Office Home & Business 2013 Key Card 1PC/1User

Office Home & Business 2013 Key Card 1PC/1User From Microsoft List Price: $219.99 Price: $169.50 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.Details Fulfilled by Amazon and Sold by Sort Cost Average customer review:  (174 customer reviews)

Product Description

Office Home & Business 2013 is designed to help you create and communicate faster with new, time-saving features and a clean, modern look. Plus, you can save your documents in the cloud on SkyDrive and access them virtually anywhere.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: T5D-01575
• Released on: 2013-01-29
• Platforms: Windows 7, Windows 8
• Formats: DVD-ROM, CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.79" h x 4.37" w x .79" l, .6 pounds

Features

• Licensed for one user for install on one PC. Box includes one Product Key Card - No Disc.
• The latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.
• One time purchase for the life of your PC; limited to one "licensed computer" at a time and transfer eligibility restrictions apply.
• NOTE: Does not include Publisher or Access.
• NOTE: Windows XP and Vista NOT supported. This product requires Windows 7 or newer operating systems.

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Editorial Reviews

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Office Home & Business 2013

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote plus Outlook on one PC.
Office Home & Business 2013 is designed to help you create and organize faster with time saving features and a clean, modern look. Plus, you can save your documents in the cloud on SkyDrive and access them when you are not at home.

What’s new in this release of Office?

The 2013 versions of familiar Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint include new features that help you create, communicate and work efficiently from virtually anywhere. In addition to updating the traditional Office suites, Microsoft has developed brand new subscription versions of Office, specifically designed around the way customers use Office. Each new subscription offer will include the 2013 versions of the Office applications, for example Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus cloud services such as Skype world minutes and online storage with SkyDrive.
Subscribers will also receive future rights to version upgrades as well as per-use rights across multiple PCs or Macs and select mobile devices.¹ Note: The Office applications you can use across PCs, Macs and other devices vary by platform.

¹Visit www.office.com/information for a current list of devices. Internet connection required. Internet and mobile telephone usage charges may apply.

What is the difference between the Office 2013 suites and Office 365 plans?

Microsoft Office is still the name Microsoft uses for its familiar productivity software. Office suites have traditionally included applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. All Office 2013 suites include the latest versions of the applications, for use on a single PC.

Microsoft uses the name “Office 365” for products that include cloud services, such as additional SkyDrive online storage, Skype minutes for home use, Lync web conferencing or Exchange Online hosted email for businesses. Cloud services are features that are enabled over the Internet. Most Office 365 plans also include the full-featured Office 2013 applications, which users can install across multiple computers and devices. All Office 365 products, such as Office 365 Home Premium, are paid for on a subscription basis, annually. Active subscribers will receive future rights to version upgrades as a benefit of their subscription. Entitlements vary by product.

What it includes:

• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.
• Office on one PC for household use.
• One time purchase for the life of your PC; non-transferrable.
• 7 GB of online storage in SkyDrive.
• Free Office Web Apps¹ for accessing, editing, and sharing documents.
• An improved user interface optimized for touch, pen, and keyboard.

How do I get my Office software?

Please note: This item does not contain a disc; it is a product key card that requires a download from office.com. See steps involved below:

1. Once you have placed your order and received your product key card in the mail, locate your product key on the backside of the included card.
2. When you locate the product key, follow the instructions on the card, and go to https://officesetup.getmicrosoftkey.com/ to download and install.
3. Enter your 25-digital product key as prompted.
4. Sign in or create a Microsoft account.
5. Select your preferred country and language.
6. From your "My Account" page with Microsoft, select the item that you want to install.
7. Click the "Install" button to begin your download.

What's new with Office?

Complete Tasks Easily

• Experience Office on Windows 8 devices, with an improved user interface optimized for touch, pen, and keyboard.
• An improved look and feel reduces distractions for a better reading experience.
• The new Start screen gives you a selection of recent documents and templates.

Simple Communication

• Get your emails, schedule, and tasks in Outlook.
• See your Outlook schedule, an appointment, or details about a contact without changing screens.
• Create presentations with widescreen themes in PowerPoint.
• Recommended Charts helps you visualize data in Excel.

