature or bug. Throughout Office, you'll see a smiley face icon, usually in the upper right-hand corner. Instead of a pop-up window, you first have to choose where you want the file to be saved, either on SkyDrive or locally.

While it's a bit more information than you'd get from a drop-down menu, switching to an entirely new screen is jarring.īy default, documents are saved to SkyDrive, so you can access them anywhere, but even saving a document is a little counterintuitive. Here, you're given info on the document itself, as well as options to create a new document, print, save and so forth. Click on File, and instead of a drop-down menu, you're taken to an entirely different screen.

Gone is the circular Office button, which we suspect people will be clamoring for once they see its replacement. We only wish that we could link even more social networks, such as Twitter. It was smart of Microsoft to realize that there's more than one method of communication. The card shows not only that person's name and email address, but also Facebook and LinkedIn Status updates, as well as a multitude of ways to contact that person, such as IM, call or video chat-provided that they have a Lync account. Whenever a person's name appears, you can either click or mouse over the contact, and a pop-up window will appear.

Click to EnlargePresent throughout all the apps in Office are Contact Cards.