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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

By Nick Heath August 8, 2012, 8:28 PM PDT

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Britannica Researcher app displays more than 80,000 articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica in a pane alongside documents in Word 2013.

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ntArticles can be searched by highlighting text and images, citations and references can be inserted into documents.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Hertz app allows users to rent cars from within Outlook.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Bing Maps for Office app allows users to plot location data from an Excel spreadsheet on a Bing map embedded in the page.

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ntThe map can be manipulated via the embedded controls, allowing users to pan, zoom and change the map view.

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ntLocations icons can be customised and made to reflect data – for instance, an icon can be a pie chart of data linked to that location.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Twitter PowerApp allows users to display Twitter feeds from inside Outlook.

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ntUsers can follow, tweet and direct message to other Twitter users, as well as access their recent Tweet-feed and profile content.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntSage Intelligence Go! allows users of on-premise or cloud-based Sage Accounting and ERP systems to design reports within Excel 2013 or 365.

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ntThe app inserts data from these Sage databases into Excel, providing businesses with access to financial data to create reports and eliminate the need to set up database connections and queries.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntharmo.ie for SharePoint encourages users to share documents via Microsoft SharePoint rather than emailing them.

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ntWhen emailing documents, harmon.ie prompts the user to upload the document to SharePoint and send a link instead.

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ntBenefits include reducing storage use because the document is not duplicated on an email server and increased security as users can only open SharePoint documents they are authorised to view.

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ntFuture versions of the app will include the ability to save emails to SharePoint.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntOne for Olympics lovers, the Medal Tracker app lets users track and analyse results from the London 2012 Games using Excel.

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ntFeatures include tracking medal counts by team and comparing winners across teams, athletes and events.

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ntData collected by the app can also be embedded into a spreadsheet and displayed in charts and tables.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Calendar Picker is an calendar that can be used to enter dates into Excel spreadsheets.

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ntThe app is designed to be useful when working with timesheets, schedules, project plans, logs and other uses where users need to frequently refer to a calendar.

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ntDates can be entered in a cell by selecting it on the calendar. Dates can also be highlighted on the calendar by selecting them in the spreadsheet.

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ntThe calendar size, date system and appearance is customisable.

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Microsoft Office 2013: Ten apps from the Store

ntThe Groupon PowerApp provides information in Outlook about local Groupon deals.

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ntUsers can view a countdown timer showing how much time is left to purchase, an interactive Bing map displaying the location of the offer and how many people have bought the deal.

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