Microsoft Office Applications

• Add pictures, videos, or online media with a simple drag and drop.
• Use OneNote to capture and share notes, pictures, web pages, voice memos, and more.
• Incorporate content from PDFs into Word documents.
• Flash Fill in Excel allows you to format and rearrange your data with tools that recognize patterns and auto complete data with no formulas or macros required.

System Requirements

• Computer and Processor: 1 GHz or faster x86 or 64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set
• Memory: 1 GB RAM (32 Bit) /2 GB RAM (64 Bit) recommended for graphics features and certain advanced functionality²
• Hard Disk: 3.0 GB of available disk space
• Display: 1366 x 768 resolution
• Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2 with .NET 3.5 or greater
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX10 graphics card

Additional Requirements

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, 32 bit browser only. IE7 or later required to receive broadcast presentations.
• Internet connection. Fees may apply.
• Microsoft and Skype accounts.
• A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. New touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8.
• Information Right Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.
• Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

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See More: Office Frequently Asked Questions

Which version is right for you?

Office Home & Business 2013 has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook, on one PC. But if you're still not sure which version is right for you, check out our comparison chart.

	Home & Student 2013	Home & Business 2013	Professional 2013	Office 365 Home Premium
Licenses	1 PC	1 PC	1 PC	5 PCs or Macs plus select mobile devices1
Licenses Duration	One-time purchase for life of PC4	One-time purchase for life of PC4	One-time purchase for life of PC4	Annual subscription with access to version upgrades
SkyDrive +20 GB storage: Save documents online to your SkyDrive for access and sharing virtually anywhere3	7 GB	7 GB	7 GB	27 GB
Core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint	X	X	X	X
Digital notebook: OneNote2	X	X	X	X
Email, calendars, and tasks: Outlook		X	X	X
Publishing & databases: Publisher2, Access2			X	X

1. Windows 7, Windows 8 OS, Windows Phone 7.5, Mac OS X version 10.5.8 required. Visit www.office.com/mobile for applicable devices. Windows RT devices come preinstalled with Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview. Internet connection required. Internet and mobile telephone usage charges may apply.
2. Access and Publisher available on PC only. OneNote not available on Mac OS. Two GHz processor or faster and 1 GB RAM or more recommended for OneNote Audio Search. Close-talking microphone required. Audio Search not available in all languages.
3. Internet and/or carrier network connection required; charges may apply.
4. You may transfer the software to another computer that belongs to you, but not more than one time every 90 days (except due to hardware failure, in which case you may transfer sooner). If you transfer the software to another computer, that other computer becomes the "licensed computer."

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews
70 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
Good, but not a significant step forward from Office 2010
By F
About a month ago, I installed Windows 8 and the final version of Office 2013 on a Dell XPS 13. A bit about me: I'm a graduate student and a long-time user of Microsoft Office. I've used Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote almost every day for the past 5 years, but OneNote the most by far. I've used every version of Office since 1997.

As other reviewers have pointed out, the biggest changes to Office 2013 from Office 2010 are SkyDrive integration, touch gestures, and a flatter UI to match Windows 8. Since I don't use SkyDrive often, don't have a touchscreen, and am indifferent to the flatter look, I'll leave those aspects to other reviews. If you're like me and aren't particularly excited by SkyDrive (which still isn't as versatile as Google Docs for real-time collaboration), then Office 2013 is practically the same as Office 2010 in terms of how everything works - most of the time. This is not a bad thing, at least in my opinion, since I really liked Office 2010 and its improved Ribbon UI.

What I wanted to talk about here are the changes that Microsoft has made to Office 2013 from Office 2010 that I've noticed, changes that might impact daily workflow for users upgrading from previous Office versions.

OneNote 2013:
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I spend at least 4 hours a day in this program, so I'll start with this. As far as I can tell, there are no significant changes in terms of features. Buttons on the ribbon are shuffled around a bit, but the feature set is still the same, as is the file container (*.one) and notebook type ("OneNote 2010-2013").

