Office 2010 or 2013 preferences?

helpremember

helpremember

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It's almost like moving into a new century as I will upgrading from Office 2003 soon. Anybody have any thoughts or recommendations on Office 2010 vs. 2013? It may not matter, it may be obvious, but I very often find that latest is not==greatest. My use priorities are generally 1. Access, 2. Word, 3. Excel, 4. Publisher.

Would love to hear what you gigalicousins think about this mundane mainstream consumer product!
 
Genesis

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I prefer 2007 over 2010. I don't know what 2013 is like. With 2010 at the time of the change it felt that things weren't in the "right" places. One had to search for everything. I'd probably go for the 2013 however as I always prefer the latest version as there is always something that may be useful that I may miss out on. Particularly with PowerPoint presentations and making online videos from it. 2007 didn't have the feature yet of saving a PowerPoint presentation as a video. 2010 has one, and no doubt 2013 may be even better.
 
helpremember

helpremember

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Thanks for the feedback Genesis and Sander k. I'm leaning a little towards 2013 since I'll be upgrading from so far in the past. I might as well come up to the present. There's sure to be a learning curve and changes to get used to either way.

Was planning on staying away from Office 365 for the reason you mention, Sander k. My connection doesn't go down very often, but when it does I want to be able to work on something.
 
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jaran

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I was using office 2013 and sometime OpenOffice until now. Just complain to all microsoft product if they suck about the support. Not like Adobe, they are changing many file of type their product (eg. *.doc to *.docx OR *.xls to *.xlsx) as frequently. I dont know what different about them.
 
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cocinalo

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It's been about three years since Microsoft unveiled a new version of Office, and particularly with Windows 8 just months away from dropping, the software has been well overdue for an upgrade. Today, Redmond unveiled the latest edition -- Office 2013
 
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tim5

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Just use Kingsoft office or Open Office, if you are not a heavy windows office users, safe you the fee as well :yahoo:
 
helpremember

helpremember

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tim5 said:
Just use Kingsoft office or Open Office, if you are not a heavy windows office users, safe you the fee as well :yahoo:
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I could probably sell that idea and it would certainly be my preference, but because of the number of people and files I have to deal with and the fact that we can get Office 2013 for such a low cost we'll probably go with that. Definitely need some kind of spreadsheet and the going back and forth between Open Office and Excel doesn't always work seamlessly. Also, we have a pretty elaborate Access database and I want the upgrade on that to be trouble free as possible.
 
Sarji

Sarji

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i don't see much difference between the two, but that could be because I'm not a power user. i use it mostly for basic word processing and excel spreadsheets.
 
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Mrsevic

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I love Office 2013. It is certainly faster and it has lot more templates. I use Word for writing most documents and i love the subtle effect while i am typing.
 
Peter

Peter

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Oracle killed the OpenOffice project so I recommend LibreOffice instead. It's an OpenOffice fork that's still improving and the support for Microsoft Office documents has gotten a lot better.
 
Peter

Peter

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Sander k said:
What do you mean with killed? I have installed OpenOffice on a pc yesterday.
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The original OpenOffice project was run by Sun Microsystems. When Oracle bought Sun many of the developers left and created LibreOffice (based on the OpenOffice codebase). Since then most of the Linux distributions has moved to use LibreOffice. Later Oracle gave the code and trademarks (including the openoffice.org domain) to the Apache Software Foundation and this was the start of the Apache OpenOffice project, so I guess this is what you are using.

I didn't know about Apache OpenOffice to be honest (I had to look it up) so I don't know what the differences are, but I guess they are pretty similar.
 
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bnvivek

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Between 2010 and 2013. I prefer the 2010 version. Unless you intend to just splurge on an additional license without much addition in value.

2010 has most of the features that you would generally use on a day to day basis. I am not sure of Access. But as of Excel, Publisher and Word. I would be more than be satisfied with just using 2010 version of the Office without upgrading. As of Excel, there have been slight improvements with regards to creation of Charts but thats about it. I guess it does not make it a compelling case for making the switch.
 
helpremember

helpremember

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Thanks for the information. I really appreciate your recommendation. In my situation both versions are available for the same price so I may go with 2013 because for one thing it may supported farther into the future. I'm currently still using Office 2003 so that might give you some idea how often I upgrade!

Since Microsoft is ending support for both XP and Office 2003 in a little under two weeks, I decided to upgrade both at once. They're also ending support for IE 6 - doubt if many will miss that.

Thanks to everybody else for the input as well.
 
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oisd

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The newer MS Office versions are bothering all with compatibility issues. 2003 to 2007 created 'x' addition and that took further with 10 and 13 version. Really I found the 7 issue productive and low time consuming as well as modern.
 
Genesis

Genesis

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oisd said:
The newer MS Office versions are bothering all with compatibility issues. 2003 to 2007 created 'x' addition and that took further with 10 and 13 version. Really I found the 7 issue productive and low time consuming as well as modern.
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I don't have the foggiest what this post is about. Can you explain it to me? What are you trying to say? :unknown:
 
GigaGreg

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Ms office 2013 is very good, it looks like it is for tablets by the modern look, but still great to operate with pc or laptop.
 
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