MS Word 2007 vs 2013

multimate · 10-04-2014 07:10PM #1

Just wondering what real differences have came about and is it worth the effort of upgrading. In the suite I mainly use word but do use powerpoint and excel the odd time. thanks.

coylemj · 10-04-2014 09:58PM

In the last years of the 20th century, the MS Office version was called 'Office 98' and some wag commented that the title was a reference to the percentage of the functionality that was never used!

Unless you're aware of some function that you desperately need, you'll be fine on Office 2003 as am I.

Tokyo · 10-04-2014 10:03PM

Shiny new templates. Powerpoint comes with a few flashier slide transitions and animations. But unless it's something you use pretty frequently you won't benefit from upgrading.

ZENER · 10-04-2014 10:03PM

Just add the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for .docx support and your sorted !!

Personally I hate the 2007 GUI.

Ken

yoyo · 11-04-2014 11:17AM

Office 2007 is still fully supported. Office 2003 went end of life along with Windows XP. But Office 2007 is still being updated and not much different to 2013, unless your really looking for the tight OneDrive/cloud integration

Nick

coylemj · 11-04-2014 03:43PM

Sorry, I may have skewed the discussion by mentioning Office 2003 in my post above. In fact both the OP and I are on Office 2007 - at least that can be reasonably be inferred from his first post.

AlanS181824 · 13-04-2014 08:37PM

Full Microsoft Office 2013 cost me €50 in Curry's. Well worth it. I have to use 2003 and 2007 and the difference is pretty substantial. Mostly in the layout though.

Mr. G · 13-04-2014 09:13PM

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Full Microsoft Office 2013 cost me €50 in Curry's. Well worth it. I have to use 2003 and 2007 and the difference is pretty substantial. Mostly in the layout though.

Was that the Home and Student or the Professional Plus edition? I presume it's the former.

odds_on · 20-04-2014 09:19PM

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Full Microsoft Office 2013 cost me €50 in Curry's. Well worth it. I have to use 2003 and 2007 and the difference is pretty substantial. Mostly in the layout though.

I bought a notebook which came with office 2013 student. I use excel, Access, Publishe and Word.
I found the GUI in excel was terrible - uninstalled the lot and went back to my favourite office Pro 2003.

Overheal · 20-04-2014 10:19PM

The GUI is perfectly fine. Now, if you've been using Office 2003 for ten years, you're of course going to not feel that way.

Compared to 2010 for instance in real world applications, I can get some tasks done a decent bit faster than 2010 users. Cloud integration is naturally another benefit. I also found between Word 2010 and 2013 the experience is much improved.

U_Fig · 21-04-2014 09:34PM

I still use 2007 and having used all rest 2003 2010 and 2013 I still prefer the GUI for 2007 and I haven't noticed much extra either between the versions in saying that I don't use it a lot anymore

Steviemoyne · 22-04-2014 08:00AM

If you get it for free upgrade it, if not then upgrading probably isn't worth it since there haven't been any groundbreaking changes from 2007 to 2013. If you just want a change, try Apache Open Office which is free and does just as much as MS word, but it's a bit tricky to get around and use if you're used to MS products.

That's just my opinion.

MS Word 2007 vs 2013

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