I spend a large portion of my workday in the Office — Microsoft Office, that is. I'm a self-employed full-time writer. That means I'm working daily on articles, book chapters, and other documents I compose in Word, keeping track of my business expenses and income in Excel, and corresponding with editors, publishers, readers, and others via Outlook. Each time a new version of Office is released, I'm an early adopter. I immerse myself in the beta, provide my input (for whatever it's worth), and am well-acquainted with its quirks by the time it's released in final form. Thus, I've been using Office 2013 for quite some time, and as always, I've developed a bit of a love/hate relationship with it.

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There are some nice refinements and embellishments, but of course they had to go and break a few things, too. Here are seven of the things I love about the new Office, two other 'improvements' I could have done without, and one change with which I definitely have a love/hate relationship. Note that this article applies to the desktop versions of the Office 2013 programs, not the tablet or Windows Phone 8 versions. It's also worth noting that Microsoft will reportedly launch Android and iOS versions of Office 2013 apps early next year, and those will undoubtedly give us new things to love and hate.