Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013

Equip yourself for school and beyond

In the new Read Mode, text reflows automatically in columns for easier on-screen reading.
Fewer menus means more focus on your content - see only the tools you need, when you need them.
Open a PDF in Word, and edit content just as if you created it in Word.
Show your style by using Word templates in more than 40 categories.

Each workbook has its own window, making it easier to work on two workbooks - or two monitors - at once.
New functions in the math and trig, statistical, engineering date and time, lookup and reference, logical, and text function categories.
The new Recommended Charts button lets you pick from a variety of charts that are right for you data.

Smoothly draw, erase, and edit with your finger, stylus, or mouse on any touch-capable device.
OneNote automatically converts your handwriting to text, so no worries about your handwriting.
The new Send to OneNote tool makes it easier to include documents or Web pages in your notebooks.

Presenter View allows you to see your notes on your monitor while the audience only sees the slide.
Smart Guides automatically appear when your objects are close to even, and tell you when objects are spaced evenly.
Support for more multimedia formats, such as .mp4 and .mov, more high-definition content, and more built-in codecs.

Requirements

Required Processor

1 gigahertz (Ghz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set

Required Operating System

Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012

Required Memory

1 GB RAM (32 bit); 2 GB RAM (64 bit)

Required Hard Disk Space

3.0 GB available

Required Display

Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution

Required .NET Version

3.5, 4.0, or 4.5

Multi-touch

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. Note that new touch features are optimised for use with Windows 8.

Additional System Requirements

Some functionality may vary, based on the system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Microsoft account required.

Note: System requirements are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB, to be conservative. For example, if we measure an application’s required hard disk space to be 1.99 GB, we recommend 2.5 GB of disk space. Our hard disk system requirements are intentionally larger than the actual disk space usage of the software.

A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007. Most computers that are available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceeds this standard. However, if you or your users do not have a graphics processor, you can still run Office 2013.