Mar 27
After Office for iOS proved itself a pretty big disappointment to anyone who was hoping to actually do things with the app, the long-anticipated Office for iPad has finally hit the App Store
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Nov 18
Microsoft has long championed Windows Phone’s Office integration, but there has been a missing piece in that puzzle: an official way to control Office from a Windows Phone. The company is filling that gap today by launching its Office Remote app. The Windows Phone 8 client lets users navigate Excel, PowerPoint and Word on a Bluetooth-equipped Windows 7 or 8 PC, offering slide notes and other cues you’ll need for a big presentation. We can’t promise that managers will be impressed when you steer a quarterly results briefing from your Lumia 1520, but it won’t hurt to grab Office Remote today from the Windows Phone Store.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Microsoft
Source: Windows Phone Store
Nov 07
Microsoft’s Office Web Apps–Word, PowerPoint, and Excel–are finally being blessed with real-time c
Posted in: Today's ChiliMicrosoft’s Office Web Apps—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—are finally being blessed with real-time collaborative editing today. Took long enough.
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Sep 26
Excel’s Power Maps take bar graphs to some new and mildly interesting places
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There are only so many ways one can juice up boring Excel data, but Microsoft’s new Power Map Preview for Office 365 looks like it’s up to the challenge. The 3D map visualizer has just graduated from “project” status with a handful of features sure to please number crunchers and map lovers alike. Power Map can automatically recognize geographical data in your spreadsheets — from latitude and longitude coordinates to city or country names — and plot associated values to points on a Bing map. You can also color code locales to see regional trends, switch between globe and flat map views and create “interactive” video tours for traversing your 3D spreadsheets. Those determined to turn raw numbers into eye candy will find the add-in on Microsoft’s Download Center, and for an idea of what it can do, a sample video tour Redmond made earlier is located after the jump.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
Source: Excel Blog, Bing, Microsoft Download Center
Aug 04
I’ve definitely used Excel for some wordy stuff. It’s not blasphemous exactly, but making charts full of apartment listings, square footage, amenity notes, broker e-mail addresses, and links to photos doesn’t really make use of Excel’s formula wielding, number crunching prowess. But a former Excel developer who knows this dirty little secret, built an app that’s all blissful spreadsheet organization, no numbers.
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Jul 31
The once-mythical Office Mobile for iPhone has been available for a while, but what about that rumored Android version? As of today, it’s equally real: Microsoft has launched Office Mobile for Android. Its cloud-focused approach to editing Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents will be familiar to those who’ve tried the iOS release, including SkyDrive storage support. What differences exist are there primarily to accommodate Google’s Holo interface guidelines — as on iOS, there’s no tablet-native interface. The pricing certainly hasn’t changed. While the core app is free, you’ll need an Office 365 subscription to start working.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Software, Mobile, Microsoft
Source: Google Play, Office News
Jun 28
Chrome OS dev channel gains Quickoffice powers, lets users edit native Excel and Word files
Posted in: Today's Chili
Chrome OS hardware continues to proliferate, and on the software front, Google continues to add features to the platform in the hopes of persuading more folks to exit the traditional PC paradigm. Today marks a significant step in achieving that latter goal, as the dev channel of Chrome OS has received the ability to edit Excel and Word files thanks to Quickoffice integration. While it’s not ready for public consumption just yet, it shows that Google’s getting close to fulfilling its promise to deliver native doc editing to the Pixel and other Chromebooks.
Should you be among those on the dev channel of Chrome OS, you can enable the functionality now by going to chrome://flags, enabling document editing and restarting your machine. According to developer François Beaufort — the man who discovered the functionality — editing’s still a glitchy process, but the more folks that use the feature now, the faster the problems can be found and fixed. The power of productivity is in your hands, people, so get cracking squashing those bugs!
Via: The Next Web
Source: François Beaufort (Google+)
Jun 14
After countless months of "will they" or "won’t they," Microsoft has finally conceded to give iOS users their very own version of Office in app form. Most iOS users, that is. Assuming they want it in the first place, which is no safe assumption given its many, many limitations.
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Jun 05
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote to ship free with x86 Windows 8 tablets (update: only with those smaller than 10 inches)
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During today’s Computex keynote, Microsoft Windows chief Tami Reller just announced that new x86 Windows 8 tablets will ship with Office in the box. The executive didn’t detail the software offering, beyond mentioning that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be included. Windows RT devices, for their part, will now also include pre-installed Outlook, beginning with the Windows 8.1 update, which is due to arrive as a preview version later this month.
Update: Microsoft just put up a blog post saying that these free Office applications will come with “small screen tablets” — in other words, not necessarily all Windows 8 tablets. Tami Reller didn’t specify screen sizes during her presentation, and we don’t know if small necessarily means the Iconia W3 degree of small (i.e. eight inches), but we’re seeking clarification.
Update #2: We tracked down a rep at Computex who said that the bundled software will only come with Windows 8 tablets under 10 inches, which will evidently rule out a lot of devices.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Source: Microsoft Windows blog
Apr 17
You know the much-ballyhooed theory that high national debt always correlates to crappy economic growth? The one that’s trotted out on a regular basis by politicians arguing for austerity budgets and sequestration? Well, according to new findings, the study that austerity proponents cite more than any other is based on an Excel error. A big one. More »
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