The Access 2013 Runtime now available for download

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After a long, hard effort by many people, the stars have finally aligned. The Access team is pleased to announce the release of the Access 2013 Runtime! We know lots of you are very anxious to get your hands on the Access 2013 Runtime. You can now go and download the Access 2013 Runtime from the following location:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c44d623-a8bc-4be5-a561-f11d33602505

The Access 2013 Runtime is available for download in 38 languages.

Microsoft Access 2013 provides a rich platform for developing database management solutions with easy-to-use customization tools. If no end user customization is required (including report modifications), you can choose to distribute those Access 2013 solutions so that they run without requiring a full installation of Access 2013. To do so, you must package and distribute your application with the Access 2013 Runtime.

Web-based apps for SharePoint that are built with Access 2013 do not require a runtime--only a supported web browser is required.

Enjoy!

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Download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides

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Thinking about making the change to Office 2013?

Changes bring exciting new features, but new versions of your favorite software can take a bit of getting used to.

To help ease the transition, we've put together nine handy Quick Start Guides that introduce you to the newest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Project, and Visio.

 

Whether you're coming from a previous version of Office and just want to see what's changed, or you're entirely new to Office and want a quick overview of how to get to the most important things, each guide provides helpful information that we've based directly on feedback from customers just like you.

The new guides are available as separate downloads, so you can grab just the ones you need:

1. Install the free Adobe Reader (if you don't already have it on your PC).

2. Browse and download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides.

While you're viewing any guide, you can save a copy of it to your computer for later viewing, navigate through all of its pages (each guide has several), zoom in to get a closer look at any of the screenshots, or search for feature names or keywords to quickly find something in the text.

If you find these guides useful, please share this blog post with your colleagues and friends who use Microsoft Office programs. And please leave us a comment below to let us know what you like about these guides or how we might improve upon them.

Thanks for giving them a try!

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Download PowerPoint 2010 Viewer

(This article, originally published in 2010, announced the availability of PowerPoint 2010 Viewer.) This entry remains because as people find the viewer a useful tool to be incredibly popular. (We are republishing it for readers of our blog to find and use it to.)

I am pleased to announce that our new PowerPoint Viewer is now you will find here free download . By installing the PowerPoint Viewer, can open and view PowerPoint presentations in any format, no matter, what computer you use. We have brought our Viewer created to shape to display PowerPoint presentations, including those in 2010, in full fidelity. This means that the new transitions and video effects displayed and behavior exactly like in PowerPoint 2010.

To view the presentations with such high quality, must you install PowerPoint 2010 Viewer on your computer. This is a departure from previous viewers, as stand-alone files.

The observer has always been of one of our most popular downloads (not only for PowerPoint, but for all of Microsoft), and we will continue to work and update for our customers.

Please let's you know how to use the viewer and questions or problems, you comments.

Want to download the new Viewer? Here is the link again.

All Huang
PowerPoint program manager

Update: We have received a number of questions, why the PowerPoint 2010 Viewer requires installation, rather than a no-installation.EXE, which can be burned onto CDs.  Goal number one is your computer safe and secure to keep; just so we can make sure, that the PowerPoint Viewer is always up to date and secure is an installation that can receive the application for future security updates. If you a way to view PowerPoint presentations and share you want to download without any software with others, recommend we, by using the PowerPoint Web App.

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Download the free Microsoft Visio Viewer

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The Microsoft Visio Viewer is a free download that lets anyone view Visio drawings without having Visio installed on their computer. If you have Visio, you can still benefit from the viewer because it allows you to preview drawings in both Outlook and the Windows Preview pane. We recommend that everyone with Windows 7 or Windows 8 download the latest viewer to get the best experience viewing drawings.

There are two notable changes to the new viewer.

The viewer allows you to view drawings saved to our new file format (as well as prior file formats). The viewer supports viewing our new shape effects, which are widely used by the new themes, variants and styles.

If you do not have the new Visio but want to view drawings created in the new Visio, you should download the new version of our free viewer.

If you don’t have Visio installed and don’t have access to Visio Services on SharePoint, viewing Visio drawings is still as simple as double-clicking the drawing in Windows Explorer. Internet Explorer will open, and the viewer will render the drawing in the browser. The viewer allows you to pan and zoom, navigate to different pages, see shape properties, and set different viewing options.

The Visio Viewer also allows users to preview Visio drawings in Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook, you can simply single-click on a Visio drawing sent as an attachment and the viewer will display it in Outlook. You can pan and zoom the drawing, and switch to different pages. Right-click on the preview image to see some of these options.

Even if you have Visio, this is a quick way to take a peek at the drawing without leaving Outlook.

You can also preview a Visio drawing directly in Windows. In Windows Explorer, click the View tab, select Preview pane, then single-click on a Visio drawing. The drawing will be displayed in the preview pane.

The options to pan, zoom and switch to different pages, and the right mouse menu are available in the Windows Explorer preview pane.

One of the top questions we get about the Visio Viewer is how it differs from Visio Services. These are both products available to view Visio drawings without having Visio installed, but they are very different!

To understand the differences, we have to stop and talk a moment about Visio Services. Visio Services is part of SharePoint and SharePoint Online in Office 365. You can upload a Visio file to SharePoint and then everyone else can view it. Nothing needs to be installed on the user’s computer, and, in fact, the file can be viewed from a wide variety of devices--desktops, laptops, mobile phones, and tablets. It works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, and it includes enhancements for touch and for mobile devices with smaller screens.

With Visio Services, users can also add comments to the drawing and, when a drawing is connected to data, Visio Services can refresh the data and update the shapes in the drawing that are linked to data. This makes Visio Services great for creating dashboards and keeping people up to date with the latest information.

In comparison, the Visio Viewer provides a static view of the drawing: users cannot add comments and the drawing does not update as data changes. The viewer is also something that you install on your computer. The viewer is very useful for viewing Visio drawings, especially when you don’t have Visio or Visio Services. Visio Services, however, is a much more powerful tool for interacting with Visio drawings.

We want to make it easy for everyone to view Visio drawings, especially the modern-looking and professional diagrams made in the new Visio. We recommend that you download new Visio Viewer to get the best viewing experience.

Please continue to let us know what you think by commenting below!

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Download & Install a CS6 Trial

 Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6)  is here.  Have you taken it for a spin yet?

Adobe CS6 is a collection of several industry-leading software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere Pro and several others. If you want to see for yourself what the new software is like, you can download a trial. Adobe offers trials for individual products as well as the suites (with multiple products). If you want to try out all products,  Master Collection is for you.

To get a trial, Go to the Downloads page, select a product to Try, and click Download now.

If you need Trial Download instructions, see the following self-paced demo on how to download and install a CS6 Trial. In the demo we use After Effects as an example, but the process is the same for all products.

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Download a free trial for CS6 or any of the individual products and take it for a spin. A trial is valid for 30 days and the software is fully functional. If you like what you see, just Buy a licence, and enter the serial number in the trial software to convert it. This entry was posted on May 23, 2012, 4:02 pm and is filed under CS & Creative Cloud. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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