Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Chapter 6. Managing Office Files

Where (and how) Office stores files

Which file formats does Office 2013 support?

Exporting files and data to alternative formats

Using templates to streamline document creation

Working with (and around) Office security features

Organizing and finding Office files

Backup and recovery options

IT’S EASY to get lost in discussions of features, user interface elements, and design decisions in Office 2013 and lose the much larger point. No one uses the individual programs that are part of Office for the sheer joy of clicking items on a ribbon or typing bullet points. Those programs and their accompanying tools and techniques are merely a means to an end: a report, a slide deck, or an annual budget, for example, which in turn ...