However, there are 5 new issues that annoy me every single day.
(1) Full screen and pinning the ribbon. In 2013, going into full screen mode means that everything is hidden, except for a very short horizontal bar across the top of the screen. To access anything on the ribbon, I have to click on this bar to show the ribbon first. If I want to pin the ribbon so that tabs are visible at all times in full screen mode, I have to click on this bar, click a menu button near the minimize button (also hidden in full screen), and then click Show Tabs. However, OneNote does not remember this setting. Thus, every time I exit full screen mode or restart OneNote and then reenter full screen mode, I have to re-pin the ribbon again. On an ultrabook, I want more space for taking notes, but I also use the ribbon extensively and would prefer to have it available. This problem did not exist in OneNote 2010, which remembers the user's full-screen ribbon settings.
(2) Inserting multi-page printouts. The new default behavior in OneNote 2013 is to place each page of the printout on a separate "page" of the notebook. I prefer to put one entire lecture on each "notebook page", regardless of how many pages or slides the professor gives us. I've also never come across anyone who prefers to have only one printout page on each notebook page. So for instance, if I were inserting a 30-slide Powerpoint, OneNote 2013 would create 30 new notebook pages. There is an option to turn this off in the options, but OneNote then shows a dialog box asking me to choose between the two options every time I want to insert a printout. Since I insert several files a day, this gets annoying very quickly. Once again, OneNote 2010 did not have this problem.
(3) Inserting more than 1 multi-page printout on the same notebook page. If I try this, then the second printout is somehow inserted under the first printout, i.e. the first printout overlaps and covers up the second printout. It only happens when the printouts are both at least several pages long or if I've annotated the page already; the program disregards my cursor location. To work around this, I have to put the second printout on a new notebook page and then copy/paste the printout pages back to the first notebook page. This problem also did not exist in OneNote 2010.
(4) Zoom level changes when inserting printout: it always defaults back to 100%. I take notes at 115% on my ultrabook, so every time I insert a printout, I have to readjust the zoom level.
(5) Drawing tools. I have no idea how Microsoft managed to mess this up when going from 2010 to 2013, but half the time I try to draw an arrow, it ends up being a line with a V in the middle, or the arrowhead is completely detached from the line. In fact, I can't even draw a plain line properly sometimes. I haven't tried the other shapes much, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were problems there too. I've given up and resorted to drawing arrows freehand with the pen tool instead.

These issues may seem minor to some, but they affect me every day, so I wanted to give a heads-up to anyone else who uses OneNote the same way I do. I wish that Microsoft had spent more time implementing useful features (e.g. still can't rotate or crop a printout; search results are still clunky) or at least providing options to change these new behaviors in settings.

Word 2013:
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Now, when you open up Word (and Excel/Powerpoint), you're presented with a selection of templates instead of just a blank document, which is one extra click away. Other than that, the feature set for Word has remained largely the same. I have noticed significant lag when saving large Word documents, even to SSD - I was working on a 20MB file and Word would freeze up for 10-15 seconds every time I saved, despite my computer being pretty new. I tried tweaking the settings, disabling hardware acceleration, etc, but nothing helped. This was not an issue in Word 2010 either.

One of the most touted new features of Word 2013 is the ability to open PDF files for editing, but I have attempted to open and edit several documents, and Word does a horrible job of preserving formatting. I have third-party conversion software that almost always gets the formatting correct, no matter how complex, so this was a disappointment. I even tried to open a PDF file that was created from a simple Word document, and Word failed to properly center the title. I would not recommend relying on this feature.

Excel/Powerpoint 2013:
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I haven't had much of a chance to work extensively with these programs, but other than the template selection page when first opening the programs, they seem pretty much the same as Office 2010. Saving large files in Powerpoint 2013 usually seems okay, unlike in Word 2013. Powerpoint now defaults to 16:9 aspect ratio for slides, which is nice. There are some nice additions and tweaks to the Design tab in Powerpoint, but nothing spectacular. Excel has some handy pattern-recognition auto-fill functions now which seem to work well.

One more thing about Word/Excel/Powerpoint: Microsoft decided to add transitions to everything, which I find distracting. For example, when you type in Word, the letters fade into the page instead of simply appearing, and the cursor glides to the right. In Excel, when recalculating cells, the new values fade in, like a ripple effect. In Powerpoint, when applying a new background, it fades into all the slides as it is applied. There is no way to turn this off except through a registry tweak.

