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Office for iPad was finally launched recently. Even though the apps are available to download free of cost, they only allow viewing of documents. To unlock editing and creation features users have to get an Office 365 subscription. Last month Microsoft announced that it will offer a cheaper subscription package called Office 365 Personal. Today the plan goes live. Its great for individual users as it also opens up all features of Office for iPad.

A conventional Office 365 subscription costs $9.99 per month or 99.99 per year. It allows access to Office on five PCs or Macs as well as five tablets. Office 365 is a cheaper option. For $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year, users can access the full power of Office on one PC or Mac as well as one tablet, which includes the iPad.

With both subscription plans customers get 20GB additional storage on top of the 7GB free online storage they already receive. Though on the Personal plan its only available for one user, whereas 20GB storage is offered for up to five users with a conventional Office 365 subscription. By offering two different plans Microsoft positions Office to deliver the most bang for the buck to a broader range of households, whether its a family of five or just one individual.

Once a subscription has been purchased, regardless of whatever plan they choose, users will also be able to edit Microsoft documents on smartphones, including iPhones and Android devices.

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Back in February Microsoft rebranded Office Web Apps to Office Online. Following the move, today it announced a set of new features for the web apps. This update brings features such as Tell Me, printing, commenting and more to Office Online, all of which will start rolling out to users today. Its now available in the Chrome Web Store as well. People who use the Chrome browser can add Word Online, PowerPoint Online and OneNote Online to their Chrome App launchers, thus being able to create new Office documents online with a single click. Excel Online will be coming shortly.

Word Online users get ability to edit comments as well as insert footnotes and endnotes inline. Its “smarter” now when it comes to list making. If they’re directly below an existing numbered list and start typing the next line becomes part of the list automatically, the feature is already present on the desktop Word.

Microsoft has added the ability to insert new comments as well as edit and delete existing comments to Excel Online. It also gets improved support for files containing VBA. Users can now open and edit VBA-enabled spreadsheets without removing or corrupting the VBA contained within. Tell ME, a feature that lets you tell the app what to do, also comes to Excel Online. Relevant commands are displayed in a drop-down list so users can perform actions right away.

In PowerPoint Online the text editor has been re-engineered so that when users are editing slides, the layout looks more like the final result. Performance and video playback optimizations have also been made by speeding up advancement of slides in the editor. PowerPoint online gets the ability to play embedded YouTube videos as well.

Last but not the least, OneNote Online gets multi-column section or page navigation. Users asked for the ability to print and Microsoft has listened. They can now print notes from the online app with just one click. As previously mentioned, all updates start rolling out to users today.

Microsoft Updates Office Online With Tell Me, Commenting And More , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Web, Microsoft, office,

Earlier when Office for iPad was launched, one of the features that many noticed were missing was its ability to print directly from the iPad app itself. According to Microsoft, a rather vague statement seemed to suggest that printing would be arriving at a later date and this was confirmed during a recent Reddit AMA that the Office for iPad team did.

According to the team, it was confirmed that printing is a feature that will be introduced to the app in the future. This was revealed by Sangeeta Mudnal, the group program manager for Excel, who wrote, “Print is a high demand feature that we intend to introduce in due course.” (more…)

Office For iPad Team Confirms Print Feature Is Coming “In Due Course” original content from Ubergizmo.

So the other day when Microsoft announced Office for iPad, it didn’t really come as a surprise to learn that the apps had shot to the top of the iTunes App Store charts. Perhaps there is genuine demand for the app, or perhaps people are just curious as to how Office for iPad would work on a tablet running on iOS.

Well according to a recent tweet by the Microsoft Office Twitter account, it seems that there have been more than 12 million downloads of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for the iPad from the iTunes App Store since its launch and given that it was about a week ago, we have to say that is pretty impressive. (more…)

Office For iPad Downloaded Over 12 Million Times original content from Ubergizmo.

Could Office for iPad be the host of productivity suites that everyone has been waiting for, ever since it was rumored many years ago? Well maybe, maybe not, but it definitely has managed to pique a lot of interest because after about 24 hours of the apps being released, it has managed to top the iTunes App Store’s Free charts.

As you can see in the image above, it’s not just one, but all the apps that have managed to top the charts in first, second, third, and fourth place. Unsurprisingly it seems that Microsoft Word has managed to nab the number one spot, while OneNote comes in fourth. (more…)

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