Thread: Is the new Office confusing?

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And have you seen this System requirements for Office 2013 Preview
Looks like you must be using Windows 7 or later?
Can it be possible that it may not even run or perhaps install on Vista or older systems?

Originally Posted by Trouble

And have you seen this System requirements for Office 2013 Preview
Looks like you must be using Windows 7 or later?
Can it be possible that it may not even run or perhaps install on Vista or older systems?

Interesting to see if anyone has tried. We seem to be talking about two different Office suites here though? One problem I had, when I installed Office Pro 2013, preview, was that I had, on my computer, a couple of old apps from earlier Office suites. One was the old warhorse, FrontPage, which I learned to use thoroughly and found it easy to set up my initial pages, before transferring them to something more advanced. Office 2013 refused to install and told me I would have to uninstall the legacy apps first. I did this, installed easily, and then reinstalled FrontPage without any further problems.

2013 transferred all my old settings from 2010, automatically. Not a lot of difference in the daily use, a few more features which are mostly optional .

This where the confusion comes in... Office 2013 Preview is actually the online portion or otherwise known as Office 365 if your a business user.
Office 2013 Pro is the actual Office of old (well updated of course). My actual issue stemmed from the online version of the app. The offline version installed and ran as it should. As soon as I tried to open Word using Preview or Office 365 Avast thought it was a malware app and shunted it off to the sandbox. I did try to tell Avast that it was ok but the damage was done and I spent the whole of yesterday trying to rectify what had been done to my system. In the end, through frustration I ended up re-installing Win 8.

On a happier note I have since re-installed both Office 2013 Pro and the 365 portion and it's working fine.. Without Avast I might add.

OMG. Sorry, I am emphatic believe me, but only LOL.

Oh well.. I guess lessons were learnt so it wasn't a totally wasted experience..

Still haven't tried it. Seems all I do lately is procrastinate, so.....
I'll ask it here, have you had the opportunity to test Words alleged new ability to edit PDF documents? If so how have you found it to perform?

Well, I might have to try a reinstall. I read all over the net that it opens a PDF and converts it to a doc for editing, - not really what I want. I can open PDFs with three other third party programs on my Windows 8 OS, but with Word, I get this. I have examined all the options and they seem OK.

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