Conclusion
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It may seem like I'm being overly critical of Office 2013, but I immensely enjoyed using Office 2010, and much of that experience has carried over here. Office 2013 will undoubtedly stand as the new standard of office suites this year. Microsoft Office remains a powerful and invaluable set of software for people in academia or business, which is why I'm still giving it 3.5 (~4) stars. But at best, Office 2013 is simply Office 2010 with SkyDrive integration and touch gestures. If you're like me, Office 2013 introduces little to no new functionality and a handful of new bugs and quirks that interfere with daily workflow. My advice? If you're considering upgrading from pre-2010, then I would recommend Office 2010, especially in light of the annual subscription-based model Microsoft is pursuing for Office 2013. If you're already on Office 2010 and are happy, I would not recommend upgrading to Office 2013.

UPDATE - SkyDrive collaboration
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Recently, I tried using SkyDrive, Office Web Apps (free version), and Office 2013 together to collaborate on some files with other people, and the experience is a far cry from Google Docs. I will preface this by saying that I am not using the subscription/corporate versions of Office Web Apps, which (I believe) have better collaboration features. This is for users who want to buy the retail copy of Office 2013 and/or are considering using Skydrive and the free Office Web Apps to work on files with other people.
(1) Changes are not synced in real time - for instance, if someone makes an edit, all other users who have the file open must manually save and refresh the document to see changes.
(2) Conflicts. After the manual save/refresh, Skydrive roughly merges everything together - so, for instance, if both users write a sentence, both sentences will appear after the first user syncs their changes, the second user syncs the first user's changes plus their own changes, and the first user syncs yet again. If two users try to edit the same word, Skydrive gives an error message, complaining of a conflict and asking the user to manually resolve each problem. If this sounds like a mess, it's because it is.
(3) There is no indication of what other users are editing, where their cursors are, what they're looking at, etc., unlike Google Docs.
(4) In Excel, if a desktop user on Excel 2013 is editing the spreadsheet, then no other users can edit it.
(5) In Powerpoint, text appears in a different size and font when being edited, then reverts back after the user exits the text box...why?
(6) The web apps have been stripped of nearly all features, even basic things like header/footer in Word. This is to be expected, since it's free, but it also means that Google Docs provides a superior experience, at least for word processing.
I shudder to think how badly this system would work when trying to get a significant amount of work done. Google Docs may be inadequate for many power-user tasks, but it is absolutely outstanding when it comes to real-time collaboration - I've written 100+ page papers with other people using Google Docs, and while further formatting is always required in Word after everything is written, we've never had a problem with seeing exactly what has been written at any given time. Microsoft's free solution does not hold up well at all for multi-user scenarios; it really only works as a backup solution for single user use.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
All Office 2013 products are now transferable to a new computer Office 2013 or Office 365?
By M. Sullivan
Microsoft changed their license agreement for Office 2013 from non-transferable and tied to one PC to now you can transfer to a new computer, only once every 90 days. You can have only one license copy in use period on one computer.
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This is fair enough.

There are some good updates to Office 2013. The best is probably easier working with pdf files within word. You use to have have a separate pdf program to do what you can now do in word. PDFs have been around for awhile and most people who work with pdf files already have one of these programs. For people like me this feature is well late to the party. It doesn't drive me to upgrade. I am still thinking about it.

Microsoft wants to push their web based Office 365 subscription- renting the software. Office 365 may or may not be a good deal. It depends. Office 365 is cloud base. This means you have to have a good internet connection. I really don't think the internet infrastructure is ready for the the cloud based push all big software companies want to do. If everyone goes to cloud office, movies, backup/storage, and music things are going to slow down. The primary problem is our internet connection and choices are limited with very limited competition (monopolies). The US lags far behind many other developed countries in how fast our internet speeds are and competitive pricing. Until this is fixed companies that want to do cloud base software are going to be hindered. That is though a whole different discussion.

One thing about office 2013 is you do not have to have an internet connection for access to office as it is on your desktop. Something to consider.

The positives of Office 365 as opposed to Office 2013 is it is easier for Microsoft to maintain and update. You can access and work from 5 computers on home premium license. You don't have control of the rent after 1 year so hopefully it will not go up. Office has been on a 3 year upgrade cycle/"new office". Figure whether it is worth it for you to buy or rent.

Original Review

"All Office 2013 stand alone products are not transferable from one computer to another. If you have a major upgrade or the computer breaks down or you get a new computer you can not transfer the license to another computer. Microsoft is being less than upfront about this. I did notice in the comparison of product license they are noting it. This is in the fine print of the licensing agreement.

