With Office 2013, Microsoft has further extended Word from a word processing program into a Desktop Publishing program like QuarkXpress or Pagemaker. The addition of Alignment Guides in 2013 that assist the user in aligning pictures, videos, charts etc. precisely where they are wanted in the text is a great addition. Live Layout adds the ability to drag a photo or object to a new position and have the text automatically adjust to the new position. And the ability to not only export a document as a PDF (which has been available in previous versions) but to be able to open and edit PDF’s directly in Word makes the need for Acrobat non-existant. I have always believed that word processing and desktop publishing programs should merge and am happy to see the additional desktop publishing elements added to this version of Word.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/word-2013-preview
Joe Frasca
