By iPadfanzz staff on June 16, 2013
Microsoft Office is finally coming to the iPhone but you'll need an Office 365 subscription to take advantage of Office Mobile on Apple's handset. If you purchased the most recent Office suite for desktop as a standalone product, you will not have access to the iPhone version of the software. With Office, Microsoft will be bringing Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the world's most popular smartphone.
The apps shares similarity with Office for Windows Phone, as the two share a wide swath of functionality. You can edit (to an extent) Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as part of the iPhone version of Office. You can also load and render larger sets of file types, however, these are not editable.
The subscription costs about $100 a year or $10 per month and allows the suite of programs for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other tasks to be used on as many as five devices.
Unfortunately, Outlook has been left out.
The default storage for Office Mobile documents is the cloud. Depending on your Office 365 subscription type and your company's infrastructure, you can connect to a free SkyDrive account, to SkyDrive Pro as part of a business Office 365 account, or to a privately managed SharePoint site. You can choose which documents to download, read them, make changes and then save them back to SkyDrive to view later on another machine.
Office Mobile offers you three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. That means you can create new Word documents and Excel spreadsheets (but not PowerPoint presentations) directly in the app, and then save them to the cloud using SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro, or SharePoint. You can view documents in any of the three formats and do most light editing tasks.
In MS Word, you are offered templates, outlines and the blank page. You are provided only one font and only three colour options, increasing and decreasing text size, and you can make text bold, underlined and italicised. The Excel version is the same as the Word. It has three templates with respect to budgets, mileage tracking and schedules, Excel can also use your data to create illustrations , like pie charts and bar graphs.
PowerPoint for the iPhone is mainly a viewer. But users can add notes and edit the text in slides. What’s interesting is that you can rearrange PowerPoint presentation slides by dragging slides into position. In order to edit a slide, you need to tap “Edit Slide Text” given at the top of any Office Mobile window.
As of now, Android and BlackBerry fans: The new app is available only for the iPhone right now.
Surprisingly, Microsoft isn't making an iPad version either. The company is directing iPad users to a Web version of Office, which requires a constant Internet connection that many tablets don't have.
However, one notable drawback of the app is the omission of the spell check.
The app’s strength is its ability to make quick changes, not help you type a dissertation.
Office Mobile automatically reformats Word documents so they're readable on a small screen. You don't have access to the full assortment of reviewing options, but you can add a comment to any selection.
Microsoft Office is finally coming to the iPhone but you'll need an Office 365 subscription to take advantage of Office Mobile on Apple's handset. If you purchased the most recent Office suite for desktop as a standalone product, you will not have access to the iPhone version of the software. With Office, Microsoft will be bringing Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the world's most popular smartphone.
The apps shares similarity with Office for Windows Phone, as the two share a wide swath of functionality. You can edit (to an extent) Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as part of the iPhone version of Office. You can also load and render larger sets of file types, however, these are not editable.
The subscription costs about $100 a year or $10 per month and allows the suite of programs for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other tasks to be used on as many as five devices.
Unfortunately, Outlook has been left out.
The default storage for Office Mobile documents is the cloud. Depending on your Office 365 subscription type and your company's infrastructure, you can connect to a free SkyDrive account, to SkyDrive Pro as part of a business Office 365 account, or to a privately managed SharePoint site. You can choose which documents to download, read them, make changes and then save them back to SkyDrive to view later on another machine.
Office Mobile offers you three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. That means you can create new Word documents and Excel spreadsheets (but not PowerPoint presentations) directly in the app, and then save them to the cloud using SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro, or SharePoint. You can view documents in any of the three formats and do most light editing tasks.
In MS Word, you are offered templates, outlines and the blank page. You are provided only one font and only three colour options, increasing and decreasing text size, and you can make text bold, underlined and italicised. The Excel version is the same as the Word. It has three templates with respect to budgets, mileage tracking and schedules, Excel can also use your data to create illustrations , like pie charts and bar graphs.
PowerPoint for the iPhone is mainly a viewer. But users can add notes and edit the text in slides. What’s interesting is that you can rearrange PowerPoint presentation slides by dragging slides into position. In order to edit a slide, you need to tap “Edit Slide Text” given at the top of any Office Mobile window.
As of now, Android and BlackBerry fans: The new app is available only for the iPhone right now.
Surprisingly, Microsoft isn't making an iPad version either. The company is directing iPad users to a Web version of Office, which requires a constant Internet connection that many tablets don't have.
However, one notable drawback of the app is the omission of the spell check.
The app’s strength is its ability to make quick changes, not help you type a dissertation.
Office Mobile automatically reformats Word documents so they're readable on a small screen. You don't have access to the full assortment of reviewing options, but you can add a comment to any selection.