Previous agreements of Office you could transfer the licenses as long as it was used on one computer.

Microsoft wants to push their web based Office 365 subscription- renting the software."
35 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Office 2010 is a better product
By Mike A
I have been using Office Professional 2007 at work for years, and I bought Office 2010 for home use when it first came out. I can tell you that Office 2010 is a very worthwhile upgrade from 2007, and compatibility between those two products is decent. I recently purchased Office 2013 for work and I already regret it. If I could make the choice again, I would get Office 2010. Right now in February 13', Office 2010 is the best, most robust version of Office m$ has ever produced. There is almost no major reason to get 2013 and I can think of several, two just today, that are reasons NOT to. Access 2013 doesn't do the data collection via form from Outlook like 2010 does and they replaced that feature with " ", yep nothing, just gone. The entire "Collect Data" group is simply gone. How do they charge a higher price when they remove features? Today when I composed an email for my boss in Outlook 2013 and spent some time with spacing and formatting to make it look just like I wanted it to look, then sent it off. When I opened it in my 'sent items' folder to take a last look, I was pretty p%**ed to see a message at the top of my email saying "Outlook 2013 removed unnecessary lines from this message" which left my email looking pretty crappy. What an utterly useless "feature". That can be disabled in options but can mess up a plain text email for you if you forget to turn it off - same goes for Outlook 2010. If you are using Office 2007 or an older version, then an upgrade to office 2010 would be a worthwhile experience. I think I am finished with m$ Office products as of my 2010 version and will have to do something far different in the future. My advice - stay away from Office 2013. Access 2013 seems to be a product without a development team any more. They should have called it Office-Bob or Bob II, or Office-Me III, and Outlook should have been called Outhouse AFAIAC and that would have been more accurate. Bad product IMHO. I do not recommend this product.

Another thought is on microsofts draconian licensing methods. A previous reviewer is correct, it is a scam and one of many that m$ is boldly and now openly doing these days. They don't even pretend to be ethical anymore, there's no reason to. They've been on an ever evolving campaign over the past ten years to broaden and tighten the licensing noose on all of their products to the point that they are now using a licensing dragnet and guillotine to capture and decapitate anyone that THEY consider to be even a POTENTIAL future offender. I honestly don't even see how their requirement to forbid someone from moving one of their products from one computer to another is even legal and I'm surprised someone hasn't challenged them on it, but considering that times have changed to the point where few things like this involving corporations are ever won anymore, it would probably be an expensive exercise in futility - m$ would not have dared to attempt such a bold scam 15 years ago, the software buying public would have been outraged and there would have been legal fears for m$, but today they fear almost nothing. Expect it to get worse as long as people keep buying their products. Give some thought to it and you'll see that this is the same thing as buying a new car from Ford or GM, and signing an agreement that you can never re-use the engine or transmission in another vehicle should this one wear out or get wrecked - you would effectively be agreeing now to buy another new car in the future instead of using what you already paid for once. There's a reason m$ employees don't mention who their employer is in technology circles, or do so with a blush of embarrassment.

Word 2013 can open PDF documents in edit mode, converting them to docx documents, something that is new and if it did a good job of it, would be a nice new feature to have. Unfortunately, it doesn't do a very good job at converting PDF's. Today I opened a 24 page PDF that a co-worker needed to edit and create a new document out of. The OCR capability of this new feature is pathetic and even Acrobat did only slightly better. Seven of the 24 pages were left as images in Word and five of them were left as images in Acrobat. Many of the pages that were converted were in such bad shape that re-creating entire pages would have been only slightly more time consuming, or less in some cases. I OCR'd the same document with FreeOcr which doesn't cost a penny, and it converted every single page - no exceptions, and did a much better job making the document very salvageable and worth making a new document out of - no thanks to Word-Bob or Acrosplat. Clearly, people are not getting their moneys worth from any of these big software companies. I've been a longtime customer of m$ going back to MSDOS 1.9 for Zenith and have ALWAYS paid for my software as 99.9 % of my colleagues over the last 30 years years have done but their new business model seems to be an all-out assault on their paying customers, something I read about a former unix company trying a few years back.
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