User Guide

Your Office files on any device

When you’re signed in with your Microsoft account, Office apps save docs on SkyDrive (the cloud) by default.

This way your Office docs are in one place, available from any computer, phone, or device that’s connected to

the Internet. Your Microsoft account includes 7 GB of free file storage on SkyDrive.

Saving Office docs on SkyDrive also makes it easy to share and work with other people. (If they don't have

Office, they can view and edit documents that you share using free Office Web Apps.) For more info, see Work

together on Office documents in SkyDrive on Office.com.

If you’d rather, you can still save Office docs on your Surface by choosing Computer when you are saving from

any Office app.

File compatibility

Office 2013 apps can open files created with previous versions of Office. To check compatibility between Office

2013 and previous versions of Office, see Check file compatibility with earlier versions on Office.com.

Touch, pen, and language support

 Touch The Office Touch Guide on Office.com helps you learn how to use touch with the new Office

apps.

 Pen To find out how use a pen to draw, write, or highlight text in Office apps (called inking in Office),

see Use a pen to draw, write, or highlight text on a Windows tablet on Office.com.

 Language support If you want to use Office in a different language, see Do I need a language pack or

language interface pack? on Office.com.

OneNote

OneNote is a digital notebook that provides a single place for all of your notes and information—everything

you need to remember and manage in your life. You can create to-do lists with check boxes, add pictures to

notes, and format notes with things like tables, bullets, and colors.

When you sign in with a Microsoft account, your notes are saved in the cloud so that you can access them from

anywhere—your computer, phone, or on the web.

There are two versions of OneNote that you can use with Surface:

 A free OneNote app available from the Windows Store. To install it, open the Store app and type

OneNote.

 OneNote 2013 (desktop app) can be purchased with an Office suite or separately.